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Friday was "a horrible day" for investors in Duolingo, reports Fast Company. But Friday's one-day 14% drop is just part of a longer story.
Since last May, Duolingo's stock has dropped 81%. Yes, the company faced a social media backlash that month after its CEO promised they'd become an "AI-first" company (favoring AI over human contractors). And yes, Duolingo did double its language offerings using generative AI. But more importantly, that summer OpenAI showed how easy it was to just roll your own languag
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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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Most functioning adults run three versions of themselves daily. The exhaustion this produces isn't burnout or laziness — it's the hidden cost of constant identity translation, and it quietly hollows out the self that gets the least attention: the one with no audience. Read more ›
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У вас есть вещь, которой почти не пользуетесь. Фотоаппарат, перфоратор, палатка. Или — если масштаб другой — экскаватор, который простаивает между объектами. Продать или сдавать в аренду? Большинство решает на интуиции. Мы решили посчитать. Фотоаппарат за 80 000 рублей: продажа даст 50 000 прямо сейчас. Аренда по 900 рублей в сутки при загрузке 40 дней в год — 36 000 рублей, и камера остаётся у вас. Через полтора года аренда... Read more ›
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Explaining boundaries to people who keep asking why isn't communication — it's negotiation. Dropping the justification habit saves more energy than any productivity system ever could. Read more ›
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Ride-hailing company must make up lost ground on driverless vehicles, or risk being left in the rear-view mirror Read more ›
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Дизайн-токены — это язык, понятный как дизайнерам, так и разработчикам. Без него продукт получается разрозненным и неповоротливым. Токены и правильный нейминг помогают создавать новые разделы быстрее, а дизайнерам больше думать о сценариях и создавать визуал в рамках продукта, а не заниматься рутиной.Если в вашем коде и макетах до сих пор живут значения типа #0055FF — вы копите технический долг, ведь если понадобится изменить этот цвет на другой, придется менять и... Read more ›
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Ready or Not 2 may seem like a pointless sequel but it's worth watching to see the cast having the time of their lives. Read more ›
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See the Moon phase expected for March 21, 2026 as well as when the next Full Moon is expected. Read more ›
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When oil prices start to rise, you might expect to see higher prices at the pump as well, but that isn't always the case. Here's why that is. Read more ›
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You have met this person. They cried at the fundraiser. They posted the heartfelt tribute when a colleague’s parent died. They were the first to speak up in the meeting when someone was being treated unfairly. They appear, by every visible measure, to be deeply empathetic. Then you watch them in private. The waiter who ... Read more Read more ›
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The Samsung Galaxy S26 series launched globally on Wednesday last week, which means that this was its first full week of sales – and the prices are already dropping. The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 512GB is down to €1,230 – that’s 25% off! It’s the most popular of the S26 trio around the world and with good reason. It’s the most updated phone this generation with some tangible improvements. We’ll... Read more ›
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Funding momentum across the Indian startup ecosystem continued to remain stable this week amid heightened geopolitical uncertainties shaking up global… Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Friday issued (PDF) a legislative framework for a single national policy on artificial intelligence, aiming to create uniform safety and security guardrails around the nascent technology while preempting states from enacting their own AI rules. The six-pronged outline broadly proposes a slew of regulations on AI products and infrastructure, ranging from implementing new child-safety rules to standardizing the... Read more ›
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The NYT Strands hints and answers you need to make the most of your puzzling experience. Read more ›
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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 ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1736 on March 21 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. Read more ›
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Your domestic flight options are about to shrink as the carrier cuts "temporarily unprofitable" flights, starting with red-eyes and low traffic days. Read more ›
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Calorie counters and heart rate monitors are a dime a dozen. Wellness goes deeper to address unique needs in effective and user-friendly apps. Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader tsuliga writes: Two new episodes of Doctor Who that were previously lost have been found. The original Doctor Who episodes were wiped or deleted by the BBC because they were not aware of the future use of re-runs of these shows. Ninety-five of the 253 episodes from the program's first six years are currently missing. How many more episodes are out there waiting to be rediscovered? "The... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Meta is planning sweeping layoffs that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers. No date has been set for the cuts and the magnitude has not been finalized, the people said. Top executives... Read more ›
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Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of Texans, it better come from a pasture, not a lab. It's plain cowboy logic that we must safeguard our real, authentic meat industry from synthetic alternatives." But California company Wildtype sells lab-grown salmon — and is suing Texas over its ban on cell-cultivated... Read more ›
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"A new study suggests the productivity boost from AI may be far smaller than executives claim," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli: According to research cited in Foxit's State of Document Intelligence report, while 89% of executives and 79% of end users say AI tools make them feel more productive, the actual time savings shrink dramatically once people account for reviewing and validating AI-generated output. The survey of 1,000 desk-based workers and... Read more ›
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California saw its worst drought in 10,000 years between 2012 and 2015, remembers the Washington Post. And yet genetic analyses of California's scarlet monkeyflower "found that many rapidly evolved... allowing them to cope with water scarcity and rebound from decline." "The fact that certain organisms are able to adapt just because of genetics that are already present is a great source of hope," said Daniel Anstett, a plant biologist at... Read more ›
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The deal to take control of TikTok's U.S. business came with an unusual condition, according to people familiar with the matter. The investors — which include Oracle, Abu Dhabi investor MGX, and private-equity firm Silver Lake — "paid the Treasury Department about $2.5 billion when the deal closed in January," reports the Wall Street Journal, "and are set to make several additional payments until hitting the $10 billion total." The... Read more ›
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Last week System76 CEO Carl Richell criticized age-verification laws for operating systems — but he now sees a "real possibility" Colorado's law might exclude open-source. Phoronix reports that the System76 CEO met with the state Senator who co-authored Colorado's bill, and then posted on X.com that the Senator "suggested excluding open source software from the bill." Richell: This appears to be a real possibility. Amendments are expected... It's my hope... Read more ›
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"The new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models feature a keyboard change," reports MacRumors: On the U.S. English version of the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro keyboards, the tab, caps lock, shift, return, and delete keycaps now have glyphs on them. On previous-generation models, these keys are labeled with text instead... Given the U.S. English keyboard layout is the default option for MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Neo... Read more ›
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"A few developers found a way, for now, to turn a few of these increasingly mediocre Amazon Show devices into friendly, useful, open computers," writes the co-founder of the gaming/tech news site Aftermath. For under $50 each, he bought some used versions of the devices and tested their instructions, partly to escape the full-screen ads Amazon began showing late last year, and also to overwrite Amazon's locked down Android fork... Read more ›
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Plug-in (or "balcony") solar panels can also be hung out a window or be set up in a backyard, reports NPR. They channel energy from the sun straight into a home's electrical outlet, generating enough electricity to power a refrigerator or microwave while "displacing electricity that otherwise would come in from the grid..." But what's holding up their adoption in America? For the panels to become more widely available in... Read more ›
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