An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press: American workers adopted artificial intelligence into their work lives at a remarkable pace over the past few years, according to a new poll. Some 12% of employed adults say they use AI daily in their job, according to a Gallup Workforce survey conducted this fall of more than 22,000 U.S. workers. The survey found roughly one-quarter say they use AI at least frequently, which is defined as at least a few times a week, and nearly ..

Jan 31 (Reuters) - Alphabet unit Waymo is aiming to raise about $16 billion in a financing round that would value it at nearly $110 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the matter. Read full story

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Jan 31 (Reuters) - Bitcoin, the world's largest cryptocurrency by market value, was down by 6.53% at $78,719.63 at 12:48 p.m. ET (1748 GMT) on Saturday. Read full story

Apple updates iOS 12 and 15 certificates to maintain essential services, keeping decade-old devices functional in limited roles.

WASHINGTON, Jan 31 - Elon Musk's SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of 1 million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI data centers, according to a filingat the Federal Communications Commission. Read full story

Give your Mac a tune-up with this lifetime license to Microsoft Office Home & Business for Mac 2021, now only $49.97 (reg. $219) through Feb. 22.

"A future with flying cars is no longer science fiction," writes the Los Angeles Times. "All you need to order your own is about $200,000 and some hope and patience." The Palo Alto-based company Pivotal has been developing the technology since 2009 and is nearly ready to bring it to market... [Company founder Marcus] Leng engineered an ultralight, electric-powered vertical takeoff and landing aircraft known as an eVTOL. Other VTOL aircraft, such as helicopters, had existed for decades, but ..

Ayaneo started teasing the Pocket Play, its first smartphone, back in November, and then in December it showed us what it would look like, Sony Ericsson Xperia Play vibes and all. Today, Ayaneo has finally revealed the chipset sitting at the helm of the Pocket Play. It's MediaTek's Dimensity 9300. That's an odd choice, given that the SoC in question came out in 2023. Sure, it was MediaTek's top dog of 2023, but it's more than two years old. And if, we assume for pricing purposes, Ayaneo wanted ..

"Apple has gone for a choose-your-own-adventure when shopping for a new Mac," writes long-time Slashdot reader esarjeant. Macworld explains: Apple has shifted from selling pre-configured Mac models to a fully customizable build- to-order system on its website, allowing customers to select display size, chip, memory, and storage options... This change emphasizes building a machine within budget rather than choosing from set configurations, potentially preparing for future CPU/GPU core selection ..

OpenAI is launching ChatGPT ads with NFL-level pricing, offering impression data only, raising questions about engagement and advertising value.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang told reporters that the company will "invest a great deal of money" in OpenAI's latest funding round, according to Bloomberg , after The Wall Street Journal on Friday reported that the two companies were rethinking a previous $100 billion deal that hasn't "progressed beyond the early stages" of negotiations. Speaking to reporters in Taipei this weekend, Huang reportedly said it could be "the largest investment we've ever made." NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced in ..

There may be plenty of gaming handhelds out there, but there aren't many horizontal options that let you play childhood favorites in the original 4:3 aspect ratio. To address that gap, Ayaneo launched a premium option with the Pocket S Mini . As a "true 4:3 retro handheld," the Pocket S Mini won't have those pesky vertical black bars whenever you're emulating video games from the CRT television era. Handhelds like the Anbernic RG405M and even Ayaneo's own Pocket Air Mini already offer a 4:3 ..

Saturday Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said they still planned a "huge" investment in OpenAI, according to CNBC. Friday the Wall Street Journal had reported that Nvidia's plan to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI "has stalled after some inside the chip giant expressed doubts about the deal, people familiar with the matter said..." [T]he talks haven't progressed beyond the early stages, some of the people said. Now, the two sides are rethinking the future of their partnership, some of the people ..

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Apple's iPhone 17 may look like business as usual at first glance, but this year's update is a bigger jump than we've come to expect from the vanilla line. In fact, the jump from the iPhone 16 to the iPhone 17 feels like one of the more meaningful generational steps we've seen in recent years. Of course, the iPhone 16 remains a solid performer. But compared side by side, the iPhone 17 clearly feels like the more modern and complete package - not just a small refinement, but a proper evolution ..

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Microsofts email autoconfiguration routed example.com traffic to Japanese servers, exposing long-standing gaps in oversight and configuration control.

Minisforum AtomMan G7 Pro delivers Core i9-14900HX performance in a super slim mini PC design.

TechCrunch reports: Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin is pausing its space tourism flights for "no less than two years" in order to focus all of its resources on upcoming missions to the moon, the company announced Friday. The decision puts a temporary halt on a program that Blue Origin has been using to fly humans past the Krmn line, the recognized boundary of space, for the last five years. Blue Origin made the announcement just a few weeks ahead of the expected third launch of its New ..

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Jeffrey Epstein was banned from Xbox Live, according to email documents released by the DOJ.

"There's one big bright spot in the fight against climate change that most people never think about," reports the Washington Post. "It could prevent nearly half a degree of global warming this century, a huge margin for a planet that has warmed almost 1.5 degrees Celsius and is struggling to keep that number below 2 degrees..." [M]ore than 170 countries including the U.S. have agreed to act on this one solution. That solution: phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), a group of gases used in ..

The S&P; 500 closed lower Friday after briefly topping 7,000 for the first time ever Wednesday.

If you're looking for a cheap but straightforward solution to access your old media locked behind an outdated storage medium, or just want to respect tradition and hold onto DVD/CDs, this external disc drive is the perfect tool for you. For just $10, you can read and write all your old discs with a USB connection on any computer or laptop.

We know that most people wont care about this at all, but if you are reading this article, you are likely among the minority that might actually rejoice to learn that Samsung might be catching up to Googles own Pixel devices in this one admittedly very niche aspect. Our colleagues over at Android Authority got access to some leaked logs from the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. In them, they spotted a mention of the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) a key component in running a full Linux ..

Elon Musk and his aerospace company have requested to build a network that's 100 times the number of satellites that are currently in orbit. On Friday, SpaceX filed an application with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch a million satellites meant to create an "orbital data center." This isn't the first time we're hearing of Musk's plans to build an orbital data center, as it was mentioned by company insiders following the news that the CEO was reportedly preparing to take ..

Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold Phone quickly sells out online despite near $3,000 pricetag

Slashdot reader alternative_right writes: Quantum computers need extreme cold to work, but the very systems that keep them cold also create noise that can destroy fragile quantum information. Scientists in Sweden have now flipped that problem on its head by building a tiny quantum refrigerator that actually uses noise to drive cooling instead of fighting it. By carefully steering heat at unimaginably small scales, the device can act as a refrigerator, heat engine, or energy amplifier inside ..

All the ways to watch Liverpool vs Newcastle as the Reds eye a first Premier League win of 2026 against Eddie Howe's Mags.

At least four Wisconsin municipalities are understood to have signed underhanded nondisclosure agreements concerning new data centers while negotiating their development.

Internet outages in 2025 were driven by power failures, weather damage, cable cuts, and routine technical faults across diverse regions.

Several security experts have "questioned the lack of technical detail" in that lawsuit alleging WhatsApp has no end-to-end encryption, reports the Washington Post: "It's pretty long on accusations and thin on any sort of evidence," Matthew Green, a cryptography professor at Johns Hopkins University, said over Signal. "WhatsApp has been very consistent about using end-to-end encryption. This lawsuit seems to be a nothingburger." Nicholas Weaver, a security researcher at the International ..

We spotted some outstanding Saturday deals on Lenovo's website, including powerful gaming laptops and high-end gaming displays.

The firm wants to create a network of "orbital data centres" to power artificial intelligence.

Google's Project Genie can generate games using the company's Genie 3 model, which is trained on prompts from Gemini. It's an experimental tool that doesn't even create fully playable games, but it was still enough to shiver the timbers of video game shareholders. Unity saw a 20% drop in its stock price following the reveal of Project Genie, along with several other firms.

The Daily Beast: "Salacious claims from Jeffrey Epstein that Bill Gates contracted an STD following 'sex with Russian girls,' and colluded with the disgraced financier on a plot to secretly slip his wife antibiotics, were revealed in the latest Epstein files release." The New York Times. (Alternate URL) "A representative of the Gates Foundation said, 'These claims from a proven, disgruntled liar are absolutely absurd and completely false. The only thing these documents demonstrate is Epstein's ..

Fitbit logins were originally set to expire in 2025, but now you've got even more time to take care of the job.

Nvidia and OpenAI are still in talks about the $100-billion MOU the two parties signed in September 2025, and it seems that deal will be modified for a much "smaller" sum of tens of billions of dollars.

Yesterday, vivo revealed the price segments and key specs of the upcoming V70 and V70 Elite, while confirming that at least one smartphone will be available in Passion Red. Now, the brand has revealed that the V70 will have two color options, while the V70 Elite will offer three. The V70 and V70 Elite will both be available in Passion Red, with Lemon Yellow being exclusive to the V70, and Sand Beige and Authentic Black exclusive to the V70 Elite. Additionally, vivo revealed that the 50MP "ZEISS ..