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A startup south of Austin is using robots to build homes out of clay pulled directly from the ground, reports a local news station:The materials are gathered on site, mixed, and placed on a build plate. From there, a robot lowers from above, picks up the clay with a claw, carries it to the wall and drops it into place. Later, the same robot switches tools, using a hammer attachment to pound the...
Further three people taken ill, including 69-year-old Briton reported to be in intensive care in South Africa
Three people have died after a suspected hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship sailing in the Atlantic.
One case of hantavirus infection had been confirmed and there were five additional suspected cases, the World Health Organization told Agence France-Presse on Sunday.
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A 1999 press release bragged “Jeeves” answered 92.3 million questions in just three months. “In the digital wilds of Y2K, we came to him with our most probing questions,” remembers the New York Times — whether it was Britney Spears or tamagotchis: We asked, and he answered: Jeeves, the digital butler of information, the online valet who led us into the depths of cyberspace. Now, like so many...
Amazon once tried to pressure Nintendo to break the law, says former Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. At a recent NYU lecture, he describes a conversation with an Amazon executive, Kotaku reports:”Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space,” said Fils-Aimé. “Amazon’s mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower...
The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI “recently gave its popular ChatGPT strict instructions. Stop talking about goblins.”Recent models of the artificial-intelligence chatbot have been bringing up the creatures in conversations with users seemingly out of the blue, as well as gremlins, trolls and ogres. The goblin-speak caught the attention of programmers, who are often heavy users of the...
An official in South Africa withdrew a draft of the country’s national AI policy, reports a local newspaper, “after it was found the draft policy was compiled using AI, which cited academic articles that were ‘fictitious’.”Earlier this month, minister in the Presidency Khumbudzo Ntshavheni announced cabinet had approved the draft policy for public comment. [Ntshavheni] said the policy seeks to...
“Ransomware activity jumped again in Q1 2026,” writes Slashdot reader BrianFagioli, “with 2,638 victim posts on leak sites, up 22% year over year,” according to a report from cybersecurity company ReliaQuest.But the bigger shift is how messy the ecosystem has become. Established groups like Akira and Qilin are still active, while newer players like The Gentlemen surged into the top tier with a...
An 18-person Cape Town shop has helped engineer the largest crowdfunded gaming campaign in Kickstarter history.
The pioneering search engine shut down on May 1, after nearly 30 years in operation.
Artemis II inspired the public but the Trump administration wants to slash the science underpinning human spaceflight
It should have been a victory lap for Jared Isaacman. The Nasa administrator was in Washington DC for what he surely hoped would be a celebration with lawmakers and the US president, little more than two weeks after the successful conclusion of the first human journey around the...
An anonymous reader shared this report from the BBC:”If even one extra person is able to access the internet, I think it’s successful and it’s worth it,” says Sahand. The Iranian man is visibly anxious, speaking to the BBC outside Iran, as he carefully explains how he is part of a clandestine network smuggling satellite internet technology — which is illegal in Iran — into the country....
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This $2,000 Asus laptop delivers breathtaking performance thanks to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme, but at the cost of nearly everything else.
A Bluetooth tracker can prevent vacation hell, aka arriving at the beach sans bathing suit. Here are our travel tips for using one.
From smart apps and planters to unique tools, these gifts will turn even a black thumb into a next-level plant parent.
These hardworking travel totes handle everything from a work trip to a weekend getaway.
The kitchen appliance titan changed up its beloved base-model stand mixer for the first time in over 70 years. It was worth the wait.
Coway’s most popular air purifier gets an upgrade in looks and purification strength, though I wish it had wheels and an app.
The charging network is spotty, but it’s a small country.
People in Costa Rica and other Latin American, Asian and African countries are increasingly buying electric vehicles to avoid spiking fuel prices.
Exclusive: Brainchild of Dominic Cummings, Aria is aimed at funding ‘crazy’ scientific projects to benefit the UK
Britain’s “invention agency” has pledged £50m of UK taxpayer money to US tech companies and venture capital projects.
Dreamed up by Dominic Cummings to fund “crazy” ideas, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria) is meant to “restore Britain’s place as a scientific...
In 2016 an online “swarm intelligence” platform generated a correct prediction for the Kentucky Derby — naming all four top finishers in order. (But its 2017 predictions weren’t even close.) Slashdot checked in again on how modern AI systems performed in 2023, 2024, and 2025 — but their predictions were still pretty bad. Would AI-generated Derby predictions be any better in 2026? This...