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• Some Apple Employees Fear Its $3,000 Mixed-Reality Headset Could Flop

  26-03-2023 23:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shares this report from AppleInsider:
  Apple has allegedly demonstrated its mixed reality headset to its top executives recently, in an attempt to generate excitement for the upcoming platform launch. While executives are keen on the product, others within Apple are not sure it's a home run hit. Eight anonymous current and former employees told the New York Times that they are skeptical about the headset, despite Apple's apparent glossy demonstration of the technology.
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• Germany Urges Loophole for EU Ban on Fossil-Fuel Cars: Synthetic Carbon-Captured Fuels

  26-03-2023 22:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  CNN reports:
  When EU lawmakers voted to ban the sale of new combustion engine cars in the bloc by 2035, it was a landmark victory for climate. In February, the European Parliament approved the law. All that was needed was a rubber stamp from the bloc's political leaders.
  Then Germany changed its mind.
  In a reversal that stunned many EU insiders, the German government decided to push for a loophole that would allow the sale of combustion engine cars beyond the 2035 deadline — as long as the
  
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• How Greenland Solved the Daylight Saving Time Debate

  26-03-2023 21:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  The island nation of Greenland — population 56,000 — has "sprung forward" for the very last time, reports Bloomberg:
  On March 25, Greenland will move its clocks forward one hour to UTC -2 time zone for the summer, just as it has done in the past. Except starting this year, it will stay in that time zone for good. No more suffering through twice-yearly clock changes; come October, Greenland won't roll back to standard time like they will in the rest of Europe and the US....For residen
  
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• Developer Builds a ChatGPT Client for MS-DOS

  26-03-2023 20:34 via slashdot.org
  
  "With the recent attention on ChatGPT and OpenAI's release of their APIs, many developers have developed clients for modern platforms to talk to this super smart AI chatbot," writes maker/retro coding enthusiast yeokm1 . "However I'm pretty sure almost nobody has written one for a vintage platform like MS-DOS."
  They share a blog post with all the details — including footage of their client ultimately running on a vintage IBM PC from 1984 (with a black and orange monitor and those big, boxy
  
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• Instead of Banning TikTok, Should We Regulate It Aggressively?

  26-03-2023 19:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  "TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew testified before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday about safety and national security concerns surrounding his social media behemoth," writes MSNBC, adding "He was not well received."Given what we know about how Big Tech abuses data, about how China's authoritarian government systematically embraces surveillance as a tool of social control, and about the increasingly adversarial geopolitical relationship between the U.S. and China, it's not sinophobic to a
  
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• Should Schools Makes CS/Cybersecurity a High School Graduation Requirement?

  26-03-2023 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes Microsoft's friendly relationship with North Dakota, pointing out that in 2017 Microsoft's president Brad Smith said the company would provide the state "cash grants, technology, curriculum and resources to nonprofits" and also "partner with schools to strengthen their ability to offer digital skills and computer science education to the youth they serve.""We just have such a good relationship with the community. We were also excited about Doug Burgum's ele
  
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• The Tinder Car Heist and the Plot For Revenge

  26-03-2023 17:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader DevNull127 writes: Is there a dark side to online dating apps like Tinder? "According to the FTC, reports of fraud losses from romance scams topped $1.3 billion in 2022," reports the Verge. The head of the FBI's Portland field office tells them that "Technology gives you this false sense of trust." But the co-founder of the nonprofit Advocating Against Romance Scammers argues it's more than that — that technology "gives criminals a crucial tool to find new victims, and they
  
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• The Orange Pi 5: a Fast Alternative To The Raspberry Pi 4

  26-03-2023 16:34 via build.slashdot.org
  
  "With an 8-core Rockchip RK3588S SoC, the Orange Pi 5 is leaps and bounds faster than the aging Raspberry Pi 4," writes Phoronix:With up to 32GB of RAM, the Orange Pi 5 is also capable of serving for a more diverse user-base and even has enough potential for assembling a budget Arm Linux developer desktop. I've been testing out the Orange Pi 5 the past few weeks and it's quite fast and nice for its low price point.
  The Orange Pi 5 single board computer was announced last year and went up for pre
  
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• Why America's Children Stopped Falling in Love with Reading

  26-03-2023 13:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "A shrinking number of kids are reading widely and voraciously for fun," writes a New York-based children's book author in the Atlantic. But why?The ubiquity and allure of screens surely play a large part in this — most American children have smartphones by the age of 11 — as does learning loss during the pandemic. But this isn't the whole story. A survey just before the pandemic by the National Assessment of Educational Progressshowed that the percentages of 9- and 13-year-olds who
  
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• Ask Slashdot: Can an Aging Project Manager Return to Coding Unpopular Legacy Codebases?

  26-03-2023 09:34 via ask.slashdot.org
  
  Anyone have career advice for this anonymous Slashdot reader?I've had a great career from 1992 to today. I've been a front line coder for most of that, but also a team lead, a supervisor, a project manager, a scrum master, etc.. My career has been marked by expediency — I did whatever needed doing at the time, in whatever tools necessary.
  However, now I'm 52, and I'm getting tired of leadership and project management, and I would like to return to that front line again. The legacy skills I
  
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• Panera Bread Begins Scanning Its Customers' Palms

  26-03-2023 06:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader quonset writes:In an effort to more personalize a customer's experience, the U.S. restaurant chain Panera Bread is rolling out palm-scanning technology which will link the palm print with the customer's loyalty program. According to Panera Bread CEO Niren Chaudhary, the move will allow a "frictionless, personalized, and convenient" evolution of Panera's loyalty program, which boasts 52 million members. The claim is this will allow the company to offer menu choices based on a cust
  
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• IBM Installs World's First Quantum Computer for Accelerating Healthcare Research

  26-03-2023 03:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  It's one of America's best hospitals — a nonprofit "academic medical center" called the Cleveland Clinic. And this week it installed an IBM-managed quantum computer to accelerate healthcare research (according to an announcement from IBM). IBM is calling it "the first quantum computer in the world to be uniquely dedicated to healthcare research."
  The clinic's CEO said the technology "holds tremendous promise in revolutionizing healthcare and expediting progress toward new cares, cures and
  
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