On April 21st, 2026 with 6 comments
Amazon is expanding its Anthropic partnership with a deal to invest up to another $25 billion, while Anthropic commits to spending more than $100 billion on...
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On April 21st, 2026 with 11 comments
NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman posted an out-of-this-world iPhone video on Sunday, showing Earth disappear behind the Moon at 8x zoom. "I could barely see the...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 26 comments
A new email from Sony says that PlayStation will require players to verify their age later this year to keep using communication features like messages and...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 55 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: A ban on mobile phones in schools in England is to be introduced by the government to ensure that...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 34 comments
Apple announced that Tim Cook will step down as CEO in September after 15 years in the role, handing the job to hardware chief John Ternus. Longtime Slashdot...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 46 comments
Alex Bores, a former Palantir employee and current Democratic House candidate in New York, is proposing an "AI dividend" that would send direct payments to...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 15 comments
Deezer says AI-generated songs now make up 44% of all new uploads to its platform, with nearly 75,000 arriving each day and more than two million per month....
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On April 20th, 2026 with 112 comments
"After a Supreme Court of the United States ruling in Feb. 2026, many tariffs imposed by the Trump administration were declared illegal because the president...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 119 comments
DeanonymizedCoward writes: Engadget reports that Palantir has posted to X a summary of CEO Alex Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 26 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg, written by writer Austin Carr: Allbirds is pivoting to artificial intelligence. The San Francisco brand,...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 40 comments
Axios reports that the NSA is using Anthropic's restricted Mythos Preview model despite the Pentagon insisting the company poses a "supply chain risk." Axios...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 82 comments
There's been a few complaints about Amazon's drone delivery service. "The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air," reports the...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 40 comments
Zoom "has partnered with World, Sam Altman's iris-scanning identity company (previously known as Worldcoin), " reports Digital Trends, "to add real-time human...
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On April 20th, 2026 with 58 comments
The Brave browser "has introduced Brave Origin, a stripped-down version of its browser that removes built-in monetization features like Rewards and other...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 24 comments
SpaceNews reports:
Blue Origin's New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket's third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 62 comments
After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR:
The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 167 comments
Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 241 comments
In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 17 comments
NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 15 comments
"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..."
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On April 19th, 2026 with 57 comments
"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 29 comments
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:
HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 50 comments
Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 29 comments
The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to...
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On April 19th, 2026 with 172 comments
Back in the 1990s, floppy disks "had a mere capacity of 1.44MB," remembers XDA Developers, "which would soon become absolutely tiny for the increasingly large...
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On April 18th, 2026 with 34 comments
Last May Duolingo's stock peaked at $529.05. But while the learning app passed $1 billion in revenue in 2025 and 50 million daily active users, today its...
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On April 18th, 2026 with 19 comments
After Artemis II's astronauts returned to earth, "NASA has Artemis III in its sights," reports the Associated Press:
In a mission recently added to the docket...
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On April 18th, 2026 with 88 comments
"A trailer has been released for the first film to star an authorised generative AI version of a major Hollywood actor," writes The Guardian:
Val Kilmer was...
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On April 18th, 2026 with 42 comments
Slashdot reader Bismillah shared this report from ITNews:
Research and development engineer Romain Marchand of Paris headquartered Quarkslab obtained a...
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