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Running a race? These 5 tech must-haves got me across the finish line
My favorite tech products made my half marathon training as easy and enjoyable as can be….
NASA’s Psyche Hits 25 Mbps From 140 Miles Away
Richard Speed reports via The Register: NASA’s optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away. The payload is riding aboard the Psyche prob……
How an Apple Watch Saved the Solar Eclipse for Me – CNET
Commentary: My smartwatch has paid for itself a dozen times over due to one simple feature….
Vantage enters crowded Irish datacenter market with new Dublin site
On-site generation plant aims to ‘alleviate pressure on energy demand from the grid’
Vantage Data Centers is joining the crowded Irish datacenter market with its first site in the Emerald Isle due to come online in 2024. In view of ongoing power constr……
Squeeze Another Drive into a Full-Up NAS
A network-attached storage (NAS) device is a frequent peripheral in home and office networks alike, yet so often these devices come pre-installed with a proprietary OS which does not lend …read more
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Apple’s ‘incredibly private’ Safari is not so private in Europe
Infosec eggheads find iGiant left EU iOS 17 users open to being tracked around the web Apple’s grudging accommodation of European antitrust rules by allowing third-party app stores on iPhones has left users of its Safari browser exposed to potential we……
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original
Jules Roscoe reports via 404 Media: Russia has replaced Wikipedia with a state-sponsored encyclopedia that is a clone of the original Russian Wikipedia but which conveniently has been edited to omit things that could cast the Russian government in poor……
China to launch sample return mission to the far side of the Moon – maybe next week
And hatches 2030 plan to beat US for Mars rock retrieval
China’s space program will next week launch mission that aims to land on the Moon, take samples, and bring them back to Earth.…
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Politicians call for ban on ‘killer robots’ and the curbing of AI weapons
‘This is the Oppenheimer moment of our generation’
Video Austria’s foreign minister on Monday likened the rise of military artificial intelligence to the existential crisis faced by the creators of the first atomic bomb, and called for a ban on “killer……