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Apple's AI Is Proving It's Anything But Intelligent - Complaints and ridicule have been mounting about mistakes by the iPhone maker's hy... - https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/1650247/apples-ai-is-proving-its-anything-but-intelligent?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Nvidia Unveils $3,000 Personal AI Supercomputer - Nvidia will begin selling a personal AI supercomputer in May that can run sophisti... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/1539237/nvidia-unveils-3000-personal-ai-supercomputer?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Nvidia To Deploy AI Teammates in Video Games this Year - Nvidia has unveiled plans to introduce AI-powered autonomous characters in video g... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/07/1527237/nvidia-to-deploy-ai-teammates-in-video-games-this-year?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #ai

Climate Crisis 'Wreaking Havoc' on Earth's Water Cycle, Report Finds - The climate crisis is "wreaking havoc" on the planet's water cycle, with ferocious... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/01/06/1522257/climate-crisis-wreaking-havoc-on-earths-water-cycle-report-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #earth

Could Monkeys Really Type All of Shakespeare? - Not in this universe, a new study concludes. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/science/monkeys-typewriter-shakespeare.html #typewritersandtypewriting #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #booksandliterature #universityofsydney #shakespearewilliam #writingandwriters #your-feed-science #monkeysandapes #mathematics #australia

NATO Plans To Build Satellite Links As Backups To Undersea Cables - Tom's Hardware reports that NATO is developing an advanced system to address the g... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/31/2227234/nato-plans-to-build-satellite-links-as-backups-to-undersea-cables?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #military

Hertz is asking EV renters if they want to keep it, permanently - Some EVs in stock on the Hertz Car Sales site. | Screensho... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/26/24329874/hertz-ev-tesla-email-sales-offers

Headlights Are Growing Brighter - Modern LED headlights are significantly brighter and more glaring than traditional... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/25/173204/headlights-are-growing-brighter?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #transportation

World's first Bitcoin nation scales back crypto dream - El Salvador has eased its pro-cryptocurrency policies to help secure a $1.4bn loan from t... - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20e3l3xllwo

Google Cuts Managers and VPs in Efficiency Drive - Google has reduced its senior management positions by 10% as part of an ongoing ef... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/20/1438217/google-cuts-managers-and-vps-in-efficiency-drive?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #google

This waterproof coffin will keep an AirTag alive for a decade - You’ll need to remove an AirTag’s battery door to install ... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/18/24324526/elevation-lab-time-capsule-apple-air-tag-battery-life

Enabling NVMe on the Raspberry Pi 500 With a Handful of Parts - With the recent teardown of the Raspberry Pi 500, there were immediately questions... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/enabling-nvme-on-the-raspberry-pi-500-with-a-handful-of-parts/ #raspberrypi500 #raspberrypi #nvme #m.2

Nvidia’s $249 dev kit promises cheap, small AI power - Nvidia announced the latest in its Jetson Orin Nano AI com... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24323450/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-super-developer-kit-software-update-ai-artificial-intelligence-maker-pc

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Ramps Up Competition with Elon Musk and SpaceX - A new rocket from Mr. Bezos’ company Blue Origin and a satellite system from Amazon could... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/technology/jeff-bezos-blue-origin-elon-musk.html #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #kuipersystems(amazon.cominc) #unitedlaunchalliance #privatespaceflight #teslamotorsinc #amazon.cominc #bezosjeffreyp #satellites #blueorigin #muskelon

The Math Behind the Music of the 80s - Although there might have been other music produced or recorded in the 1980s, we m... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/11/the-math-behind-the-music-of-the-80s/ #musicalhacks #synthesizer #instrument #synthpop #yamaha #1980s #music #synth #dx-7 #dx7

Scientific Breakthrough Gives New Hope To Building Quantum Computers - Google has achieved a major breakthrough in quantum error correction that could en... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/12/09/1715219/scientific-breakthrough-gives-new-hope-to-building-quantum-computers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #google

Fish tank PC case sales explode in 2024 — Korean retail data claims tenfold growth for this style of chassis - Fish tank style PC cases gained momentum through 2024, with... - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/fish-tank-pc-case-sales-explode-in-2024-korean-retail-data-claims-tenfold-growth-for-this-style-of-chassis #pccomponents #pccases

OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare - A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time OpenWrt users should upgrade their images... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/openwrt_firmware_vulnerabilities/

Reddit’s new AI search tool helps you find Reddit answers without Google - Illustration: The Verge

Reddit is launching a new ... - https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24314445/reddit-answers-ai-powered-search-tool

Everybody Loves FRED - An anonymous reader shares a report: Fans post about him on social media. Swag bea... - https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/12/09/1312203/everybody-loves-fred?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #stats