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Some scientists believe life on earth originated in organic matter in earth's bodies of water more than 3.5 billion years ago," reports CNN. "But where did that organic material come from...?"
Maybe electrical energy sparked the beginnings of life on earth — just like in Frankenstein:
Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth's oceans and spontaneously produced the organic molecules. Now, new research published March 14 in the journal Science Advances sug
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Amid growing fallout over Elon Musk’s involvement in the Trump administration, Tesla’s sales fell a staggering 13 percent in the first quarter of 2025 year over year. The company said it produced a total of 362,615 vehicles in the first three months of the year, including 345,454 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles and 17,161 […] Read more ›
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Get ready for the Enterprise to go to some very strange places indeed when Star Trek: Strange New Worlds returns this summer. Read more ›
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It was only yesterday when a report out of Europe claimed we could see the Galaxy S25 Edge launch later this month. Well, we now have a report out of Samsung’s home country claiming that we may not see launch until May. With the solid history of reporting we have seen out of South Korea, … Continued Read the original post: Galaxy S25 Edge Launch Now Reported for May Read more ›
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Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's organization has been monkeying with America's retirement system, with no positive results so far. Read more ›
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For a limited time you can steal these $170 buds for 41% off, head to Amazon now before the deal disappears. Read more ›
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Trump and Musk's preferred candidate, conservative Judge Brad Schimel lost to liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford. Read more ›
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Vaccinated people's risk of dementia was reduced by 20% over a seven year period, researchers have found. Read more ›
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Ben Baker was excited to drive his new Cybertruck, but his worries for his children's safety amid anti-Tesla sentiment prompted him to return it. Read more ›
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Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment abroad since World War II. Read more ›
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Judge Susan Crawford's win in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a blow for Musk as DOGE's work continues to face increased scrutiny from the public. Read more ›
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Meghan Markle launched her new lifestyle brand, As Ever, in April. She first announced it in 2024 as American Riviera Orchard. Read more ›
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Sales were down 13% in the first three months of 2025, marking its steepest sales decline in history. Read more ›
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Nintendo has finally shared many of the key specs about the Nintendo Switch 2 as part of its Switch 2-focused Direct. The system launches on June 5th. The device has a 7.9-inch screen, but it’s still 13.99mm thick, like the first Switch. The LCD screen has a 1080p resolution, and supports HDR and up to […] Read more ›
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Nintendo just held a livestream to drop more details on the forthcoming Switch 2 console. At the very end, it revealed a brand-new 3D platformer starring Donkey Kong. This is the first game of its type since Donkey Kong 64 hit the Nintendo 64 all the way back in 1999. It’s called Donkey Kong Bananza and launches exclusively for the Switch 2 on July 17, which is just over a... Read more ›
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Save $150 on the JBL PartyBox 710 party speaker at Amazon, just in time for Spring weather. Read more ›
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The final chapters of "Sunrise of the Reaping" have two major revelations that may change how fans interpret the other "The Hunger Games" books. Here's what to know. Read more ›
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Users can now enable Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) for quicker fixes on post-Windows 11 boot crashes. Read more ›
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It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace. Read more ›
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Nintendo's next-generation handheld is set to launch June 5 alongside a slew of new games and accessories—including one very cool rebooted GameCube controller. 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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An anonymous reader shares a report: A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why. Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at... 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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Software engineer Sergey Tselovalnikov weighs in on the new hype: The term caught on and Twitter quickly flooded with posts about how AI has radically transformed coding and will soon replace all software engineers. While AI undeniably impacts the way we write code, it hasn't fundamentally changed our role as engineers. Allow me to explain. [...] Vibe coding is interacting with the codebase via prompts. As the implementation is hidden... 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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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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