Everest has been turned into a run-of-the-mill tourist attraction. Space tourism is over now that any celebrity can blast off into orbit. Next up: a hotel on the Moon, now taking reservations for only about six years from now, if you're willing to make a small deposit.…
Wave Shine is making a 'mirror' for 6G frequencies and it looks really useful.
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Johnathan SmithGuess they need time to bury the bodies.
A memo from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, obtained by NPR, instructs her staff that visits should be requested at least seven days in advance.
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CES 2026 Remember when Elon Musk predicted that there would be thousands of Optimus robots at Tesla factories by the end of 2025? Well, that didn't happen, but competitor Boston Dynamics has just announced that its humanoid robot, Atlas, is going to the big time.…
What if, rather than make a Linux distro that can run Windows apps, you built the whole distro around Windows binaries instead?…
Johnathan SmithThe irony that the POTUS has been declared immune to laws but presidents of other countries are prosecutable under US laws? Some fucked up kind of backwards logic is needed to get into this position.
The U.S. Justice Department has unsealed a new indictment alleging "drug trafficking and narco-terrorism conspiracies" against Maduro, his wife and other defendants.
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President Trump claimed overnight that the United States carried out airstrikes in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro.
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Trump takes four times the recommended dose of aspirin for cardiac prevention. Even low-dose aspirin is no longer recommended for people over 60 who don't have heart disease.
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Starlink is to lower the orbits of about half its satellite constellation over the course of this year, citing safety concerns.…
Johnathan SmithThese are getting closer to a price I might pay.
Hong Kong’s banks have a new weapon against scams: Accounts that require customers to visit a branch to access their funds.…
Johnathan SmithThis ongoing story appears to be having the opposite of the intended effect. This is all just accelerating china's ability to make these parts fully independently. Also I guess FML on getting any nexperia chips before Q4 2026.
Johnathan SmithI did not realize they had a "help me write" feature on by default.
Most of today’s desktop web browsers come with a ton of built-in AI features, but the good news is that, in most cases, no one is forcing you to use them, and you can at least hide them from view. Removing the most egregious AI tools from Chrome is pretty simple, but it requires a few steps.…
Johnathan SmithThis rescheduling reminds me of some of the things Nixon did, like when the EPA was started.
President Trump set the process in motion to ease federal restrictions on marijuana. But his order doesn't automatically revoke laws targeting marijuana, which remains illegal to transport over state lines.
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Johnathan SmithPittelkow said companies buying these robots, or planning to do so, don't care if the robot is teleoperated or autonomous, as long as the price is right.
But human workers have proven reluctant to contribute to their replacement. Pittelkow said that people can present an obstacle to deployment.
"The co-workers, as we call them, of the robots," he said, "they are not super-accepting. They see [robots] as a threat ... They're hesitant. 'This robot's coming here, and eventually I'm not going to have a job because this robot's going to have a job.' So that's something we have to help everybody get over."
By the time the humanoid robots arrived at the Humanoids Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, on December 11, the registration line had already extended downstairs to the lobby.…
Johnathan Smith"Between 2001 and 2014, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan cost the US an estimated $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion in direct spending. Global AI spending, according to Gartner, is forecast to reach nearly $1.5 trillion this year, putting today's AI boom in the same cash-burning league as two major wars."
opinion It is the season of overindulgence, and no one has overindulged like the tech industry: this year, it has burned through roughly $1.5 trillion in AI, a level of spending usually reserved for wartime.…
An Interior Department statement did not detail the national security risks. It's the administration's latest pus to hobble offshore wind and limit renewable energy sources.
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Johnathan SmithKind of a shocking graph in this one.
Hyperscale datacenter operators nearly tripled their spending on infrastructure over the past three years in response to the AI craze, while the amount of operational capacity added each quarter has increased by 170 percent, with little sign so far of any slowdown.…
Johnathan SmithIs it even possible to ban VPNs?
The Danish government wants the public to weigh in on its proposed laws restricting use of VPNs to access certain corners of the internet.…
iRobot, the company behind autonomous vacuum cleaner brand Roomba, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, telling investors that its Chinese manufacturer will assume control going forward.…
Johnathan SmithThe AI bubble is turning out to be worse for PC hardware than the bitcoin mining nonsense.
Johnathan Smith"A staunch admirer of former dictator Augusto Pinochet, Kast will become the first president since Chile's return to democracy in 1990 to openly support the military regime. His father, Michael Kast, was a member of the Nazi Party who fought in the German army during World War II before emigrating to Chile in 1950."
José Antonio Kast, a far-right politician, who has praised Chile's dictatorship, has won the presidency, signaling a sharp rightward shift fueled by fears over crime, migration, and the economy.
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You want artificial general intelligence (AGI)? Current-day processors aren't powerful enough to make it happen and our ability to scale up may soon be coming to an end, argues well-known researcher Tim Dettmers.…
Johnathan Smith"Republicans are countering with a plan by Cassidy and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, that would provide up to $1,500 a year in payments for health savings accounts for Americans earning less than 700 percent of the federal poverty level."
I fail to see how this would do anything beneficial compared to the actual costs of health insurance and health care.
The Senate is set to vote on dueling health care proposals. Both plans are likely to fail, even as Affordable Care Act premiums are set to skyrocket at the end of the year.
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Boom Supersonic, the company that hopes to revive faster-than-sound air travel, has diverted into the datacenter power business.…
Local organizers had planned to include the June 26 game with Seattle's Pride celebrations. Then, FIFA announced the match would include Egypt and Iran, two countries where gay rights are nil.
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