Chess has a New World Champion: China's Ding Liren Admin April 30, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit The Guardian reports: The Magnus Carlsen era is over. Ding Liren becomes China's first world chess champion. The country now can boast t...
Droids for Space? Startup Plans Satellites With Robotic Arms For Repairs and Collecting Space Junk Admin April 30, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit The Boston Globe reports on a 25-person startup pursuing an unusual solution to the problem of space junk: "Imagine if every car we eve...
Ben & Jerry's Cofounder Launches Nonprofit Cannabis Line Admin April 30, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit The "Ben" in Ben & Jerry's "has gone from ice cream to cannabis with a social mission," reports the Chicago Trib...
Can OpenAI Trademark 'GPT'? Admin April 29, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit "ThreatGPT, MedicalGPT, DateGPT and DirtyGPT are a mere sampling of the many outfits to apply for trademarks with the United States Pat...
Red Hat's 30th Anniversary: How a Microsoft Competitor Rose from an Apartment-Based Startup Admin April 29, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit For Red Hat's 30th anniversary, North Carolina's News & Observer newspaper ran a special four-part series of articles. In the fi...
Six Months Later, Poker Player Garrett Adelstein Still Thinks He Was Cheated Admin April 29, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit In October professional poker player Garrett Adelstein lost to a relative newcomer. Last month 15,000 viewers tuned in for his first new pub...
Report: Apple's AI and 'Siri' Efforts Hindered by Caution, Dysfunction Admin April 29, 2023 Add Comment NEWS, Slashdot Edit The Information reports: Late last year, a trio of engineers who had just helped Apple modernize its search technology began working on the ...