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Electric Flying Cars Now for Sale by California Company Pivotal

Yesterday at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

“A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction,” writes the Los Angeles Times. “All you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience.”The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been developing the technology since 2009 and is nearly ready to bring it to market… [Company founder Marcus] Leng engineered an ultralight, electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing...

Apple Switches to Build-to-Order Systems on Its Web Site

Saturday at 23:34 PM, via Slashdot

“Apple has gone for a choose-your-own-adventure when shopping for a new Mac,” writes long-time Slashdot reader esarjeant. Macworld explains:Apple has shifted from selling pre-configured Mac models to a fully customizable build-to-order system on its website, allowing customers to select display size, chip, memory, and storage options… This change emphasizes building a machine within budget...

Nvidia CEO Denies OpenAI’s $100B Investment from Nvidia is ‘Stalled’

Saturday at 22:34 PM, via Slashdot

Saturday Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said they still planned a “huge” investment in OpenAI, according to CNBC. Friday the Wall Street Journal had reported that Nvidia’s plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI “has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, people familiar with the matter said…”[T]he talks haven’t progressed beyond the early stages, some of the...

Blue Origin Announces Two-Year Pause in Space Tourism – to Focus on the Moon

Saturday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

TechCrunch reports:Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for “no less than two years” in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue Origin has been using to fly humans past the Kármán line, the recognized boundary of space, for the last five...

Can We Slow Global Warming By Phasing Out Super-Pollutant HFCs?

Saturday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

“There’s one big bright spot in the fight against climate change that most people never think about,” reports the Washington Post.”It could prevent nearly half a degree of global warming this century, a huge margin for a planet that has warmed almost 1.5 degrees Celsius and is struggling to keep that number below 2 degrees…”[M]ore than 170 countries — including the U.S. — have agreed to act...

Scientists Found a Way To Cool Quantum Computers Using Noise

Saturday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader alternative_right writes: Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its head by building a tiny quantum refrigerator that actually uses noise to drive cooling instead of fighting it. By carefully steering heat at...

WhatsApp End-to-End Encryption Allegations Questioned By Some Security Experts, Lawyers

Saturday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

Several security experts have “questioned the lack of technical detail” in that lawsuit alleging WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption, reports the Washington Post:”It’s pretty long on accusations and thin on any sort of evidence,” Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins University, said over Signal. “WhatsApp has been very consistent about using end-to-end encryption. This...

The Bill Gates-Epstein Bombshell – and What Most People Get Wrong

Saturday at 17:34 PM, via Slashdot

The Daily Beast: “Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following ‘sex with Russian girls,’ and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release.” The New York Times. (Alternate URL) “A representative of the Gates Foundation said, ‘These claims — from a proven, disgruntled...

Mass grave in Jordan sheds new light on world’s earliest recorded pandemic

Saturday at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Researchers tell ‘human story’ about crisis during plague of Justinian, which killed millions in Byzantine empire

A US-led research team has verified the first Mediterranean mass grave of the world’s earliest recorded pandemic, providing stark new details about the plague of Justinian that killed millions of people in the Byzantine empire between the sixth and eighth centuries.

The findings,...

FNB’s fibre secrets

Saturday at 12:59 PM, via MyBroadband

FNB has not provided an update on its fibre-to-the-home ambitions for more than a year.

How to Film ICE

Saturday at 12:30 PM, via Wired

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

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