4 place 0
A start-up called Reflect Orbital "proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night," reports the Washington Post, "with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight...."
Slashdot noted their idea in 2022 — but Reflect Orbital now expects to launch its first satellite in April, according to the article. "But its grand vision is largely 'aspirational,' as its young founder, Ben Nowack, t
A newsletter a day!
You may get 10 most important news around midday in daily newsletter. Press the button and we will send you the most important news only, no spam attached.
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
Slashdot
An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
0
A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
0
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: Elon Musk returned to the witness stand Wednesday in Oakland federal court for a second day of testimony in his case against OpenAI, detailing his shift from being an enthusiastic supporter of the nonprofit to feeling betrayed. He also clashed repeatedly with OpenAI's attorney over questions that Musk believed were unfair. He said his feelings towards OpenAI CEO Sam... Read more ›
0 newcommer
Venture capital (VC) firm Exfinity Venture Partners claims to have partially exited cybersecurity startup CloudSEK, with a 13X multiple on… Read more ›
0 newcommer
I've tested and reviewed all of Apple's AirPods, including Apple's new AirPos Max 2. Here's how they stack up. Read more ›
0 fresh
The AI era’s mega-trial delivered its first real drama, as an OpenAI lawyer sought to portray Elon Musk as resentful and double-dealing during a tense cross examination Wednesday. Bill Savitt, OpenAI’s outside counsel, and a veteran of legal combat with Musk, called into question Musk’s motivations for bringing the lawsuit and sought to undermine Musk’s legal position that OpenAI has broken promises to him and violated its charitable duties. In... Read more ›
0 fresh
The friends who can name everyone in your family and recall surgeries from years ago aren't unusually warm. They built a high-fidelity recall system in childhood when forgetting carried a cost — and the system never switched off. Read more ›
0 fresh
Zuckerberg vows at least two AI agent releases to help make sense of that outrageous number Read more ›
0 fresh
Meta stock drops on capex increase while Alphabet’s cloud business grows faster than rivals Amazon and Microsoft Read more ›
0 fresh
— Иностранные агенты и враги сидят внутри системы и прямо сейчас душат вас блокировками. Они относятся к вам как кривозубым крестьянам из XIX века. Словно вы неразумные дети, которым нельзя давать в руки острые предметы или разрешать смотреть в окно, потому что там злой серый волк перепишет вам код в голове. Это и есть высшая форма русофобии. Тотальное неверие, в интеллект, волю и критическое мышление русского человека.На Ютубе есть такой... Read more ›
0 fresh
The face-down phone isn't a sign of secrecy or rudeness. It's a small piece of physical infrastructure built by people who've paid the cost of being too reachable, too often, and finally figured out how to protect the fragile peace they've just managed to assemble. Read more ›
0 fresh
The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
0 fresh
Connections is a New York Times word game that's all about finding the "common threads between words." How to solve the puzzle. Read more ›
0 fresh
Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1776 on April 30 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
0 fresh
Here are hints and the answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle for April 30 No. 583. Read more ›
0 fresh
KPMG cuts 400 consultants in the US advisory division due to slowing demand and low attrition. Read more ›
0 fresh
Here are hints and answers for the NYT Strands puzzle for April 30, No. 788. Read more ›
0 fresh
Here are some hints and the answers for the NYT Connections puzzle for April 30 #1054 Read more ›
0 fresh
Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the American Lung Association (ALA) released on Wednesday evaluates pollution across the country by grading levels of ground-level ozone --... Read more ›
0
alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals using the minute vibrations of magnets (spin waves) instead of electrons. This method significantly reduces heat generation and power consumption while enabling instantaneous frequency switching within the several GHz range. This breakthrough is expected to Read more ›
0
Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. But this year's energy crisis has greatly raised the stakes. [...] Around 80% of the trapped oil was destined for... Read more ›
0
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips at its Terafab project, an advanced AI chip complex Musk has envisioned in Austin. The contract would mark Intel's first major customer for the technology, a breakthrough for the chipmaker which has struggled to stand up its contract manufacturing business essential... Read more ›
0
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: New York is suing Coinbase and Gemini, two of the newest players in the prediction market industry, arguing that the companies' unregulated and unlicensed platforms are illegal gambling operations. Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit, filed Tuesday in state court in Manhattan, seeks to bar the companies' platforms from operating in the state unless and until they obtain licenses from the... Read more ›
0
Microsoft plans to offer voluntary buyouts for the first time. According to CNBC, "about 7% of U.S. employees are eligible," with the program being "available to U.S. workers at the senior director level and below whose years of employment and age add up to 70 or higher." Further details will be provided on May 7. From the report: Last year Microsoft removed some costs through multiple rounds of layoffs. As... Read more ›
0
In a recent town hall meeting reported by Bloomberg (paywalled), Apple CEO Tim Cook named the troubled 2012 launch of Apple Maps as his "first really big mistake" in the role. "The product wasn't ready, and we thought it was because we were testing more of local kind of stuff," Cook told staff. MacRumors reports: Reflecting on the debacle, Cook said it was "valuable," noting that he expressed regret to... Read more ›
0
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The French government agency that handles the issuing and management of citizens' identity documents, including national IDs, passports, and immigration documents, confirmed Wednesday that it experienced a data breach. In an announcement, the Agence Nationale des Titres Securises (ANTS) said the data stolen in the breach could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers... Read more ›
0
Meta is reportedly cutting about 10% of its workforce, or roughly 8,000 jobs, while closing thousands of open roles it had intended to fill. "We're doing this as part of our continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making," said Janelle Gale, Meta's chief people officer. The company had almost 79,000 employees at the start of the year. Quartz... Read more ›
0
OpenAI released its new GPT-5.5 model today, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." The Verge reports: OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across... Read more ›
0
Most popular sources
Startup News
|
0% |
Tech Wire Asia
|
0% |
Tech.eu
|
0% |
Sifted
|
0% |
ScienceDaily
|
0% |
| View sources » | |
LIKE us on Facebook so you won't miss the most important news of the day!
29.04.2026 23:45
Last update: 23:35 EDT.
News rating updated: 06:40.
What is Times42?
Times42 brings you the most popular news from tech news portals in real-time chart.
Read about us in FAQ section.
