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California Colleges Test AI Partnerships. Critics Complain It's Risky and Wasteful
America's largest university system, with 460,000 students, is the 22-campus "Cal State" system, reports the New York Times. And it's recently teamed with Amazon, OpenAI and Nvidia, hoping to embed chatbots in both teaching and learning to become what it says will be America's "first and largest AI-...
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GM Plans to Drop Apple CarPlay and Android Auto From All Its Cars
GM plans to dump Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its car new vehicles "in the near future," reports the Verge.
In an episode of the Verge's Decoder podcast, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed the upcoming change to "phone projections" for GM cars:
The timing is unclear, but Barra pointed to a majo...
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Bill Gates-Backed 345 MWe Advanced Nuclear Reactor Secures Crucial US Approval
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shares this article from Interesting Engineering:
Bill Gates-backed TerraPower's innovative Natrium reactor project in Wyoming has cleared a critical federal regulatory hurdle. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has successfully completed its final Environ...
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Japan Launches a New Cargo Spacecraft to ISS for the First Time
"Japan's new HTV-X cargo spacecraft launched on its first-ever mission to the International Space Station on Saturday," reports Space.com:
The robotic HTV-X lifted off atop an H3 rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center at 8 p.m. EDT (0000 GMT and 9 a.m local Japan time on October 26). It is e...
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25 Years Ago Today: A PlayStation Shopping Frenzy - But Would Microsoft's Xbox Make It Obsolete?
25 years ago today on Slashdot...
Hemos linked to a site called Joystick101 describing the
crowd camping out to buy the limited number of just-released PlayStation 2 consoles (and games). "500,000 lucky members of the American gaming public are sneaking a few minutes of playing Madden 2001, Tekken...
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