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"Most of the plastic waste in California is about to lose the recycling symbol," writes the Washington Post's "climate coach."
The "chasing arrows" symbol, created in 1970 by a college student inspired by the burgeoning environmental movement, has been stamped indiscriminately on plastic bottles, clamshell takeout containers, chip bags and more for decades. The majority of the items emblazoned with the mark have been virtually impossible to recycle for most people. California lawmakers say they want to end
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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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Are your private chats truly secure? New research from Surfshark dives into the most popular messaging apps, revealing alarming data harvesting and AI privacy risks. See why Signal came out on top. Read more ›
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Playtonic is shifting the Yooka-Laylee series from platforming to familiar-looking arcade racing. Read more ›
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A landmark Ukrainian drone strike in June 2025 destroyed or damaged up to 41 Russian strategic aircraft, cementing the role of drones in the modern battlefield. Read more ›
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Duck Detective studio Happy Broccoli is back with a creepy-cute mystery called Apple Crumble. Read more ›
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Behind every Sub-Zero refrigerator is a company with decades of history. Learn more about its ownership, background, and production operations. Read more ›
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Screenbound lets you control a 2D handheld game and a character in a 3D world at the same time. Read more ›
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Ithaca asks how far will players go to save the planet. Read more ›
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Square Enix has officially announced Final Fantasy 7 Revelation, the third and final installment in the remake series, launching in Spring 2027. Read more ›
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Peeing in the pool is extra dangerous in co-op shooter Lazy River. Read more ›
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It's finally happening, apparently. After a protracted and extremely tumultusous decade of development, The Wolf Among Us 2 is supposedly now launching next year. And there's a remaster of the much-loved original on the way to tide us over until then. Read more Read more ›
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Aion 2 - the sequel to legendary Korean MMORPG Aion - has had its global release date revealed at Summer Game Fest. Read more Read more ›
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Aquark Technologies is making quantum sensing portable – cold-atom hardware will offer high-precision, resilient alternatives to vulnerable GNSS. Read more ›
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Back in 2015, the two-person studio Metanet released N++, a brutally hard 2D platformer that was a decade in the making, building off of previous releases dating back to the freeware Flash title N. At the time, cofounder Raigan Burns issued some famous last words: "We hope it's not another 10 years before we come […] Read more ›
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Metanet is bringing minimalism and precise mechanics to consoles and PC next year. Read more ›
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The new studio, made up of former Uncharted and The Last of Us developers, reveals its first project -- and all the new tech it hopes will change gaming. Read more ›
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Remedy's follow-up to 2019's Control switches from X-Files government spookshow to a journey of restoring humanity. Read more ›
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Monster Hunter Wilds' first expansion, Ascendance, has finally been revealed. In a trailer at Summer Games Fest 2026, Capcom unveiled the future of the game with a massive new expansion called Ascendance. Read more Read more ›
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Airdorf and Andrés Borghi are making one nightmare with two styles of terror. 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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Apple is reportedly working to shrink Google's Gemini models enough to power parts of a long-delayed AI-enhanced Siri on iPhones. But despite Apple's best efforts to run the AI locally, "the iPhone's Gemini makeover will lean heavily on Google and Nvidia in the cloud," reports Ars Technica. That could complicate Apple's privacy-first AI messaging, especially if more complex Siri requests are routed through Google infrastructure and Nvidia's encrypted cloud-computing platform.... Read more ›
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The Trump administration is planning to provide Cold War-era plutonium from dismantled nuclear warheads to nuclear startups that want to convert it into reactor fuel, arguing it could help address a looming fuel shortage for advanced reactors. Critics warn the idea raises serious nonproliferation, security, cost, and technical concerns. The New York Times reports: The plan has generated debate and some unease among nonproliferation experts. If finalized, it would mark... Read more ›
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Security company Okta shot up 30% Friday, reported CNBC, while data platform provider Snowflake jumped 50% this week. They see it as part of a larger trend where software stocks "soared this week," signaling "some companies are navigating their way through AI disruption better than Wall Street expected" and that investors "may have been too quick to declare the end of software with the emergence of AI. Even as AI... Read more ›
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A research team found "extensive changes" on brain scans of 13 young women taking GLP-1 drugs, reports the Washington Post: Within only a few months, the brain connections in the salience network, which helps target attention, had multiplied... ["We didn't expect to see this effect, and we really don't know what it means," said an assistant professor assisting the research.] Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a... Read more ›
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After Google announced AI-emphasizing changes to its search results, many web surfers began defecting to DuckDuckGo, reports TechCrunch. (They describe DuckDuckGo as "a privacy-focused alternative" that accounts for around 2% of the U.S. search market...) DuckDuckGo said U.S. app installs went up 18.1% week-over-week on average during the May 20 to May 25 period, compared to May 13 to May 18. The company said that growth was sustained for six... Read more ›
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Researchers have identified a ring of minerals around the largest basin in the northern hemisphere of Mars (which past research suggests held a large body of water). Phys.org says the research provides new clues on when life may have been possible on Mars — and how future astronauts could make oxygen: Manganese oxides and hydroxides (collectively written as manganese (hydr)oxides) can act as geological proxies for past oceans... The team... Read more ›
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"A security researcher published a series of unpatched bugs in Microsoft products," reports TechCrunch, "along with code to exploit them." Microsoft's response to the researcher? "Threatening to take legal action and call the cops on them." On Wednesday, Microsoft published a blog post criticizing the researcher, who goes by the handle "Nightmare Eclipse," for publicly disclosing a series of bugs, including BlueHammer, RedSun, UnDefend, and YellowKey. The flaws affected products... Read more ›
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Call Of Duty: Warzone is shutting down on PS4 and Xbox One later this year, reports Kotaku. As Call of Duty fully transitions to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S (and Switch 2), its popular battle royale spin-off, Warzone, is also ditching the old consoles. Later this year, Warzone will no longer be playable on PS4 or Xbox One... Shortly after Modern Warfare 4 ( MW4) launches on October 23, it... Read more ›
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The Linux kernel mailing list has a new patch proposing the retirement of the x32 ABI, reports Phoronix: The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and... Read more ›
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