I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason (www.youtube.com)
There is a reason for USB-C extensions not to be part of the standard. They can be bothersome in the best case and dangerous in the worst.
Waymo dominated U.S. robotaxi market in 2024, but Tesla and Amazon's Zoox loom (www.cnbc.com)
Inside Japan's futuristic care homes where robots look after elderly (www.the-express.com)
Possible ban on Chinese-made drones dismays U.S. scientists (www.science.org)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/50462283
what are some ways to make R&D affordable? most of the time companies go bankrupt because development is expensive
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate (ash.harvard.edu)
Scottish Government bans use of WhatsApp for official business (www.scotsman.com)
Data centers consumed 4.4% of US power in 2023, could hit 12% by 2028 (www.datacenterdynamics.com)
Startup set to brick $800 kids robot is trying to open source it first (arstechnica.com)
guy builds WOPR. bad news wardialers, doesnt include a modem for game mayhem. (www.hackster.io)
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, WOPR has been reborn and is intent on world domination. With a Raspberry Pi upgrade, it might succeed.
TIL in 2012 NASA's messenger mission found icy glaciers on mercury (cosmosmagazine.com)
VPN used for VR game cheat sells access to your home network (www.wired.com)
Elon Musk hints at 'X Mail,' a potential Gmail competitor (www.pcworld.com)
All of Telegram's Lies About Privacy (donald.cat)
As firms abandon VMware, Broadcom is laughing all the way to the bank (arstechnica.com)
Apple collaborates with NVIDIA to research faster LLM performance (9to5mac.com)
Apple engineers have shared new details on a collaboration with NVIDIA to implement faster text generation performance with large language models.
Mozilla: Proposed contractual remedies in United States v. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers (blog.mozilla.org)
As written, the proposed remedies will force smaller and independent browsers like Firefox to fundamentally reexamine their entire operating model.
Netflix struggles to understand its cloud costs (www.theregister.com)
Seagate launches 30/32TB capacity Exos M mechanical HDD (30/32TB capacity) (www.guru3d.com)
Apple Intelligence summary botches a headline, causing jitters in BBC newsroom (www.theregister.com)
How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced
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Really cool audio based social network for the blind (livewire.us)
Livewire - Audio Social Network for the blind. Check out their site livewire.us or call 602.560.6050. Big community. Basic service is always free!
Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine (www.theregister.com)
X's declining user base: Elon Musk's platform projected to lose millions of users in 2025 (mashable.com)
You know what scares us about big tech? Planned obsolescence. (www.fairphone.com)
