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'Did Anything Good Happen in 2024? Actually, Yes!'
The Washington Post shares some good news from 2024:
Researchers were able to detect a significant dip in atmospheric levels of hydrochlorofluorocarbons — harmful gases that deplete the ozone layer — for the first time, almost 30 years after countries first agreed to phase out the chemi...
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Electric Air Taxis are Taking Flight. Can They Succeed as a Business?
An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:
Archer is aiming to launch its first commercially operated [and electrically-powered] flights with a pilot and passengers within a year in Abu Dhabi. A competitor, Joby Aviation, says it is aiming to launch passenger service in Dubai...
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Anger at Health Insurance Prompts the Public to Fund a 9-Year-Old's Bionic Arm
A 9-year-old girl born without a left hand had "started asking for a robotic arm to help her feel more confident," her mother told the Washington Post. So her parents met with a consultant from Open Bionics, which fits people with lightweight, 3D-printed prostheses that function more like a natural ...
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Python in 2024: Faster, More Powerful, and More Popular Than Ever
"Over the course of 2024, Python has proven again and again why it's one of the most popular, useful, and promising programming languages out there," writes InfoWorld:
The latest version of the language pushes the envelope further for speed and power, sheds many of Python's most decrepit elements, ...
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How a Retrocomputing Enthusiast Got a 30-Year-Old Clamshell Computer Online
It had a 4.8-inch display. Introduced in 1991, Hewlett-Packard's (DOS-based) HP 95LX Palmtop PC — a collaboration with Lotus — was finally discontinued back in 2003.
But one found its way to long-time Slashdot reader Shayde (who in November repaired a 48-year-old handheld videogame con...
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