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More than two decades after Maine became the first state to hand laptops to middle schoolers -- distributing 17,000 Apple machines across 243 schools in 2002 â" neuroscientist Jared Cooney Horvath told a U.S. Senate committee earlier this year that Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it.
The U.S. spent more than $30 billion in 2024 alone putting laptops and tablets in classrooms, and Horvath cited PISA data from 15-year-olds worldwide sh
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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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DeepSeek V4 Pro — это 1,6 триллиона параметров, mixture of experts (MoE), 49 млрд активных параметров и контекст в 1 миллион токенов. V4 Flash — рабочая лошадка: 284 млрд параметров суммарно, 13 млрд активных. Обе модели обучены примерно на 33 трлн токенов. На агентских бенчмарках кода, MMLU Pro, GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench Verified — V4 рядом с Opus 4.7 и GPT-5.5. Немного отстаёт, но совсем немного.Вот в чём дело.Большинству задач не... Read more ›
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Litecoin's foundation called the weekend exploit a zero-day. The litecoin-project GitHub repository shows the consensus vulnerability was privately patched between March 19 and 26, more than four weeks before the attack. Read more ›
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Накануне майских праздников мысли многих уже устремлены к мангалу и даче. Но у DDoS-атак нет выходных. И пока мы переключаемся на отдых, ландшафт угроз продолжает стремительно трансформироваться.В конце 2025 года мы наблюдали значительный рост числа «атак с усилением» и «атак с фрагментацией». Казалось, что атакующие исчерпали ресурсы ботнетов и решили компенсировать это, задействуя незаражённые устройства.Но уже в первом квартале 2026 года картина изменилась. Что произошло и как это меняет подходы... Read more ›
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Forget the attention economy, it's the attachment economy you need to be worried about. Read more ›
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USB cables may look the same and serve the same basic functions, but some will support fast charging and others won't. Here's how to tell them apart. Read more ›
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Бюджет потрачен, заявки есть, а прибыли нет. Отдел продаж доволен трафиком, руководитель — нет. Причина почти всегда одна: никто не считал экономику до запуска кампании.В этой статье разберём полную цепочку расчётов — от стоимости клика до окупаемости. С формулами, таблицами и сценарным планированием, которое можно делать прямо в Excel до того, как вы отдадите первый рубль Яндексу. Читать далее Read more ›
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The Honor 600 and 600 Pro were unveiled for the global market this week and they will launch in Malaysia and Europe first. Memory Honor 600 Honor 600 Pro 12/256GB €650 - - MYR 3,100 12/512GB €700 MYR 2,600 €1,000 MYR 3,300 Mind you, the European prices above are the MSRPs, but right now Honor is running a promotion so a 512GB Honor 600 costs €500 and the 512GB Honor... Read more ›
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Foundation sent humanoid robots to Ukraine for a demonstration. CEO Sankaet Pathak said that in 5 to 10 years, they will be able to extract targets. Read more ›
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All the ways to watch Coventry City vs Wrexham live streams online and from anywhere, as the two sides contest a vital EPL Championship fixture. Read more ›
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Linux 7.0 вышел совсем недавно, а в разработке уже следующая версия. В 7.1 сейчас довольно четко видно два направления. С одной стороны, разработчики продолжают вычищать код, который тянется еще со времен железа конца прошлого века. С другой — параллельно закладывают основу под новое поколение процессоров, видеокарт и специализированных GPU. Релиз 7.1 ожидается примерно в середине июня 2026 года, если все пойдет по стандартному циклу. Давайте разберемся, что там происходит и... Read more ›
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Луна покрыта реголитом — слоем пыли, камней и песка от двух метров до десятков. Так вот, из реголита, кажется, научились добывать кислород. Blue Origin заявила о разработке реактора, переплавляющего лунный грунт в кучу полезных минералов с бонусом в виде заветного O₂. Детище Джефа Безоса в подобной технологии не пионер, но компания стала первой коммерческой, добывающей кислород таким образом.И это лишь небольшая часть огромного плана по освоению спутника. Разбираю тему: о... Read more ›
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Все началось с того, что мне поставили задачу: «У менеджеров есть большой телевизор. Сделай так чтобы у них там крутились красивые циферки и графики с результатами продаж». Читать далее Read more ›
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The Google Pixel 10a is one of the best budget phones you can buy, according to our testing, and it's now available for its lowest-ever price on Amazon. Read more ›
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has arguably become the most consequential technological advancement of our era, percolating not only into high-level business… Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there's a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East. Over 400 nuclear reactors are operational in 31 countries, while about 70 more are under construction. Nuclear... Read more ›
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Dalal Street emerged as a founder’s paradise in 2025, with 18 Indian startups listing on the bourses and collectively mopping… Read more ›
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Vtiger is a long-established open-source CRM system. It has many benefits for small businesses. Read more ›
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The Associated Press looks at the small-but-growing "rebellion" against attention-hogging devices, citing "a growing body of literature calling for people to move away from screens and pay attention to life." D. Graham Burnett is a historian of science at Princeton University and one of the authors of " Attensity! A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement," making him a pillar of the growing backlash against the corporate harvesting of human... Read more ›
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Ahead of December's release of Avengers: Doomsday, Disney has unveiled "Infinity Vision," reports Kotaku, which they describe as "a new theater-going experience that will be certain to transform your pedestrian $15 night out into an exotic $43 one." (Though those prices appear to be estimates...) Disney's announcement calls it "a new certification for premium large format (PLF) theaters," helping ticket-buyers find "a huge screen with the sharpest, clearest color and... Read more ›
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kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes: HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. "Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029," a href="https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life">according to HP's announcement. But HP is also announcing the planned End of Life for Anyware Trust Center and Trusted Zero Clients, with support now limited... Read more ›
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"Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time," reports the Associated Press. "All without a warrant." The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices.... Read more ›
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"Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators," reports TechCrunch, "over posts it alleges are defamatory..." The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as false or defamatory material related to the... Read more ›
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NBC News reports on a 16-person clinical trial of "personalized messenger RNA vaccines" which use the immune system to fight cancer cells. "The goal is not to eliminate existing tumors, but instead to stamp out lingering, undetected cancer cells, and later any new cells that form before they can cause a recurrence." Patients still have surgery to remove tumors. After that, the mRNA vaccines are personalized for each individual using... Read more ›
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In October and through November, America's EV sales reached their lowest point since 2022 after government subsidies expired, remembers Time. "But first-quarter data for 2026 shows that used EV sales were 12% higher than the same time last year and 17% higher than the previous quarter. "One factor likely helping push buyers toward these cars is high gas prices, which recently topped $4.00 a gallon for the first time in... Read more ›
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Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising answer. "Currently, I spend... Read more ›
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After 49 years of space travel, Voyager 1 "is running out of power," reports NPR: The spacecraft runs on a radioisotope thermoelectric generator — a device that converts heat from decaying plutonium into electricity. It carries no solar panels, no rechargeable batteries. Just the slow, steady release of nuclear warmth, which diminishes by about 4 watts each year. After nearly five decades, that decline has become critical. During a routine... Read more ›
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SpaceNews reports: Blue Origin's New Glenn suffered a malfunction of its second stage on the rocket's third flight April 19, stranding its payload in an unrecoverable "off-nominal" orbit and dealing the company a setback as it seeks to increase its flight rate... AST SpaceMobile had planned to launch 45 to 60 satellites this year for its D2D constellation, but BlueBird 7 is the first to launch since BlueBird 6 launched... Read more ›
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