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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 is complicated. Some studies show that students who spend more time on homework perform better than their
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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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When the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 first launched, we were impressed by its refreshed design and still think it’s right next to the Pixel Watch 4 as the best looking smartwatch on the market. This thing is clean, has all of the best specs, and will last owners for years to come thanks to all... Read the original post: Galaxy Watch 8 Cut to $199 Read more ›
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Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub's frequent outages have made it "no longer a place for serious work," prompting him to move his Ghostty terminal emulator project elsewhere after 18 years on the platform. The Register reports: "I've been angry about it. I've hurt people's feelings. I've been lashing out. Because GitHub is failing me, every single day, and it is personal. It is irrationally personal," he wrote. The reason... Read more ›
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King Charles and Queen Camilla are in the US for a state visit. At White House events, Melania Trump and Camilla have worn subtly coordinated outfits. Read more ›
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PlayStation’s new age checks may protect younger users, though players are not thrilled about handing over a phone number, face scan, or ID just to keep party chat alive. Read more ›
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OpenAI included a line in Codex's instructions restricting references to goblins, gremlins, trolls, and ogres, and even Sam Altman joined the memes. Read more ›
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Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal with Amazon Web Services last week to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 CPU cores across AWS data centers. Read more ›
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Apple is planning to integrate Apple Intelligence and Siri into more of its apps in iOS 27, including the Camera app, reports Bloomberg. The iOS 27 Camera app will have a dedicated Siri mode that will be available alongside the existing Photo, Video, Portrait, and Panorama modes. When in Siri mode, the existing Camera app shutter button will feature the Apple Intelligence logo, letting users know the Siri features are... Read more ›
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Большинство продуктовых дискуссий о ценности заканчиваются на «пользователю станет удобнее». Это не ценность, а ее отсутствие, прикрытое словом «ценность».Разбираю на живом кейсе T&S Циана, как разложить это слово на пять координат, и какая асимметрия вылезает за 5–6 часов работы.Александр Козуб. CPO в финтехе. В симптомах вижу систему. Читать далее Read more ›
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President Trump reportedly rejected Iran's offer to end the U.S. blockade and open the Strait of Hormuz, sending crude oil prices surging 6%. Read more ›
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Honor is preparing to announce its Watch 6 Plus smartwatch in the coming days or weeks, and to hype people up, the company shared a teaser poster, revealing the design and sharing a few key new features. Honor Watch 6 Plus teaser poster First off, the design doesn't seem to be all that different compared to the Honor Watch 5 Ultra, but it does bring an improved battery life thanks... Read more ›
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"This is one more example of how the everyday ordinary world is full of wonders, if we only choose to see carefully." Read more ›
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Cleaning a lawn mower's deck can get very tedious, especially if you mow regularly. Thankfully, there's a trick that may help make it less of a chore. Read more ›
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Business Insider compiled each year's best-selling album dating back to 1956. See which album was the soundtrack to your birth year. Read more ›
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Motorola has launched the razr and razr+ flip phones, both going on sale May 21 starting at $799 and $1,099 respectively, with pre-orders opening May 14 Read more ›
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ChatGPT is being looked at by Florida's Attorney General as a co-conspirator in a crime, but is that even possible? ChatGPT says it's not Read more ›
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GTA 6 is now only a few months away, and there's one thing Rockstar Games must do if it wants to fully capitalize on game sales. Read more ›
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"High touch" used to come from a concierge or customer service agent. Today, it can stem from technology, so long as it gives the customer "what they want at that moment when they need it." Read more ›
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Fyne Audio's new monitors and sub deliver very high SPL in a design made to "visually disappear" 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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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the EV maker plans to use Intel's next-generation 14A manufacturing process to make chips at its Terafab project, an advanced AI chip complex Musk has envisioned in Austin. The contract would mark Intel's first major customer for the technology, a breakthrough for the chipmaker which has struggled to stand up its contract manufacturing business essential... Read more ›
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