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ESA 3D prints first metal part on the International Space Station in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

Kinda disappointed the first print isn’t a calibration cube or a benchy… but this is awesome stuff!

Sony officially teases PlayStation 5 Pro in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

They don’t have asmany sales, but I’ve definitely scored some good prices on games here and there. They often run 20+% off on first party titles and non-first party gets deep discounts (I scored Rabbids for $4 a while back). I just wish they’d do the equivalent of PS Greatest Hits for like $20.

For some situations a console is nicer than a PC. Solid, consistent, single unit I can just connect to a TV and play. I’ve got a PC and I prefer it, but the average console is cheaper than my PC was and simpler for non-geek family members to boot up and play on a whim.

College Grades Have Become a Charade. It’s Time to Abolish Them. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

During this time frame (1950->2024)

  • higher cost of college
  • more people are pushed to go to college
  • more jobs require college education
  • more pressure on students to pass with high marks
  • more high school courses do college prep
  • more standardized testing
  • more scientific test based education adaptations to make sure kids learn and aren’t left behind

Likely other demographic, family educational backgrounds and other shifts that could alter the grading dynamic as well.

Sony officially teases PlayStation 5 Pro in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Enter Nintendo. Crappy 9yo SOC, sure, whatever, here are some fun games that aren’t graphically advanced.

Mongo DB Is Web Scale in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

We still quote this video nearly daily at work. Luckily I don’t have to deal with mongodb anymore.

Panasonic Announces Return to the US with New Line-Up of OLED and Mini-LED TVs with Fire TV Built In in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Hopefully this is true because I’ve heard from people trying to do just that with other “Smart TVs” that won’t work at all without an internet connection and account at least for initial setup.

Ubisoft Stock Tanks to 10-Year Low After Lukewarm Star Wars Outlaws Launch in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

July 2024, just barely outside of 10yrs ago.

Led by the automaker BYD, China has established itself as the main car supplier in Mexico. The US worries China could use Mexico as a “back door” to sidestep tariffs and gain footing in the US market. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Honestly, If the cars pass NHTSA regulations, don’t phone home info to China or BYD, and are inexpensive and not just cheap disposable vehicles, bring ‘em in! I want an inexpensive EV for commuting. It’s not crazy far, and I don’t care about bells and whistles. I just want to make it back and forth reliably and in one piece and I feel like that’s a huge portion of the population.

Is Linux As Good As We Think It Is? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The kind of issues you run into “running the Internet” are not the same as the average desktop user. Most of those systems don’t even have a monitor attached, let alone a whole desktop environment or GUI.

"We always liked the idea that the preparation and the consequences happened in the same room." in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

The poop always flows downhill.

Why did Zuckerberg choose now to confess? in c/[email protected]
End of the Road - Anandtech has closed down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 217 points 1 week ago (7 children)

And while the AnandTech staff is riding off into the sunset, I am happy to report that the site itself won’t be going anywhere for a while. Our publisher, Future PLC, will be keeping the AnandTech website and its many articles live indefinitely. So that all of the content we’ve created over the years remains accessible and citable.

This is such a big thing. Losing access to content is something we’re seeing en masse and future historians and hobbyists greatly appreciate having historical articles accessible and not lost to the sands of time. I think it would be even better if we could all torrent and archive as well, but accessibility and continued access is appreciated.

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Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security (lemm.ee)
 

https://apnews.com/article/b0901a93cca2ffaf05edacbfb9ecf3da

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BMW uses autonomous cars for boring, repetitive tests (arstechnica.com)
 

On a large empty slab of asphalt, two BMWs take off. They drive in figure eights and along an oval path separate from each other but nearly in tandem, like two ice skaters practicing the same routine on a piece of black ice before coming to a stop.

Neither of the cars has a driver. That's not that impressive; self-driving cars in testing environments shouldn't impress anyone at this point. Essentially the automaker tells the car to drive a route, and it does it. The important thing here is why these cars, outfitted with additional sensors, are driving along the same route again and again, each time depressing the accelerator the same amount and applying the exact amount of pressure on the brakes: They're testing hardware with the least amount of variables you can encounter outside of a lab.

"It's boring for human drivers," says BMW's project lead for driverless development, Philipp Ludwig. When a human is asked to perform the exact same task repeatedly, the quality of the work diminishes as they lose interest or become fatigued. For a computer-controlled car, it can do this all day. And it has done exactly that.

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The US government is taking a serious step toward space-based nuclear propulsion (arstechnica.com)
 

Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

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Senate bill crafted with DEA targets end-to-end encryption, requires online companies to report drug activity (therecord.media)
 

A bill requiring social media companies, encrypted communications providers and other online services to report drug activity on their platforms to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) advanced to the Senate floor Thursday, alarming privacy advocates who say the legislation turns the companies into de facto drug enforcement agents and exposes many of them to liability for providing end-to-end encryption.

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Gizmodo and Kotaku Staff Furious After Owner Announces Move to AI Content (futurism.com)
 

G/O Media, a major online media company that runs publications including Gizmodo, Kotaku, Quartz, Jezebel, and Deadspin, has announced that it will begin a "modest test" of AI content on its sites.

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The trial will include "producing just a handful of stories for most of our sites that are basically built around lists and data," Brown wrote. "These features aren't replacing work currently being done by writers and editors, and we hope that over time if we get these forms of content right and produced at scale, AI will, via search and promotion, help us grow our audience."

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