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“A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction,” writes the Los Angeles Times.
“All you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience.”
The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been developing the technology since 2009… Continue reading Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal
“Apple has gone for a choose-your-own-adventure when shopping for a new Mac,” writes long-time Slashdot reader esarjeant.
Macworld explains:
Apple has shifted from selling pre-configured Mac models to a fully customizable build-to-order system on i… Continue reading Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site
Saturday Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said they still planned a “huge” investment in OpenAI, according to CNBC.
Friday the Wall Street Journal had reported that Nvidia’s plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “has stalled after some inside the chip g… Continue reading Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI’s $100B Investment from Nvidia is ‘Stalled’
TechCrunch reports:
Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a tem… Continue reading Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism – to Focus on the Moon
“There’s one big bright spot in the fight against climate change that most people never think about,” reports the Washington Post.
“It could prevent nearly half a degree of global warming this century, a huge margin for a planet that has warmed almost… Continue reading Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?
Slashdot reader alternative_right writes: Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its he… Continue reading Scientists Found a Way To Cool Quantum Computers Using Noise
Several security experts have “questioned the lack of technical detail” in that lawsuit alleging WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption, reports the Washington Post:
“It’s pretty long on accusations and thin on any sort of evidence,” Matthew Green, a… Continue reading WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers
The Daily Beast:
“Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following ‘sex with Russian girls,’ and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstei… Continue reading The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell – and What Most People Get Wrong
Friday 72-year-old Richard Stallman made a two-hour-and-20-minutes appearance at the Georgia Institute of Technology, talking about everything from AI and connected cars to smartphones, age verfication laws, and his favorite Linux distro. But early on,… Continue reading Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong?
Earlier this month, the media site Press Gazette reported that now Google “is increasingly prioritising AI summaries, X posts and Youtube videos” on its “Discover” feed (which appears on the leftmost homescreen page of many Android phones and the Googl… Continue reading Is Google Prioritizing YouTube and X Over News Publishers on Discover?