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Airbus Promised a 'Green' Hydrogen Aircraft. That Bet Is Now Unraveling
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Wall Street Journal:
Five years ago, Airbus made a bold bet: The plane maker would launch a zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered aircraft within 15 years that, if successful, would mark the biggest revolution in aviation technology since the jet engine. N...
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The Bees Are Disappearing Again
"Honeybee colonies are under siege across much of North America..." reported the New York Times last week. [Alternate URL here.] Last winter beekeepers across America "began reporting massive beehive collapses. More than half of the roughly 2.8 million colonies collapsed, costing the industry about ...
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Open Source Advocate Argues DeepSeek is 'a Movement... It's Linux All Over Again'
Matt Asay answered questions from Slashdot readers in 2010 (as the then-COO of Canonical). He currently runs developer relations at MongoDB (after holding similar positions at AWS and Adobe).
This week he contributed an opinion to piece to InfoWorld arguing that DeepSeek "may have originated in Ch...
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New 'Star Wars' Movie Announced Set 5 Years After 'Rise of Skywalker'
A new Star Wars movie — starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Shawn Levy — will be released in 2027, the two announced Friday at the "Star Wars Celebration" (a fan event in Japan). CNN reports:
Set to begin production this fall, the movie will be set approximately five years after "Sta...
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Scientists Find Rare Evidence Earth is 'Peeling' Under the Sierra Nevada Mountains
"Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she noticed something odd," reports CNN, "a series of deep earthquakes that had occurred under the Sierra Nevada at a depth where Earth's crust would typically be too hot and high pressure for...
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