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An anonymous reader shares a report: For decades, India's economic promise has rested on its demographic dividend -- the competitive edge of a massive, young, and increasingly educated workforce. Economists and policymakers have routinely cited the country's population profile as its ticket to economic superpower status, with projections of reaching $10 trillion in GDP and achieving high-income status by 2047. These forecasts depend heavily on a critical assumption: that roughly 500 million Indians currentl
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In a new CBS News/YouGov survey, 64% of respondents said Trump wasn't placing enough attention on lowering the cost of goods. Read more ›
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The ruling came after the Wisconsin Court of Appeals denied a bid by Attorney General Josh Kaul to stop Elon Musk from issuing payments to voters. Read more ›
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Whenever she feels tired from her work in real estate, she goes to the beach or to stay on one of Samui's neighboring Thai islands to recharge. Read more ›
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Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why. Read more ›
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The UI update includes a floating bottom bar, a rounded photo grid, and additional enhancements. Read more ›
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After Skadden made a deal with Trump, Brenna Frey resigned, marking another public exit from the firm. Read more ›
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Oppo's Find N5 foldable smartphone threw up a few surprises during a recent durability test. Read more ›
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Trump has dreams of Greenland. But the semiautonomous territory of Denmark wants no part of it. Read more ›
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Wave two includes Captain Kirk, Captain Janeway, Worf, Geordi La Forge, and more fan-beloved characters. Read more ›
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The Trump administration's chilling effect on science agencies affects more than just funding. Read more ›
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"The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged," writes Phoronix, "but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn't particularly happy with the pull request." The new "hdrtest" code is for the Intel Xe kernel driver and is around trying to help ensure the Direct Rendering Manager header files are self-contained and pass kernel-doc tests — basic maintenance checks on the included DRM header files to ensure... Read more ›
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According to YouTube, Screen Culture and KH Studio's AI-made trailers violate policies by letting studios take a revenue cut. Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook today said Apple will be donating an undisclosed amount towards earthquake relief efforts in Myanmar and Thailand. "Our hearts go out to all those in Myanmar and Thailand affected by the devastating earthquake," said Cook, in a social media post. Apple typically donates to the Red Cross following major natural disasters around the world. Tag: Tim CookThis article, "Apple to Donate Towards Myanmar and Thailand Earthquake... Read more ›
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Mikey Madison hosts SNL's dating game show “So Like…What Are We?” where a Hinge date crumbles under awkward questions Read more ›
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We really hope Apple's latest AI venture isn't a major miss like notification summaries. Read more ›
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Cryptocurrencies are currently categorized as a "means of settlement" under the Payment Services Act, a designation that has governed their use primarily as a payment tool rather than as investment vehicles. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump spoke with NBC on Saturday about impending auto tariffs and the Signal group chat scandal. Read more ›
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After Myanmar’s 7.7 quake, Taiwanese tech firms in Thailand checked for damage, found none, and quickly resumed operations. Read more ›
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Smart TV platforms are increasingly monitoring what appears on users' screens through Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology, building detailed viewer profiles for targeted advertising. Roku, which transitioned from a hardware company to an advertising powerhouse, reported $3.5 billion in annual ad revenue for 2024 -- representing 85% of its total income. The company has aggressively acquired ACR-related firms, with Roku-owned technology winning an Emmy in 2023 for advancements in the... Read more ›
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Elon Musk says its xAI company has acquired the social media platform X in an all-stock transaction. "The combination values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion ($45 billion less $12 billion debt)," said Musk. He writes on X: Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale.... Read more ›
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The Washington Post reports that after months of polar darkness, the extent of sea ice blanketing the Arctic this winter "fell to the lowest level on record, researchers announced this week... the smallest maximum extent in the 47-year satellite record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. "Since then, the ice has already begun to melt again." "Sea ice is acting like the old canary in the coal... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to "rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months." This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine regulations dealing with Social Security, it's... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase used a quantum computer from Honeywell's Quantinuum to generate and mathematically certify truly random numbers -- an advancement that could significantly enhance encryption, security, and financial applications. The breakthrough was validated with help from U.S. national laboratories and has been published in the journal Nature. From a report: Between May 2023 and May 2024, cryptographers at JPMorgan wrote an algorithm for a quantum computer to generate random numbers,... Read more ›
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A Nature survey has found that three-quarters of responding U.S. scientists are considering leaving the nation following disruptions to science under the Trump administration. Out of 1,608 respondents, 75.3% said they were contemplating leaving the country. Scientists cited concerns over research funding and the general treatment of science as contributing factors for their reasoning. Europe and Canada were mentioned as potential destinations for those looking for opportunities abroad. Read more... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Trevor Milton, the founder of electric vehicle start-up Nikola who was sentenced to prison last year, was pardoned by Donald Trump late on Thursday, the White House confirmed on Friday. The pardon of Milton, who was sentenced to four years in prison for exaggerating the potential of his technology, could wipe out hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution that prosecutors... Read more ›
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Infinite Reality, a 3D technology company, has acquired Napster for $207 million, the companies announced Tuesday. The deal aims to transform the once-notorious music sharing service into a metaverse platform. Napster, launched in 1999 by Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, was the first major peer-to-peer file-sharing application before legal battles forced its closure in 2001. Since 2016, it has operated as a subscription streaming service. Infinite Reality plans to create... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The first clinical trial of a therapy bot that uses generative AI suggests it was as effective as human therapy for participants with depression, anxiety, or risk for developing eating disorders. Even so, it doesn't give a go-ahead to the dozens of companies hyping such technologies while operating in a regulatory gray area. A team led by psychiatric researchers and... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, BleepingComputer has confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid. Last week, a person named 'rose87168' claimed to have breached Oracle Cloud servers and began selling the alleged authentication data and encrypted... Read more ›
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