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Dubai, UAE, July 5th, 2026 – Refillarena, is a leading platform for buying gift cards, eSIMs, and mobile top-ups with cryptocurrency, today announced the launch of its Referral Program, giving creators, communities, and everyday users a simple way to earn store credit by sharing the platform with their audience. The program lets anyone drop a […]
Humans have long sought to geoengineer the Earth’s environment. Tim Flannery outlines a few of the wildest ideas from the 20th century
An increasing number of scientists think we have let the climate crisis fester for so long that our only hope to stave off ever-intensifying catastrophes is to use technological interventions. Cloud brightening, injecting sulphur into the atmosphere and the use...
247,000 miles on an EV battery? So says the owner of a U.K.-based used-car sales company that specializes in Evs, who tells the Wall Street Journal EV batteries keep performing well even after several hundred thousand miles. “They are proving themselves to be exceptionally reliable.”After five years on the road, the average EV will still be able to drive up to 95% of its original range,...
Finding that Norfolk butterfly has been distinct subspecies for 200,000 years could transform conservation approach
The endangered swallowtail butterfly Papilio machaon britannicus, which is only regularly found breeding in Britain on the Norfolk Broads, has been a distinct subspecies for at least 200,000 years, according to a study.
Smaller, darker in colour and much rarer than the continental...
The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million users. It increasingly resembles Reddit.
CNN reports:Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed “hobbits” due to their short stature, may have been scavengers, rather than skilled hunters capable of taking down big game or building cooking fires, according to new research. The study adds to growing evidence that Homo floresiensis, which had a brain only slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee, wasn’t as advanced as scientists previously...
Every successful cryptocurrency once reached a moment where only a small number of people knew its name. Bitcoin had its early adopters. Ethereum attracted developers before smart contracts became mainstream. Solana was once viewed as another ambitious Layer-1 blockchain, while XRP quietly built its reputation around global payments long before becoming one of crypto’s most […]
Australian Space Agency working to confirm origin of objects as space archaeologist says they may be connected to a rocket launch
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Six pieces of suspected space debris found washed up on north Queensland beaches could be “space balls” that are often left over from rocket launches, according to one expert.
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An anonymous reader shared this report from TechCrunch:Two hundred and fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a new commercial from Google asks: What if the Founding Fathers had access to Google Workspace? With the tagline “Group project, but make it 1776,” the ad depicts a largely unseen Thomas Jefferson mid-draft when he gets a nagging text from Ben Franklin,...
Subsea cables. Ukrainian power stations. Russian oil refineries. Even airports, water-desalination plants and Amazon data centers. They’ve all become targets in wartime, notes the Wall Street Journal, and around the world now arguments “are already brewing between companies and governments over new regulations and potential costs.”In Germany, powerful associations representing private companies...
South Carolina’s pine forests “have spent centuries hiding a secret as old as America itself,” reports CBS News:In August 1780, British and American soldiers clashed there, leading to a terrible defeat for the Continental army [fighting for the 13 colonies rebelling against England]. Battlefield archaeologists Jim Legg and Steve Smith have been studying the site for decades, but recently, they...
As America began celebrating its 250th birthday Saturday, 842,000 homes reported power outages, notes ABC News. Figures from tracking site PowerOutage showed states in America’s Northeast and Midwest were impacted by severe weather and extreme heat.That number, which will fluctuate throughout the day as crews work to restore power, is for households, meaning that the number of people impacted...
Microsoft is apparently shifting its profits to countries with low taxes — and out of countries where they have many more employees and significant sales. Back in 2005 Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer even said that a low corporate tax rate “is part of the overall advantage of doing business in Ireland,” remembers long-time Slashdot reader theodp. (Ballmer added “It would be disingenuous to...
At the end of 2025, the FSF launched LibrePhone project, which is working to “better understand and reverse-engineer the nonfree blobs used by a great majority of (if not all) system on a chip designs available today.” The FSF’s summer newsletter shares this update:We started with researching the proprietary files in Android phones supported by the Lineage project, an Android-based...
“The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday,” reports the Associated Press:The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol “BSP” on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.2 billion. Among the company’s well-known...
EchoStar’s satellite pay-TV unit Dish DBS has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, reports Reuters. The move also applies to its wireless subsidiaries, according to the article, and “facilitates the wind-down of Dish Wireless’s 5G network operations following an unexpected delay in a spectrum license sale to AT&T… under which EchoStar agreed to sell about 50 megahertz of its nationwide...
Slashdot reader wiredmikey writes: AI security researchers have uncovered a structural security flaw dubbed GuardFall that allows decades-old Bash shell tricks to bypass safeguards in most open source AI coding agents. By exploiting shell behaviors such as quote removal and variable expansion, attackers can hide malicious commands in repositories, README files, Makefiles, or other content...
CALGARY, Alberta (PinionNewswire) — Terra Lux is advancing its vision for healthier, more sustainable living through its Healing Homes initiative, bringing together modular architecture, wellness-focused design, and a growing network of innovators to explore new approaches to residential living. Geodesic Jungle Domes Immersive dome spaces designed to reconnect you with nature, where light,...
As this year’s invertebrate of the year competition launches, we join scientists studying last year’s winner
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Witek Morek is closely inspecting an old brick-and-flint wall on the Cambridgeshire campus of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.
“We are going to use a very advanced tool designed by bioengineers and evolved over millions of years – the human hand...
Adrienne Murray meets the team using technology to preserve a historic warship in Sweden.
As the US digital asset regulatory environment continues to adjust, discussions about the so-called “Trump cryptocurrency era” are heating up. Recent developments surrounding the XRP ETF have further boosted market confidence and drawn investor attention to XRP’s long-term growth potential. Some market analysts believe that with the launch of more compliant investment products, XRP is […]