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Astro is leaving its job to spend more time with family. From a report: Amazon informed customers and employees Wednesday morning that it plans to discontinue its Astro for Business program, less than a year after launching the robot security guard for small- and medium-sized businesses. The decision will help the company focus on its home version of Astro, according to an internal email. Astro for Business robots will stop working Sept. 25, the company said in a separate email to customers, encouraging the
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It comes just days after Biden's debate with former US president Donald Trump, which was marked by verbal gaffes and confusing statements. Read more ›
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In a questionable new trend, supermarkets in the South now seem to be selling bullets right out of a dispenser. Read more ›
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A single line of dialogue in the trailer sparked a frenzy of memes, and paved the way for how the superhero movie was received. Read more ›
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Biden suggested he would be OK losing to Trump in November as long as he gave it his all — undercutting the heart of his 2024 presidential platform. Read more ›
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"May he continue to have fun on his yachts. I prefer to work," Musk said of the hydrofoiling video that Zuckerberg posted to social media. Read more ›
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Nintendo has responded to concern over the inappropriate use of its characters online and said it would take "appropriate action" against anything that would make some players "feel uncomfortable". Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa was recently questioned by a shareholder who said they had "come across cases on social media where Nintendo IP and games are used inappropriately". This "inappropriate" use of Nintendo's characters "poses the risk of damaging" the company's... Read more ›
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President Joe Biden flashed his trademarked stubbornness when asked just who could get him to reconsider dropping out of the 2024 race. Read more ›
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As AI companies increase their investments in infrastructure, their revenues are not growing that fast, financial analysts note, implying that AI could become a bubble. Read more ›
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The memification of Mark Zuckerberg continues — but lately, the CEO seems to be just as in on the jokes. Read more ›
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What would happen if Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V stopped working? As unthinkable as that might sound, it can and does happen to Mac and PC users. Read more ›
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Cats will scratch up your furniture for a number of reasons but one of the most noteworthy is if there's a kid in the home, according to a new study. Read more ›
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Leslye Headland has seen your speculation about the unknown world Star Wars' latest villain calls home. Read more ›
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In his first interview since last week’s disastrous debate, Joe Biden appeared too frail to defeat Donald Trump and too delusional to end his campaign. Far from easing anxieties about his candidacy, the president’s sit-down with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News should further alarm Democratic leaders. Biden’s remarks indicated that his party may be heading […] Read more ›
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An American Airlines flight was diverted this week after a 25-year-old man exposed himself and urinated in the aisle mid-flight, authorities said. Read more ›
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Joe Biden and Donald Trump have both sought to claim the mantle of veterans champion as each vies for a second term in office. Read more ›
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Chase Bank boss Marianne Lake warns that the pain of making up lost profits may be passed on to consumers if regulations go through. Read more ›
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Professional mountaineers say climbing Mt. Everest is a walk in the park compared to smaller, more difficult mountains like the Seven Second Summits. Read more ›
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President Joe Biden appeared Friday in his first interview since last week's debate, which his supporters saw as key to address his poor performance. Read more ›
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Gina Gershon looks back at becoming a queer icon with her roles in "Bound" and "Showgirls," what it was like working with Nicolas Cage on "Face/Off," and more. Read more ›
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President Joe Biden denied that his debate against Trump hurt him in the polls and is causing growing calls for him to step aside. Read more ›
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Digital audio broadcasting (DAB+) and internet radio have largely replaced traditional FM radio in Switzerland, with digital radio holding an 81% share of use in spring 2023. Due to the high costs of maintaining FM transmitters and declining financial resources, Switzerland plans to fully transition to digital radio by the end of 2026, phasing out FM broadcasting completely. From a report: DAB+ and the internet offer better quality and a... 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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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a Texas law requiring age verification to access online pornography, which opponents argue violates the First Amendment by discouraging adults from viewing such material due to privacy concerns. A federal judge blocked the law citing its chilling effect on free speech, but a divided appeals court upheld it, emphasizing the government's interest in protecting minors; the case will now be... Read more ›
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In 1994, college student Jim Hall created FreeDOS (in response to Microsoft's plan to gradually phase out MS-DOS). After celebrating its 30th anniversary last week, Hill wrote a new article Saturday for OpenSource.net: "What I've learned about Open Source community over 30 years." Lessons include "every Open Source project needs a website," but also "consider other ways to raise awareness about your Open Source software project." ("In the FreeDOS Project,... 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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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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An anonymous reader shares a report: Sony plans to eventually stop producing consumer-grade recordable Blu-ray discs, but commercial products such as game and film Blu-rays will still be produced. Sony Group will lay off 250 employees at a division that produces recordable media discs, and start winding down the production of specific Blu-ray products, sources have told Japanese newspaper Mainichi. However, contrary to recent reports, this decision will not affect... 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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Half of the Netherlands' petrol stations are set to close in the next five to 10 years as electric cars start to take over the market, according to ING Research. From a report: The bank's economists say there will be insufficient earnings in future, with only some 2,000 of today's 4,131 gas stations remaining. "It is mainly the small, unmanned petrol stations that will disappear," says ING Research, as reported... Read more ›
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game of Asteroids An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hill: An asteroid the size of a football stadium threaded the needle between Earth and the moon Saturday morning — the second of two astronomical near misses in three days. Near miss, in this case, is a relative term: Saturday's asteroid, 2024 MK, came within 180,000 miles of Earth. On Thursday, meanwhile, asteroid 2011 UL21 flew within 4 million... Read more ›
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