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A former Bank of England analyst has urged contingency planning for a potential financial shock if the U.S. government were to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. The argument is that "ontological shock" alone could destabilize confidence and trigger crisis dynamics. The Independent reports: [Helen McCaw, who served as a senior analyst in financial security at the UK's central bank and worked for the Bank of England for 10 years until 2012] said politicians and bankers can no longer affo
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Wall Street giants like Apollo and Blackstone are all in on private credit — and it soon may end up in your retirement account. Read more ›
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US tariffs under Donald Trump have been paid almost entirely by Americans, with foreign exporters paying for only 4%, a German study found. Read more ›
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After teasing 10,000mAh and 15,000mAh concept devices, Realme is ready to make those big batteries reality with the P4 Power, which launches in India on January 29th with a 10,001mAh capacity. Realme says the P4 Power will last for three and a half days of light use, which I can believe - I got between […] Read more ›
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We are pleased to announce that Jonathan Anguelov, Co-founder of Aircall, will take the stage at the upcoming EU-Startups Summit, returning for the third time to sunny Malta on 7 to 8 May 2026! Founded in 2014 in Paris, Aircall has grown into one of France’s most successful tech scaleups and a recognised European unicorn. ... Read more ›
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Roland now offers a more capable audio mixer for phones and tablets with the launch of the Go:Mixer Studio. The Go:Mixer audio interface lineup has always been a bit limited, better suited for scrappy live streams and capturing quick demos on their phones than professional recording. The Go:Mixer Studio is an attempt to actually reach […] Read more ›
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The Motorola Edge 60 Fusion, which debuted in April last year, is due for an upgrade. Right on schedule, the Edge 70 Fusion has now surfaced in a new leak that reveals its full set of specifications. According to prominent tipster Evan Blass, the Motorola Edge 70 Fusion carries the internal codename “Avenger.” The smartphone is said to be powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 SoC, marking a shift... Read more ›
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Pioneering mathematician Dr. Gladys West has passed away at the age of 95. Her name may not be familiar to you, but her contributions certainly are; West's work laid the foundation for the global positioning system. As you likely know from experience, GPS is now an essential component of industries ranging from aviation and emergency response, as well as ensuring that you get to that dinner date or job interview... Read more ›
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Greenland Support founder Victor Schøtt said his goal is to build solidarity for Greenland's sovereignty as Donald Trump threatens a takeover. Read more ›
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If you have been hoping for a $2,000 tariff rebate check, President Donald Trump gave mixed messages in a recent interview with The New York Times. Read more ›
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A Georgia sheriff's office is warning users that phishing texts are targeting those seeking compensation for the outage. Read more ›
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ChatGPT could provide advertisers with a valuable "high-intent" engaged audience, siphoning marketing budgets away from Google, Mahaney says Read more ›
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I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled here to raise our daughters in a freezing state that had always welcomed us warmly. As the ongoing occupation by over 3,000 ICE agents stretches into its third […] Read more ›
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The Geran-5 features US parts such as digital signal processors and clock generators, along with a Chinese jet engine and $8,100 modem, GUR said. Read more ›
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"What Wall Street tends to do with it, I don't really care," Khosla said. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1675 on January 20 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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The Northern Lights is expected to put on a show for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Here's how to view the aurora borealis this week. Read more ›
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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company is focused on "practical adoption" in 2026, especially in health, science, and enterprise. Read more ›
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Deep discounts, vast data and bespoke AI agents fuel new challenge in China’s multibillion-dollar enterprise market Read more ›
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Scott Adams, who kept cubicle denizens laughing for more than three decades with Dilbert, the bitingly funny comic strip that poked fun at the absurdity of corporate life, died Tuesday. He was 68. From a report: His death was tearfully revealed by his first ex-wife, Shelly Miles, at the start of Real Coffee With Scott Adams. In May, he said on the podcast that he had been diagnosed with prostate... Read more ›
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This week Noema magazine published a 7,000-word exploration of our modern "Mythology Of Conscious AI" written by a neuroscience professor who directs the University of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science: The very idea of conscious AI rests on the assumption that consciousness is a matter of computation. More specifically, that implementing the right kind of computation, or information processing, is sufficient for consciousness to arise. This assumption, which philosophers call... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post: The U.S. Department of Transportation brought an automated bus to D.C. this week to showcase its work on self-driving vehicles, taking officials from around the country on a ride between agency headquarters at Navy Yard and Union Station. One of those trips was interrupted Sunday when the bus got rear-ended. The bus, produced by the company Beep, was following its... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Wine 11.0 has officially landed, wrapping up a year of development with more than 6,000 code changes and a broad set of upgrades that touch gaming, desktop behavior, and long-standing architectural work. The biggest milestone is the completion of the new WoW64 model, which is now considered fully supported and allows 32-bit and even 16-bit applications to run in a cleaner way inside 64-bit prefixes. Wine also gains... Read more ›
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once told an audience that he views local PC hardware the same way he views a 100-year-old electric generator he saw in a brewery museum -- as a relic of a pre-grid era, destined to be replaced by centralized utilities that users simply rent rather than own. The anecdote, shared at a talk a few years ago, positioned Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure as the... Read more ›
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The senior editor at the blog Windows Central decries two serious Windows issues "that were not spotted by Microsoft during testing, and are so severe that the company has now issued an emergency fix to address the problems." Microsoft's first update for Windows 11 in 2026 has already caused two major issues that saw users unable to fully shutdown their PCs or sign-in into a device when using Remote Desktop...... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gothamist: City regulators on Tuesday accused Uber and DoorDash of deliberately altering their app interfaces to discourage customers from tipping food delivery workers, a move that has cost the employees more than $550 million over the last two years. A report (PDF) published by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection argues that food delivery app giants retaliated against minimum wage rules for... Read more ›
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"Since the United States reopened its embassy in Cuba in 2015, a number of personnel have reported a series of debilitating medical ailments which include dizziness, fatigue, problems with memory, and impaired vision," writes longtime Slashdot reader smooth wombat. "For ten years, these sudden and unexplained onsets have been studied with no conclusive evidence one way or the other. Now comes word that a device, purchased by the Pentagon, has... Read more ›
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After spending years pushing digital payments to combat tax evasion and money laundering, European Union ministers decided in December to ban businesses from refusing cash. The reversal comes as 12% of European businesses flatly refused cash in 2024, up from 4% three years earlier. Over one in three cinemas in the Netherlands no longer accept notes and coins. Cash usage across the euro area dropped from 79% of in-person transactions... Read more ›
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A recent Microsoft Patch Tuesday update has introduced a bug in Windows 11 23H2 that causes some PCs to refuse to shut down or hibernate, "no matter how many times you try," reports The Register. From the report: In a notice on its Windows release health dashboard, Microsoft confirmed that some PCs running Windows 11 23H2 might fail to power down properly after installing the latest security updates. Instead of... Read more ›
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