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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Humanoid robots are getting a new gig as baggage handlers and cargo loaders at Tokyo's Haneda Airport -- part of a Japan Airlines experiment to address a human labor shortage as airport visitor numbers have surged in recent years. The demonstration, set to launch in May 2026, could eventually test humanoid robots in a wide range of airport tasks, including cleaning aircraft cabins and possibly handling ground support equipment such as baggage carts, acc
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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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A metric tracking U.S. spot demand has flipped red just as onchain data shows realized losses surging to $5.97 billion. Read more ›
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Montréal-based payments firm sells US hospitality business for nearly $350 million less than it paid. Read more ›
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Save 25% on this Corsair Vengeance 32GB DDR5-6000 RAM, on sale at Woot for a limited time only. Read more ›
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While the world celebrates quick thinkers and smooth talkers, the most intelligent people have discovered something counterintuitive: they've grown quieter, slower to respond, and surprisingly comfortable admitting ignorance—and science reveals why this paradox might be the truest sign of a brilliant mind. Read more ›
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Uber has unveiled hotel booking, in-car snack delivery, and a wave of new travel features at its annual event. Read more ›
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President Trump has suggested there's 'tremendous interest' in the soon-to-be-released alien files. So how can you access them? And, more, importantly, how can you access them without leaving your data open to prying eyes? Read more ›
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Elon Musk is taking on OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, and has had some choice words to say on the opening day. Read more ›
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We are on the cusp of yet another month, and that means another batch of games for PlayStation Plus, and today Sony revealed what's in store for all subscribers this May. Read more Read more ›
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It'll probably take several years before generic semaglutide could arrive stateside. Read more ›
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Четвёртая статья из шести про инженерный процесс для разработки с ИИ-агентами. Автор, Андрей Юмашев, много лет руководил разработкой и инфраструктурой, полтора года назад отдал весь код агентам. Первая статья про путь от первых проектов к стандарту SENAR. Вторая про то, чем агент отличается от программиста. Третья про новую роль человека и пять навыков нового рабочего режима. Эта четвёртая про внешний контур, в который эти навыки упакованы, чтобы перестать опираться на... Read more ›
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AI agents are moving fast inside real companies. In some cases, faster than the teams responsible for keeping them in check. In March, a single adversarial agent persuaded 50 live customer service bots to hand out more than $10 million ... Read more ›
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Upgraded cameras, titanium hinges, and a silicon-carbon battery bump up the price. Read more ›
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The Moto Buds 2 Plus arrive in the US with Dynamic ANC and AI-powered productivity tools. Read more ›
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Motorola has announced the Razr 2026, the Razr Plus 2026, and the Razr Ultra 2026, along with US availability for the Razr Fold and the Moto Buds 2 Plus. Read more ›
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The Razr Ultra 2026 keeps the same winning flip-phone formula as its predecessors, but upgrades like a bigger battery, faster charging, and smarter AI features help it stay ahead — even if the higher price is harder to ignore. Read more ›
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Motorola just launched its new Razr phones, and they come with the brand's own take on Now Brief. Read more ›
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Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: Federal survey data shows that the amount of math homework assigned to fourth and eighth grade students, in particular, has been steadily declining for the past decade. Some educators and parents say this is a good thing -- students shouldn't spend six or more hours a day at school and still have additional schoolwork to complete at home. But the research on homework... Read more ›
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A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and copyleft obligations. "It works," Mike Nolan, one of the two people behind Malus, who researches the political economy of open source software and currently works for the United Nations, told 404 Media. "The Stripe charge will provide you the thing, and it was... Read more ›
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Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determined the community would benefit from chips individually specialized to the needs of training and serving," Amin Vahdat, a Google senior vice president and chief technologist for AI and infrastructure, said in a blog post. Both chips will become available later this year.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, the philanthropic group said on Tuesday. The foundation has been mired in controversy due to Chairman Bill Gates' association with Epstein. A release of emails in January by the U.S. Justice Department also showed communication between Epstein and the... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent conspiracy theory that spreads wide and far, not paying any attention to boundaries of time, space, or area of expertise. "Which is all to say that another piece of flagrant nonsense has ascended to the highest levels of U.S. politics and media,"... Read more ›
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Bloomberg reports that a small group of unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic's restricted Mythos model through a mix of contractor-linked access and online sleuthing. Anthropic says it is investigating and has no evidence the access extended beyond a third-party vendor environment or affected its own systems. From the report: The users relied on a mix of tactics to get into Mythos. These included using access the person had as... Read more ›
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Sony AI's autonomous table-tennis robot Ace has become the first robot to compete against top-level human players. Reuters reports: Ace, created by the Japanese company Sony's AI research division, is the first robot to attain expert-level performance in a competitive physical sport, one that requires rapid decisions and precision execution, the project's leader said. Ace did so by employing high-speed perception, AI-based control and a state-of-the-art robotic system. There have... Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader Alain Williams shares a report from the BBC: The Trump family's World Liberty crypto venture is being sued by one of its billionaire backers over allegations of extortion. Justin Sun has accused World Liberty of an "illegal scheme" to seize his WLFI tokens, a cryptocurrency issued by the company. Sun alleges the firm, co-founded by U.S. President Donald Trump and his son Eric Trump, has "frozen" all... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Nearly half of children in the United States are breathing dangerous levels of air pollution, according to a new report, as experts warned Donald Trump's expansive rollback of protections will make the situation worse. The 27th annual air quality report from the American Lung Association (ALA) released on Wednesday evaluates pollution across the country by grading levels of ground-level ozone --... Read more ›
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alternative_right writes: A new technology has been proposed that could fundamentally solve the issue of smartphones overheating during high-spec gaming or extended video streaming. Researchers at KAIST have discovered the principle of processing signals using the minute vibrations of magnets (spin waves) instead of electrons. This method significantly reduces heat generation and power consumption while enabling instantaneous frequency switching within the several GHz range. This breakthrough is expected to Read more ›
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Ancient Slashdot reader hwstar shares a report from The Conversation: For the first time ever, more than 50 nations will gather next week in Colombia to hash out how to wind down and end their dependence on coal, oil and gas. The history-making conference was planned before the Iran war. But this year's energy crisis has greatly raised the stakes. [...] Around 80% of the trapped oil was destined for... Read more ›
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