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• Should CS Be Required for a High School Degree?

  04-12-2022 22:48 via news.slashdot.org
  When it comes to the official requirements for graduating from a U.S. high school, there's a push for changes.
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp looks at 2014:
  Making computer science courses 'count' would not require schools to offer computer science or students to study it," Code.org CEO Hadi Partovi emphasized to lawmakers in his 2014 Congressional testimony following the nation's first Hour of Code, an event organized and run by the tech-backed nonprofit. "It would simply allow existing compu
  
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• California City Discovers It Doesn't Actually Know Where 60% of Its Recycling Goes

  04-12-2022 21:48 via news.slashdot.org
  Palo Alto, California began investigating where its recycling goes over four years ago, reports NBC News. The results?Palo Alto's best reckoning, today, is that about 40% of its recyclable material stays in North America, where it's supposed to be processed according to strict environmental and labor standards. The other roughly 60% goes abroad, mainly to Asia, with next to no transparency about its fate.
  Experts say cities and towns across the United States would probably have similar difficult
  
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• 'Germans Have Seen the Future, and It's a Heat Pump'

  04-12-2022 20:43 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Facing higher prices for natural gas, Germans are now embracing climate-friendly heat pumps, reports the New York Times. "So much so that heat pumps are often sold out, and the wait for a qualified installer can last months."The German government is among the fans. "This is the technology of the future," Robert Habeck, the minister for the economy, told reporters last month while announcing a government plan to promote heat pumps. "To achieve our goals, we want to get to six million customers by
  
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• Driverless Electric Robot Tractors are Here, Powered by NVIDIA AI Chips

  04-12-2022 18:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  NVIDIA is proud of its role in the first commercially available smart tractor (which began rolling off the production line Thursday). Monarch Tractor's MK-V "combines electrification, automation, and data analysis to help farmers reduce their carbon footprint, improve field safety, streamline farming operations, and increase their bottom lines," according to NVIDIA's blog.
  NVIDIA's been touting the ability to accelerate machine learning applications with its low-power Jetson boards (each with a
  
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• Stanford Investigates Its President Over Allegations of Past Research Misconduct

  04-12-2022 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  Marc Tessier-Lavigne is president of Stanford University. He's also "the subject of a university investigation," reports SFGate, "following a report from the school's newspaper, the Stanford Daily, that he committed scientific research misconduct" in papers he co-authored years ago which may contain altered images.
  More from the Washington Post:The university launched the inquiry after the Stanford Daily, a campus newspaper, reported that a well-known research journal was looking into concerns r
  
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• Can the World Avoid a 'Quantum Encryption Apocalypse'?

  04-12-2022 16:34 via it.slashdot.org
  Axios reports:"Although a quantum computer isn't expected until 2030, at the earliest, updating current encryption standards will take just as long," writes Axios, "creating a high-stakes race filled with unanswerable questions for national security and cybersecurity officials alike."As scientists, academics and international policymakers attended the first-ever Quantum World Congress conference in Washington this week, alarmism around the future of secure data was undercut by foundational quest
  
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• Chinese Joint Venture Will Begin Mass-Producing an Autonomous Electric Car

  04-12-2022 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  IEEE Spectrum reports:In October, a startup called Jidu Automotive, backed by Chinese AI giant Baidu and Chinese carmaker Geely, officially released an autonomous electric car, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition. In 2023, the car will go on sale.At roughly US $55,000, the Robo-01 Lunar Edition is a limited edition, cobranded with China's Lunar Exploration Project. It has two lidars, a 5-millimeter-range radar, 12 ultrasonic sensors, and 12 high-definition cameras. It is the first vehicle to offer on-boar
  
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• Apple Makes Plans to Move Production Out of China

  04-12-2022 09:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  The Wall Street Journal reports:
  In recent weeks, Apple Inc. has accelerated plans to shift some of its production outside China, long the dominant country in the supply chain that built the world's most valuable company, say people involved in the discussions. It is telling suppliers to plan more actively for assembling Apple products elsewhere in Asia, particularly India and Vietnam, they say, and looking to reduce dependence on Taiwanese assemblers led by Foxconn Technology Group.
  Turmoil at
  
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• Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices

  04-12-2022 05:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  "Graduate students at Northeastern University were able to organize and beat back an attempt at introducing invasive surveillance devices that were quietly placed under desks at their school," reports Motherboard:Early in October, Senior Vice Provost David Luzzi installed motion sensors under all the desks at the school's Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex (ISEC), a facility used by graduate students and home to the "Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute" which studies surveillanc
  
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• What is ChatGPT, the AI Chatbot That's Taking The Internet By Storm

  04-12-2022 03:48 via news.slashdot.org
  A reader submits a report:Artificial Intelligence (AI) research company OpenAI on Wednesday announced ChatGPT, a prototype dialogue-based AI chatbot capable of understanding natural language and responding in natural language. It has since taken the internet by storm, with people marvelling at how intelligent the AI-powered bot sounds. Some even called it a replacement for Google, since it's capable of giving solutions to complex problems directly," almost like a personal know-all teacher."We've
  
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• Trailers Released for 2023 First-Person Shooter 'Starship Troopers: Extermination'

  04-12-2022 03:04 via games.slashdot.org
  You can read the news in Military Times magazine. "Coming just after the 25th anniversary of the release of the cult classic Starship Troopers (November 1997), Offworld Industries and Sony Pictures Consumer Projects are bringing the fight against the Arachnids to a computer near you."
  An official announcement and gameplay teaser were released for the upcoming game this week. "Starship Troopers: Extermination is a co-op FPS that puts you on the far-off front lines of an all-out battle against the
  
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