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A new EU project plans to expand adventures in the cosmos with a suitably space-age technology: lasers. The INPHOMIR initiative is developing the lasers to enhance spacecraft sensors. By emitting tiny pulses of light, the devices could improve the precision of satellite navigation. Their accuracy stems from their resistance to the harsh conditions of space. When vicious fog and dust descend upon satellites, traditional sensors are often impeded. These disruptions can have severe impacts. A tiny measurement.
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Former LA Noire developers are reportedly working on a new psychological thriller set in 1940s Los Angeles, "Sowden House".Two separate posts have popped up on Instagram from performer, composer, and producer Freyja Garbett, who says they've been working on a "HUGE" project "writing for a video game [...] from the creators of LA Noire"."From the creators of LA Noire comes Sowden House, a psychological thriller also set in the 1940’s... Read more ›
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Project 2025 is a plan for the first 180 days of the next Republican president. It's so extreme that even Donald Trump has distanced himself from it. Read more ›
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President Joe Biden remains the Democrat's best shot for the White House in 2024, Professor Allan Lichtman told WSJ, based on his election model. Read more ›
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Joe Biden took some hits during the debate, but he's come back swinging with $38 million in donations, his campaign said. Read more ›
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A new Bloomberg News/Morning Consult swing-state poll shows Trump with a slim 47% to 45% lead over Biden. But the president remains in a tough spot. Read more ›
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The success of Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty DLC was only possible due to the base game's "negative reception".That's according to senior quest designer Paweł Sasko, who acknowledged that if the original game's 2020 release hadn't been "as negative as it was", "it couldn't have been possible" for expansion Phantom Liberty to have "worked significantly better at launch"."Phantom Liberty worked significantly better at its launch because we completely changed the production... Read more ›
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Radhika Merchant and Anant Ambani, youngest son of Asia's richest man, will marry on July 12. Their lavish celebrations have made global headlines. Read more ›
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In case you missed it, we’re officially getting a Jaws Lego set this summer. The company unveiled the upcoming 1497-piece set this week alongside a 90-second mini-movie that reimagines the film in Lego brick form. The Jaws set includes the boat (the Orca), the shark, and minifigures of the protagonists Martin Brody, Matt Hooper and Sam Quint, plus a number of key items from their hunt, like a harpoon and... Read more ›
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Final Fantasy developer Square Enix has reportedly linked up with Tencent to develop a mobile version of its fan-favourite MMO, Final Fantasy 14.Further to the strategic agreement both companies signed back in 2018, Exputer believes the companies are now working on a mobile port of Final Fantasy 14.It's not clear if the mobile game will be exclusive to one mobile manufacturer, or available on all devices. Read more Read more ›
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Is now the right time to say “ka-chow,” or should I wait? | Image: NASCAR NASCAR showed off a new EV prototype stock car at the Chicago Street Race today as part of a presentation on its sustainability initiatives, which it has a new partner for in Swedish electrification firm ABB. The car, which looks more like a performance crossover like the Ford Mustang Mach-E, is in many ways a... Read more ›
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As it is right now, Google Messages will not be representing Android as well as it could to iPhone users. Read more ›
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BlackRock acquired Preqin for $3.2 billion this week, making Mark O'Hare and his wife billionaires. Now, he's passing some of the wealth to employees. Read more ›
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A severe drought in Sicily, Italy is prompting hotel owners to turn away guests, threatening the region's tourism-driven economy. Read more ›
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Across his 37-year career, Landau worked with James Cameron on some of the biggest films of all time like the Avatar movies and Titanic, and smaller flicks like Alita Battle Angel and Dick Tracy. Read more ›
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PS5 Dev kit gets sold in a disguise that is just thin enough to avoid Sony's legal team. Read more ›
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Slashdot reader joshuark shared this report from Windows Central Microsoft may have opened a can of worms with recent comments made by the tech giant's CEO of AI Mustafa Suleyman. The CEO spoke with CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival earlier this week. In his remarks, Suleyman claimed that all content shared on the web is available to be used for AI training unless a content producer... Read more ›
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The UK leads Europe for generative AI patent filings — but Germany is closing the gap. That’s according to new data from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a UN agency that tracks patents. WIPO today released a report on 54,000 GenAI inventions from the decade ending in 2023. Over 25% of them emerged in the last year alone. The findings show that China has built a wide lead in... Read more ›
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In yet another blow to big tech, the EU is charging Meta with breaching the bloc’s sweeping online competition rules, known as the Digital Markets Act (DMA). Alongside Google and Apple, Meta is among the tech giants (designated as “gatekeepers“) required to comply with the landmark law as of March this year. A mere two weeks after the act kicked in, the European Commission opened an investigation into all three... Read more ›
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ITER — which is set to become the world’s biggest fusion reactor, and one of history’s most expensive science experiments — has reached a key milestone on its mission to create a mini Sun on Earth. But despite the apparent progress, the megaproject has also been hit by yet more delays and surging costs. Nineteen giant magnetic coils — each measuring 17 metres tall and weighing 360 tonnes — have... Read more ›
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ITER, set to be the world’s largest experimental fusion reactor, has been delayed yet again. The €25bn megaproject will only switch on in 2034, and start producing energy in 2039. That’s almost a decade later than originally planned. Thirty-five nations including the UK, US, China, and Russia launched ITER in 2006 to demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion power. But startups may end up beating them to it.... Read more ›
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A new EU project plans to expand adventures in the cosmos with a suitably space-age technology: lasers. The INPHOMIR initiative is developing the lasers to enhance spacecraft sensors. By emitting tiny pulses of light, the devices could improve the precision of satellite navigation. Their accuracy stems from their resistance to the harsh conditions of space. When vicious fog and dust descend upon satellites, traditional sensors are often impeded. These disruptions... Read more ›
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Greece’s Ministry of Digital Governance has awarded German startup OroraTech a €20mn contract to build a satellite-based early warning system for wildfires, which last year alone cost the Mediterranean nation almost two billion euros in damages. The national defence system will consist of four thermal satellites and a network of ground sensors and processing services. OroraTech will develop it in partnership with the European Space Agency (ESA) and several Greek... Read more ›
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As far back as December 2013, the European Council called for the member states of the European Union to develop their defence capabilities and so enhance the “strategic autonomy” of the EU. Since then, the idea that the term encapsulates has come up time and again. In 2016, it was made part of the EU’s Global Strategy doctrine. It was promoted again in late 2020, championed in particular by France.... Read more ›
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Remember when during the 2017 crypto-craze a beverage company renamed itself “Long Blockchain” and saw its stock price quintuple? Today, much like back then, you’d be hard pressed to find a company that isn’t shouting from the rooftops about adopting the transformative technology du jour, i.e. artificial intelligence. Those building AI tools and hardware are basking in investor and media attention, whereas those using them are quick to boast about... Read more ›
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Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands is testing an unusual kind of battery that could prove to be a better, cheaper way to store wind and solar energy. Developed by US startup ESS, the device is known as an iron flow battery. The airport is currently trialling the technology to power some of its electric ground power units. These machines provide electricity to parked planes to run systems such as lights,... Read more ›
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Last month, Nvidia briefly became the world’s most valuable company, reaching a market capitalisation of $3.3tn. Behind the company’s meteoric rise to the top lies its market dominance in advanced AI chips. Once predominantly-known for its high-performance graphic processing units (GPUs) for gaming, Nvidia tapped its technological strengths to venture into the AI race. Its GPUs excel at parallel processing, simulations, and machine learning tasks, which makes them suitable for... Read more ›
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