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Walmart "became the latest retailer to announce it's replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf labels," reports NPR.
"The new labels allow employees to change prices as often as every ten seconds."
"If it's hot outside, we can raise the price of water and ice cream. If there's something that's close to the expiration date, we can lower the price — that's the good news," said Phil Lempert, a grocery industry analyst...
The ability to easily change prices wasn't mentioned in Walma
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The Court’s six Republicans handed down a decision on Monday that gives Donald Trump such sweeping immunity from prosecution that there are unlikely to be any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House. The Court’s three Democrats dissented. Trump v. United States is an astonishing opinion. It holds that presidents […] Read more ›
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Elon Musk said that his Grok 3 AI is being trained on 100,000 Nvidia H100s. That would cost billions. Read more ›
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Americans under the age of 35 generally make around $60,000. Gen Zers in a survey said more than double that would make them feel secure. Read more ›
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The liberal Supreme Court justice issued a blistering dissent to the conservative majority's ruling that presidents have immunity for official acts. Read more ›
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In high school, when she asked her parents about going to college in Europe, they said it was too far away. She went to Canada instead. Read more ›
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Entertainment Weekly has released the first trailer for Hellboy: The Crooked Man, introducing the world to Jack Kesy’s take on everyone’s favorite demonic paranormal investigator. Does the film do justice to Richard Corben’s artwork from the original three-issue miniseries its based on? Take a look for yourself:Read more... Read more ›
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Biden's camp has defended his debate performance, saying it was a blip. Experts say it could come back to haunt the president. Read more ›
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Apple today seeded the second beta of an upcoming watchOS 10.6 update to developers for testing purposes, with the second beta coming two weeks after the release of the first beta. To install the ‌watchOS 10.6 update, developers need to open the Apple Watch app, go to the Software Update section under "General" in Settings, and toggle on the watchOS 10 Developer Beta. An Apple ID linked to a developer... Read more ›
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The big budget upcoming return of Crazy Taxi will be an open-world, massively-multiplayer game, Sega has said. A new developer interview video published today includes quotes from Sega's team behind the upcoming reboot, as well as brief flashes of in-game footage. There are clips of multiple yellow taxis racing each other - and police cars in pursuit. Job adverts on Sega's recruitment page note that the game is being developed... Read more ›
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Cheaper monthly student-loan payments are allowed to resume after federal courts blocked parts of the student-debt SAVE plan. Read more ›
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Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) must pay more than £27k to a disabled former employee who brought a discrimination claim against the company. The case, filed by Star Citizen senior programmer Paul Ah-Thion, revolves around a return-to-work policy that also involved work from the company's new central Manchester office location - some 15 miles from its previous Wilmslow location. Ah-Thion, who previously worked in-office at Wilmslow, brought the... Read more ›
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The upcoming iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max will be the first Apple smartphones to adopt Samsung's high performance "M14" OLED display panel, claims a new report coming out of South Korea. According to ETNews, Samsung's "M" series of OLED panels are made for flagship smartphones, while "14" refers to the number of high-performance materials used to produce them. "M14" is the first series of its kind, and... Read more ›
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It's now unclear if Trump's January 6-related case will move to trial before Election Day. Read more ›
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Apple eventually plans to turn some of its artificial intelligence features into paid services, similar to iCloud+ subscriptions, according to Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman. Writing in his latest Power On newsletter, Gurman said that while Apple Intelligence will be free to start, Apple's long-term plan is to launch something like "Apple Intelligence+," with extra features that users pay monthly fees to access. Making its own AI features another services revenue... Read more ›
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In the latest episode of "House of the Dragon," Alicent finally finds out the truth about King Viserys' last words. Fans are now mocking her. Read more ›
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Elon Musk is fascinated by warfare and civilization, but the 11 titles he suggests may not make relaxing listening by the pool or beach this summer. Read more ›
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A new study suggests at least 10% of scientific abstracts in 2024 were processed using large language models, researchers from the University of Tubingen and Northwestern University report. Analyzing 14 million PubMed abstracts from 2010-2024, the team identified an unprecedented surge in certain "style words" following LLMs' widespread adoption in late 2022. Words like "delves" and "showcasing" saw a 25-fold and 9-fold increase respectively in 2024 abstracts compared to pre-LLM... Read more ›
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When will Beyond Good & Evil 2 be released? More than two decades on from the launch of Ubisoft's original game, we still don't know - but Beyond Good & Evil's 20th Anniversary Edition now demands that its succesor does arrive, and sooner rather than later. As well as technical upgrades and a deep, fascinating behind-the-scenes developer archive, Ubisoft's new version of Beyond Good & Evil includes fresh story and... Read more ›
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"The outdoor-apparel brand Patagonia has given 90 U.S. employees a choice," reports Business Insider: "tell the company by Friday that you're willing to relocate or leave your job." [Alternate URL here.] The employees all work in customer services, known at Patagonia as the customer-experience, or CX, team, and have been allowed to work remotely to field calls and inquiries. These workers received a text and email Tuesday morning about an... Read more ›
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Parks Kugle reports via the Daily Dot: A mechanic went viral when he posted a TikTok about technicians being locked out of computer systems in a new Dodge Ram. TikTok user Shorty of Shorty's Speed Shop (@shortysspeedshop) garnered over 301,000 views when he showed viewers what mechanics had to do to be able to repair newer car models. "It has officially happened. 2024 Ram 3500, authorization denied," Shorty said as... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: A top executive at McDonald's says the chain does not have plans to bring back plant-based options after a test of its McPlant burger in San Francisco and Dallas failed. "It was not successful in either market," Joe Erlinger, McDonald's U.S. president, said during the Wall Street Journal Global Food Forum in Chicago on Wednesday. American consumers are not coming to McDonald's looking for... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: An online gaming dispute made its way to the real world when a New Jersey man flew to Florida to attack another player with a hammer, authorities said. Edward Kang, 20, is charged with attempted second-degree murder and armed burglary with a mask, according to Nassau County court records. He was arrested early Sunday morning. Kang and the victim, another... Read more ›
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According to a report from The Information, Apple is developing a new "electrically induced adhesive debonding" technology that would make iPhone batteries easier to replace. 9to5Mac reports: Currently, replacing an iPhone battery requires using tweezers to remove the existing battery, which is held in place by adhesive strips. Then, you must use a "specialized machine and tray" to press the new battery into place. The new process uses metal instead... Read more ›
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Peter Scarfe, a researcher at the University of Reading's School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, conducted an experiment testing the vulnerability of their examination system to AI-generated work. Using ChatGPT-4, Scarfe's team submitted over 30 AI-generated answers across multiple undergraduate psychology modules, finding that 94 percent of these submissions went undetected and nearly 84 percent received higher grades than human counterparts. The findings have been published in the journal... Read more ›
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Kurt Schlosser reports via GeekWire: Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase for rare computing technology and interactive displays, will not reopen, more than four years after closing just ahead of the pandemic. Allen's estate, which has been managing and winding down his vast array of holdings since his death in 2018, confirmed to GeekWire that the... Read more ›
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In a contract worth as much as $843 million, NASA announced today SpaceX has been selected to develop a vehicle that will de-orbit the International Space Station in 2030. "As the agency transitions to commercially owned space destinations closer to home, it is crucial to prepare for the safe and responsible deorbit of the International Space Station in a controlled manner after the end of its operational life in 2030,"... Read more ›
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What if across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, six high-voltage power cables stretched -- each over 2,000 miles long. CNN reports that a group of entrepreneurs "wants to build what would be the worldâ(TM)s largest subsea energy interconnector between continents, linking Europe and North America...to connect places like the United Kingdomâ(TM)s west with eastern Canada, and potentially New York with western France... "The Europe-US cables could send 6 gigawatts... Read more ›
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Bloomberg and The Washington Post "claim AI power usage is dire," writes Slashdot reader NoWayNoShapeNoForm. But Ars Technica "begs to disagree with those speculations." From Ars Technica's article: The high-profile pieces lean heavily on recent projections from Goldman Sachs and the International Energy Agency (IEA) to cast AI's "insatiable" demand for energy as an almost apocalyptic threat to our power infrastructure. The Post piece even cites anonymous "some [people]" in... Read more ›
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