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• Email from Boeing to Ethiopian Airlines Sheds Light on a Tragic Crash

  27-10-2024 23:06 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Boeing received an email from the chief pilot at Ethiopian Airlines on December 1, 2018 with several questions, reports the New York Times (alternate URL here). "in essence the pilot was asking for direction. If we see a series of warnings on the new 737 Max, he posed, what do we do?"
  What ensued was an email conversation among a number of Boeing senior officials about whether they could answer the pilot's questions without violating international restrictions on disseminating information about
  
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• Has Online Shopping Left Warehouse Workers WIthout Political Power?

  27-10-2024 21:45 via politics.slashdot.org
  
  A writer for the New York Times editorial board argues we don't yet fully understand the impact of warehouses. "Thanks to the rise of online shopping and the proximity to so many American doorsteps, warehouses have become a major source of blue-collar employment," both in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and beyond. "In Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, more than 19,000 people work in the warehouses that prepare our packages. Thousands more drive the trucks that deliver them."But while the total number of wa
  
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• Europe's Crooks Keep Blowing up ATMs

  27-10-2024 19:59 via news.slashdot.org
  
  "In the early hours of Thursday, March 23, 2023, residents in the German town of Kronberg were woken from their sleep by several explosions," reports CNN ."Criminals had blown up an ATM located below a block of flats in the town center..."
  According to local media reports, witnesses saw people dressed in dark clothing fleeing in a black car towards a nearby highway. During the heist, thieves stole 130,000 euros in cash. They also caused an estimated half a million euros worth of collateral damag
  
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• Iceland's Plan to Drill Into a Volcano to Test 'Limitless' Supercharged Geothermal Energy

  27-10-2024 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  In Iceland, "a volcanic system has awoken after an 800-year slumber," according to a multimedia CNN Special Report. "But in another part of Iceland, scientists and engineers are hoping to harness magma's immense power to solve the planet's biggest problem..."
  It all started in 2009 when Bjarni Pálsson, an engineer with Iceland's national power company, accidentally drilled into a magma chamber. "Armed with new technology and know-how, he is going back in..."
  The ambition of the geothermal
  
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• SpaceX's Starship Super Heavy Booster Came Within 1 Second of Aborting Its First 'Catch' Landing

  27-10-2024 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  SpaceNews reports:SpaceX's Super Heavy booster came within a second of aborting a "catch" landing attempt on the latest Starship test flight, according to audio posted online, apparently inadvertently, by Elon Musk... In the audio, one person, not identified, described an issue with the Super Heavy landing burn where a "misconfigured" parameter meant that spin pressure, presuming in the Raptor engines in the booster, did not increase as expected. "We were one second away from that tripping and t
  
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• Google is Developing AI that Can Take Over Chrome to Help You Buy Things, Do Research

  27-10-2024 16:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  This week Google-backed Anthropic announced its upgraded AI model Claude 3.5 Sonnet could "perform tasks like navigating web browsers, filling forms, and manipulating data."
  Now Google plans something similar for Chrome, reports 9to5Linux.com:
  According to The Information, Google is "developing artificial intelligence that takes over a person's web browser to complete tasks such as gathering research, purchasing a product or booking a flight."
  "Project Jarvis" — in a nod to J.A.R.V.I.S. in
  
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• UK Nuclear Site's Clean-Up Costs Rise To £136 Billion

  27-10-2024 15:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  The cost of cleaning up the U.K.'s largest nuclear site, "is expected to spiral to £136 billion" (about $176 billion), according to the Guardian, creating tension with the country's public-spending watchdog.
  Projects to fix the state-owned buildings with hazardous and radioactive material "are running years late and over budget," the Guardian notes, with the National Audit Office suggesting spending at the Sellafield site has risen to more than £2.7 billion a year ($3.49 billion).Eur
  
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• The Tech Secrets Behind Disneyland's 'Enchanted Tiki Room'

  27-10-2024 12:34 via idle.slashdot.org
  
  SFGate spills the secrets of Disneyland's "Enchanted Tiki Room" and its lifelike animatronic singing birds — Jose, Fritz, Michael and Pierre — "whose movements were perfectly synced with the audio track.""Beneath the room, the heartbeat of the attraction is a $1 million installation of electronics equipment, operated by a roll of 14-channel magnetic tape," the Orange County Register wrote upon its opening. "It is the same system which programs the U.S. military's polaris missile." Th
  
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• 'We Took on Google and They Were Forced to Pay Billions'

  27-10-2024 08:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "Google essentially disappeared us from the internet," says the couple who created price-comparison site Foundem in 2006. Google's search results for "price comparison" and "comparison shopping" buried their site — for more than three years.
  Today the BBC looks at their 15-year legal battle, which culminated with a then record €2.4 billion fine (£2 billion or $2.6 billion) for Google, which was deemed to have abused its market dominance.The case has been hailed as a landmark mom
  
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• Nvidia Passes Apple to Become the World's Most Valuable Company - Powered by Demand for AI Chips

  27-10-2024 05:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "Nvidia dethroned Apple as the world's most valuable company on Friday..." reports Reuters, "powered by insatiable demand for its specialized artificial intelligence chips."Nvidia's stock market value briefly touched $3.53 trillion, slightly above Apple's $3.52 trillion, LSEG data showed... In June, Nvidia briefly became the world's most valuable company before it was overtaken by Microsoft and Apple. The tech trio's market capitalizations have been neck-and-neck for several months. [Friday] Mic
  
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• Did Capturing Carbon from the Air Just Get Easier?

  27-10-2024 02:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  "We passed Berkeley air — just outdoor air — into the material to see how it would perform," says U.C. Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi, "and it was beautiful.
  "It cleaned the air entirely of CO2," Yaghi says in an announcement from the university. "Everything."
  SFGate calls it "a discovery that could help potentially mitigate the effects of climate change..."Yaghi's lab has worked on carbon capture since the 1990s and began work on these crystalline structures in 2005. The in
  
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• One Argument Why Data Caps Are Not a Problem

  27-10-2024 00:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  NoWayNoShapeNoForm writes: OpenVault believes that data caps on broadband are not a problem because most people do not exceed their existing data caps. OpenVault contends that people that do exceed their broadband data caps are simply being forgetful — leaving a streaming device on 24x7, or deploying unsecure WiFi access points, or reselling their service within an apartment building. Yes, there may be some ISPs that have older networks that they have not upgraded. Or maybe they are unable
  
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