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New App Alerts You If Someone Nearby Is Wearing Smart Glasses - Slashdot
March 5, 2026 at 9:35:52 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Android app called Nearby Glasses alerts users when Bluetooth signals from smart glasses are detected nearby. The Android app, called Nearby Glasses, "launches at a time as there is an increasing resistance against always-recording or listening devices
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/03/03/2343215/new-app-alerts-you-if-someone-nearby-is-wearing-smart-glasses
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The US Spent $30 Billion on Classroom Laptops and Got the First Generation Less Capable Than Its Parents - Slashdot
February 25, 2026 at 8:46:39 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to score lower on standardized tests than the one before it
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/1751207/the-us-spent-30-billion-on-classroom-laptops-and-got-the-first-generation-less-capable-than-its-parents
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PILK #3 | Facebook is absolutely cooked
February 20, 2026 at 9:07:55 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -Facebook is absolutely cooked
And I don't just mean that nobody uses it anymore
- https://pilk.website/3/facebook-is-absolutely-cooked
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Age Bias is Still the Default at Work But the Data is Turning - Slashdot
February 10, 2026 at 8:21:35 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -"putting peak overall functioning between ages 55 and 60" - kann das sein?
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/09/1413223/age-bias-is-still-the-default-at-work-but-the-data-is-turning
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Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.
February 3, 2026 at 8:18:21 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -This article by a former NASA engineer and Google veteran argues that building datacenters in space is a terrible idea due to challenges with power, thermal regulation, radiation tolerance, and communication
- https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/
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'America Is Slow-Walking Into a Polymarket Disaster' - Slashdot
January 23, 2026 at 8:10:06 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -"...a future where news coverage amplifies manipulable betting odds and turns politics, geopolitics, and even tragedy into speculative gambling theater"
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/22/006212/america-is-slow-walking-into-a-polymarket-disaster
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Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth? - Slashdot
January 19, 2026 at 7:03:21 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Is the Possibility of Conscious AI a Dangerous Myth?
- https://slashdot.org/story/26/01/19/0539218/is-the-possibility-of-conscious-ai-a-dangerous-myth
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Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions - Slashdot
January 16, 2026 at 8:41:43 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/15/1754223/microsoft-is-closing-its-employee-library-and-cutting-back-on-subscriptions
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Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public - Slashdot
January 15, 2026 at 8:45:19 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/01/14/233241/digg-launches-its-new-reddit-rival-to-the-public
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US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children - Yahoo News Canada
January 14, 2026 at 8:30:06 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children
- https://ca.news.yahoo.com/us-teachers-union-says-leaving-224303361.html
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‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography | The Guardian
December 27, 2025 at 11:43:27 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -‘The sight of it is still shocking’: 46 photos that tell the story of the century so far | Photography | The Guardian
- https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/dec/27/the-sight-of-it-is-still-shocking-46-photos-that-tell-the-story-of-the-century-so-far
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Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop' - Slashdot
December 17, 2025 at 8:42:23 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Merriam-Webster's 2025 Word of the Year Is 'Slop'
- https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/15/2133250/merriam-websters-2025-word-of-the-year-is-slop
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EyeEm is Shutting Down | PetaPixel
December 16, 2025 at 6:56:11 PM GMT+1 * - permalink -“The collapse of the brand is a full 180 from what was once a thriving stock site, tech startup, and social media darling,” PetaPixel reported at the time. “The company was founded in 2011 — only a year after Instagram — and was often talked about in the same breath
- https://petapixel.com/2025/12/11/eyeem-is-shutting-down/
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Molecular effects of indoor tanning | Science Advances
December 14, 2025 at 9:18:57 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -Study is first to show how tanning beds mutate skin cells far beyond the reach of ordinary sunlight. This new study “irrefutably” challenges claims that tanning beds are no more harmful than sunlight
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4878
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Light teleported between buildings in quantum internet breakthrough - theFreesheet
December 3, 2025 at 6:46:06 AM GMT+1 * - permalink -A quantum internet is no longer just theory after scientists successfully teleported the polarisation state of a photon between two completely different quantum dots located in separate buildings
- https://thefreesheet.com/2025/12/02/light-teleported-between-buildings-in-quantum-internet-breakthrough/
