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Google's DeepMind UK Team Reportedly Seeks to Unionize
"Google's DeepMind UK team reportedly seeks to unionize," reports TechCrunch:
Around 300 London-based members of Google's AI-focused DeepMind team are seeking to unionize with the Communication Workers Union, according to a Financial Times report that cites three people involved with the unioniza...
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Yoda Bloopers Released - and George Lucas Reveals Why Yoda Talks Backwards
80-year-old George Lucas appeared this week at a 45th anniversary screening of The Empire Strikes Back, reports CNN — and finally gave a good explanation for why Yoda speaks the way he does. "He explained that it came about in order to ensure that the little alien's usually profound messages r...
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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems
Some patches for Linux 6.15-rc4 (updating the kernel driver for the Bcachefs file system) triggered some "straight-to-the-point wisdom" from Linus Torvalds about case-insensitive filesystems, reports Phoronix.
Bcachefs developer Kent Overstreet started the conversation, explaining how some buggy p...
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iPad Jammed in Seat Forces Emergency Landing of Airplane Carrying 400 Passengers
An anonymous reader shared this report from Business Insider:
A Lufthansa flight carrying 461 passengers had to divert after someone's tablet became "jammed" in a business-class seat.
The Airbus A380 took off from Los Angeles on Wednesday, bound for Munich, and had been flying for around three ho...
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Can Solar Wind Make Water on the Moon? A NASA Experiment Shows Maybe
"Future moon astronauts may find water more accessible than previously thought," writes Space.com, citing a new NASA-led experiment:
Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like Earth's, the barren lunar surface is constantly bombarded by energetic particles from the sun... Li Hsia Yeo, a planetary...
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