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It's hard not to find the premise of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary instantly compelling: Something is slowly killing the sun and threatening life on Earth. That same mysterious force, dubbed the Astrophage, also destroyed every nearby star — except one. Our only hope is to visit that solar system and figure out what helped it survive. And there's just one middle school science teacher who can do it. At its core is Weir's love of technical problem solving, along with a tremendous performance by Ryan Gosling.
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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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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Nintendo is reportedly preparing a new version of the Switch 2 with a user-replaceable battery, according to Nikkei. This is to comply with a 2023 EU "right-to-repair" policy on portable electronics that mandates easy battery replacement. The regulation also covers the Joy-Con 2 controllers, so they are reportedly being redesigned to allow users to replace each lithium-ion battery. We don't know when this new Switch 2 will hit store shelves,... Read more ›
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Lawyers for Subnautica 2 developer Unknown Worlds' newly reinstated CEO Ted Gill are reportedly pushing for Krafton to be found in contempt of a recent court ruling after the publisher confirmed a May early access release for the highly anticipated underwater survival sequel without consulting Gill. Read more Read more ›
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Here’s something I’m not proud of. For most of my thirties, I let friendships slide. I was building a business, navigating a divorce, trying to figure out who I was without the structures I’d spent years hiding inside. Friendships felt like something that would just maintain themselves. They didn’t. I lost a close friend suddenly ... Read more Read more ›
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Sustainable aviation fuel was supposed to help airlines reduce their dependence on oil. The Iran war has exposed how far aviation is from that reality. Read more ›
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Netflix’s live-action Assassin’s Creed show has entered production and will officially be set in Rome in the year 64AD, confirming previous reports. The upcoming adaptation, then, will return to the setting of 2010’s Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, although the latter’s story took place more than 1,000 years after the events we'll see in Netflix's show. Ubisoft confirmed in a press release that the Netflix series will tell an original story centered... Read more ›
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Google’s revamped process for sideloading apps on Android will require several steps, including a mandatory 24-hour waiting period before installing apps from unverified developers. The “advanced flow,” as Google calls it, goes into effect from August and forces users to verify their identity by going through a 4-step process with the end goal of preventing potential scams. As Google explains in its Android Developers Blog post, most scammers rely on... Read more ›
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Netflix's live-action Assassin's Creed series will take place over 1,400 years before the events of Assassin's Creed 2 - the first (or chronologically, now technically second) time the series visited Italy. Read more Read more ›
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Достаточно большое количество проблем производительности в backend-приложениях на самом деле находятся не в коде. За последние пару лет мне несколько раз приходилось разбирать системы, где: • API отвечало слишком долго• CPU базы был загружен почти на 100% Читать далее Read more ›
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Если вам в прошлый раз показалось, что вы знаете о Хидеки Камии всё — вы глубоко заблуждаетесь. Сегодня мы поговорим о расцвете, закате и новой надежде в его карьере. Да и вообще разберёмся — а что за человек делал одни из наших любимых игр? Читать далее Read more ›
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Nasdaq's structure the SEC approved opens door to bring blockchain benefits to equities, while preserving the same-old intermediaries and market structure, industry insiders say. Read more ›
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OpenAI, Anthropic, Alibaba and other AI model giants should pay a “levy” for selling their services in Europe with the money funnelled into Europe’s cultural sector, according to the boss of Europe’s ... Read more ›
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Google is testing AI-generated headlines in Search, replacing publisher-written titles with rewritten versions, raising concerns about accuracy, transparency, and how news is presented to users. Read more ›
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Nvidia is so gung-ho about AI agents that it’s betting the buzzy software can power another one of its big bets: robots. The “agentic AI system is being built for digital first,” said Deepu Talla, Nvidia’s vice president of robotics and edge AI, or AI for powering devices, in an interview on the sidelines of Nvidia’s annual GTC conference in San Jose, Calif. “You just extend it to include physical... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show "Walker, Texas Ranger," passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the world. He was 86. He became Internet phenomenon after "Chuck Norris Facts" went viral online with such wildly hyperbolic statements as, "Chuck Norris had a staring contest with the... Read more ›
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Российский финтех растёт на 15,5% в год в условиях санкций. Рынок труда перевернулся: 16 резюме на одну вакансию. И одновременно senior-продуктовые лидеры с реальным финтех-опытом структурно в дефиците. Привет, это Александр Козуб. Пока все чинят симптомы — я разбираю системы. И сегодня предлагаю разбор финтех ландшафта в 2026 . И что с этим делать, если ты строишь продукт или выбираешь, куда двигаться дальше в финтехе? Читать далее Read more ›
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss Apple's surprise announcement of the AirPods Max 2 this week. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos The AirPods Max 2 introduce a range of improvements primarily driven by the addition of Apple's H2 chip, which replaces the H1 chip used in previous models. This new chip underpins most of the upgrades, enabling more advanced computational audio... Read more ›
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CD Projekt Red has suggested that if it did have something to release this year, like oh I don't know, a secret expansion for The Witcher 3, it probably wouldn't favour a surprise release or 'shadow drop'. Read more Read more ›
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Amazon is raising the price of its ad-free Prime Video subscription and locking 4K UHD streaming behind this new tier. Starting April 10 for US customers, a rebranded Prime Video Ultra subscription will cost $5 per month, up from $3 per month. For that extra $2, you get a download capacity increase from 25 to 100, and you can now run five streams concurrently instead of three. Whether those "Ultra"... Read more ›
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Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an update on its support page. Unlike WhatsApp, Meta never made encryption available to all Instagram users and it was never a default setting. Instead, users in "some areas" had the ability to opt-in to encryption on a per-chat basis.In a statement, a Meta spokesperson said the... Read more ›
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Apple's cheapest laptop is also its most repairable. iFixit gave the new MacBook Neo a 6/10 repairability score. Although that number would only be mediocre for, say, a game review or final exam grade, it's the MacBook line's highest iFixit score in about 14 years.As always, iFixit goes into great detail about the product's repairability, but a few points stand out. First, the MacBook Neo's battery is screwed down rather... Read more ›
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In the mad dash many companies have made to incorporate AI features into their phones, Nothing arrived at one of the better ideas with Essential Space on the Nothing Phone 3a in 2025. The AI-powered app turns screenshots and voice recordings into actionable to-do lists and transcriptions, and now Nothing is rolling out an update to make the app easier to search and capable of recognizing new kinds of content.As... Read more ›
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Adobe has agreed to pay the US government $75 million to settle its lawsuit over the company's allegedly harmful approach to subscriptions. The suit started in 2024, when the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission filed a joint complaint alleging the company deliberately made it difficult to cancel subscriptions and obscured the frequently expensive "early termination fee" customers have to pay to get out of annual subscriptions... Read more ›
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Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new deals with publishers. The company announced new agreements with international outlets and offered additional details on its recent deal with News Corp. The latest deals bring French newspaper Le Figaro, Spanish media company Prisa and German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung into the fold. Together, along with News Corp, which runs a number of outlets... Read more ›
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OpenAI plans to add its Sora video generation model directly into ChatGPT, The Information reports . The standalone Sora app was seen as a smash hit when it launched alongside Sora 2 in September 2025, but interest in the video generation app has fallen in the time since as users ran into limits on the amount and kinds of videos they could create.Adding Sora to the ChatGPT could give the... Read more ›
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Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of intriguing games arrived this week, including a mobile port of one of the most absorbing things I’ve played in years and two completely different titles with the same name. Let’s get things started with a look at a few projects that were featured in the latest edition of the Future Games Show.Hyperwired (from... Read more ›
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Digg has shut down, for now, just a few months after its open beta launched. Justin Mezzell, the company’s CEO, has explained on the home page that it noticed hours after the beta launched that it was already being targeted by SEO spammers. “The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts,” he wrote. Apparently, the Digg team wasn’t ready for the scale and... Read more ›
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Meta could be preparing for one of the largest layoffs in its history, according to a Reuters report. The tech giant is planning to cut about 20 percent of its workforce, according to the outlet's sources. According to the report, neither a date nor the exact number of layoffs has been finalized yet. However, Reuters reported that Meta's top executives have told "other senior leaders" to start "planning how to... Read more ›
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