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How MIT’s 10th president shaped the Cold War
Today, MIT plays a key role in maintaining U.S. competitiveness, technological leadership, and national defense — and...
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Dave Farber Dies at Age 91 – Slashdot
The mailing list for the North American Network Operators' Group discusses Internet infrastructure issues like routing, IP address allocation, and containing malicious activity. This morning there was another message:We are heartbroken to report that our colleague —...
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TechCrunch Mobility: Is $16B enough to build a profitable robotaxi business? | TechCrunch
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility!Waymo’s acceleration over the past 18...
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San Francisco’s pro-billionaire march draws dozens | TechCrunch
A march supporting California’s billionaires didn’t exactly attract a huge crowd on Saturday — the San Francisco Chronicle counted around three dozen attendees, along with another dozen tongue-in-cheek counter-protesters.To be fair, organizer Derik Kauffman had predicted attendance of only...
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Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) – Slashdot
2001: "Brookhaven Labs has produced for the first time collisions of gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of 200GeV/nucleon."2002: "There may be a new type of matter according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory."2010:...
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Are Big Tech’s Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors? – Slashdot
Fortune reports on "a watershed moment" in American's nuclear power industry:In January, Meta partnered with Gates' TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million homes...
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India has changed its startup rules for deep tech | TechCrunch
Deep tech startups in sectors such as space, semiconductors, and biotech take far longer to mature than conventional ventures. Because of that India is adjusting its startup rules, and mobilizing public capital, hoping to help more of them make...
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NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo joins Kalshi as an investor | TechCrunch
Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks announced Friday that he has joined prediction market Kalshi as a shareholder, making him the first NBA player to invest directly in the company.“The internet is full of opinions. I decided it was...
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3D Modeling for Low-Vision Programmers Moves Beyond Code
Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users. As a result, a range of hardware design, robotics, coding, and engineering work is inaccessible to interested programmers. A visually-impaired programmer might write...
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Claude Code is the Inflection Point – Slashdot
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About 4% of all public commits on GitHub are now being authored by Anthropic's Claude Code, a terminal-native AI coding agent that has quickly become the centerpiece of a broader argument that software engineering is being fundamentally reshaped...
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South Korea: Official expelled from party for remark on ‘importing’ foreign women
Jindo county head Kim Hee-soo had suggested "importing young women from Vietnam or Sri Lanka" for young rural men.
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