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United Airlines Flight To Spain Pulls U-Turn Over Bluetooth Device Name
Tony Isaac shares a report from NPR: A United Airlines flight traveling from Newark, New Jersey, to Palma de Mallorca, Spain, was forced to make a U-turn and return to Newark after more than four hours in the air due to a security concern. According to passenger reports and air traffic control audio...
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NVIDIA Unveils New ARM-Based AI/Graphics Superchip Coming to Windows PCs and Laptops
"The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC," reports Axios.
Nvidia's CEO unveiled a new ARM-based "N1X processor made alongside Microsoft," reports CNBC, that "will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from M...
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New Lawsuit Against Amazon: 'Subscribe and Save' Program Can Actually Cost You More
Amazon's "Subscribe & Save" program — for recurring purchasees — has triggered a new lawsuit, reports Oregon Live.
"The lawsuit contends that after luring in customers with 'artificially low prices,' the world's biggest online retailer jacked up the prices in the months after their...
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New Desalination System Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water and Useful Salts - Including Lithium
"Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine," reports ScienceDaily.
"Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evaporate water while automatically moving salt deposits away from the working...
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'The Oral Tradition That Built Software May Not Survive AI'
A historian-turned-software engineer warns that "so little is ever written down" by professional programmers in a new article for Fast Company:
Perhaps there's an early design doc, but then it turns out that everything was substantially revised before work began. Maybe there are a few wiki pages e...
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