Amazon’s Project Kuiper Strikes Its First Satellite Internet Deal With an Airline Summary Amazon’s Project Kuiper has signed its first airline partner: JetBlue. The service aims to provide satellite-powered in-flight…
Air Pollution Can Drive Devastating Forms of Dementia, Research Suggests Summary New research, reported via Slashdot from a Guardian piece and published in Science, links long-term exposure to fine particulate…
Google Deletes Net‑Zero Pledge From Sustainability Website Summary In 2020 Sundar Pichai pledged Google would operate carbon‑free 24/7. A National Observer investigation reports that by July 2025 Google quietly removed…
Uber India Starts Offering Drivers Gigs Collecting and Classifying Info For AI Models Summary Uber India has begun offering rideshare and delivery drivers short “digital tasks” via its app to…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural‑net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton warns that AI will concentrate wealth among a…
Summary Alphabet’s Google has been fined $3.45 billion by the European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour in its advertising technology (adtech) business. The Commission found Google favoured its own online display…
Slashdot Asks: Can Panasonic Reinvent Itself? Summary Panasonic’s market capitalisation has been roughly flat at about $25 billion for the past decade, while rivals such as Hitachi, Sony and NEC…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate tool developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to help ease heated…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Summary Anthropic is expanding restrictions to block access to its AI services by companies majority‑owned by entities from countries such as…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Networks of pipes and heat exchangers are used to transfer excess heat from buildings into nearby rivers and lakes. Paris’s…
