This week Amazon announced that “Approximately 1,500 local Amazon employees will operate and work with innovative robotics technology” at a new fulfillment center that’s a first of its kind for…

“Tesla has launched a new virtual power plant in partnership with PG&E in California that will pay Powerwalls owners to help stabilize the electric grid and end brownouts in California,”…

The Guardian reports on the “world’s first production-ready solar car”, a streamlined and energy-efficient sedan-style vehicle covered with curved solar panels called “the Lightyear 0.” The Dutch company Lightyear hopes…

Here’s an announcement from lawfirm DiCello Levitt Gutzler. This week a U.S. District court “granted preliminary approval of a $90 million settlement” with Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, “to resolve…

Last week a headline in the Los Angeles Times proclaimed “Look! Up in the sky! It’s an air taxi. They’re coming to Los Angeles.” Even the British newspaper the Times…

Esquire celebrates the 40th anniversary of the movie Blade Runner: Based on Philip K. Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, Scott’s film created a world so rich,…

“In late 2021, operators of the European Space Agency’s Swarm constellation noticed something worrying,” reports Space.com. “The satellites, which measure the magnetic field around Earth, started sinking toward the atmosphere…

“China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint…

Sir Tim Berners-Lee “is skeptical about a blockchain-based internet,” reports the Next Web. Instead, they describe his new vision as “a decentralized architecture that gives users control of their data”…

Long-time Slashdot reader Artem S. Tashkinov shares a blog post from indie game programmer who complains “The special upload tool I had to use today was a total of 230MB…