Scott Adams, Creator of the 'Dilbert' Comic Strip, Dies at 68
Scott Adams, Creator of the
Scott Adams, who kept cubicle denizens laughing for more than three decades with Dilbert, the bitingly funny comic strip that poked fun at the absu...
Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging
Signal Creator Marlinspike Wants To Do For AI What He Did For Messaging - Slashdot
Moxie Marlinspike, the engineer who created Signal Messenger and set a new standard for private communications, is now trialing Confer, an open sou...
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices
Meta Begins Job Cuts as It Shifts From Metaverse to AI Devices - Slashdot
Meta has begun laying off more than 1,000 employees from its Reality Labs division as the company redirects resources away from virtual reality and...
Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash
Microsoft Pledges Full Power Costs, No Tax Breaks in Response To AI Data Center Backlash - Slashdot
Microsoft announced Tuesday what it calls a "community first" initiative for its AI data centers, pledging to pay full electricity costs an...
Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans
Trump Says Microsoft To Make Changes To Curb Data Center Power Costs For Americans - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Monday that Microsoft will announce changes to...
Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane
Researchers Beam Power From a Moving Airplane - Slashdot
Researchers from the startup Overview Energy have successfully demonstrated beaming power from a moving airplane to the ground using near-infrared ...
You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000
You Can Now Reserve a Hotel Room On the Moon For $250,000 - Slashdot
A newly founded startup called GRU Space is taking deposits of up to $1 million to eventually build inflatable hotels on the Moon. The bet is that ...
EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution
EPA To Stop Considering Lives Saved By Limiting Air Pollution - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency has calculated the health benefits of...
European Firms Hit Hiring Brakes Over AI and Slowing Growth
European Firms Hit Hiring Brakes Over AI and Slowing Growth - Slashdot
European hiring momentum is cooling as slower growth and accelerating AI adoption make both employers and workers more cautious. DW.com reports: [...
Viral Chinese App 'Are You Dead?' Checks On Those Who Live Alone
Viral Chinese App
The viral Chinese app Are You Dead? (known as Sileme in Chinese) targets people who live alone by requiring regular check-ins and alerting an emerg...