The antidote to Zombie Projects that drain productivity is AI oversight

How Zombie Projects are draining productivity and how AI can help.

‘10,000 times faster than a human scientist’ — New AI tool designed ultra-efficient heat-to-electricity generators at lightning speed, a breakthrough that could slash the cost of energy harvesters and help enable cheaper, high-performance home heat pumps

New AI-designed thermoelectric generators reach 9.3% efficiency and could make waste heat easier to harvest.

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Acer ProCreator PE320QXT review: This 6K touchscreen monitor is aggressively priced, but I’d still swap the touch capabilities for an even cheaper display

Acer’s unique 6K touchscreen monitor is remarkably good value, but not flawless.

‘The future of the CH-47 Chinook’: See the legendary twin rotor morph into a massive drone-swarming mothership

The Chinook’s payload capacity and upgrades support drone deployment concepts, though technical constraints remain.
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‘The death of Top Gun’ — Ukraine becomes the first to scale remotely operated interceptors that can score aerial kills from “thousands of kilometers” away while staying in bunkers as era of pilotless dogfighting and zero crew casualties takes to the sky

Ukraine demonstrates interceptor drones controlled from distant bunkers capable of destroying aerial targets far beyond traditional engagement ranges.
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‘The world’s largest untapped frontier’: NASA-led startup is replacing $100k-a-day ships with ‘AI-infused’ autonomous robots

Bubble Robotics proposes autonomous ocean robots to replace costly offshore vessels, aiming to reduce risks, cut costs, and enable continuous operations.
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Ulefone Armor Pad 5 Ultra review: A beast of a rugged tablet with the weight to prove it built for punishing environments and DLP projector to boot

The Ulefone Armor Pad 5 Ultra is a truly rugged tablet design with plenty of power, memory storage and even a DLP projector.
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‘Near-unlimited AI coding for $50’: Mini PC bundle gives programmers up to 288,000 prompts over 90 days

GMKtec’s bundle offers large-scale AI coding access with mini PCs, though usage limits and activation delays may affect real usability.
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Neurodivergent teacher uses dyscalculia “superpower” to recreate full-scale, whale-sized replica of world’s first programmable digital computer — 21st-century ENIAC used almost 3,000 sq ft of cardboard and NASA’s Artemis II may be his next big challenge

Arizona students construct full-scale ENIAC replica, turning classroom into a whale-sized tribute to early computing history.
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‘Unfortunately, it needs to be said: Do not send a text to confirm you are human’: Experts reveal how fake CAPTCHAs are driving a global SMS scam campaign

CAPTCHAs asking you to send an SMS are actually a scam that can cost you big time.

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