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UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms

Yesterday at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

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...

Claude, Microsoft Copilot Fail Again to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby

Yesterday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

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...

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Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via Wired

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Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via Wired

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Chinese Exports of Green Technologies Surged to Record Levels After Iran War Began

Yesterday at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

“The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel,” CNN reported this week. And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, “leaving them turning to the renewables king of the planet: China.”Chinese exports of solar technology, batteries and electric vehicles all reached record highs in March, according to energy think tank Ember, a sign that the...

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

Yesterday 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’?

Yesterday 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...

The $19B “Nuclear AI” Energy Startup That Couldn’t Sign a Single Client

Saturday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Nuclear AI startup” Fermi had hoped to build power plants generating 17 gigawatts of electricity, remembers Bloomberg, “three times the amount typically consumed by New York City.”Hyperscalers could install their data centers on the site itself and tap directly into that power, which would come first from natural gas turbines and later from nuclear reactors. The pitch ticked so many boxes —...

Using Drones for Cloud-Seeding Can Trigger Rain, Company Claims

Saturday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Monday a company called Rainmaker announced their rain-triggering technology had produced 143 million gallons of freshwater for Utah and Oregon residents — making them “the first private company in history to validate the results of cloud seeding operations.” The Deseret News reports:Founded in 2023, Rainmaker uses drones to disperse silver iodide into clouds, then they track precipitation...

‘We don’t hear the frogs, we don’t see the birds’: government repeatedly delayed water to NSW wetlands, documents reveal

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Exclusive: A grazier has released emails that reveal the state’s environment and water department prioritised harvesting of winter cereal crops over wetlands

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The New South Wales government has routinely delayed environmental flows to critical wetlands in the state’s north-west in favour of farming, despite...

‘The happiest time of life is as you get older’: can positive thinking help you age better?

Saturday at 22:00 PM, via The Guardian

Doing more trips around the sun does not mean inevitable decline, new research suggests – and having a optimistic outlook can even bring improvements

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By most standards, Prof Velandai Srikanth is at the peak of his career. He is the director of the National Centre for Healthy Ageing; his decades of highly regarded research have led to work being...

What if Tech Company Layoffs Aren’t All About AI?

Saturday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Running a Big Tech company during Silicon Valley’s AI mania may not necessarily require fewer workers or cost less,” writes the Washington Post:Amazon, Google and Meta together have roughly the same number of employees now as they did during an industry-wide hiring binge in 2022, company disclosures show. Growing costs for technical workers and related expenses have often outpaced sales...

An Amateur Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem – by Asking AI

Saturday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website...

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