“Rather than bouncing back, places hit repeatedly by hurricanes, floods and wildfires are unraveling,” reports the New York Times.
“Residents and employers leave, the tax base shrinks and it becomes even harder to fund basic services.”
That downward…
America’s consumer-protection agency has apparently launched a “preliminary investigation” into how often McDonalds franchise owners are allowed to repair their own McFlurry-making equipment, reports CBS Moneywatch (citing an article Tuesday in the Wal…
Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov quotes Quanta magazine:
Today, the most powerful artificial intelligence systems employ a type of machine learning called deep learning. Their algorithms learn by processing massive amounts of data through h…
Long-time Slashdot reader flogger shares Amazon Prime’s first trailer for its upcoming Wheel of Time series. GameSpot reports:
The first three episodes will arrive on Friday, November 19, with new episodes arriving every Friday afterward, leading to t…
“One project going dark — due to a DMCA takedown or otherwise — can impact thousands of developers,” GitHub warns in a blog post this week:
We saw that firsthand with both leftpad and mimemagic. That’s why GitHub’s designed its DMCA proces…
“In 2016, the International Renewable Energy Agency estimated that as much as 78 million tons of solar-panel waste will be generated by 2050,” writes a Bloomberg columnist, adding that that’s “almost certainly an undercount…” So what will happen to a…
A new article at ZDNet argues that “The 1990s had a word for being trapped inside a manipulative notion of human contact: AOL.”
“Facebook and its ilk are the rebirth of that limited vision.”
Once upon a time, roughly thirty years ago, there was a com…
“GPT-3, generate a list of ideas for a play”.
TechRadar describes what resulted — an experimental production called AI performed last week the Young Vic theatre in London last week.
TechRadar Pro attended on the second evening, during which d…
Earlier this month Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin sued NASA over a moon lander contract awarded to SpaceX.
Now Mashable reports that “America’s next trip to the moon may suddenly be delayed a bit thanks to…PDFs?”
A U.S. federal judge has granted the Depa…
A columnist for Inc. writes that Google “may reduce the salaries of employees who choose to work at home full-time, based on the cost of living where they live, according to an internal calculator viewed by Reuters.”
They also argue that Google’s mov…
