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An anonymous reader shares a report: Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska "MKV" content. Enabled just within the Firefox Nightly builds for now or opting in within the media.mkv.enabled preference is the ability to support MKV playback.
Initially just AVC/H.264 and AAC within MKV containers are supported but other codec support will be expanded over time. For the past eight years there has been this feature request for supporting Matro
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Ashok Elluswamy is an Elon Musk lieutenant, founding member of Tesla's Autopilot team, and the VP for AI software. How did he get there? Read more ›
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Investors worry that generative AI will disrupt software business models. These companies could fend off the threat. Read more ›
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The small telco's impressive new introductory discounts last for 8 months, with plans starting from just AU$44p/m. Read more ›
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The Philippine Coast Guard said fisherman had turned over a 12-foot-long underwater drone they found near the waters of Palawan. Read more ›
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At the Clover x Shark Tank Summit, Mark Cuban shared 7 tips on bootstrapping, sales, customer focus, and using AI without losing control of your IP. Read more ›
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London-based Trig (formerly Pavlov), an AI agent platform purpose-built for account management, has secured $6M (approximately €5.1M) in an oversubscribed seed round. The round was led by 20VC, with participation from Frontline Ventures, Marc Benioff, AJ Tennant, Mayur Gupta, and other pioneering industry leaders. The latest funding round brings total capital raised to $8M, following ... Read more Read more ›
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Deventer-based startup OpusFlow has secured €3.8 million in growth funding to accelerate the expansion of its automation platform for renewable energy installers. The round was led by Move Energy, with participation from Rise PropTech and existing investor Peak. Founded in late 2022 by Diego Smits and Joey Teunissen, integrates key processes for solar, heat pump, ... Read more ›
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Rock Band 4 will be de-listed later this week, developer Harmonix has stated, meaning this is your last chance to grab any remaining song packs. Read more Read more ›
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Jane Goodall's powers of observation revealed facts scholars had overlooked for years. She died at 91 on October 1. Read more ›
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Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies. Read more ›
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A Wisconsin mom made $250K secretly juggling multiple jobs until it became unsustainable. Now she's making $195K and skirting return-to-office rules. Read more ›
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The Realme 15 Pro Game of Thrones Limited Edition will make its debut on October 8. The company sent the media a very unique invite, which quite literally involved fire, to reveal the launch date. Now, the company has teased the design of the upcoming phone. In a short teaser video shared on social media, the company showed the rear panel of the Realme 15 Pro Game of Thrones Edition.... Read more ›
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Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while doing what she’s done for most of her later years — touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence. Goodall, who revolutionized what we know about chimpanzees and animal intelligence, was interviewed as […] Read more ›
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Cheaper AI models may be trained on outputs of older systems instead of fresh human data. Read more ›
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June used to be the most popular month for weddings. But brides' love for fall vibes means October has taken the crown as the top time for marriage. Read more ›
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Elon Musk's posts come amid some online criticism of the Netflix animated show, "Dead End: Paranormal Park," and its creator. Read more ›
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Meta has rolled out Vibes, an endless feed of AI-generated videos within its Meta AI app and meta.ai website. Users can create short-form synthetic videos from scratch or remix existing AI content from the feed, adding music and adjusting styles before redistributing the artificial output to Instagram, Facebook Stories and Reels. The feed promises to become "more personalized over time" as it learns user preferences for machine-generated content. Meta positioned... Read more ›
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Six months ago California had 48% more public and "shared" private EV chargers than gasoline nozzles. (In March California had 178,000 public and shared private EV chargers, versus about 120,000 gas nozzles.) Since then they've added 23,000 more public/shared charging ports — and announced this week that there's now 68% more EV charger ports than the number of gasoline nozzles statewide. "Thanks to the state's ever-expanding charger network, 94% of... Read more ›
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U.S. tech workers must sacrifice work-life balance to compete with China's workforce, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has warned. Speaking on the All-In podcast, Schmidt said China's tech sector operates on "996" schedules -- 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week -- despite the practice being outlawed in 2021. He criticized remote work as particularly harmful for young employees who miss learning opportunities from in-person office interactions. âoeIf... Read more ›
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Sen. Mark Kelly and three Democratic colleagues urged appropriations leaders to block funding for moving space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia to Houston, arguing the transfer would waste taxpayer money, risk permanent damage, and restrict public access. The relocation, pushed by Texas senators Cornyn and Cruz under a new law, carries an estimated cost of nearly $400 million. Ars Technica reports: "Why should hundreds of millions... Read more ›
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After the nonprofit Ruby Central removed all RubyGems' maintainers from its GitHub repository, André Arko — who helped build Bundler — wrote a new blog post on Thursday "detailing Bundler's relationship with Ruby Central," according to this update from The New Stack. "In the last few weeks, Ruby Central has suddenly asserted that they alone own Bundler," he wrote. "That simply isn't true. In order to defend the reputation of... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader whoever57 writes: Birmingham City Council, the largest such entity in Europe, has been declared effectively bankrupt. There are a couple of reasons for this, but one of them is a disastrous project to replace the city's income management system using Oracle. The cost of this has risen to $230 million, while the initial estimate was $24 million. There was a failed rollout of the new system earlier... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: NASA has awarded Solstar Space a $150,000 SBIR Phase I contract to develop a Lunar Wi-Fi Access Point (LWIFI-AP). The system is designed to provide wireless connectivity for astronauts, rovers, and orbiting spacecraft as part of the Artemis and Commercial Lunar Payload Services programs. Solstar's goal is to build a space-rated, multi-band, multi-protocol access point that can survive radiation, extreme lunar temperatures, and other... Read more ›
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United Launch Alliance's Atlas 5 rocket launched 27 more Project Kuiper satellites for Amazon from Cape Canaveral, bringing the constellation's total to 129 in orbit. By the end of the year, Amazon expects over 200 satellites will be deployed, with commercial service starting in several countries by early 2026. Spaceflight Now reports: This is the third batch of production satellites launched by ULA and the fifth overall for the growing... Read more ›
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"Swiss voters have backed plans for electronic identity cards by a wafer-thin margin," reports the Guardian, "in the second nationwide vote on the issue." In a referendum on Sunday, 50.4% of voters supported an electronic ID card, while 49.6% were against, confounding pollsters who had forecast stronger support for the "yes" vote. Turnout was 49.55%, higher than expected... [V]oters rejected an earlier version of the e-ID in 2021, largely over... Read more ›
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Tim Berners-Lee writes in a new article in the Guardian that "Somewhere between my original vision for web 1.0 and the rise of social media as part of web 2.0, we took the wrong path Today, I look at my invention and I am forced to ask: is the web still free today? No, not all of it. We see a handful of large platforms harvesting users' private data to... Read more ›
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