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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 four years," they write — but it's not just in the U.S. Instead, they argue the conflic
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he has a 4.83 rating on his app, an improvement from the last time he shared his rating. Read more ›
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Я думаю все мы понимаем текущую ситуацию с интернетом на территории Российской Федерации. Сейчас это выходит на уровень абсурда, а VPN сервисы выходят на уровень первой необходимости, и в связи с этим я хотел бы поговорить насколько некоторые из них ну абсолютно ужасны, каким сервисам верить не стоит.И само собой, реальный пример плохого выбора. Читать далее Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Strands answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, including the spangram. Read more ›
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Looking for NYT Connections answers and hints? Here's all you need to know to solve today's game, plus my commentary on the puzzles. Read more ›
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Looking for Quordle clues? We can help. Plus get the answers to Quordle today and past solutions. Read more ›
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Энергоэффективность — единственная метрика, которая в долгом периоде определяет, заработает ли ваша майнинг-ферма деньги. Хешрейт можно нарастить, цена монеты не зависит от вас, а вот сколько джоулей уходит на терахеш — это то, на что вы реально влияете и что напрямую превращается в счёт за электричество. Производитель печатает в паспорте красивую цифру J/TH, отзывы соседей в чатах называют другие числа, а ваша ферма третий месяц показывает в отчётах четвёртые. Эта... 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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"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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A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station: The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the wall and drops it into place. Later, the same robot switches tools, using a hammer... Read more ›
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