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“Media headlines suggesting some slowdown in EV sales are simply incorrect,” writes the site Electrek, “and leave out the bigger picture that gas car sales actually are dropping…”Over the course ofthe last two years or so, sales of battery electric vehicles, whilecontinuing to grow, have posted lower year-over-year percentagegrowth rates than they had in years prior. EV sales used to grow...
From the personal blog of interface expert Bruce Ediger:Early in March 2025, I noticed that a web crawler with a useragent string of meta-externalagent/1.1 (+https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters/crawler) was hitting my blog’s machine at an unreasonable rate. I followed the URL and discovered this is what Meta uses to gather premium,human-generated content to train its LLMs....
An anonymous reader shared this post from the gaming news site Aftermath: Concord, Sony Interactive Entertainment and Firewalk Studios’ Overwatch-like shooter, was live for just two weeks before it was pulled offline. Though Concord certainly had some dedicated players, it didn’t have many — which is why it may be surprising to hear that a group of players are reverse-engineering the game and...
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a Substack post by economist/entrepreneur Skander Garroum:You know that feeling when you’re waiting for the cable guy, and they said ‘between 8am and 6pm, and you waste your entire day, and they never show up? Now imagine that, except the cable guy is ‘electricity,’ the day is ’50 years,’ and you’re one of 600 million people. At some point, you stop...
Dogecoin has returned to traders’ attention after major holders quietly added billions of tokens within a short window. The accumulation comes during a period of muted market movement, prompting questions about whether larger players are positioning early. At the same time, Tapzi’s presale has been gaining steady traction, attracting buyers who are looking for the […]
The search for the cheapest meme coin to buy can be misleading if you judge a token only by its low entry price. Many coins stay cheap because they lack structure, traction, or any real path forward. The projects that actually break out are the ones showing measurable progress long before they hit exchanges. That’s […]
It was the first allegation of a crime committed in space — back in 2019. But by 2020 it had led tocharges of lying to federal authorities.And now a former Air Force intelligence officer “has pleaded guilty to lying to a federal agent,” reports CNBC, “by falsely claiming that her estranged astronaut wife illegally accessed her bank account while aboard the International Space Station for six...
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“The International Energy Agency’s latest outlook signals that oil demand could keep growing through to the middle of the century,” reports CNBC, “reflecting a sharp tonal shift from the world’s energy watchdog and raising further questions about the future of fossil fuels.”In its flagship World Energy Outlook, the Paris-based agency on Wednesday laid out a scenario in which demand for oil...
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