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Trump Ban on Wind Energy Permits ‘Unlawful’, Court Rules – Slashdot
A January order blocking wind energy projects in America has now been vacated by a U.S. judge and declared unlawful, reports the Associated Press:ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states and...
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Is the R Programming Language Surging in Popularity? – Slashdot
The R programming language "is sometimes frowned upon by 'traditional' software engineers," says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, "due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems." But he says...
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Bell Labs Celebrates 100 Years Of Innovation With IEEE Milestones
Bell Labs is already highly recognized, but in its centennial year, the organization hoped to add more awards to burnish its reputation as one of the world’s leading centers of technical innovation.On 21 October, IEEE representatives, Nokia Bell Labs...
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Germany Covers Nearly 56 Percent of 2025 Electricity Use With Renewables – Slashdot
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Longtime Slashdot reader AmiMoJo shares a report from Clean Energy Wire: Renewable energy sources covered nearly 56 percent of Germany's gross electricity consumption in 2025, according to preliminary figures by energy industry group BDEW and research institute ZSW....
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A comprehensive list of 2025 tech layoffs | TechCrunch
The tech layoff wave is still kicking in 2025. Last year saw more than 150,000 job cuts across 549 companies, according to independent layoffs tracker Layoffs.fyi. So far this year, more than 22,000 workers have been the victim of...
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AI toys are getting scary – but this small red box promises a fix
This piece is part of Trending Forward, our video and podcast series that peers into the world of how disruptive technology is coming to change the way we live. This week, we speak to Arun Gupta, founder and CEO...
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This Robot Dog Looks Like a Dog, or At Least a Dog’s Muscles and Bones
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for...
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Real-World Diagnostics and Prognostics for Grid-Connected Battery Energy Storage Systems
This is a sponsored article brought to you by The University of Sheffield.Across global electricity networks, the shift to renewable energy has fundamentally changed the behavior of power systems. Decades of engineering assumptions, predictable inertia, dispatchable baseload generation, and...
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Mars may once have had a much larger moon
A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went....
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ChatGPT gets major update (GPT-5.2) as OpenAI battles Google in AI arms race
OpenAI has officially launched GPT-5.2, the latest iteration of its flagship AI model series and its answer to Google’s Gemini 3. The new model is meant to be faster, smarter, and more helpful for the complex, real-world queries with...