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Neanderthals and early humans may have interbred over a vast area
Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia.
We have long...
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AI ‘slop’ is transforming social media – and there’s a backlash
However, if a new social media does come along and people vote with their feet (or eyeballs and thumbs, more accurately), it just might move the dial. I'm reminded of the rise of social media challenger BeReal, a French...
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Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K? – Slashdot
"Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day..." writes Ars Technica."However, 8K never proved its necessity or practicality."LG Display is no longer making 8K LCD or...
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AI layoffs or ‘AI-washing’? | TechCrunch
How many of the companies with recent layoffs are truly adapting their workforces to the efficiencies and challenges of artificial intelligence? And how many of them were just using AI as an excuse to cover other problems?That’s the question...
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Bitcoin Drops 40% in Four Months. Bloomberg Blames Absence of Buyers and Belief – Slashdot
October saw Bitcoin reach $123,742. But less than four months later, "The world's largest cryptocurrency slipped below $76,000..." Bloomberg reports, "dropping about 40% from its 2025 peak..."
"What began as a sharp crash in October has morphed into...
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India offers zero taxes through 2047 to lure global AI workloads | TechCrunch
As the global race to build AI infrastructure accelerates, India has offered foreign cloud providers zero taxes through 2047 on services sold outside the country if they run those workloads from Indian data centers — a bid to attract...
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The best new popular science books of February 2026
It’s nowhere near early enough for those of us in the northern hemisphere to start struggling against winter’s somnolent...
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Your phone might stay cool thanks to this new battery breakthrough
Phones, electric vehicles, and other devices that run hot might soon have a powerful new tool keeping them cool. Engineers at the University of Houston have developed a novel thermal management technique that works like a “thermal diode,” allowing...
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Assistive Tech Hacks Under $5 Change Lives
Assistive technology is expensive, and many people with disabilities live on fixed incomes. Disabled assistive tech users also must contend with equipment that was often designed without any capacity to be repaired or modified. But assistive tech users ultimately...
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A peek inside Physical Intelligence, the startup building Silicon Valley’s buzziest robot brains | TechCrunch
From the street, the only indication I’ve found Physical Intelligence’s headquarters in San Francisco is a pi symbol that’s a slightly different color than the rest of the door. When I walk in, I’m immediately confronted with activity. There’s...
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Elephant kills tourist at national park in Thailand, third fatality linked to the same animal
A wild bull elephant killed a tourist in central Thailand's Khao Yai National Park on...