On April 16th, 2026 with 0 comments
Some Japanese bullet trains will soon support premium private suites this October, featuring windows with embedded 5G antennas for steadier onboard Wi-Fi and...
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On April 16th, 2026 with 34 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the Guardian: Households will be called on to boost their consumption of Great Britain's record renewable...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Many scientists have contended that humans have evolved very little over the past 10,000 years. A...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 27 comments
Boston Dynamics has integrated Google DeepMind into its robotic dog Spot, giving it more autonomous reasoning for industrial inspections like spotting spills...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 118 comments
In an interview with Fox News, Ford CEO Jim Farley warned that allowing Chinese vehicle imports could put nearly a million U.S. jobs at risk. He said China's...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 55 comments
Cal is moving its flagship scheduling software from open source to a proprietary license, arguing that AI coding tools now make it much easier for attackers to...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 29 comments
A Manhattan federal jury found that Live Nation and Ticketmaster illegally maintained monopoly power in the ticketing market. The findings follow an antitrust...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 54 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 33 comments
Snap is laying off about 1,000 employees, or 16% of its workforce, while closing 300 open roles as it tries to cut costs and push toward profitability with...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 74 comments
Allbirds made a surprise announcement this morning: it's pivoting from sustainable shoes to AI compute infrastructure, rebranding as NewBird AI after selling...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 38 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Rivian is joining with Redwood Materials to reuse EV batteries for energy storage -- the...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 18 comments
A 63-year-old man in Norway appears to be cured of HIV after receiving a stem cell transplant from his brother, who turned out to have a rare mutation that...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 144 comments
Sony Pictures chief Tom Rothman urged theater owners to cut down the roughly 30 minutes of trailers and ads before movies. "Get off the ad crack," Rothman told...
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On April 15th, 2026 with 30 comments
Amazon is buying satellite communications company Globalstar for $10.8 billion to expand its Leo satellite-internet network and compete more directly with...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 77 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cord Cutters News: Sony has notified owners of its recent BRAVIA television models that significant changes to the...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 63 comments
The FCC has granted (PDF) Netgear the first exemption from its foreign-made router ban, allowing the company to keep selling new consumer router models made...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 42 comments
Microsoft has sharply raised prices across its Surface lineup as RAM and component costs keep climbing. "Both its midrange and flagship Surface lines are now...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 138 comments
A proposed California bill would require 3D printer makers to use state-certified software to detect and block files for gun parts, but advocates at the...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 48 comments
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 22 comments
Google is rolling out a Chrome feature called "Skills" that lets users save Gemini prompts as reusable one-click workflows they can run across multiple tabs....
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On April 14th, 2026 with 40 comments
A Chicago concert superfan Aadam Jacobs who has recorded more than 10,000 shows since the 1980s is working with Internet Archive volunteers to digitize the...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 54 comments
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said social media platforms should remove addictive infinite-scroll features for young users as Britain considers new...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 9 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Alphabet's Google is facing billions of dollars in potential damage claims as part of mass arbitration tied...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 81 comments
Researchers at the University of Southern California say they've developed a memristor memory device that continued operating at 700 degrees Celsius. "And...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 111 comments
J. Allen Hynek started as an Air Force consultant brought in to help explain away early UFO reports, but over time he grew frustrated with what he saw as the...
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On April 14th, 2026 with 34 comments
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: For years pop culture has treated April 25 as the "perfect date," thanks to the famous Miss Congeniality line...
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On April 13th, 2026 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI experts and the public's opinion on the technology are increasingly diverging, according to Stanford...
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On April 13th, 2026 with 56 comments
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple is developing display-free AI smart glasses aimed at rivaling Meta's Ray-Bans, with multiple frame styles, a...
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On April 13th, 2026 with 87 comments
More than 1,000 Hollywood figures, including major actors, writers, and directors, signed an open letter opposing Paramount Skydance's proposed takeover of...
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On April 13th, 2026 with 25 comments
The FBI searched the Texas home of a 20-year-old man accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's San Francisco residence. Authorities say the...
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