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"When Apollo astronauts stumbled across shimmering orange beads on the moon, they had no idea they were gazing at ancient relics of violent volcanic activity," writes ScienceDaily.
These glass spheres, tiny yet mesmerizing, formed billions of years ago during fiery eruptions that launched molten droplets skyward, instantly freezing in space. Now, using advanced instruments that didn't exist in the 1970s, scientists have examined the beads in unprecedented detail. The result is a remarkable window into th
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Amazing Atmos adventures to justify all that money spent on your sweet speakers. Read more ›
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Getting onto a road and not knowing how fast you can drive can be a headache, so that's why states have laws in place to cover that contingency. Read more ›
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A YouTuber turned a countertop ice machine into a custom cooler for an Nvidia RTX 3060, dropping Cyberpunk 2077 temperatures from around 60 degrees to 22 to 23 degrees Celsius. Read more ›
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Before adding another Ryobi tool to your collection, see which products impressed users and reviewers and which ones struggled to deliver. Read more ›
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India’s IPO market is stirring back to life. After months of delays, due to geopolitical uncertainty, volatile equity markets and… Read more ›
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The Pentagon's $1.6 trillion F-35 program reached just 25% full mission capability as software issues and shortages persisted. Read more ›
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Lime, the electric scooter and bike rental company, is set to receive financial backing from its long-time partner and investor, Uber. In an updated IPO prospectus filing expected Monday, Uber will be named as an anchor investor for the deal, The Information reported. Lime is targeting a $1.8 ... Read more ›
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John Jumper, the Google DeepMind Vice President who co-won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is leaving the company to join rival Anthropic, he said on X on Friday. Jumper’s move follows that of another high-profile Google researcher, Noam Shazeer, who earlier this week announced he had joined ... Read more ›
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Goodyear Wranglers are often at the top of the list when it comes to all-terrain tires, but independent testing says there's a better-performing brand. Read more ›
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The initial public offering for Lime, an electric scooter and bike rental company that was once a stalwart of the late 2010s startup scene, is getting financial support from an old friend: Uber. The ride-hailing giant is expected to invest a “meaningful” amount in the deal and be named as an anchor investor on the cover of an updated IPO prospectus that Lime plans to file Monday, a person familiar... Read more ›
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Here's how to watch New Zealand vs Egypt for free online and from anywhere as Mohamed Salah looks to secure his first World Cup victory. Read more ›
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"There's a revolution in battery technology hiding in plain sight," reports The Wall Street Journal. "The 3-D printing of batteries has the potential to put energy storage inside any device. "This will enable lightweight and long-lasting consumer gadgets, long-range military drones and even nanoscale robots." Almost all the innovations we regularly hear about — from cheaper, tougher electric-vehicle batteries to "Holy Grail" solid-state batteries — are about changing the chemistry... Read more ›
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In the US, the average cost of nursing home care is around $9,368 a month. At Baan Kamlangchay in Thailand, care costs start from around $2,900 a month. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) чаще всего рассматривается в контексте вопросно-ответных систем и чат-ботов поверх базы знаний. Большинство публикаций и руководств по RAG посвящено схеме «вопрос – ответ с опорой на документы». Однако внутренняя механика RAG – семантический поиск в сочетании с генерацией ответа на основе найденного – хорошо ложится и на другую задачу, которую традиционно решают иными методами: на рекомендации.Цель настоящей статьи – показать, что RAG представляет собой недоиспользованны Read more ›
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"As the use of artificial intelligence spreads across companies worldwide, it is relieving workers of tedious old chores but creating new ones," reports the Los Angeles Times. "Most people don't realize the amount of time that they're spending working on the tools to get the time savings that they're professing," said Paul Leonardi, Duca Family professor of technology management at UC Santa Barbara." Leonardi is one of the co-authors of... Read more ›
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"Asian stocks rallied Monday while oil prices tumbled," reports CNBC, "after the U.S. and Iran agreed to a peace deal aimed at ending nearly four months of conflict..." The strongest reaction was seen in energy markets. U.S. crude oil futures for July delivery were down 4.77% to $80.83 per barrel by 8:27 p.m. ET. Brent futures, the international benchmark, for August delivery traded about 4% lower to $83.77 per barrel.... Read more ›
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"Battered by years of mass layoffs, California tech workers were hoping the job market would rebound this year," reports the Los Angeles Times. "But things are getting worse." The class divide is widening in Silicon Valley as a tiny group of employees is landing unprecedented packages for AI skills, while many others struggle to find work. The have-nots are doing everything that used to guarantee great jobs — refreshing resumes,... Read more ›
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Futurism reports: in a new essay for The Chronicle Higher Education, university-level literature and writing instructor Tyler Jagt recalls how not a single one of his students could get through an assigned 20-page article, something that he had read "without complaint" as an undergraduate a decade ago. One student confessed that the reason they didn't finish was that they kept losing track of what the paper was about. And there's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Voters in Switzerland have rejected an unprecedented far-right proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million in a divisive referendum dubbed "the Swiss Brexit." Some 54.79% of voters were against the proposal by the Swiss People's party (SVP) and 45.21% were in favor. Turnout was 58.86%. A different outcome would have obliged the Swiss government to limit the population, currently... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivered Stanford University's 2026 commencement address, but despite leading one of the companies at the center of the AI boom, he spent very little time discussing artificial intelligence. Instead, the speech focused on optimism, working on hard things, and following your interests. The omission is notable given how many graduates are entering a job market being reshaped by AI. While Pichai briefly referenced a... Read more ›
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Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox's sports, news, entertainment, Tubi, and Fox One offerings with a streaming platform that reaches about 100 million people. The companies say the merger would create the "third-largest player in US television by share of viewing," while Fox insists Roku will remain open to competing apps after the deal closes. CNN reports: Fox has dabbled in streaming over the past few years... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from NBC News: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a sweeping ban on social media use for those under 16, joining other countries around the world seeking to protect children online. "It's a big step for our country," Starmer said in a recorded video message released Monday. "Social media is making our children unhappy and unsafe, and as a parent, as much... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader necro81 writes: The heavily promoted, $499 T1 "Trump Phone" was originally said to be "Made in the USA" and ship in September 2025. Later, that was downgraded to "Assembled in the USA." Given the Trump Organization's lack of engineering or supply chain expertise, many assumed the "T1" would just be a private-label phone made by someone else. After a number of delays, the first phones are finally... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A decade ago, AMD added a protection to its high-end CPUs to protect them against cold boot attacks and other types of physical exploits that siphon sensitive data out of the connected memory chips. Short for Transparent Secure Memory Encryption, TSME encrypts the entire contents stored in memory, making the data useless to physical attackers. Over time, AMD added TSME to... Read more ›
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