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A startup called Amogy has successfully converted a 67-year-old diesel tugboat to run on clean ammonia, marking a significant milestone in the transition to zero-emissions propulsion in the maritime industry. The Associated Press reports: Amogy's system uses ammonia to make hydrogen for a fuel cell, making the tug an electric-powered ship. The International Maritime Organization set a target for international shipping to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by, or close to, 2050. Shipping needs to cut em
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Amazon Bedrock met over 97% of its internal sales goal by July, leveraging mostly third-party AI models to compete with OpenAI, Microsoft and Google. Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's private home office holds collections of personal objects from "the history of technology." These include a hand ax. Read more ›
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Altman also said that he uses a spiral notebook to get his notes down on paper — and also because it's easy to rip the pages out when necessary. Read more ›
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Myers' post garnered 274,000 likes and over 6,800 comments in the week since she posted it. The scale of the reaction shocked Myers. Read more ›
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Intel's missed AI opportunities, manufacturing delays, and talk over a Qualcomm deal are in the spotlight as the chip industry anticipates a shakeup. Read more ›
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X competitors such as Bluesky have seen millions of new users since Musk's platform got banned in Brazil. Read more ›
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Sometimes layoffs are inevitable, but if you want your manager to fight for you if or when the time comes, display these four traits. Read more ›
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Polish startup Pergamin, which automates contract management in companies, has gained a strategic investor. OnDean Forward has invested €2.6 million in the Polish company. The capital and active support will help Pergamin build a regional leader and a global platform. Pergamin streamlines and secures contract management in medium and large companies by automating contract creation, ... Read more ›
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The latest developer beta enables drag-and-drop support in the iPhone Mirroring app. Read more ›
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Russia supplied 40% of Europe's gas before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It's now down to 15%. Read more ›
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The former president said he will impose a 200% tariff on agriculture equipment company John Deere if they move their manufacturing to Mexico. Read more ›
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Sony and developer Shift Up are being sued by Louisiana-based film production company Stellarblade, which - in case you haven't already guessed where this is going - is alleging trademark infringement following the release of this year's PS5 action-adventure Stellar Balde. Read more Read more ›
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said guided psychedelic experiences have been one of the most transformative experiences of his life. Read more ›
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"Recognize that your experience is going to be a bit different, but it doesn't mean it's any less rich or rewarding," said Robert Harry, a college advisor. Read more ›
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CrowdStrike's faulty software update caused a global IT outage in July. And now a company executive is about to face U.S. lawmakers for the first time. Read more ›
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Shares rise after UK microcomputer maker publishes first earnings report since June IPO Read more ›
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Image: The Verge X will now make your posts visible to users you’ve blocked. In a reply on Monday, X owner Elon Musk said the “block function will block that account from engaging with, but not block seeing, public post.” Currently, X displays a “You’re blocked” message when trying to view the profile of a person who’s blocked you. In addition to blocking all posts, it also prevents you from... Read more ›
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The days of the “@[insert username] blocked you” page appear to be over. X owner Elon Musk announced a new change to the platform’s blocking feature allowing blocked users to see posts of the accounts that blocked them. Blocked accounts still won’t be able to interact with those accounts but they’ll be able to see their posts. A source from X told The Verge the new blocked access feature is... Read more ›
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ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols reports: After 20 years, Real-Time Linux (PREEMPT_RT) is finally -- finally -- in the mainline kernel. Linus Torvalds blessed the code while he was at Open Source Summit Europe. [...] The real-time Linux code is now baked into all Linux distros as of the forthcoming Linux 6.12 kernel. This means Linux will soon start appearing in more mission-critical devices and industrial hardware. But it took its sweet... Read more ›
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IBM has been laying off a substantial number of employees this week and is trying to keep it quiet, The Register reported Wednesday, citing its sources. From the report: One IBM employee told The Register that IBM Cloud experienced "a massive layoff" in the past few days that affected thousands of people. "Unlike traditional layoffs, this one was done in secret," the insider said. "My manager told me that they... Read more ›
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Electric cars now outnumber petrol cars in Norway for the first time, an industry organisation has said, a world first that puts the country on track towards taking fossil fuel vehicles off the road. From a report: Of the 2.8m private cars registered in the Nordic country, 754,303 are all-electric, against 753,905 that run on petrol, the Norwegian road federation (OFV) said in a statement. Diesel models remain the most... Read more ›
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The data centers that train all the large language models behind AI consume unimaginable amounts of energy, and the stakes are high for big tech companies to ensure they have enough power to run those plants. That's why Microsoft is now throwing its weight behind nuclear power. From a report: The tech giant on Friday signed a major deal with nuclear plant owner Constellation Energy to restart its closed Three... Read more ›
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A massive Antarctic glacier, dubbed the "Doomsday Glacier," is melting at an accelerating rate and could be approaching irreversible collapse, international researchers are reporting. The Thwaites Glacier, holding enough ice to raise global sea levels by over two feet, has seen rapid retreat in the past 30 years. Scientists from the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration used ice-breaking ships and underwater robots to study the glacier up close since 2018. Their... Read more ›
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Friday the Wall Street Journal reported Qualcomm recently "made a takeover approach" to Intel, which has a market value of roughly $90 billion ("according to people familiar with the matter...") A deal is far from certain, the people cautioned. Even if Intel is receptive, a deal of that size is all but certain to attract antitrust scrutiny, though it is also possible it could be seen as an opportunity to... Read more ›
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A conspiracy theory known as "Dead Internet Theory" has gained traction in recent years, positing that most online social activity is artificial and designed to manipulate users. This theory has grown alongside the rise of large language models like ChatGPT. On Monday, software developer Michael Sayman launched SocialAI, an app that seems to embody aspects of this theory. ArsTechnica: SocialAI's 28-year-old creator, Michael Sayman, previously served as a product lead... Read more ›
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Mozilla is exiting the fediverse by shutting down its Mozilla.social Mastodon server on December 17. Moving forward, the company will focus on Firefox and AI, aligning with its strategy under interim CEO Laura Chambers to scale back investments in non-core products. TechCrunch reports: Mozilla.social was a small instance, having only 270 active users at the time of Tuesday's announcement. By comparison, the most popular Mastodon instance, Mastodon.social, has over 247,500... Read more ›
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Meta (the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and Threads) announced Monday that Russian state media outlets like RT are now "banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity," reports CNN. CNN adds that Meta is alleging that the "Kremlin-controlled networks" have "engaged in deceptive influence operations and attempted to evade detection... Prior to Monday's ban, RT had 7.2 million followers on Facebook and 1 million followers on Instagram." The... Read more ›
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Polypropylene and polyethylene plastics "can be recycled," reports Ars Technica. But as "polyolefin" polymers, "the process can be difficult and often produces large quantities of the greenhouse gas methane. "Now, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have come up with a method of recycling these polymers that uses catalysts that easily break their bonds, converting them into propylene and isobutylene, which are gasses at room temperature. Those gasses can... Read more ›
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