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Why Has the US Banned Foreign-Made Routers?
The Federal Communications Commission has banned new consumer internet routers manufactured outside the US, citing national security concerns. The ban doesn’t affect any routers already in American homes or currently on sale in the US, but all new routers...
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New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test – Slashdot
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NASA engineers have tested a next-generation lithium-plasma electric propulsion system that reached 120 kilowatts, a new U.S. record and about 25 times the power of the electric thrusters on NASA's Psyche spacecraft. "Designing and building these thrusters over...
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Waymo Is Trying to Crack Down on Solo Kids in Driverless Cars
By law, autonomous vehicles aren’t allowed to carry unaccompanied minors in California. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving-car company, doesn’t allow kids under 18 to ride alone anywhere outside of metro Phoenix, Arizona. But that hasn’t stopped some time-strapped parents from using...
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ChatGPT just landed ads, Now, Google won’t rule out ads in Gemini app, of course.
OpenAI recently started testing ads inside ChatGPT, and AI companies are already trying to figure out whether advertising inside an AI chatbot can work without annoying users. Now Google is making it clear that Gemini may not avoid that...
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The 4 biggest myths about hydration, according to an expert
Water bottles have become comically large in recent years, as health influencers urge us to drink more water for...
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The Invisible Force Making Food Less Nutritious – Slashdot
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fjo3 shares a report from the Washington Post: Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way plants grow -- from increasing their sugar content to...
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Oak trees use delaying tactics to thwart hungry caterpillars
If caterpillars have munched through a lot of an oak tree’s leaves one year, then, the following spring, the...
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ChatGPT Images 2.0 is a hit in India, but not a big winner elsewhere, yet | TechCrunch
India has emerged as the largest user base for ChatGPT Images 2.0 since its launch last week, OpenAI said on Thursday. However, third-party data reviewed by TechCrunch points to a more measured global response, with limited overall growth alongside...
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Your oral microbiome could affect your weight, liver and diabetes risk
They say you are what you eat, but the microbes in your mouth may be just as revealing. One...
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Claude Mythos Finds Zero-Days—But Rust Quietly Shuts The Door
Transforming a newly discovered software vulnerability into a cyberattack used to take months. Today—as the recent headlines over Anthropic’s Project Glasswing have shown—generative AI can do the job in minutes, often for less than a dollar of cloud computing...
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Oil tanker hijacked off coast of Yemen and taken towards Somalia
Somali piracy, which was on the decline since 2011, has surged again since late 2023, when Houthi rebels began...