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Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness

Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness - Slashdot

Contributors from Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, writing for BrowserBench: Since the initial version of the Speedometer benchmark was relea...

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

World Wide Web Inventor's Top Predictions as It Turns 35

World Wide Web Inventor

A anonymous reader shares a report: Personal artificial intelligence assistants that know our health status and legal history inside out. The abili...

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

How China Came To Dominate the World in Solar Energy

How China Came To Dominate the World in Solar Energy - Slashdot

China unleashed the full might of its solar energy industry last year. It installed more solar panels than the United States has in its history. It...

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

The IRS Launches Direct File, a Pilot Program For Free Online Tax Filing Available in 12 States

The IRS Launches Direct File, a Pilot Program For Free Online Tax Filing Available in 12 States - Slashdot

After weeks of testing, an electronic system for filing returns directly to the IRS is now available for taxpayers from 12 selected states. From a ...

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

World's Largest Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First Powered Flight

World

An anonymous reader quotes a report from GeekWire: Chalk up another milestone for Stratolaunch, the air-launch venture created by the late Microsof...

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

Conflicting Values For Hubble Constant Not Due To Measurement Error, Study Finds

Conflicting Values For Hubble Constant Not Due To Measurement Error, Study Finds - Slashdot

Jennifer Ouellette reports via Ars Technica: Astronomers have made new measurements of the Hubble Constant, a measure of how quickly the Universe ...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Apple Releases MGIE, an AI Model for Instruction-Based Image Editing

Apple Releases MGIE, an AI Model for Instruction-Based Image Editing - Slashdot

Apple has released a new open-source AI model, called "MGIE," that can edit images based on natural language instructions. From a report: M...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Reddit Must Share IP Addresses of Piracy-Discussing Users, Film Studios Say

Reddit Must Share IP Addresses of Piracy-Discussing Users, Film Studios Say - Slashdot

For the third time in under a year, film studios are pressing Reddit to reveal users allegedly discussing piracy, despite two prior failed attempts...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing

DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing - Slashdot

smooth wombat writes: The advent of streaming services heralded a new era of movie watching. No longer tied to an inconvenient time at a theater, m...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Amazon Announces 'Olympus' LLM to Compete With OpenAI and Google

Amazon Announces

Amazon "is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model," reports Reuters, "hoping it could rival top models from O...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Ransomware Group Reports Victim It Breached To SEC Regulators

Ransomware Group Reports Victim It Breached To SEC Regulators - Slashdot

One of the world

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

UK Approves World's First CRISPR-Based Medicine

UK Approves World

Britain

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Illinois Senate Approves Plan To Allow New Nuclear Reactors

Illinois Senate Approves Plan To Allow New Nuclear Reactors - Slashdot

The Illinois Senate has approved a plan to allow small modular reactors in the state, lifting a 36-year-old moratorium on new nuclear power install...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Court Rules Automakers Can Record and Intercept Owner Text Messages

Court Rules Automakers Can Record and Intercept Owner Text Messages - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: A federal judge on Tuesday refused to bring back a class action lawsuit alleging four auto man...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Microsoft Plans To Bring Its AI Copilot To 1 Billion Windows 10 Users

Microsoft Plans To Bring Its AI Copilot To 1 Billion Windows 10 Users - Slashdot

Windows Central: Microsoft began rolling out its new AI assistant for Windows earlier this year with the Windows 11 version 23H2 release, which add...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Google Photos' Magic Editor Will Refuse To Make Some Edits

Google Photos

Combing through the code of the new version of Google Photos app for Android, some users have found that Google plans to restrict Magic Editor, a f...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Amazon and Meta Promise UK Regulators to Stop Unfairly Undercutting Rivals

Amazon and Meta Promise UK Regulators to Stop Unfairly Undercutting Rivals - Slashdot

Friday the U.K.

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud

FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty of Fraud - Slashdot

Slashdot readers schwit1 and Another Random Kiwi share the breaking news that FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty of fraud. From th...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi

Arm Acquires Minority Stake in Raspberry Pi - Slashdot

Arm today announced that it has made a strategic investment, a minority stake in Raspberry Pi -- the arm of Raspberry Pi responsible for the new Ra...

Slashdot :verified: 2 years ago

iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple's Promises Otherwise

iPhones Have Been Exposing Your Unique MAC Despite Apple

Dan Goodin reports via Ars Technica: Three years ago, Apple introduced a privacy-enhancing feature that hid the Wi-Fi address of iPhones and iPads...