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Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound,” reports the New York Post:Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno… The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency...

Ask Slashdot: Are YouTube’s Subtitles ‘Appallingly Bad’?

Today at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube’s subtitles “not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good.” But they say there’s a new problem. “The subtitling is terrible!”Almost every sentence has a huge error. Proper names are more often wrong than right. Non-English place names are almost always mangled to barely recognizable. And no effort...

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