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How an NSF Experiment Helped Launch American Innovation

This article is excerpted fromEvery American an Innovator: How Innovation Became a Way of Life, by Matthew Wisnioski (The MIT Press, 2025).Imagine a point-to-point transportation service in which two parties communicate at a distance. A passenger in need of...

TikTok blocks searches for extreme thinness ‘skinnytok’ hashtag

TikTok is preventing users searching for "skinnytok" - a hashtag which critics say directs people towards content which "idolises extreme thinness."Content associated with the hashtag includes videos showing people's work-out routines or what they eat in a day. TikTok...

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Booms as Economic Pressures Mount

The economic winds whipped up by President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff proclamations in early April have been anything but a gentle breeze. Rising prices, fomenting trade wars, and uncertainty about when tariffs will go into effect has led to...

World-First Biocomputing Platform Hits the Market – Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: In a development straight out of science fiction, Australian startup Cortical Labs has released what it calls the world's first code-deployable biological computer. The CL1, which debuted in March,...

Super-invasive termites could spread from Florida around the world

Florida’s newest termite is two for the price of one, but nobody’s celebrating. Two species of globally invasive, timber-chewing...

Meta’s Going To Revive an Old Nuclear Power Plant – Slashdot

Meta has struck a 20-year deal with energy company Constellation to keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Illinois operational, the social media giant's first nuclear power purchase agreement as it seeks clean energy sources for...

Who Gives a S#!t About Cursing Robots?

The robots that share our public spaces today are so demure. Social robots and service robots aim to avoid offense, erring toward polite airs, positive emotions, and obedience. In some ways, this makes sense—would you really want to have...

Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B | TechCrunch

Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44M Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114M.The Series B round was...
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Four dead, 14 injured in drive-by shooting outside Chicago nightclub

At least four people were killed and 14 others injured in a drive-by shooting outside a Chicago nightclub, police...
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