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With Bitcoin near $100,000, even pension funds are buying cryptocurrency
“There’s no doubt that the headwinds are disappearing... I think you’ll see more of this institutional…
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Is humanity alone in the Universe? What scientists really think.
News stories about the likely existence of extraterrestrial life, and our chances of detecting it,…
Amazon must solve hallucination problem before launching AI-enabled Alexa
“[T]he most challenging thing about AI agents is making sure they’re safe, reliable, and predictable,”…
Elon Musk wants OpenAI to auction off a large ownership stake
Musk, who founded his own AI start-up xAI in 2023, has recently stepped up efforts…
Posted inARPANET Biz & IT Classic computing
How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time
Although 4 billion addresses seemed near infinite in 1974, by the early 1990s it was…
Posted inlaw enforcement license plate readers Policy
Misconfigured license plate readers are leaking data and video in real time
In just 20 minutes this morning, an automated license-plate-recognition (ALPR) system in Nashville, Tennessee, captured…
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Cold-weather range hits aren’t as bad for EVs with heat pumps
“I’m not gonna lie, I was nervous about it,” said Malmgren, who works as the…
FTC launches probe of Microsoft over bundling
John Lopatka, a former consultant to the FTC who now teaches antitrust law at Penn…
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Solving renewable energy’s sticky storage problem
When the Sun is blazing and the wind is blowing, Germany’s solar and wind power…
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Who needs the dark web? Drug sales flourish on social media
For every illegal drug, there is a combination of emojis that dealers and consumers use…