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People Still Aren’t Into Buying Cars Online

Today at 13:00 PM, via Wired

A new report shows that only 7 percent of new-car buyers in the US completed their purchase online, despite a major push by automakers, Amazon, and others to move past the dealership.

Weight-loss drugs do nothing to address the troubled relationships we have with our bodies | Susie Orbach

Today at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

The food, beauty and pharmaceutical industries poison our self-image. GLP-1 drugs will only make them richer – and strengthen the hold they have over us

Fifty years ago, I started thinking about the demand for women to look a certain way and the rebellions against the narrow ways in which we were supposed to display (and not display) our bodies. For a while, there was a conversation about the...

Nasa moon rocket creeps to its launch pad in preparation for astronaut flight

Today at 11:44 AM, via The Guardian

First journey around moon with astronauts in more than 50 years could blast off in February

Nasa’s giant new moon rocket has moved to the launch pad in preparation for astronauts’ first lunar fly-around in more than half a century.

The trip could blast off in February.

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Retailers Rush to Implement AI-Assisted Shopping and Orders

Today at 10:54 AM, via Slashdot

This week Google “unveiled a set of tools for retailers that helps them roll out AI agents,” reports the Wall Street Journal,The new retail AI agents, which help shoppers find their desired items, provide customer support and let people order food at restaurants, are part of what Alphabet-owned Google calls Gemini Enterprise for Customer Experience. Major retailers, including home improvement...

Digitap ($TAP) Price Prediction 2026: The Path to $5 and Flipping $2 XRP

Today at 09:00 AM, via Tech Financials

Price predictions in crypto often sound exciting, but most fail because they rely on noise instead of fundamentals. Tokens spike on hype and fade when attention moves on. Real growth comes from something slower but stronger: usage. Projects that become part of everyday financial behavior are the ones that survive cycles and compound value over […]

Astronomers aim to take ‘revolutionary’ moving image of black hole

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Newly appointed Cambridge professor says feat would accelerate scientific knowledge by an order of magnitude

Dark, hungry and inescapable: black holes are often portrayed as the ultimate cosmic villains.

But now astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time, in observations that could help reveal another side to these elusive – and...

53% of Crypto Tokens Launched Since 2021 Have Failed, Most in 2025

Today at 07:59 AM, via Slashdot

=[“More than half of all cryptocurrencies ever launched are now defunct,” reports CoinDesk, citing a new analysis by cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko. And most of those failures occurred in 2025:The study looked at token listings on GeckoTerminal between mid-2021 and the end of 2025. Of the nearly 20.2 million tokens that entered the market during that period, 53.2% are no longer...

AKEDO Raises $5 Million Seed Round to Build an AI-Native Content Creation Engine 

Today at 07:28 AM, via Tech Financials

Hongkong (PinionNewswire) — AKEDO today announced it has raised $5 million in seed funding to accelerate development of its AI-native Content Creation Engine and Launchpad, designed to dramatically improve game and content development efficiency through coordinated AI agents. The seed round was led by Karatage, with participation from leading investors across gaming, AI, and crypto, […]

MTN between a rock and a hard place

Today at 07:04 AM, via MyBroadband

Regardless of whether anti-government protests in Iran lead to regime change or not, MTN risks reputational and financial damage because of its subsidiary in the country.

Digitap ($TAP) To Hit $12 By Mid-2026 & BTC to Hit $150K: Why $TAP is the Best Crypto To Buy This Year

Today at 07:01 AM, via Tech Financials

The crypto market appears ready for a strong 2026. Multiple analysts now predict Bitcoin could reach $150,000 before the year ends. This type of price action typically creates opportunities across the broader market.  Payment tokens with real utility tend to perform well during these cycles, and Digitap ($TAP) has caught attention as a potential outperformer […]

How Much Do AI Models Resemble a Brain?

Today at 04:34 AM, via Slashdot

At the AI safety site Foom, science journalist Mordechai Rorvig explores a paper presented at November’s Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing conference:[R]esearchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Georgia Tech revisited earlier findings that showed that language models, the engines of commercial AI chatbots,...

2026’s Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations

Today at 01:41 AM, via Slashdot

As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes “educated guesses” on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances “we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead.” This year’s list includes next-gen nuclear, gene-editing drugs (as well as the “resurrection” of ancient genes from extinct creatures), and three AI-related...

Predator Spyware Turns Failed Attacks Into Intelligence For Future Exploits

Today at 00:41 AM, via Slashdot

In December 2024 the Google Threat Intelligence Group published research on the code of the commercial spyware “Predator”. But there’s now been new research by Jamf (the company behind a mobile device management solution) showing Predator is more dangerous and sophisticated than we realized, according to SecurityWeek. Long-time Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: The new research reveals an...

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