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

Today 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

Today 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’?

Today 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

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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?

Yesterday 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?

Yesterday 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

Yesterday 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...

Costumed Crowd ‘Speedruns’ Scientology Building For Social Media Trend

Yesterday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Last Saturday someone dressed as Jesus “was among the dozens of people in costumes and masks seen on a video forcing open the door of a Scientology building on Hollywood Boulevard,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “after a tug-of-war with a security guard.”The footage posted on TikTok and Instagram shows the group sprinting up and down stairs and clashing with black-shirted security guards,...

Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient’s retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It’s already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million...

Linux Percentage of Steam Users Doubled in One Year

Yesterday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

Steam on Linux use in March “had skyrocketed to 5.33%…” reports Phoronix, “easily the highest level we’ve seen Steam on Linux at since its inception more than a decade ago.” So what happened in April?[April’s results] point to Linux having a 4.52% marketshare on Steam, a drop of 0.81% compared to March. Year-over-year it’s roughly double with Steam on Linux in April 2025 being at 2.27%. Or two...

Marvel, DC, Game Publishers Launch Rival Events Saturday for Free Giveaways

Yesterday at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

The once-a-year free comic book giveaway “is splitting in two,” according to a local news report. Launched in 2002 by Diamond Comic Distributor, comic book giants like Marvel and DC have historically participated together. But things changed after Diamond Comic Distributors went bankrupt in 2025, “leaving other companies to swoop in and pick up where Diamond left off.”The rights to the “Free...

GameStop Is Preparing Offer For eBay

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

GameStop is reportedly preparing a potential offer for eBay, an unusually ambitious move given that eBay’s roughly $46 billion market value is nearly four times GameStop’s. Reuters reports: GameStop is preparing an offer for eBay as CEO Ryan Cohen pursues plans to boost the struggling videogame retailer’s market value more than tenfold, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Shares of...

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