Collaborate Disseminate
“The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel,” CNN reported this week. And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, “leaving them turning to the renewables king of the planet: China.”
Chinese exp… Continue reading Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began
Transistors in some circuit configurations work together and, frequently, need to be matched. This is so common that you can sometimes find ICs that are just a pair of transistors …read more Continue reading Matching Transistors
“Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound,” reports the New York Post:
Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff ou… Continue reading Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise
Once upon a time, someone set up a livestream wherein the messages from Twitch chat could control a game of Pokemon. Since then, we’ve seen Twitch control all sorts of …read more Continue reading Let Twitch Chat Control Your LED Strings
Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube’s subtitles “not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.” But they say there’s a new problem.
“The subtitling is terrible!”
Almost every sentence has a hug… Continue reading Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube’s Subtitles ‘Appallingly Bad’?
“Nuclear AI startup” Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, “three times the amount typically consumed by New York City.”
Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and … Continue reading The $19B “Nuclear AI” Energy Startup That Couldn’t Sign a Single Client
If you are trying to open the Microsoft Company Portal app on your Windows 11 PC and it simply refuses to launch, you are not alone. The Company Portal app sometimes fails to open due to conflicts with system updates, a corrupted app cache, or issues w… Continue reading Microsoft Company Portal not opening in Windows 11
Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them “the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding… Continue reading Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims
Some people love CRTs to a degree that the uninitiated may find obsessive. We all have our thing, and for [Found Tech], it’s absolutely pointing particle accelerators at his face …read more Continue reading Pushing as Many Pixels as Possible to a CRT: Interlaced 4K
“Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley’s AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less,” writes the Washington Post:
Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an indu… Continue reading What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren’t All About AI?