New Era Begins: Construction Starts on 47-Acre Fusion Reactor Funded by Google and Bill Gates

Heating plasma fuel to over 100 million degrees Celsius to create inexpensive and unlimited zero-emissions electricity "has been compar...

Nintendo Switch eShop is down for some on Christmas Day

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge As kids and adults alike flock to the Nintendo eShop, eager to spend the gift cards they found in thei...

How Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Used Custom AI To Remove Background Noise

Peter Jackson's seven-hour documentary "Get Back" (now streaming on Disney+) edits footage from the Beatles' ambitious rec...

'A Christmas Gift for Humanity' - Cheers Erupt After Webb Telescope Completes Flawless Launch

"We have LIFTOFF of the @NASAWebb Space Telescope!" NASA tweeted seven hours ago, sharing a 32-second video of the launch. "A...

'Quite OK Image' Format (QOI) Coming To a Graphics Program Near You?

Slashdot reader Tesseractic comes bearing gifts — specifically, news of "a new image format that is lossless, gives much faster encodes...

Russia Steps Up Pressure on Google, Meta With Record Fines

A Russian court fined Alphabet's Google 7.2 billion rubles ($98 million) and Meta Platforms 2 billion rubles Friday for failing to remov...

Centralized Crypto Exchanges Saw Over $14 Trillion in Trading Volume this Year

Centralized crypto exchanges, which hold customers' private keys unlike decentralized exchanges, reported more than $14 trillion in trad...