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Our kids spent the past week with us here in Mexico City. Their visit came in the middle of a busy time–Stephen Rose visited right before them and two other friends arrive just a few days from now–but it provided me with a timely reminder of what’s i… Continue reading From the Editor’s Desk: Community (Premium)
gdm (Slashdot reader #97,336) writes:
A study published in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives investigates how ants avoid traffic jams…. Quoting the abstract: “The results show that ants adopt specific traffic strategies (platoon … Continue reading Can Ants Teach Us How to Program Self-Driving Cars?
The ever-reliable Mark Gurman says that Apple’s problems delivering an AI-powered Siri assistant will impact other products, too.
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Small cylindrical parts are often formed through deep drawing — a process by which a punch forms the finished piece from a flat sheet of metal using a forming die. …read more Continue reading Deep Drawing with Ultrasonics
Philosophy/ethics professor Troy Jollimore looks at the implications of a world where many students are submitting AI-generated essays. (“Sometimes they will provide quotations, giving page numbers that, as often as not, do not seem to correspond to an… Continue reading ‘I Used to Teach Students. Now I Catch ChatGPT Cheats’
I’m at a weird point with the next version of .NETpad. The basic coding for multiple tabs and documents is mostly complete, albeit roughly. I’m still stepping through each of the event handlers and helper methods that interact with tabs and the documen… Continue reading .NETpad 2025: Return to Sender (Premium)
Slashdot covered the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest in 2008 and 2010 — though it’s been running since 1983. Entrants competed to write the worst-possible first sentence for a novel, in a contest started by English professor Scott E. Rice at San Jo… Continue reading Professor Ends Bulwer-Lytton Bad Writing Contest After 43 Years
Damaged corneas were repaired at a Harvard teaching hospital in a unique clinical trial, reports New Atlas:
Since it’s on the frontline of potential hazards from the outside world, the cornea features a population of limbal epithelial stem cells, whic… Continue reading Stem Cell Therapy Trial Reverses ‘Irreversible’ Damage to Cornea
What would you do with dozens and dozens of outdated Chromebooks that are no longer getting updates from the Google Mothership? It’s a situation that plenty of schools will have …read more Continue reading Old Chromebooks Get Second Life as Video Wall
Slashdot reader databasecowgirl writes: The Times is reporting an interesting study published in Science in which mice demonstrated doing first aid. In the replicated study, an anaesthetised mouse is exposed to another mouse who recognises the distress… Continue reading Mice Give First Aid