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Live Science spoke with physicist David Gross, who today received the $3 million "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics". He was part of a trio that won the 2004 physics Nobel prize for research that helped complete the Standard Model of particle physics. But when asked if physics will reach a unified theory of the fundamental forces of nature within 50 years, Gross has a surprising answer. "Currently, I spend part of my time trying to tell people... that the chances of you living 50 [more] year
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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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If you have a 4WD SUV or truck from Toyota, the Owner's Manual has a suggestion for you that might seem hard to accommodate. Here's what you need to know. Read more ›
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Weekly funding activity remained volatile in the world’s third-largest startup ecosystem. Between May 22 and 25, 14 Indian startups collectively… Read more ›
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```Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 brings word that Marcia Lucas, part of the editing team for both Star Wars and Return of the Jedi, has died at age 80 after a battle with metastatic cancer. Married to George Lucas from 1969 to 1983, Marcia is remembered by The Wrap as "a powerful asset in the early days of the Star Wars series, helping shape its voice and identity long before it... Read more ›
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Honor already released the first two phones of its Win series - the regular Win and the Win RT, both with active cooling fans and 10,000 mAh batteries. However, the Win Turbo that just launched today in China focuses more on utilizing that huge battery to the fullest. There's no cooling fan, and the chipset is less power-hungry. The Honor Win Turbo runs on the Dimensity 8500 chipset, which draws... Read more ›
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One UI 9 Watch leak points to smarter AI health reports coming to your Galaxy Watch. Read more ›
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If you haven't bought a new smartwatch in a few years, you'll be surprised by just how far these gadgets have come. Read more ›
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Here's the answer for "Wordle" #1806 on May 30 as well as a few hints, tips, and clues to help you solve it yourself. 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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It's common knowledge that cars lose value over time, but there are a few things you can do to reduce how much value your car loses through the years. Read more ›
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Crypto bigwigs are some of the biggest - and in some cases, easiest targets for kidnappers, conmen, and blackmailers alike Read more ›
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Earlier this year, a rumor revealed that Oppo and Huawei may offer a square selfie sensor on their upcoming flagships. Meanwhile, another recent leak claimed that Oppo will use a 100MP sensor. Now, fresh leaks suggest that the Honor Magic9 could also get a square selfie camera. According to tipster Digital Chat Station, the upcoming Oppo Find X10 series will feature a Samsung-developed 100MP selfie camera sensor with a 1:1... Read more ›
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Spotify has added its own 'play next' tool and other queue functions, as well as a big upgrade for offline listening. Read more ›
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AirPods Max 2's strong resemblance to the originals might have some fans disappointed given the wait, but sonically, and in terms of features, I have to hand it to Apple — man, they're good… Read more ›
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My team might've dropped out, but my connection hasn't since Read more ›
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The stunning Lenovo Legion 5i is a great pick today thanks to this $400 price cut at B&H Photo. Read more ›
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Saudi Arabia's tourism chief is out and the giga-projects are being scaled back. The Kingdom’s tourism mission may be "unchanged," but is being unmistakably revised. Read more ›
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Your messy home may be more valuable to AI companies than you think. Shift wants to clean it for free and use the footage to train robots. Read more ›
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NASA plans to open competition for the contract to operate JPL for the first time in nearly a century, meaning Caltech's historic role managing the iconic deep-space lab could come to an end when its current agreement expires in 2028. According to JPL, Caltech has managed the lab since the its inception in the 1930s, and has done so for NASA since the agency was established in 1958. Space.com reports:... Read more ›
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The Washington Post looks at arguments that "AI's coming upheaval may demand massive infusions of cash to everyday Americans". But they also look at some of the alternatives: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for similar public-relief measures, including, potentially, universal basic income, or UBI. Eventually "our current economic setup will no longer make sense," he wrote in a blog post, adding that "there will be a need for a... Read more ›
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Qualys's Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered and published a logic flaw in Linux kernel "that permits an unprivileged local user to disclose sensitive files and execute arbitrary commands as root on default installations of several major distributions." Friday their blog pointed out "The bug has resided in mainline Linux since November 2016 (v4.10-rc1)." "Upstream patches and distribution updates are already available." Working exploits are circulating publicly, and administrators should... Read more ›
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Citing new research, the Associated Press reports that "modest gains in the fight to curb climate change have dialed back the most catastrophic of future heating." That's the good news. But the same research "also confirmed that there's no chance to limit warming to the international goal set in 2015." Researchers' new list of seven plausible carbon pollution scenarios for the future are pushing aside two staples of climate policy:... Read more ›
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On Friday TechCrunch reported they could no longer Google the word "disregard". Google's AI Overview responded "Understood. Let me know whenever you have a new prompt or question!" below an icon for hearing the word "disregard" pronounced — then displayed several inches of blank whitespace. "The Merriam-Webster link is still in there, but you have to scroll..." Earlier this week, Google rolled out a completely new Search experience, foregrounding AI... Read more ›
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The Free Software Foundation announced this week that "its global call for free software supporters to organize LibreLocals this May resulted in free software supporters organizing forty-six LibreLocal events on six continents thus far." (And new dates and locations are being added daily.) The FSF invited free software supporters to organize in-person community meetups in their area during May 2026, or LibreLocal month, to bring people together to swap ideas,... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader UnknowingFool shares this report from the BBC: Air France and Airbus have been found guilty of manslaughter over a 2009 plane crash which killed 228 people. The Paris Appeals Court found the airline and aircraft manufacturer "solely and entirely responsible" for the incident, in which flight AF447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. The passenger jet stalled during a storm and plunged... Read more ›
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"The numbers show that layoffs in the U.S. are roughly at or below levels from before the pandemic," reports the Washington Post, "although they are higher than in 2022 when businesses snapped up workers as the economy roared back to life... "A different measure that accounts for the growing U.S. workforce shows that layoffs affected about 1.2% of employed people in March, a number that has been steady for years... Read more ›
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Long-time Slashdot reader Sun writes: AMD has announced a change to the way they are licensing Vivado, their FPGA development tool... Hidden between the lines of the announcement [of a new model starting with the 2026.1 release] is the change to the free of charge tier. AMD is adding more devices to be supported in this tier, which is supposedly the carrot. The stick, however, is the removal of certain... Read more ›
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A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the U.S. House of Representative, reports California news station KCRA: A proposal to make daylight saving time permanent has advanced in the House, reigniting an age-old American debate around the twice-annual clock changes. And this time, the proposal has the president's backing. President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will work "very hard" to sign the so-called Sunshine Protection... Read more ›
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