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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: Aerodynamic drag is a major "barrier" in high-speed airplanes, automobiles, and bullet trains. This is because a design with less aerodynamic drag allows the aircraft to move at higher speeds with less energy. When an aircraft or car body moves at high speed, a thin layer of air called the "boundary layer" is formed on its surface. This boundary layer has two states: laminar flow, in which air flows in an orderly fashion, and turbulent flow, which involves tur
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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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Getting a drone off a ship is easy. Getting it back is another matter. Although drones are increasingly used for offshore inspection, surveillance and search-and-rescue missions, recovering them safel... Read more ›
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Whether you’re looking to boost your productivity or your Fortnite stats, these are the top keyboards for the job. Read more ›
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Hideo Kojima has discussed the recent PlayStation physical game announcement. Read more ›
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HBO Max will have you covered this Halloween with a new anthology series based on horror stories from Junji Ito's 'Masterpiece Collections.' Read more ›
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Wisconsin residents file class-action lawsuit against Microsoft due to data center noise — plaintiffs also mention construction noise and extreme light pollution Read more ›
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Fintech startup Stoa has raised $2.4m (£1.8m) in pre-seed funding to accelerate the growth of its cash management platform, which enables consumers and businesses to unlock upfront lifestyle and business value from idle cash deposits. Stoa combines behavioural finance, embedded banking infrastructure and merchant partnerships to create a new distribution and engagement layer between financial ... Read more ›
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New customs charges which came into effect on July 1 are a ‘wake-up call’ for online consumers. The new duty will mean a €3 fee per unique item on purchases valued below €150 entering Ireland from outside the European Union. Louise McKeown Doogan, Chief Growth Officer for .IE, warned that any new charge, deadline or […] Read more ›
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WhatsApp appears to be introducing a new visual indicator that shows when a contact is online, according to WaBetaInfo. The feature adds a small green circle to a contact's profile photo when they're active in the app, and which disappears the moment they leave, all updated in real time. The indicator is now being tested for the WhatsApp iPhone app in TestFlight after it debuted on Android last month. As... Read more ›
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Google will soon start tracking users' IP addresses for advertising measurement purposes, also in the UK and EEA. Here's what this means for your privacy and how a VPN can help. Read more ›
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Worldmodeldata, a Cambridge-based startup building a database of video game-generated training data for next-generation AI, has raised €8 million (£7 million) in Seed funding as it emerges from stealth. The round was led by Iona Star Capital. Rhea Loucas, Founder and CEO, says: “World models represent a fundamental paradigm shift in AI, but progress like ... Read more ›
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Singaporean prosecutors filed new charges against one of the suspects in a case related to smuggling Nvidia chips from the Southeast Asian country to other destinations such as China. The case began in February 2025 and has since expanded, as prosecutors alleged that the suspects falsely ... Read more ›
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User backlash to Microsoft Teams AI tools leads to major shift in policy choices. Read more ›
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As attackers increasingly exploit the 'human stack', organizations must shift from purely technical defenses to behavior-based resilience. Read more ›
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In 2022, a father and son in Florida received notifications from their Ring doorbell camera: Someone was at their door. The pair quickly jumped into action, scouring their apartment complex for a would-be intruder. The scene they happened upon was a woman checking her phone in her car. They fired seven shots at her as […] Read more ›
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Yoo-hoo! Anyone home? Not everyone has a community, but nearly all of us have neighbors — which is why having good relationships with the people who live near you really matters. Unfortunately, Americans aren’t doing great in this regard. According to a 2025 Pew Research Center survey, only 26 percent of adults in the US […] Read more ›
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Статью про язык программирования Оберон я не мог начать много раз.Любое упоминание Оберона в непрофильных, а нередко и в профильных сообществах, приводит к таким «дракам», что камня на камне не остаётся!Я видел смерть нескольких сообществ, посвященных Оберону, эпичнейшие сражения в комментариях и прочие атрибуты «религиозных войн». Дошло до того, что когда я упомянул в нашем сообществе «Ворчалки о программировании», что собираюсь писать эту статью, ко мне в личку пришел человек... Read more ›
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BTC holds at $62,800 after last week's brush with $58,000, while LIT surges 50% and the Altcoin Season indicator hits its highest reading in three months. 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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Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that connects more than 60 scientific databases and tools through a single interface. Through the platform, Basecamp Research is making its EDEN models available for tasks such as designing antibiotic peptides and predicting vaccine targets from simple text prompts, though the results still require laboratory testing before clinical use. Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News reports: In a Claude Science demo, Oliver Vince,... Read more ›
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