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• Privately-Owned High-Speed Rail Opens New Line in Florida, Kills Pedestrian

  24-09-2023 23:56 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  At 11 a.m. Friday in Orlando Florida, a train completed its 240-mile journey from Miami, inaugurating a new line from Brightline that reaches speeds of up to 125 miles per hour and reduces the journey to just under three hours. "This is going to revolutionize transportation not just in the country and the state of Florida but right here in Central Florida and really just make our backyard bigger," Brightline's director of public affairs Katie Mitzner told a local news station.Ironically, within
  
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• Behind the Scenes at 'Have I Been Pwned'

  24-09-2023 22:06 via it.slashdot.org
  
  The founder of the data-breach notification site Have I Been Pwned manages "the largest known repository of stolen data on the planet," reports Australia's public broadcaster ABC, including over 6 billion email address. Yet with no employees, Troy Hunt manages all of the technical and operational aspects single-handedly, and "has ended up playing an oddly central role in global cybersecurity."Troy is very careful with how he handles what he finds. He only collects (and encrypts) the mobile numbe
  
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• Huawei's New SoC Features Processor Cores Designed In-House

  24-09-2023 20:38 via mobile.slashdot.org
  
  "Huawei is emulating Apple in developing the processors that power its latest smartphone," reports Ars Technica, "a breakthrough that will help the Chinese company to reduce its reliance on foreign technology as it confronts US sanctions."Analysis of the main chip inside the Mate 60 Pro smartphone, which launched at the end of last month and immediately sold out, reveals that Huawei has joined the elite group of Big Tech companies capable of designing their own semiconductors. Four of the eight
  
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• After Seven Years, Sample Collected From Asteroid Finally Returns to Earth

  24-09-2023 18:37 via science.slashdot.org
  
  OSIRIS-REx weighs 4,650 pounds (or 2,110 kg). On September 8th of 2016, NASA first launched the spacecraft on its 3.8-billion mile mission to land on an asteroid and retrieve a sample.That sample has just returned.
  Throughout Sunday morning, NASA tweeted historic updates from the sample's landing site in Utah. "We've spotted the #OSIRISREx capsule on the ground," they announced about 80 minutes ago (including a 23-second video clip). "The parachute has separated, and the helicopters are arriving
  
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• Has America Passed the 'Tipping Point' for Purchasing Electric Vehicles?

  24-09-2023 18:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader 140Mandak262Jamuna shared this article from the Washington Post:
  There is a theoretical, magic tipping point for adoption of electric vehicles. Once somewhere between 5 and 10 percent of new car sales are all-electric, some researchers say, huge numbers of drivers will follow. They predict that electric car sales will then soar — to 25 percent, 50 percent and eventually to close to 80 percent of new sales. Early adopters who love shiny new technologies will be rep
  
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• WSJ Criticizes 'the Billionaire Keeping TikTok On Phones In the US'

  24-09-2023 17:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Six months ago Republican Senator Josh Hawley proposed legislation banning downloads of TikTok in the U.S. But this week he told the Wall Street Journal that "TikTok and its dark-money cronies are spending vast amounts of money to kill these bills."
  The newspaper argues that TikTok's "friends" in the U.S. government — backed by billionaire financier Jeff Yass — "helped stall attempts to outlaw America's most-downloaded app."Yass's investment company, Susquehanna International Group,
  
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• US Defense Department Funds Design Analysis for a Transportable Micro Nuclear Reactor

  24-09-2023 16:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  America's Department of Defense recently exercised a contract option with X-energy, a private nuclear reactor engineering company, seeking "a thorough analysis of design options" for a transportable micro nuclear reactor. The Department says its ultimate goal is "a reactor design which is ready for licensing by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for both commercial ventures and military resiliency."Their announcement also notes that additional work is already underway by another company, BWX Tech
  
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• Google Offers Genuine 'Pixel Fold' Repair Parts on iFixit. But Inner Screen Repairs Cost $900

  24-09-2023 13:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  "Since 2022, Google has worked with iFixit to offer official repair parts and guides for virtually all of the company's Pixel releases," according to the blog 9to5Google, which in June confirmed this would continue with Google's Pixel Fold. (They called the announcement "notable, as it will be the first foldable to date with support for DIY repair options.")But Ars Technica has a warning about Google's "biggest and most expensive phone." The good news is Google has indeed started offering OEM re
  
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• Can Philanthropy Save Local Newspapers?

  24-09-2023 09:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  70 million Americans live in a county without a newspaper, according to a 2022 report cited in this editorial by the Washington Post's editorial board"Who's to blame? The internet, mostly. Whereas deep-pocketed advertisers formerly relied on newspapers to reach their customers, they took to the audience-targeting capabilities of Facebook or Google. Web-based marketplaces also siphoned newspapers' once-robust revenue from classified ads.
  But the Post emphasizes one positive new development: "a la
  
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• Cory Doctorow: Apple Sabotages Right-to-Repair Using 'Parts-Pairing' and the DMCA

  24-09-2023 04:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  From science fiction author/blogger/technology activist Cory Doctorow:Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of e-waste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through... Tim Cook laid it out for his investors: when people can repair their devices, they don't buy new ones. When p
  
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• New York City Deploys 420-Pound RoboCop to Patrol Subway Station

  24-09-2023 02:06 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "New York City is now turning to robots to help patrol the Times Square subway station," quipped one local newscast.
  The non-profit New York City blog Gothamist describes the robot as "almost as tall as the mayor — but at least three-times as wide around the waist," with a maximum speed of 3 miles per hour-- but a 360-degree field of vision, equipped with four cameras to send live video (without audio) to the police.
  A 420-pound, 5-foot-2-inch robocop with a giant camera for a face will be
  
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