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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: There's a valley in rural southwest Utah that's become a hub for renewable energy. Dozens of tall white wind turbines whoosh up in the sky. A sea of solar panels glistens in the distance. But the new kid on the block is mostly hidden underground. From the surface, Fervo Energy's Cape Station looks more or less like an oil derrick, with a thin metal tower rising above the sagebrush steppe. But this $2 billion geothermal project, which broke ground last year, is n
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Uber and Lyft driver Tristan Thomas said he's worried Tesla's robotaxis will threaten driver jobs, but thinks Elon Musk's 2027 timeline is unlikely. Read more ›
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2023 saw the highest sighting rates and numbers of minke whales yet recorded in the Hebrides, but the lowest known for basking sharks according to a new report by the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust. Published by Scotland’s nature agency NatureScot, the report presents findings collected during the Trust’s marine research expeditions onboard its research […] Read more ›
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Addressing legacy network complexity and vulnerabilities and embracing a transformative platform approach. Read more ›
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node.vc, a Nordic early-stage venture capital firm led by veterans of leading startups and scaleups (including eye tracking scaleup Tobii and Tobii Dynavox and video game pioneers Paradox Interactive), has closed a €71 million fund, to double down on building an ecosystem for entrepreneurs. Cornerstone investors in the new fund include Stockholm-based Saminvest (a venture ... Read more ›
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With €1.4 million in new funding, SaaS Vendorvue plans to enhance its AI-driven platform, grow its team, and expand across Europe.The round, led by Pitchdrive and Syndicate One, alongside top business... Read more ›
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Amazon’s new Kindle family. | Image: Amazon Amazon just announced four new Kindle e-readers. The Colorsoft Signature Edition is the first color Kindle, there’s a new Kindle Scribe note taker, a faster version of its most popular Paperwhite, and a new entry-level Kindle. The Spanish-language announcement with US pricing seems accidental as none of the links to the Amazon store currently work. Nevertheless, here’s what we know. The Kindle Colorsoft... Read more ›
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The feature will likely appear in the Android 15 QPR 1 release which is expected to arrive in December. Read more ›
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Earn more than 10 times the national average with one of today's best high-yield savings accounts. Read more ›
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Chelsea Manning is the face of a new VPN called Nym. She's also speaking out about cybersecurity in general, saying she deems Apple products the best. Read more ›
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Deeptech startup sallea announced a €2.38 million pre-seed funding round to help manufacturers of cultivated foods accelerate the production of premium whole cuts like steaks and filets without the need for animal farming. The team at sallea has created innovative edible scaffolds that promise to unlock the potential of cellular agriculture. The pre-seed funding round ... Read more ›
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PB Fintech-owned insurtech platform Paisabazaar is reportedly looking to double down on its secured lending portfolio by building its own… Read more ›
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A T-Mobile executive has confirmed that the company plans to begin rolling out 5G-Advanced by the end of 2024. Read more ›
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London-based Diesta, a B2B SaaS company focused on transforming payment operations for the insurance industry, has secured $3.8M (approximately €3.49M) in a Seed funding round led by New York-based FinTech Collective (FTC). FTC is a global VC firm founded in 2012. It focuses on backing founders in transforming financial processes and offers deep expertise in ... Read more Read more ›
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Oppo will launch the Find X8 series on October 24, and thanks to a massive leak, we already know what the phones will look like. Now that the mystery is gone, the company posted the phones on its online store, effectively confirming yesterday's haul of press renders. The Find X8, Find X8 Pro, Pad 3 Pro, and Enco X3 are up at the Oppo store in China, and we found... Read more ›
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Beverwijk-based Optima Cycles, a Dutch E-bike and electric cargo bike manufacturer, has announced the acquisition of Utrecht-based Dolly Bikes, a direct-to-consumer cargo bike brand. This is Optima Cycles’ first strategic acquisition after Bolster Investment Partners’ investment in 2021. Mobis Corporate Finance served as the M&A advisor to Dolly Bikes Bikes. Aim of the acquisition This ... Read more Read more ›
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A new FEC filing offers a clear picture of how much money Musk, the richest man in the world, is willing to spend to help Trump win. Read more ›
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Trina Kaye had lived in her Los Angeles apartment for over two decades when she came home one day to find an eviction notice on her door. Read more ›
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Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz each donated $2.5 million to "Right for America," a pro-Donald Trump super PAC, according to FEC filings. Read more ›
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An updated version of Instagram resolves the problem but it's not available on the Google Play Store yet. Read more ›
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Realme is ready to launch the GT7 Pro as early as this month. The confirmation comes from Xu Qi Chase, the brand president of the Chinese maker, who posted some details about the phone on his Weibo page. The executive revealed that the new phone will combine a top-tier Snapdragon flagship chipset with a periscope telephoto lens so that the user "does not have to choose between the two." Realme... Read more ›
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9to5Mac: Following apparent photos of an M4 MacBook Pro box and a subsequent unboxing video, the unreleased model has now been offered for sale on a Russian classified ads site -- at a highly inflated price, naturally. Multiple units were advertised before the listings were removed, and it does now seem increasingly likely that the leaks are real. Apple Pro tweeted a screengrab of one of the listing, which offered... Read more ›
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Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt urged prioritizing AI infrastructure over climate goals at a Washington AI summit this week. Schmidt, who led Google until 2011, argued that AI's rapid growth will outpace environmental mitigation efforts. "We're not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we're not organized to do it," Schmidt told attendees, addressing concerns about AI's surging energy demands. Data centers powering AI are projected to consume 35... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age 78 in Rolling Meadows, Illinois. Christensen, along with Randy Suess, created the first BBS in Chicago in 1978, leading to an important cultural era of digital community-building that presaged much of our online world today. Friends and associates remember Christensen as humble and unassuming, a quiet... Read more ›
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Cutting calorie intake can lead to a leaner body -- and a longer life, an effect often chalked up to the weight loss and metabolic changes caused by consuming less food. Now, one of the biggest studies of dietary restrictions ever conducted in laboratory animals challenges the conventional wisdom about how dietary restriction boosts longevity. From a report: The study, involving nearly 1,000 mice fed low-calorie diets or subjected to... Read more ›
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"Technical outerwear brand Arc'teryx and wearable technology startup Skip have teamed up to create exoskeleton hiking pants, powered by AI..." reports CNN. After four years of collaboration and testing, the two companies plan to start selling the battery-powered pants in 2025 for $5,000 — but they're also "available to rent and try out now," according to CNN's video report: "You can think of it like an e-bike for walking..." says... Read more ›
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One year from today, on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop releasing security updates for PCs that are still running Windows 10. From a report: Organizations and individuals will still be able to pay for three more years of updates, with prices that go up steadily each year (Microsoft still hasn't provided pricing for end users, only saying that it will release pricing info "closer to the October 2025 date.")... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR : For the first time, internal TikTok communications have been made public that show a company unconcerned with the harms the app poses for American teenagers. This is despite its own research validating many child safety concerns. The confidential material was part of a more than two-year investigation into TikTok by 14 attorneys general that led to state officials suing the company... Read more ›
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The Wall Street Journal reports on a "suspicious fleet of unidentified aircraft... as many as a dozen or more" that appeared in Virginia 10 months ago "over an area that includes the home base for the Navy's SEAL Team Six and Naval Station Norfolk, the world's largest naval port." The article notes this was just 10 months after the U.S. shot down a Chinese spy balloon... After watching the drones... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Fisker's Chapter 11 bankruptcy has hit a major snag, as the company buying the startup's remaining fleet of electric SUVs says it might not complete the purchase because of a surprising technical issue. The buyer, a New York-area leasing company called American Lease, says in a new filing that Fisker now believes there is no way to transfer the information connected to... Read more ›
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A new study suggests game piracy costs publishers 19% of revenue on average when digital rights management (DRM) protections are cracked. Research associate William Volckmann at UNC analyzed 86 games using Denuvo DRM on Steam between 2014-2022. The study, published in Entertainment Computing, found cracks appearing in the first week after release led to 20% revenue loss, dropping to 5% for cracks after six weeks. Volckmann used Steam user reviews... Read more ›
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