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lundi 22 décembre 2025, 21:05
Australian restaurants facing a mounting cost-of-doing-business crisis are turning to automatic service charges as a way to shore up revenue. The practice is legal under Australian consumer law as long as customers are notified beforehand and can opt out, but it risks...
If you watched Avatar: Fire and Ash in James Cameron's preferred high frame rate 3D format and noticed certain sequences appearing unusually smooth while others had the traditional cinematic look, that visual inconsistency is entirely intentional. The third Avatar film...
Linux's share of the desktop market has climbed to as much as 11% by one count, but that figure includes Chromebooks, and the traditional Linux desktop remains hamstrung by the same fragmentation that killed Unix decades ago. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writing in The...
Instacart has ended its AI-powered pricing tests after a study from Groundwork Collaborative, Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union revealed that the grocery delivery platform was showing different customers different prices for identical items at the same store. The...
BrianFagioli writes: Visa says it has completed hundreds of secure, AI-initiated transactions with partners, arguing this proves agent driven shopping is ready to move beyond experiments. The company believes 2025 will be the last full year most consumers manually check out, ...
The video games industry in 2025 finds itself caught between the familiar forces of consolidation and job losses that have plagued creative industries, and a newer development: governments and the ultra-wealthy have begun treating games as tools of political influence. Saudi ...
BrianFagioli writes: Samsung is bringing Google Gemini directly into the kitchen, starting with a refrigerator that can see what you eat. At CES 2026, the company plans to show off a new Bespoke AI Refrigerator that uses a built in camera system paired with Gemini to...
Beverly Hills High School has deployed an AI-powered surveillance apparatus that includes facial recognition cameras, behavioral analysis software, smoke detector-shaped bathroom listening devices from Motorola, drones, and license plate readers from Flock Safety -- a setup...
Colin Angle, the founder of iRobot who built the company from his living room over 35 years and sold more than 50 million Roomba vacuums, watched his creation file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy earlier this month after what he describes as an 'avoidable' regulatory ordeal that...
A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for 'shadow libraries' that previously...
A 'slew of layoffs, price hikes and studio closures' for Microsoft's Xbox 'have led many to declare — not for the first time — that the Xbox is dead,' reports CNBC. Or is it just changing its business model? The company's overall gaming revenue decreased 2% year-over-year,...
'It's all fixed,' says that Apple developer who was locked out of his Apple Account after redeeming a compromised Apple Gift Card. 'A lovely man from Singapore, working for Apple Executive Relations, who has been calling me every so often for a couple of days, has let me...
They call it 'the business-impersonator scam'. And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the same nine months of 2024. That's according to a Bloomberg reporter (who also fell for it in late November), citing the...
Tuesday the White House faces a deadline to decide 'whether Chinese drone maker DJI Technologies poses a national security threat,' reports Bloomberg. But their article notes it's 'a decision with the potential to ground thousands of machines deployed by police and fire...
In July Google promised to scale the CO2 batteries of 'Energy Dome' as a long-duration energy storage solution. Now IEEE Spectrum visits its first plant in Sardinia, where 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide power a turbine generating 20 MW over 10 hours — storing 'large amounts...
dimanche 21 décembre 2025, 23:34
Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland wonders if 'gifts for geeks' is the next big consumer demographic: For this year's holiday celebrations, Hallmark made a special Christmas tree ornament, a tiny monitor displaying screens from the classic video game 'Oregon Trail.'...
'On Saturday, videos shared widely on social media showed Waymo vehicles stopped mid-intersection with hazard lights flashing, forcing other cars to maneuver around them,' reports the San Francisco Chronicle. The Independent notes that 'Without working traffic lights, the...
'Perhaps no group of fans, industry workers, and consumers is more intense about AI use than gamers....' writes New York magazine's 'Intelligencer' column: Just this month, the latest Postal game was axed by its publisher, which was 'overwhelmed with negative responses' from ...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the site It's FOSS: Linux gives you plenty of ways to install software: native distro packages, Flatpak, Snap, AppImage, source builds, even curl-piped installers. The catch is that each one solves a different problem, yet none of...
Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Last September, tech-backed nonprofit Code.org pledged to engage 25 million K-12 schoolchildren in an 'Hour of AI' this school year. Preliminary numbers released this week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition showed that [halfway...
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