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It is unusual for a prediction to be half right and half wrong at the same time, but that is basically what happened in the case of John Maynard Keynes. The technology arrived. The leisure did not. In 1930, as British unemployment was climbing toward Depression-era levels, Keynes wrote a short essay called Economic Possibilities ... Read more
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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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Thomas Sy, head of multi-asset solutions at the $800-million asset manager, says blockchain can enable complex portfolio construction that's not yet possible in traditional finance. Read more ›
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A pocketable 5G Android phone with real QWERTY keyboard, AMOLED, and serious shortcut power. Read more ›
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Want a cinematic home theater experience without the premium price tag? Discover four stunning displays that finally bring perfect black levels under $1000. Read more ›
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Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate "is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland," remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added "It would be disingenuous to say otherwise.") But in 2026 the... Read more ›
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Scientists have developed a color-changing tactile sensor that lets robots visualize touch in real time, paving the way for more precise manufacturing, prosthetics, and robotic surgery. Read more ›
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Where the internet physically lives is being redrawn, and what’s pulling it isn’t engineers — it’s electricity. Across the industry, the biggest new data-centre campuses are chosen first for access to cheap, plentiful power. The old draw of a nearby talent pool now comes a distant second. Iowa cornfields, an Irish suburb near Dublin, and ... Read more Read more ›
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Is your check engine light on? Before you panic over a massive repair bill, discover the five most common faults triggering your Mazda's dashboard. Read more ›
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The European Southern Observatory warns that rapidly growing satellite constellations could disrupt Earth's most powerful telescopes and is proposing new limits to protect astronomy. Read more ›
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The Swift Observatory was launched in 2004, but recent solar storms have pushed its orbit lower, and it's in danger of burning up in Earth's atmosphere as soon as this year. To try and stave off its demise, NASA has enlisted Katalyst Space Technologies. The company's Link spacecraft launched Friday with the goal of intercepting […] Read more ›
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Batman: Arkham Knight is a genuinely fantastic game that hates its players' time. Read more ›
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TL;DR. Из интереса обучил собственный русский RAG‑сплиттер — захотелось проверить, можно ли сделать context‑aware‑нарезку русских документов лучше готовых чанкеров.Я взял идею датской context-aware-splitter, пересобрал её под русский на базе T-lite-it-2.1 и изменил главное: модель возвращает индексы границ, а не переписанный текст. Хост потом режет оригинал по этим индексам.У index‑output оказалось три практических плюса: Читать далее Read more ›
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Marta Milans says fertility treatment at 42 brought insomnia, weight loss, and despair, but she remains determined to grow her family again at 44. Read more ›
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Live in the UK and love 'Star Trek'? You can spend the last days of summer seeing 'Star Trek IV' on the big screen, maybe for the first time. Read more ›
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My grandmother is a pianist, but I never learned as a child. For the last 10 years, I've been taking lessons alongside my kids. Read more ›
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Firefighters need a reliable source of pressurized water from fire hydrants to battle blazes, and regulations exist that mandate minimum pressure for hydrants. Read more ›
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Spotify has removed more than half a million streams from Malcolm Todd’s song “Earrings” after finding suspected bot activity, according to a report by Financial Times. The track, first released in 2024, suddenly rose to No. 1 on Spotify’s daily U.S. chart after a sharp jump in streams. At the same time, traders on prediction […] Read more ›
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At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to "better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today." The FSF's summer newsletter shares this update: We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based volunteer-led mobile phone operating system with much free software... Read more ›
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Walk into a Sunglass Hut, try on a pair of Ray-Bans, consider the Oakleys next to them, glance at a Prada frame, and pay using your EyeMed vision insurance. That feels like four separate choices. It is closer to one. The frames, the brands, the shop and the insurer all belong to a single company, ... Read more Read more ›
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Carl Jung wrote that loneliness does not come from having no people about you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you, or from holding views that others find inadmissible. It’s one of his most quoted lines, and most people stop at the first half, the not-being-understood part. The half ... Read more Read more ›
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For 33 years, Abdul Taib Mahmud held the Sarawak chief ministership, the finance portfolio and the resource planning ministry at the same time — one office issuing timber concessions across one of the oldest rainforests on Earth. Read more ›
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Palm oil sits in roughly half of all packaged supermarket products, but it almost never appears on the label as "palm". The WWF lists more than 200 derivative names — from sodium lauryl sulfate to glycerol stearate — that disguise where the molecule came from, leaving shoppers with an impossible cross-referencing task at the shelf. Read more ›
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TSMC's 2025 annual report disclosed it manufactured 12,682 unique chip designs for 534 customers — meaning Apple, Nvidia, your car's brakes, and your bank card all trace back to the same handful of fabs on one Taiwanese island. Read more ›
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A single oil palm tree yields up to ten times more oil per hectare than soy or sunflower, which is why palm supplies over a third of global vegetable oil on less than a tenth of oil-crop land — and why its expansion into Sumatra and Borneo has become one of the hardest environmental tradeoffs on Earth. Read more ›
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Adults who reread the same novels every few years aren't avoiding new books — psychology suggests they're using familiar pages to reconnect with the version of themselves that existed before life turned them into everyone else's reliable one. Read more ›
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Sperm whales rest in vertical clusters near the ocean surface, silent and motionless for roughly fifteen minutes at a time — the shortest sleep cycle of any mammal yet measured, and a posture marine biologists only confirmed in 2008. Read more ›
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ASML insists it can account for every one of the 314 EUV lithography machines it has ever shipped — and that none of them, nor any component designed for one, has reached China. US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says otherwise. The fight reveals just how concentrated the world's chip supply chain has become. Read more ›
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TSMC manufactures an estimated 90%-plus of the world's most advanced chips on a single island 130 kilometres from China. There is no second source for the silicon powering the AI age. Read more ›
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