On May 4th, 2024 with 3 comments
In 2016, an online "swarm intelligence" platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers, in order. (But...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 34 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the New York Times:
American officials are trying to increase international pressure on Russia not to deploy an...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 17 comments
CircleID reports that Multinational internet service provider Cogent recently announced that it was offering $206 million in secured notes (a corporate bond...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 50 comments
The blog It's FOSS is "pissed at the casual arrogance of Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical..... The sheer audacity of not caring for its users reeks of...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 16 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
The heat shield of the Orion spacecraft intended one day to carry astronauts to the moon...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 45 comments
The Washington Post reports that wind turbines "only take up five percent of the land where they've been built, new research shows."
The rest of the space...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 12 comments
An anonymous reader shared this report from the blog Bitcoinist:
Jack Dorsey's financial services and digital payments company, Block Inc., announced it will...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 43 comments
Markos Moulitsas is the poll-watching founder of the political blog Daily Kos. Thursday he wrote that in 2021, future third-party presidential candidate RFK...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 10 comments
The world's highest astronomical site is officially open for business after being in the works for 26 years. Space.com reports: The Japanese University of...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 5 comments
This year's Free Comic Book Day coincided with Star Wars Day. So there's two new free Star Wars titles being handed out today in comic shops around the world....
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On May 4th, 2024 with 147 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Join your localMilitia or III% Patriot Group," a post urged the more than 650 members of a Facebook group...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 117 comments
Natron Energy, a pioneer in sodium-ion battery technology, has officially commenced mass production of its lithium-free sodium batteries in its Holland,...
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On May 4th, 2024 with 22 comments
"It all started with the fans," says 72-year-old actor Mark Hamill, in a montage of fans and actors in a newly-released video commemorating this year's Star...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 40 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Oil and gas equipment intended to cut methane emissions is preventing scientists from accurately...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 77 comments
Senior Department arms control official Paul Dean on Thursday urged China and Russia to declare that artificial intelligence would never make decisions on...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 32 comments
Apple reported fiscal second-quarter earnings that topped estimates, despite a 10% drop in iPhone sales. The company also announced that its board had...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 31 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Independent, published last month: Humans now share the web equally with bots, according to a major new report --...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 74 comments
"Players who made Steam purchases of Helldivers 2 are now, months after the fact, being told by Sony that their games will be useless unless linked to a PSN...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 29 comments
A bipartisan group of senators, led by Jeff Merkley, John Kennedy, and Roger Marshall, is advocating for limitations on the Transportation Security...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 36 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Late last year, an artificial intelligence engineer at Amazon was wrapping up the work week and getting ready to...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 33 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Relations between Russia and Germany were already tense, with Germany providing military support to Ukraine in its ongoing...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 182 comments
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill this week banning and criminalizing the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat in the state. From a report: The...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 19 comments
The UK government's climate action plan is unlawful, the high court has ruled, as there is not enough evidence that there are sufficient policies in place to...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 28 comments
China launched an uncrewed lunar mission Friday that aims to bring back samples from the far side of the moon for the first time, in a potentially major step...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 113 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: A software engineer has been keeping nearly 7,500 Firefox tabs open on her Mac computer for over two years -- and doesn't...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 51 comments
Microsoft is making security its number one priority for every employee, following years of security issues and mounting criticisms. The Verge: After a...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 23 comments
Plumpaquatsch writes: Investigators teamed up with colleagues from the Balkans and Lebanon in raids set up by months of intense surveillance. Authorities say...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 232 comments
samleecole writes: Utah set up an online form for people to accuse other citizens and public establishments of violating the state's recently-enacted...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 23 comments
Google has asked a U.S. judge not to impose sweeping changes to the Alphabet unit's app store Play that were proposed by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games in the...
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On May 3rd, 2024 with 71 comments
A Miami-based CEO will serve over six years in prison for selling counterfeit Cisco equipment to numerous buyers on Amazon and eBay, with some of the shoddy...
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