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Hobbyist CNCDan is trying to build a real-world version of Windows' classic 3D Pinball for Windows -- Space Cadet, using 3D-printed flippers, bumpers, LEDs, slingshots, and a raised playfield modeled after the original virtual table. But in bringing the digital table into the real world, CNCDan has already run into several physical challenges the software never had to contend with... Ars Technica reports: After scaling and skewing the on-screen, perspective-shifted view of the Space Cadet playfield onto a 1
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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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Работа в IT до 2025 года была устроена так, что компания получала дорогостоящих сотрудников интеллектуального труда, которые приносили компании убыток всё время, пока они не приносят какое-то вэлью либо через новые продукты (фичи), которые продаются клиентам, либо через оптимизацию какого-то процесса (и компания получает вэлью через сокращение издержек). Читать далее Read more ›
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A revised roadmap details how the multi-year overhaul would replace nearly every major part of Ethereum's protocol, with quantum resistance and privacy moving up the priority list. It lands as ether rallies more than 12% in the past seven days. Read more ›
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Bitcoin touched $63,882 overnight before retreating to around $62,900, per CoinDesk data. Sunday's high held briefly before sellers pushed it back down. Read more ›
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Как разогнать copy_if на NEON в 30+ раз без единой ветки в горячем цикле — эмулируем compress инструкцию, которой в NEON нет, через table lookup и немного битовой магии. Читать далее Read more ›
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"A year ago, the message from many business leaders was that AI was going to wipe out jobs," remembers the Wall Street Journal.But "For the past month or so, tech CEOs have been striking a more optimistic tone." In late May, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman — who has long predicted that AI will lead to seismic shifts in the workforce — said during a conference, "We've been roughly right... Read more ›
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How the Grosvenor family used a 300-year-old leasehold trick to keep the ground beneath London's most expensive addresses — and got the houses back, one 99-year lease at a time. Read more ›
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Shares of beauty and personal care (BPC) major Nykaa surged over 3% to hit a fresh 52-week high of ₹319.95… Read more ›
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The fourth Android 17-based beta could deliver crucial stability improvements and UI polish for testers next week. Read more ›
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Apple's iPhone Ultra will be slightly late, it will be pricy, and it'll still sell out fast, analyst claims. Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр. На протяжении последних лет мы привыкли обсуждать в комментариях, что «пора бы уже основать собственную партию айтишников». Обычно это звучит как шутка на грани отчаяния после очередных новостей об импортозамещении на коленке, блокировках протоколов или инициативах депутатов, спутавших IPv6 с DTMF- V.22bis.В последнее время в кулуарах и профильных чатах так же все чаще звучит мысль: традиционные политические партии и государственные институты не справляются с вызовами времени. Бюрократический. Read more ›
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The Xiaomi 18 Pro lineup is expected to debut in China this September. Ahead of the rumored launch, a new leak has revealed the battery details of the flagship Xiaomi 18 Pro Max. Well-known tipster Digital Chat Station shared the information on Weibo. According to the tipster, the Xiaomi 18 Pro Max will pack a battery with a capacity exceeding 8,000mAh. Xiaomi 17 Pro Max The phone is also said... Read more ›
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Мы уже много лет разрабатываем и производим диктофоны для безопасности Edic-mini, самые маленькие в мире, кстати, по данным Книги Рекордов Гиннесса. Читать далее Read more ›
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Zeta founder Bhavin Turakhia has launched a new AI startup, Neo, with a personal investment of $30 Mn. Announcing the… Read more ›
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Многие слышали про модели OSI и TCP/IP. Но попробуй объяснить их простыми словами на собеседовании — и тут многие начинают путаться. В этой статье разберём обе модели на примере заказа пиццы. Просто, понятно и весело) Читать далее Read more ›
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Fast-food chains face new competition as grocery stores expand prepared-food options, challenging traditional drive-thru value meals. Read more ›
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Приходит новичок: ему всё настроили, провели по отделам, даже на обучение отправили. А через два месяца он все еще плохо выполняет свою работу и продолжает задавать одни и те же вопросы, постоянно отвлекая коллег. Читать далее Read more ›
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Japan-based Suzuki Motor’s Next Bharat Ventures has launched its second impact investment fund with a corpus of ₹2,000 Cr for… Read more ›
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The planets Neptune and Uranus may be better described as "magma-ocean giants" rather than "ice giants," according to a team of researchers from the University of California. Gizmodo reports: While the Voyager flyby confirmed the planets' classification as ice giants... [a]s the least explored planets in the solar system, the two planets have never been thoroughly investigated. Therefore, scientists aren't sure where the planets originally formed in the early solar... Read more ›
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IBM has unveiled "what it says is the world's first sub-1-nanometer chip technology," reports ZDNet, "designed to pack nearly 100 billion transistors on a fingernail-size die, roughly doubling the density of IBM's earlier 2-nm test chip, first shown in 2021... Today, the smallest, most powerful chips top out at about 80 billion transistors." At the heart of the announcement is NanoStack. This is a three-dimensional, nanosheet-based transistor design that scales... Read more ›
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"Amid growing public anger over A.I. and a debate over how to regulate it, a group of employers, state governors and foundations has raised $500 million to try to answer some of those questions themselves," reports the New York Times. "Just how many jobs will AI upend?" asks the Wall Street Journal, reporting that the new coalition says it's time to ready the U.S. workforce for a "major" disruption —... Read more ›
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"South Korea plans to train every single member of its nearly half-million-strong military to operate drones as easily as they handle personal firearms," reports Ars Technica: The goal is to make drones a "universal combat tool" for all troops by training them to use drones like a "second personal weapon," said Ahn Gyu-back, South Korea's Minister of National Defense, in a June 26 briefing reported by Reuters and other media... Read more ›
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Ford executives said they've hired 350 veteran engineers — some of them former employees — after AI and automated systems failed to deliver the desired quality, reports TechCrunch: Bloomberg reports the company's chief operating officer Kumar Galhotra told journalists that Ford had been "relying more and more on automated quality systems" with disappointing results. So the company "brought back technical specialists," and those specialists "hunt for failure points before a... Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark summarizes this walk down memory lane from the tech site MakeUseOf: Facing real competition from Digital Research's DR DOS, Microsoft secretly embedded a sabotaging mechanism known as "AARD code" into beta versions of Windows 3.1 to prevent it from running on Digital Research's competing DR DOS operating system.This code triggered fake, alarming error messages to convince developers that DR DOS was unstable... Although Microsoft disabled the feature... Read more ›
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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 (PDF) in Chatrie v United States (No. 25-112) that geofence warrants sweeping up smartphone location data constitute searches under the Fourth Amendment. The Court found that individuals have a "reasonable expectation of privacy" in such data, even when the tracking covers only a brief period or records movements in public. "An individual has a reasonable expectation of privacy in records about his cell phone's... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: South Korea's government and top tech companies are committing $1 trillion to several flagship megaprojects that could bolster global memory chip supply, build new AI data centers and spur commercial deployment of humanoid robots by 2028. [...] "We must secure the core elements of AI faster than any other country," said South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in a televised speech... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: On June 26, the County Manager of Henrico County, Virginia, John Vithoulkas, sent an email to thousands of county employees asking them to help the local government conserve electricity. "Beginning July 1st, the rate we pay for electricity used in all Henrico County government and school facilities will increase dramatically -- by 25%, increasing costs by an estimated $5 million next... Read more ›
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Microsoft has released a public preview of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) containers, adding a built-in command-line tool and API for running Linux containers directly inside Windows applications without third-party software. The update also introduces faster file access, improved networking and memory management, plus integration with Defender, Intune, and VS Code. The Register reports: WSL has always been a handy way to run Linux workloads from Windows, and is particularly... Read more ›
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