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Google and the UK government are looking to remove aircraft contrails using AI
A £5 million trial is examining whether AI can assist in the reduction or removal of contrails from aircraft Contrails appear when the exhaust from aircraft engines hits the cold, high-altitude air, which creates ice crystals Also known as vapour trails, contrails are believed to contribute to climate change Google,…
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350-Ton Longking ZL230E electric mining rig packs colossal 1,400 kWh battery, claims 10-90% charge in just 25 minutes
A 350-ton electric mining truck just rolled off a Chinese production line Zijin Longking ZL230E’s battery holds 1,400 kWh, enough to power dozens of typical homes It charges from 10% to 90% in about 25 minutes Zijin Longking has launched the ZL230E, a pure electric mining truck the company describes…
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Taiwan taps US startup Vatn for modular S12 undersea drones – Washington’s ally turns to cheaper underwater systems
Vatn Systems will help Taiwan build AI-powered undersea drone command systems Neither side has revealed how much money this partnership actually involves Taiwan explores Vatn’s modular S12 drones for its future undersea defense needs Vatn Systems, a United States-based defense technology company, has agreed to explore joint undersea defense projects…
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$16,000 Quad AI Geekom mini PC cluster gets DeepSeek V4 Flash treatment with 512GB RAM — reaches 14.61 tokens per second
Four GEEKOM A9 Mega mini PCs link together through simple USB4 cables Each unit runs on the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 processor chip Combined cluster memory reaches 512GB across all four connected systems Geekom has released the DeepSeek V4 Flash model across four A9 Mega mini PCs, forming a…
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Experts warn expired credit cards can be brought back from the dead to make contactless payments
Researchers show how an expired contactless card can still complete a real purchase because the expiry date the terminal reads is not covered by its signature The attack needs physical possession of the discarded card and two ordinary smartphones, and results vary per bank, with Visa cards being susceptible in…
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No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an ‘obscure’ Windows-only printer
India-based developer Kuber Mehta uses Claude Code to create a macOS driver for the HP Laser 1008a Previously, only the official drivers for Windows and Linux were available for the relatively obscure 2023 laser printer The AI-generated driver was created over a series of meticulous prompts, and is now available…
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