An anonymous reader shared this report from the OMG Ubuntu blog: Those of you who own a Framework Laptop 13 — consider me jealous, btw — or are considering buying one in the near future, you may be interested to know that a RISC-V motherboard option is in the works. DeepComputing, the company behind the
Read MoreIt’s been a 1,000 years since there was a significant volcanic eruption from Mount Rainier, CNN reminds readers. It’s a full 60 miles from Tacoma, Washington — and 90 miles from Seattle. Yet “more than Hawaii’s bubbling lava fields or Yellowstone’s sprawling supervolcano, it’s Mount Rainier that has many U.S. volcanologists worried.” “Mount Rainier keeps
Read MoreIt’s been a 1,000 years since there was a significant volcanic eruption from Mount Rainier, CNN reminds readers. It’s a full 60 miles from Tacoma, Washington — and 90 miles from Seattle. Yet “more than Hawaii’s bubbling lava fields or Yellowstone’s sprawling supervolcano, it’s Mount Rainier that has many U.S. volcanologists worried.” “Mount Rainier keeps
Read MoreEarlier this month Apple announced a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to Siri. “Now, the Wall Street Journal reports that Apple and Facebook’s parent company Meta are in talks around a similar deal,” according to TechCrunch: A deal with Meta could make Apple less reliant on a single partner, while also providing validation for
Read MoreMichigan’s House of Representatives passed a bill requiring all the state’s public high schools to offer a computer science course by the start of the 2027-28 school year. (The bill now goes to the Senate, according to a report from Chalkbeat Detroit.) Long-time Slashdot reader theodp writes: Michigan is also removing the requirement for CS
Read MoreDr Disrespect at a golf tournament in January 2024. | Photo by Orlando Ramirez/Getty Images Twitch abruptly banned one of its biggest stars — Herschel “Guy” Beahm, better known by his persona Dr Disrespect — in 2020 without a word of explanation. Now, four years after Beahm’s permanent ban, two former Twitch employees have come
Read MoreThe space agency has pushed back the spacecraft’s return to an unspecified date in July, to give it more time to look into the problems that beset the vehicle on its journey into orbit.
Read MoreTuesday a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch a special satellite — a state-of-the-art weather-watcher from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It will complete a series of four GOES-R satellite launches that began in 2016. Space.com drills down into how these satellites have changed weather forecasts: More than seven years later, with three of
Read MoreTuesday a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket will launch a special satellite — a state-of-the-art weather-watcher from America’s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It will complete a series of four GOES-R satellite launches that began in 2016. Space.com drills down into how these satellites have changed weather forecasts: More than seven years later, with three of
Read MoreThe Roddenberry Foundation — named for Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry — “announced Tuesday that this year’s biennial award would focus on artificial intelligence that benefits humanity,” reports the Los Angeles Times: Lior Ipp, chief executive of the foundation, told The Times there’s a growing recognition that AI is becoming more ubiquitous and will affect
Read MoreMacworld For the first six months of owning an iPhone 15 Pro Max, my battery health never dipped below 100 percent. That might not seem like a big deal, but when you consider my iPhone 14 Pro Max lost about a percentage point each month the previous year, I was extremely impressed by the battery’s
Read MoreEarly this year, Google launched its own AI tool, Bard, to compete with ChatGPT. Later, Google renamed Bard to Gemini, and it’s available for both desktop & mobile users. After a few months, Google also introduced extensions that add more features to the AI Chatbot. At first, Google Gemini only had five extensions, but now
Read MoreA new report says that a more mass-market and lower-cost version of the Apple Vision Pro headset won’t be as much of a stand-alone device as the existing model is. Apple’s headset could get a second model as soon as late 2025 Apple has been working on prototypes of a lower-cost AR/VR headset, following the
Read MoreFor the past two weeks, I’ve been editing in the newest version of Final Cut Pro for the iPad. For many professionals, the original release of this app last year missed the mark. Its tools have just been too limited to use on a daily basis. The new version doesn’t necessarily change that — but
Read MoreMultiple AI companies are ignoring Robots.txt files meant to block the scraping of web content for generative AI systems, reports Reuters — citing a warning sent to publisher by content licensing startup TollBit. TollBit, an early-stage startup, is positioning itself as a matchmaker between content-hungry AI companies and publishers open to striking licensing deals with
Read MoreThe venom of recluse spiders can be dangerous, but the idea of there being a “season” when these arachnids invade homes and bite is unhelpful and wrong.
Read MoreBlinky, the friendly FreeDOS mascot. The first version of FreeDOS was released on September 16 of 1994, following Microsoft’s decision to cease development on MS-DOS in favor of Windows. This version 0.01 was still an Alpha release, with 0.1 from 1998 the first Beta and the first stable release (1.0, released on September 3 2006)
Read MoreBlinky, the friendly FreeDOS mascot. The first version of FreeDOS was released on September 16 of 1994, following Microsoft’s decision to cease development on MS-DOS in favor of Windows. This version 0.01 was still an Alpha release, with 0.1 from 1998 the first Beta and the first stable release (1.0, released on September 3 2006)
Read MoreLong-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares CNBC’s report on the U.S. car market: Back in February, used electric vehicle prices dipped below used gasoline-powered vehicle prices for the first time ever, and the pricing cliff keeps getting steeper as car buyers reject any “premium” tag formerly associated with EVs. The decline has been dramatic over the
Read MoreCredit: Ryan McLeod / Android Authority A filing for the Motorola Moto Tag has appeared on the FCC database. This tracker could be Motorola’s first to support Google’s Find My Device network. The tag supports Bluetooth and UWB, while running on a standard watch battery. Google launched its Find My Device network earlier this year,
Read MoreCredit: Android Headlines Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra renders have leaked online. The images show a premium tablet that looks virtually identical to the Tab S9 Ultra. Expect a display notch and thin design once again, but there’s no word on other specs or a launch date. We’ve already seen the first Galaxy Tab S10
Read More“A Chinese launch of the joint Sino-French SVOM mission to study Gamma-ray bursts early Saturday saw toxic rocket debris fall over a populated area…” writes Space News: SVOM is a collaboration between the China National Space Administration (CNSA) and France’s Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES). The mission will look for high-energy electromagnetic radiation from these
Read More[Jason Dookeran] reminded us of something we don’t like to think about. Your printer probably adds barely noticeable dots to everything you print. It does it on purpose, so that if you print something naughty, the good guys can figure out what printer it came from. This is the machine identification code and it has
Read More[Jason Dookeran] reminded us of something we don’t like to think about. Your printer probably adds barely noticeable dots to everything you print. It does it on purpose, so that if you print something naughty, the good guys can figure out what printer it came from. This is the machine identification code and it has
Read MoreWalmart “became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels,” reports NPR. “The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds.” “If it’s hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there’s something that’s close to
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