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Euclid Telescope Spies Rogue Planets Floating Free In Milky Way

Euclid Telescope Spies Rogue Planets Floating Free In Milky Way - Slashdot

Using the Euclid space telescope, astronomers have discovered dozens of rogue planets drifting without stars in the Orion nebula. The Guardian repo...

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SpaceX Launches First Satellites For New US Spy Constellation

SpaceX Launches First Satellites For New US Spy Constellation - Slashdot

fjo3 quotes a report from Reuters: SpaceX on Wednesday launched an inaugural batch of operational spy satellites it built as part of a new U.S. int...

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Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet

Arizona

"Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona..." reads the official text of House Bill #2,477. "PLUTO IS THE OFFICIAL STA...

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Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data

Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data - Slashdot

Christopher Harper reports via Tom

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32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders

32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders - Slashdot

The Guardian reports that this week "Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who twice ran for the Democratic presidential nominat...

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McDonald's IT Systems Outage Shuts Some Restaurants Globally

McDonald

An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: McDonald

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Who Uses Legacy Admissions?

Who Uses Legacy Admissions? - Slashdot

Following the U.S. Supreme Court

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Europe Lifts Sanctions On Yandex Cofounder Arkady Volozh

Europe Lifts Sanctions On Yandex Cofounder Arkady Volozh - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Arkady Volozh, the billionaire cofounder of Russia

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

Apple Developed Chip Equivalent To Four M2 Ultras For Apple Car Project

Apple Developed Chip Equivalent To Four M2 Ultras For Apple Car Project - Slashdot

After 10 years and billions of dollars spent in development, Apple abruptly canceled its ambitious car project known as "Titan," shifting i...

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Discord Opens Up To Games and Apps Embedded In Its Chat App

Discord Opens Up To Games and Apps Embedded In Its Chat App - Slashdot

Tom Warren reports via The Verge: Discord will soon allow developers to build new games and apps that can be used directly in its chat app. A sele...

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

New York Times Denies OpenAI's 'Hacking' Claim In Copyright Fight

New York Times Denies OpenAI

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The New York Times has denied claims by OpenAI that it "hacked" the company

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China Puts Trust in AI To Maintain Largest High-Speed Rail Network on Earth

China Puts Trust in AI To Maintain Largest High-Speed Rail Network on Earth - Slashdot

China is using AI in the operation of its 45,000km (28,000-mile) high-speed rail network, with the technology achieving several milestones, accordi...

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"We Asked Intel To Define 'AI PC.' Its reply: 'Anything With Our Latest CPUs'"

"We Asked Intel To Define 'AI PC.' Its reply: 'Anything With Our Latest CPUs'" - Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: If you

Slashdot :verified: 1 year ago

Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them

Gold-Medalist Coders Build an AI That Can Do Their Job for Them - Slashdot

A new startup called Cognition AI can turn a user

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Google Restricts AI Chatbot Gemini From Answering Queries on Global Elections

Google Restricts AI Chatbot Gemini From Answering Queries on Global Elections - Slashdot

Google is restricting AI chatbot Gemini from answering questions about the global elections set to happen this year, the Alphabet-owned firm said o...

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Most Subscription Apps Don't Make Money, Report Shows

Most Subscription Apps Don

According to a new analysis of the subscription app economy from mobile subscription toolkit provider RevenueCat, the top 5% of apps generate 200 t...

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FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues

FAA Audit of Boeing

A six-week audit by the Federal Aviation Administration of Boeing

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No Big North Sea Fossil Fuel Country Has Plan To Stop Drilling in Time For 1.5C Goal

No Big North Sea Fossil Fuel Country Has Plan To Stop Drilling in Time For 1.5C Goal - Slashdot

None of the big oil and gas producers surrounding the North Sea plan to stop drilling soon enough to meet the 1.5C (2.7F) global heating target, a ...

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Apple To Allow iOS App Downloads Direct From Websites in the EU

Apple To Allow iOS App Downloads Direct From Websites in the EU - Slashdot

Apple is planning to make further changes in EU countries to allow some developers to distribute their iOS apps directly from a website. From a rep...

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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...