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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans To Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs

Yesterday at 18:40 PM, via Slashdot

Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which links neighborhood cameras into a networked surveillance system to find lost dogs, was never intended to stop at pets, according to an internal email from founder Jamie Siminoff obtained by 404 Media. Siminoff told employees in early October, shortly after the feature launched, that Search Party was introduced “first for finding dogs” and that the...

Spartans Outperforms BetRivers & BetParx With 33% Rakeback plus 3% Instant Cashback & No Wagering Rules

Yesterday at 18:37 PM, via Tech Financials

Recent updates to online casino bonuses frequently prioritize temporary perks, as seen with the latest deals from BetRivers Casino and BetParx for American players. Currently, BetRivers Casino advertises a 100% deposit match paired with extra spins. Meanwhile, BetParx provides a rebate for first-day losses, returning net deficits as bonus credit under specific betting conditions. These […]

Spartans Smashes Rivals BetRivers & BetParx With Massive 33% Rakeback + 3% Instant Cashback

Yesterday at 18:37 PM, via Tech Financials

Recent updates to online casino bonuses frequently prioritize temporary perks, as seen with the latest deals from BetRivers Casino and BetParx for American players. Currently, BetRivers Casino advertises a 100% deposit match paired with extra spins. Meanwhile, BetParx provides a rebate for first-day losses, returning net deficits as bonus credit under specific betting conditions. These […]

WordPress Gets AI Assistant That Can Edit Text, Generate Images and Tweak Your Site

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

WordPress has started rolling out an AI assistant built into its site editor and media library that can edit and translate text, generate and edit images through Google’s Nano Banana model, and make structural changes to sites like creating new pages or swapping fonts. Users can also invoke the assistant by tagging “@ai” in block notes, a commenting feature added to the site editor in...

Stone, parchment or laser-written glass? Scientists find new way to preserve data

Yesterday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Hard disks and magnetic tape have a limited lifespan, but glass storage developed by Microsoft could last millennia

Some cultures used stone, others used parchment. Some even, for a time, used floppy disks. Now scientists have come up with a new way to keep archived data safe that, they say, could endure for millennia: laser-writing in glass.

From personal photos that are kept for a lifetime to...

Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)

Yesterday at 17:20 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: In 2013, scientists unveiled the first lab-grown burger at a cost of $330,000. By 2023, the FDA approved cultivated chicken for sale. The price had dropped to around $10-$30 per pound, and over $3 billion in investor money had poured into more than 175 companies developing meat grown from animal cells instead of slaughtered animals. The promise is...

Contour Appoints Rahul Bhargava as Interim Chief Operating Officer

Yesterday at 16:52 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, NY – Contour Network has appointed Rahul Bhargava (Linkedin) as Interim Chief Operating Officer, reinforcing management leadership as the platform enters its next phase of growth following its acquisition by XDC Ventures in Q4 2025. Bhargava’s appointment signals a strategic acceleration phase for Contour as it expands beyond digitising Letters of Credit to […]

FDA Reverses Decision and Agrees To Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine

Yesterday at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

The Food and Drug Administration has reversed its decision on Moderna’s flu vaccine and has agreed to review it for possible approval, Moderna announced on Wednesday. From a report: Last week, the agency rejected Moderna’s application for review of a new flu vaccine, saying the company’s research design was flawed. But in subsequent discussions the company said that the agency had relented and...

India Tells University To Leave AI Summit After Presenting Chinese Robot as Its Own

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: An Indian university has been asked to vacate its stall at the country’s flagship AI summit after a staff member was caught presenting a commercially available robotic dog made in China as its own creation, two government sources said. “You need to meet Orion. This has been developed by the Centre of Excellence at Galgotias University,” Neha Singh, a...

Thousands of CEOs Just Admitted AI Had No Impact On Employment Or Productivity

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: In 1987, economist and Nobel laureate Robert Solow made a stark observation about the stalling evolution of the Information Age: Following the advent of transistors, microprocessors, integrated circuits, and memory chips of the 1960s, economists and companies expected these new technologies to disrupt workplaces and result in a surge of...

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