An anonymous reader shared this report from Space.com: Three world travelers, two Space Camp alums and an aerospace executive whose last name aptly matched their shared adventure traveled into space and back Saturday, becoming the latest six people to fly with Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Mark Rocket joined Jaime
Read More“This month, millions of young people will graduate from college,” reports the New York Times, “and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence.” That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over
Read More“This month, millions of young people will graduate from college,” reports the New York Times, “and look for work in industries that have little use for their skills, view them as expensive and expendable, and are rapidly phasing out their jobs in favor of artificial intelligence.” That is the troubling conclusion of my conversations over
Read MoreA 15-year-old asked the question — receiving an answer from an associate professor of psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology. They write (on The Conversation) that “As a brain scientist who studies perception, I fully expect mind uploading to one day be a reality. “But as of today, we’re nowhere close…” Replicating all that complexity
Read MoreThe Ladybird browser project is now officially tax-exempt as a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Started two years ago (by the original creator of SerenityOS), Ladybird will be “an independent, fast and secure browser that respects user privacy and fosters an open web.” They’re targeting Summer 2026 for the first Alpha version on Linux and macOS, and
Read MoreThe student-built Purdubik’s Cube set a new Guinness World Record by solving a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. | Photo: Matthew Patrohay / Purdue University A team of Purdue University students recently set a new Guinness World Record with their custom robot that solved a Rubik’s Cube in just 0.103 seconds. That was about
Read MoreEvery few weeks, it seems like there’s a new headline about a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting filings containing, in the words of one judge, “bogus AI-generated research.” The details vary, but the throughline is the same: an attorney turns to a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to help them with legal research
Read MoreEvery few weeks, it seems like there’s a new headline about a lawyer getting in trouble for submitting filings containing, in the words of one judge, “bogus AI-generated research.” The details vary, but the throughline is the same: an attorney turns to a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to help them with legal research
Read MoreLike its previous OS versions that denoted significant changes, Apple is rumored to give the upcoming macOS 26 the name of a particularly notable California location. The next macOS is rumored to be called ‘Tahoe’ Apple is reportedly overhauling the look of its various OSes with its next set of releases, expected to arrive in
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority It’s been 25 years since Samsung launched the SCH-V200, which contentiously claims the title of the first camera phone (the Sharp J-SH04 also has its eye on the prize). It certainly wasn’t anything like the photography behemoths we carry around in our pockets today — just a tiny 0.35MP
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Read MoreI’ve used Pocket every single day for over a decade. From quick-hit reads to long-term storage of, well, my own articles, interviews, and hundreds of interesting longreads I didn’t have time for in the moment — everything went into Pocket. Over time, it became my cross-platform inbox for the web. I’d save articles on my
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority YouTube is a constantly evolving beast. Between the endless UI experiments, the rise of Shorts, and the ever-growing ad invasion, it’s harder than ever to enjoy the platform like we used to in the good old days. But even though I eventually caved and got YouTube Premium — because
Read MorePortal 2 is mostly known as the successful sequel to Valve’s weird physics platformer, Portal. It’s not really known for being a webserver. That might change, though, given the hard work of [PortalRunner]. Quite literally, [PortalRunner] hacked the Source engine and Portal 2 to actually run a working HTTP web server. That required setting up the code
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Read MoreWith over 200 million people, Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country by population. Now it’s testing a program that will allow Brazilians “to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,” according to RestOfWorld.org — “the first such nationwide initiative in the world.” The government says it’s partnering with California-based data valuation/monetization firm DrumWave to
Read MoreWith over 200 million people, Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country by population. Now it’s testing a program that will allow Brazilians “to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,” according to RestOfWorld.org — “the first such nationwide initiative in the world.” The government says it’s partnering with California-based data valuation/monetization firm DrumWave to
Read MoreWith over 200 million people, Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country by population. Now it’s testing a program that will allow Brazilians “to manage, own, and profit from their digital footprint,” according to RestOfWorld.org — “the first such nationwide initiative in the world.” The government says it’s partnering with California-based data valuation/monetization firm DrumWave to
Read MoreToday we heard from [Richard James Howe] about his new CPU. This new 16-bit CPU is implemented in VHDL for an FPGA. The really cool thing about this CPU is that it eschews the typical program counter (PC) and replaces it with a linear-feedback shift register (LFSR). Apparently an LFSR can be implemented in hardware
Read MoreAfter months of teasing the arrival of a certain human-reindeer hybrid in the next season of its live-action One Piece adaptation, Netflix has finally revealed its take on Tony Tony Chopper and the actress who will be bringing him to life. Today during this year’s Tudum event showcasing all of Netflix’s upcoming projects, the streamer
Read MoreWhat do you get when you combine an ESP32, a 16-bit DAC, an antique VFD, and an IDE CD-ROM drive? Not much, unless you put in the work, which [Akasaka Ryuunosuke] did to create ESPer-CDP, a modern addition for your hi-fi rack. It plays CDs (of course), but also can also scrobb the disks to
Read MoreJournalists from Der Spiegel and Danwatch were able to use proxy servers in Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia to circumvent network restrictions and access documents about Russia’s nuclear weapon sites, reports Cybernews.com. “Data, including building plans, diagrams, equipment, and other schematics, is accessible to anyone in the public procurement database.” Journalists from Danwatch and Der Spiegel
Read MoreMacworld At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Supports macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android, and Windows Intuitive, modern user interface Flexible pricing Cons Mac client doesn’t offer features like cloud sync, AI chatbot, OCR, or file conversion Account deletion requires customer support Overpriced monthly plan is Our Verdict SwifDoo is free to download and use, but Apple’s
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Call me a Luddite, but my eyes glaze over when a product claims it has an “AI-optimized” design. Whether it’s marketing oversaturation or a growing existential dread as AI threatens to take over both my career and my hobbies, the phrase goes into one ear and out the other
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