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Science/Tech

Aleen Inc. Announces Analytics and System Enhancements to Improve Interpretation of Wellness Data

Yesterday at 06:20 AM, via Tech Financials

Toronto, Canada Aleen Inc. (CSE: ALEN-U), a digital wellness company, today announced the rollout of new analytics and system-level enhancements designed to help users better interpret personal wellness data and identify meaningful patterns over time. The update introduces expanded Metrics Analysis and Statistics Dynamics tools that track changes in wellness indicators and daily activity trends...

Hollywood’s AI Bet Isn’t Paying Off

Yesterday at 04:00 AM, via Slashdot

Hollywood’s recent attempts to build entertainment around AI have consistently underperformed or outright flopped, whether the AI in question is a plot device or a production tool. The horror sequel M3GAN 2.0, Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, and Disney’s Tron: Ares all disappointed at the box office in 2025 despite centering their narratives on AI. The latest casualty is Mercy, a...

Amazon’s Tax Bill Plunges 87% After Tax Cuts

Yesterday at 02:01 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Republicans’ tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon’s tax bill, new government filings show. The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, and even as its profits jumped by 45% to nearly $90 billion. That’s largely because of the generous new depreciation breaks GOP lawmakers included in their One Big...

Memory Prices Have Nearly Doubled Since Last Quarter

Yesterday at 00:00 AM, via Slashdot

Memory prices across DRAM, NAND and HBM have surged 80 to 90% quarter-over-quarter in Q1 2026, according to Counterpoint Research’s latest Memory Price Tracker. The price of a 64GB RDIMM has jumped from a Q4 2025 contract price of $450 to over $900, and Counterpoint expects it to cross $1,000 in Q2. NAND, relatively stable last quarter, is tracking a parallel increase. Device makers are cutting...

Salesforce Shelves Heroku

Friday at 22:40 PM, via Slashdot

Salesforce is essentially shutting down Heroku as an evolving product, moving the cloud platform that helped define modern app deployment to a “sustaining engineering model” focused entirely on stability, security and support. Existing customers on credit card billing see no changes to pricing or service, but enterprise contracts are no longer available to new buyers. Salesforce said it is...

Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers

Friday at 21:40 PM, via Slashdot

An investigation has uncovered a sprawling network of hidden cameras in Chinese hotel rooms that livestream guests — including couples having sex — to paying subscribers on Telegram. Over 18 months, the BBC identified six websites and apps on the messaging platform that claimed to operate more than 180 spy cams across Chinese hotels, not just recording but broadcasting live. One site, monitored...

AI.com Sells for $70 Million, the Highest Price Ever Disclosed for a Domain Name

Friday at 20:40 PM, via Slashdot

Kris Marszalek, the co-founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, has paid $70 million for the domain AI.com — the highest price ever publicly disclosed for a website name, according to the deal’s broker Larry Fischer of GetYourDomain.com. The entire sum was paid in cryptocurrency to an undisclosed seller. Marszalek plans to debut the site during a Super Bowl ad this weekend,...

Big Tech’s $1.1 Trillion Cloud Computing Backlog

Friday at 19:50 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft each reported hundreds of billions in RPO (remaining performance obligations) — signed contracts for cloud computing services that can’t yet be filled and haven’t yet hit the books. Collectively, the big three cloud providers reported a $1.1 trillion backlog of revenue.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

KPMG Pressed Its Auditor To Pass on AI Cost Savings

Friday at 18:31 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shares a report: KPMG, one of the world’s largest auditors of public and private companies, negotiated lower fees from its own accountant by arguing that AI will make it cheaper to do the work, according to people familiar with the matter. The Big Four firm told its auditor, Grant Thornton UK, it should pass on cost savings from the rollout of AI and threatened to find a new...

The Bizarre Enhancement Claims Rocking Ski Jumping

Friday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

German newspaper Bild reported in January that some ski jumpers have been injecting their penises with hyaluronic acid ahead of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — the theory being that temporarily enlarged genitalia would yield looser-fitting suits when measured by 3D scanners, and those looser suits could act like sails to produce longer jumps. A study published last October in the scientific...

UK could ‘lose generation of scientists’ with cuts to projects and research facilities

Friday at 17:25 PM, via The Guardian

UK’s research funding body warned best scientists taking posts oversees due to lack of job stability at home

Hundreds of early career researchers have warned that the UK will lose a generation of scientists after the announcement of significant cuts to physics projects and cutting edge research facilities.

Scientists working in particle physics, astronomy and nuclear physics have been told...

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