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Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL's "You've Got Mail" greeting, has died at age 74 following a long illness, according to local Ohio news station WKYC. "He worked at 3News for many years as graphics guru, camera operator, and general jack-of-all-trades, yet it was a somewhat random opportunity in 1989 that earned him international fame." From the report: That year, Elwood received $200 from the then-unknown America Online, merely because his wife worked at a predecessor company. He was asked to simply record
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Two men are facing charges after Nassau County police said officers found illegal electronic gambling machines during a quality-of-life enforcement… Continue reading Roosevelt enforcement operation leads to two arrests as illegal gambling machines seized Read more ›
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Cooler Master’s 3DHP heatpipes, in its Master V4 and V8 coolers, are the biggest advancement in air cooling technology in years. But early adoption comes at a price. Read more ›
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Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced isn't even out yet - Edward Kenway makes his long-awaited return tomorrow, 9th July - but it's already on track to perform better than last year's Assassin's Creed Shadows. Read more Read more ›
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Before Tesla launched its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, last summer, it recruited hundreds of workers to test and monitor the system. When it expanded the service to Miami this past weekend, it relied on fewer drivers, according to three people with knowledge of the program. The Miami launch marked the first time Tesla has debuted the Robotaxi in a new state without people acting as safety monitors and sitting... Read more ›
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Fi Ultra is the first Starlink-enabled pet tracker you can buy. It expands on GPS and LTE trackers, adding automatic failover to T-Mobile's T-Satellite-branded direct-to-cell service when venturing into cellular dead zones. That lets owners tap into SpaceX's constellation of low Earth orbit Starlink satellites to track their pets anywhere in the US. But it […] Read more ›
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UK fintech Kord has raised £6.4m in a Series A round led by Guinness Ventures with participation from Beringea, SFC Capital and angel investors. Kord strives to make onboarding clients, identity verification and payment processing simpler and more secure across regulated industries. Its end-to-end platform is regulated by the FCA and used by estate agents ... Read more ›
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Andrew Tagliarino had enlarged breast tissue, a condition known as gynecomastia. He chose cosmetic surgery that transformed his confidence. Read more ›
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A new AI gait recognition system can identify people by walking patterns, giving security cameras another long-range signal when faces are blurry, hidden, or too small to trust. Read more ›
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After winning a 6 million-pound London arbitration award, Citadel dropped its U.S. trade secrets case, saying another judgment would likely go uncollected. Read more ›
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For 25 years, Jeff Bezos funded Blue Origin with his own fortune. That era is coming to an end. Blue Origin is raising outside capital for the first time in its history in a financing round that values the company ... Read more ›
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Onchain trackers found the newly public company shifted a tiny amount of bitcoin between its own addresses. Nothing reached an exchange. Read more ›
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A free browser extension called Knockoff uses device-side filtering and name heuristics to clean up your shopping feed. Read more ›
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Новичок вышел — а работать нечем: ни ноута, ни доступов, ни пропуска. Крайним делают HR, хотя готовили не они. Показываем, как навести порядок, стащив рабочие приёмы у айтишников. Читать далее Read more ›
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Я несколько месяцев мониторю, как ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini и «Алиса» отвечают на вопросы про бренды и продукты. И почти сразу упёрся в путаницу, которую тащат из классического SEO: считается, что «попасть в ответ ИИ» — это когда нейросеть поставила ссылку на твой сайт в списке источников. Ссылка есть — победа, ссылки нет — провал.На практике это две разные вещи, и меряются они по-разному. Есть цитата (citation) — сноска, ссылка на... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Space.com: NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. During the second monthly update that NASA has provided for its moon base plans, the agency named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four... Read more ›
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A federal judge rejected Metaâ(TM)s bid to dismiss claims from 29 state attorneys general alleging that Facebook and Instagram were designed to addict children while concealing the harms. The judge found significant factual disputes that must be decided at trial. The judge also ruled that Meta failed to comply with federal parental notice and consent requirements for children under 13, "and granted summary judgement to the states on that issue,"... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: New PlayStation games will no longer be released on discs from January 2028, the gaming giant has announced. Sony said in a blog post new games would still be able to be bought in shops, but they would come with a digital code. It comes just days after Rockstar announced the hotly-anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI would similarly launch without... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Reddit will start requiring people to be logged into Reddit to use old.reddit.com. The new requirement will take effect "over the next month," a Reddit employee going by the username boat-botany announced on the social media platform today. The person claimed that the change is part of an ongoing effort to "tighten how automated systems access Reddit." The Reddit employee wrote:... Read more ›
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AleRunner writes: The first fully synthetic cell ("SpudCell") has been created in the Department of Genetics at the University of Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it's described as a "cell-like system constructed entirely from known chemical components that can perform a complete cell cycle." It is able to replicate, but only for approximately five generations. The key advance is that the cell is "built entirely bottom-up from individually purified, non-living components," although... Read more ›
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BrianFagioli writes: Cloudflare announced new controls that give publishers more say over how AI companies access and use their content. Beginning September 15, new Cloudflare sites will allow traditional search indexing while blocking AI training and AI agent access on ad supported pages by default. The company is also expanding its monetization efforts with a Pay-Per-Use model that aims to compensate publishers when their content contributes to AI generated answers... Read more ›
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Meta is reportedly developing its own cloud business that could sell access to its AI models and lease data-center computing capacity to other companies. The move would put Meta in direct competition with Amazon, Google, and SpaceX. Engadget reports: The cloud business could offer multiple services, according to [Bloomberg], like selling access to AI models run on Meta's infrastructure, or leasing the computing power of its data centers to other... Read more ›
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T-Mobile appears to be migrating its 303,000-core VMware environment to another platform while fighting Broadcom in court for the extended support it says its perpetual-license agreement guarantees. "The matter is somewhat urgent," The Register reports, because a court-ordered support arrangement expires August 3, "so T-Mobile may soon be unable to get support for its very substantial VMware estate." The Register reports: The dispute relates to a deal T-Mobile struck with... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: US homeowners have embraced home batteries in record-breaking numbers in early 2026, spurred on by state incentives while seeking to offset rising residential electricity costs. The trend could even unlock a more flexible energy supply for power grid operators and even AI data centers. New home battery installations reached a record 673 megawatts of energy storage in the first quarter of... Read more ›
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According to the Wall Street Journal, SpaceX showed investors an early prototype of a slim, "handset-like" AI device running a proprietary operating system and integrating xAI technology. Elon Musk, however, denied the report, calling it "utterly false." TechCrunch reports: SpaceX, alongside sister company Tesla, does have the manufacturing expertise to pull off mass-producing a bunch of AI devices -- not to mention access to the chips needed to power any... Read more ›
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