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Carvana is testing a radically different new-car dealership model in Dallas, turning the location into a test-drive center and themed "playground" while requiring every purchase to be completed through its online platform. "Every single car that we sell, whether it's used or new, is online," said Tom Taira, Carvana president of special projects who's leading the new vehicle operations. "That's a very inherent difference. Even coming into the store, you're buying it online, and that's a big difference in how
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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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Dire Straits' Guy Fletcher says that Atmos can deliver more emotion from the music you love Read more ›
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President Donald Trump said the granite helipad will prevent the new fleet of Sikorsky Marine One helicopters from damaging the South Lawn. Read more ›
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Nvidia has a plan to deal with the growing list of AI server chip competitors: partner with them. In the latest example, Nvidia and AI chip startup d-Matrix are combining their respective hardware in a new system to power AI models, the companies told The Information exclusively. Read more ›
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A centimeter-sized crystal has revealed clear signs of quantum entanglement, showing that large, everyday objects can display surprisingly deep quantum behavior. The discovery could help solve the mystery of strange metals while opening new possibilities for ultra-precise quantum sensors and other advanced technologies. Read more ›
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Diesel engines still have their place in the modern automotive world, but they're not without flaws. What is diesel regen? Why is it necessary? Read more ›
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Meituan released LongCat-2.0, a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained entirely on domestic chips, avoiding Nvidia hardware entirely. Read more ›
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At its next Unpacked event, Samsung is expected to launch three new foldable phones as well as refreshed smartwatch models. Read more ›
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SUVs aren't exactly known for their fuel economy, but even among these inherently less fuel-efficient vehicles are some that have truly terrible mileage. Read more ›
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Mere hours ago a rumor claimed Google would, rather fittingly, (considering the naming) be unveiling the Pixel 11 devices on August 11, and it turns out that rumor was wrong - but not by much. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has now received an official invite from Google to the grand launch event, and it's taking place on August 12 in New York City at 6 PM local time. Google Pixel event... Read more ›
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An Omdia report warns that smartphones priced below $400 could decline by more than 22% in 2026 as rising memory costs, fueled in part by AI demands, reshape the global smartphone market. Read more ›
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Samsung, it seems, deserves a little more respect. The electronics conglomerate may be best known in the U.S. for its TV sets and smartphones, which jostle with the iPhone for attention, but it’s also one of the three biggest makers of memory chips globally (along with Micron Technology and SK Hynix). The explosion of that business, thanks to demand from AI data centers, has turbocharged profits at all three companies—with... Read more ›
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YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream subscribers, listen up — you could be owed a share of $50 million thanks to a Disney lawsuit settlement. Read more ›
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Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses' privacy LED light. The update is meant to address modders who have taken actions such as physically drilling […] Read more ›
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Most people know that ships use nautical miles to measure distance, as it is in the name. You might be surprised, however, to learn that airplanes do too. Read more ›
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Get a whisper-quiet ergonomic mouse that’s so comfortable, your wrist will love you for it — and it doesn't cost the earth either. Read more ›
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ByteDance is developing its own AI chip to reduce Nvidia dependence, targeting mass production by late 2027. Read more ›
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It’s not easy to run an enterprise software company these days. For the nth example of this, read the latest story by my colleague Laura Bratton, who describes how an Atlanta real estate manager replaced Salesforce software with a custom app developed using Replit and Claude Code—saving $100,000 a year. Yipes. Fears that companies will replace their software subscriptions with cheaper AI tools have hammered not just publicly traded stocks... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Inside Climate News: A new state law limits Florida communities' aims to offset greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the global climate and intensifying disasters such as hurricanes. Specifically, HB 1217 prohibits local governments from pursuing net-zero emissions goals. At least 10 cities and counties have implemented such policies, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Orlando and Leon County, where Tallahassee, the state capital, is... Read more ›
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The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions that forced Anthropic to shut off public access to its Mythos and Fable models. After weeks of talks, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick said Anthropic "has agreed to proactively detect and address security risks associated with the models; to work diligently with the U.S. government on protocols and standards and releases for Mythos, Fable and future models; and to inform the US government... Read more ›
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The FAA plans to replace its 1973 ban on civilian supersonic flight over U.S. land with a noise-based standard, potentially allowing aircraft to exceed Mach 1 as long as they stay below certain sound limits. The agency aims to finalize the rules by mid-2027, opening the door for companies such as Boom Supersonic and Spike Aerospace to operate quieter next-generation passenger jets over land. Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shared the... Read more ›
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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, using the world's largest digital camera to image the entire southern sky every few nights. The project is expected to catalog billions of stars and galaxies, track changing and transient objects, and generate an enormous dataset for studying dark matter, galaxy formation, asteroids, and unexpected cosmic phenomena. The New York Times reports: "This is the... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four... Read more ›
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A federal judge rejected Metaâ(TM)s bid to dismiss claims from 29 state attorneys general alleging that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children while concealing the harms. The judge found significant factual disputes that must be decided at trial. The judge also ruled that Meta failed to comply with federal parental notice and consent requirements for children under 13, "and granted summary judgement to the states on that issue,"... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect "over the next month," a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to "tighten how automated systems access Reddit." The Reddit employee wrote:... Read more ›
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AleRunner writes: The first fully synthetic cell ("SpudCell") has been created in the Department of Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it's described as a "cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle." It is able to replicate, but only for approximately five generations. The key advance is that the cell is "built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components," although... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare announced new controls that give publishers more say over how AI companies access and use their content. Beginning September 15, new Cloudflare sites will allow traditional search indexing while blocking AI training and AI agent access on ad supported pages by default. The company is also expanding its monetization efforts with a Pay-Per-Use model that aims to compensate publishers when their content contributes to AI generated answers... Read more ›
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