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sandbagger writes:
At some point, the incredible, toxic burn rate of generative AI is going to catch up. The data centers aren't being built. The power generation facilities aren't being built. The cost of AI is being given away well below cost. AI is a negative-margin business by any calculus. It's a question of when economic reality collides with empty VC pockets and purses.
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sandbagger writes:
Eep! The amazing series Babylon 5 is now free to watch on YouTube! For those not in the know, in the mid-23rd century, the Earth Alliance space station Babylon Five, located in neutral territory, is a major focal point for political intrigue, racial tensions, and a major war as Earth descends into fascism and cuts off relations with its allies.
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sandbagger writes:
Sodium-ion batteries, generative coding, gene resurrection. MIT Technology Review's editors place their bets on what technologies may be the defining forces for 2026.
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sandbagger writes:
67 years ago, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation recorded a collection of predictions about the future—the one we’re living in now, in 2026. Their forecasts are truly extraordinary — Intergalactic super speed travel, future pod houses, Nuclear fallout, but all of these are wrong..
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sandbagger writes:
Fusion power may only be 30 years away as Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion, producing about 600 million fusion neutrons every second at peak output.
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sandbagger writes:
Finally! A health trend where Slashdotters are ahead of the curve.
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sandbagger writes:
Democracy runs on receipts. For years, Vinay Prasad made a career out of trashing COVID vaccines, boosters, mandates, and anyone who dared suggest collective responsibility. Now that he's America's man in charge of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. And suddenly, he wants a clean slate. The contrarian who never met a camera he did not love is now sprinting across the internet with a fire extinguisher, trying to douse the flames of his own quotes.
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sandbagger writes:
Radioactive wasps found at South Carolina nuclear facility. Quick. We need a deranged scientists to mount magets on tractors and his beautiful, clever daughter and a cynical reporter to nip this in the bud.
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sandbagger writes:
The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.
Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands.
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sandbagger writes:
With the US president insisting on Canada joining the America on bended knee, the Great White North must reconsider its defence spending. This is including spending on the F-35.
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sandbagger writes:
Ooota Goota, Solo? A rare screening of the original 1977 Star Wars movie — complete with Han shooting first — will be shown at a theater in London this summer.
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sandbagger writes:
The third James Bond novel was published this day in 1955. The thriller Moonraker is from a long-ago era with a villain that makes no sense today — A rocket-building technocrat who is actually a secret Nazi working for the Russians.
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sandbagger writes:
Researchers have officially classified the mesentery—a structure in the digestive system—as a distinct human organ.
Previously thought to be a fragmented and insignificant part of the abdominal cavity, new research reveals that the mesentery is actually a continuous structure that plays a crucial role in holding the intestines in place. It is called the mesentery.
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sandbagger writes:
Travelling for international meetings or even joining a call with Canadian counterparts has become impossible for some U.S. government scientists, under new directives since U.S. President Donald Trump took office.
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sandbagger writes:
North America's oldest organization for technical writers has gone belly up.
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