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The world’s first nuclear-powered battery — a diamond with an embedded radioactive isotope — could power small devices for thousands of years, according to scientists at the UK’s University of Bristol.
Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bo… Continue reading Scientists Build a Nuclear-Diamond Battery That Could Power Devices for Thousands of Years
I’m in a country where WhatsApp is "default" messaging app.
I am thinking about deleting my WhatsApp account completely and sticking to the cell calls and SMS.
I, of course, understand that WhatsApp claims to have end-to-end encr… Continue reading Whatsapp vs SMS+cell calls
Altermagnetism is effectively a hybrid form of magnetism and ferromagnetism that might become very useful in magnetic storage as well as spintronics in general. In order to practically use it, …read more Continue reading Nanoscale Imaging and Control of Altermagnetism in MnTe
Monday long-time Slashdot reader denelson83 wrote: The crowdsourced, widely-used map database OpenStreetMap has had a hardware failure at its upstream ISP in Amsterdam and has been put into a protective read-only mode to avoid loss or corruption of dat… Continue reading Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage
“More than a decade after the advent of the 3D-printed gun as an icon of libertarianism and a gun control nightmare, police say one of those homemade plastic weapons has now been found in the hands of perhaps the world’s most high-profile alleged kille… Continue reading Luigi Mangione’s Ghost Gun Was Only Partially 3D-Printed
[CNLohr] has been tinkering with some fun parts of late. He’d found out that ordinary LCD screens could be used as simple touch sensors, and he had to try it …read more Continue reading An LCD, Touch Sensor, USB-C, And A Microcontroller for a Buck
Alex Evans reports: Unauthorized access of HIPAA-protected information by county employee, largely flies under the radar. Six-months after the Douglas County Department of Health and Human Services determined an employee had accessed protected personal… Continue reading Douglas County Health & Human Services notifies patients that former employee accessed their records inappropriately
An anonymous reader shared this report from NBC News:
U.S. life expectancy rose last year, hitting its highest level since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The report, r… Continue reading US Life Expectancy Rose to 78.4 years in 2023 – Highest Level Since Pandemic
Berlin-based T2 Linux developer René Rebe is also long-time Slashdot reader ReneR — and popped by with a special announcement for the holidays:
The T2 Linux team has unveiled T2 Linux SDE 24.12, codenamed “Sky’s the Limit!”, delivering a … Continue reading T2 Linux SDE 24.12 ‘Sky’s the Limit!’ Released With 37 ISOs For 25 CPU ISAs
“Voyager 1 is currently exploring interstellar space at a distance of 15.5 billion miles (24.9 billion kilometers) away from Earth,” writes Gizmodo.
And yet a team of amateur astronomers in the Netherlands was able to receive Voyager’s signals on a 1… Continue reading Voyager 1 Signals from Interstellar Space Detected by Amateur Astronomers on 1950s Telescope