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2026’s Breakthrough Technologies? MIT Technology Review Chooses Sodium-ion Batteries, Commercial Space Stations – Slashdot

As 2026 begins, MIT Technology Review publishes "educated guesses" on emerging technologies that will define the future, advances "we think will drive progress or incite the most change — for better or worse — in the years ahead."This...

Who gets to inherit the stars? A space ethicist on what we’re not talking about | TechCrunch

In October, at a tech conference in Italy, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted that millions of people will be living in space “in the next couple of decades” and “mostly,” he’d said, “because they want to,”...

Trump administration’s legal setbacks are good news for offshore wind — and the grid | TechCrunch

The Trump administration suffered a series of legal setbacks this week after judges allowed work to restart on several offshore wind farms under construction on the East Coast.The Department of the Interior had ordered a stop to five projects...

Data Centers Are Facing a Talent Shortage

The AI data center construction boom continues unabated, with the demand for power in the United States potentially reaching 106 gigawatts by 2035, according to a December report from research and analysis company BloombergNEF. That’s a 36 percent jump...

Pesticides May Drastically Shorten Fish Lifespans, Study Finds – Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: Even low levels of common agricultural pesticides can stunt the long-term lifespan of fish, according to research led by Jason Rohr, a biologist at the University of Notre Dame...

OpenAI says it will start testing ads on ChatGPT in the coming weeks

OpenAI announced Friday that it will begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the coming weeks, opening the door to another potential revenue stream for the AI company in addition to its subscription-based models. The ads will...

Watch This Bipedal Robot Stop Itself From Falling With a Hoop Skirt!

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...

Meat may play an unexpected role in helping people reach 100

Longevity pioneers like Bryan Johnson are going to extreme lengths in the quest for immortality, but for those of...

Ashley St Clair, mother of Elon Musk’s child, sues xAI over Grok deepfakes

Liv McMahonTechnology reporterBBCAshley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, has sued his company xAI over sexualised deepfakes of her created on social media platform X.The lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday alleges the Grok...

Use film-style age ratings to limit teens’ social media, say Lib Dems

The Liberal Democrats have proposed introducing film-style age ratings to limit which social media apps children can access.Under the party's plan, platforms that use addictive algorithmic feeds or host "inappropriate content" would be restricted to users over 16 years...
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Around 1,500 soldiers on standby for deployment to Minneapolis, reports say

Soldiers are on standby for possible deployment to Minneapolis, a US defence official has told CBS News, the BBC's...
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