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A startup called Reflect Orbital wants to launch thousands of mirror-bearing satellites to reflect sunlight onto Earth at night and "power solar farms after sunset, provide lighting for rescue workers and illuminate city streets, among other things," reports the New York Times. From the report: It is an idea seemingly out of a sci-fi movie, but the company, Reflect Orbital of Hawthorne, Calif., could soon receive permission to launch its first prototype satellite with a 60-foot-wide mirror. The company has.
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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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Like many other sports, NASCAR has had its fair share of careers that came to an end before they could truly blossom. These drivers could have had more. Read more ›
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To upgrade its grid for data centers, PJM Interconnection (which serves 13 states) plans to spend $22 billion — and charge nearly $2 billion of that to customers in Maryland, argues Maryland's Office of People's Counsel. The money "will be recovered in rates for decades" and "drive up Maryland customer bills by $1.6 billion over the next ten years alone," they said Friday, announcing an official complaint filed with America's... Read more ›
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Going on a long motorcycle ride solo is one the greatest kinds of freedom a person can feel, but only if you've picked the right bike on which to travel. Read more ›
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Scientists discovered a buried geological structure beneath eastern America that could amplify solar storm damage to power grids and infrastructure Read more ›
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The iPhone's dark mode can help maintain your battery life and is easier on the eyes. There are a few clever settings to change to make it even darker. Read more ›
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The Asus ROG Strix XG129C is a 12.3-inch touchscreen that fits neatly under your primary monitor, covers 125% sRGB, and bundles AIDA64 Extreme (one-year) for real-time hardware monitoring. Read more ›
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Intel’s stock has soared on foundry hopes, government backing, and big-name partnerships, but the company still needs to prove its comeback is built on more than investor confidence. Read more ›
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If going camping sounds good but giving up modern comforts doesn't, this over-the-top trailer concept might be just what you're looking for. Read more ›
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NASA's $500 million Neil Gehrels Swift space observatory was launched in 2004. But it's now "at risk of falling back through the atmosphere and burning up without intervention," reports Spaceflight Now. Fortunately, a mission to prevent that "just passed a notable prelaunch testing milestone." On Friday, NASA announced that the Link spacecraft, manufactured by Katalyst Space Technologies to intervene before Swift's fate is sealed, completed its slate of environmental testing... Read more ›
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Hot cars can make summer driving miserable, and a windshield sunshade only does so much. A few other tricks can make hot-weather drives more comfortable. Read more ›
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Планировать поездку стало проще: открыл сервис, выбрал город, сравнил отели, добавил билеты — и вроде бы всё готово. Но есть один момент, который многие вспоминают слишком поздно: скидку лучше искать до оплаты, а не после того, как бронь уже оформлена.В мае 2026 года у Яндекс Путешествий есть несколько форматов экономии: промокоды на сумму заказа, скидки на отели, предложения для длительного проживания, акции на билеты и туры. Часть предложений удобнее проверять... Read more ›
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Эпоха дорогостоящих студийных съемок и многочасового позирования постепенно уходит в прошлое, уступая место технологиям генеративного искусства. Искусственный интеллект научился с поразительной точностью копировать черты лица, освещение и текстуры, превращая обычное селфи в обложку глянцевого журнала или атмосферный портрет в стиле киберпанк.Главное преимущество современных сервисов заключается в их доступности. Теперь не нужно обладать навыками графического дизайнера или мощным компьютером, чтобы сгенериро Read more ›
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George Russell said the power was "so easy" to manage. The engineering team called it the hardest project in AMG's history. Both things are true. Read more ›
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Современная разработка удобная, все сделано для программиста - последние версии компилятора, последние версии ОС, удобный синтаксический сахар.Однако что если ли у вас нет доступа к последним новшествам? Если у вас на руках только кусок металлолома 20-ти летней давности? А все вендоры и поставщики давным-давно от вас отвернулись? Давай почитаем, какой велосипед нагородили Read more ›
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September 2025? January 2026? Delivery dates keep slipping for the Trump Organization's "Trump Phone" — a gold-coloured Android smartphone priced at $499 (£370). But in March the Verge spotted signs the phone was moving forward: FCC listings for a smartphone with the trade name "T1" show that it was tested late last year, and granted certification by the FCC in January... [T]he phone was submitted for testing by another company... Read more ›
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Rob Hobson, a nutritionist, shared 12 convenient foods that provide a big dose of nutrition per bite. Read more ›
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Apple's Continuity features are not just convenient, they are habit-forming. Once you start using them, going back to any other platform feels like giving up a superpower. Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new problem. "The subtitling is terrible!" Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort whatsoever is made to use context to... Read more ›
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"Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound," reports the New York Post: Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno... The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing. "Sound... Read more ›
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"The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel," CNN reported this week. And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, "leaving them turning to the renewables king of the planet: China." Chinese exports of solar technology, batteries and electric vehicles all reached record highs in March, according to energy think tank Ember, a sign that the historic oil supply shock is accelerating... Read more ›
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In 2016 an online "swarm intelligence" platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But its 2017 predictions weren't even close.) Slashdot checked in again on how modern AI systems performed in 2023, 2024, and 2025 — but their predictions were still pretty bad. Would AI-generated Derby predictions be any better in 2026? This year's winner was 24-to-1 longshot "Golden Tempo"... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC: "If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it's successful and it's worth it," says Sahand. The Iranian man is visibly anxious, speaking to the BBC outside Iran, as he carefully explains how he is part of a clandestine network smuggling satellite internet technology — which is illegal in Iran — into the country. Sahand, whose... Read more ›
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"Ransomware activity jumped again in Q1 2026," writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, "with 2,638 victim posts on leak sites, up 22% year over year," according to a report from cybersecurity company ReliaQuest. But the bigger shift is how messy the ecosystem has become. Established groups like Akira and Qilin are still active, while newer players like The Gentlemen surged into the top tier with a 588 percent spike in activity. At... Read more ›
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An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country's national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, "after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were 'fictitious'." Earlier this month, minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced cabinet had approved the draft policy for public comment. [Ntshavheni] said the policy seeks to strengthen government's ability to regulate and adopt AI responsibly,... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins." Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres. The goblin-speak caught the attention of programmers, who are often heavy users of the bot. Barron Roth, a 32-year-old product manager at a tech... Read more ›
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Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports: "Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space," said Fils-Aimé. "Amazon's mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart... Essentially what Amazon wanted... Read more ›
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A 1999 press release bragged "Jeeves" answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. "In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions," remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many other relics... Read more ›
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