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upstart writes:The metaverse has a groping problem already:

upstart writes:Inside the brand new royal suite at Sweden's ice hotel:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/focusing-sound-vibrations-precisely-can-knock-over-one-lego-minifig-among-many/

upstart writes:The Log4j security flaw could impact the entire internet. Here's what you should know:

upstart writes:Making apple spirits taste better:

upstart writes:Perseverance Mars rover makes surprising discoveries:

takyon writes:ExoMars discovers hidden water in Mars' Grand Canyon

takyon writes:Startup Showcases 7 bits-per-cell Flash Storage with 10 Year Retention

upstart writes:Size doesn't matter: Rock composition determines how deadly a meteorite impact is: The minerology of the rocks that a meteorite hits, rather than the size of the impact, determines how deadly an impact it will have:

oaklandwatch writes:It's a newspaper puzzle that's like Sudoku, except it's impossible... They call it "The Challenger" puzzle — but when the newspaper leaves out a crucial instruction, you can end up searching forever for a unique solution which doesn't exist!"If you're thinking 'This could be a 9 or an 8....' — you're right!" complains Lou Cabron. "Everyone's a winner today! Just start scribbling in numbers! And you'd be a fool to try to keep narrowing them down by, say, using your math and logic skills. A fool like me..." (A fool who once solved a Sudoku puzzle entirely in his head.) But two hours of frustration later — and one night of bad dreams — he's stumbled onto the web page of Dr. Robert J. Lopez, an emeritus math professor in Indiana, who's calculated that in fact Challenge puzzles can have up to 190 solutions... and in fact, there's more than one solution for more than 97 of them!At the end of the day, it becomes an appreciation for the local newspaper, and the puzzles they run next to the funnies. But with a friendly reminder "that they ought to honor and respect that love — by always providing the complete instructions."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:SK Hynix to Manufacture 48 GiB and 96 GiB DDR5 Modules

owl writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/atari-2600

upstart writes:Finally, a Fusion Reaction Has Generated More Energy Than Absorbed by The Fuel:

upstart writes:Book Publishers Sue Maryland Over Law That Would Require Them To Offer 'Reasonable' Prices On Ebooks To Libraries:

upstart writes:Kronos ransomware attack may cause weeks of HR solutions downtime:

upstart writes:"The Google Earth of Biology" – Visually Stunning Tree of All Known Life Unveiled Online:

upstart writes:What is a NFT - Non fungible token?. And if that doesn't help try this for a less headache-inducing explanation.'Bored Ape' NFT worth $284,495 accidentally sells for just $2,844:

upstart writes:Personality Traits Predict Performance Differently Across Different Jobs:

upstart writes:When the brain switches from hearing to listening:

upstart writes:Debilitating human parasite transmitted via dogs eating fish:

Trade magazine AVI and other sources are running this press release from Mercedes: Mercedes meets legal requirements for L3 driving on German roads:

upstart writes:Mini-jet found near Milky Way's supermassive black hole:

upstart writes:Breakthrough AI Technique Enables Real-Time Rendering of Scenes in 3D From 2D Images:

driverless writes:Looks like Germany is about to force ISPs to actually deliver the speeds they promise in their advertising:

takyon writes:New IBM and Samsung transistors could be key to super-efficient chips (updated)

DannyB writes:With further delays to BE-4 rocket engine, Vulcan may not make 2022 debut

owl writes: Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start

upstart writes:New copper surface eliminates bacteria in just two minutes, scientists report:

upstart writes:Disrupting Spycraft: Always-On Surveillance Is Prompting Massive Changes In Covert Operations:

upstart writes:Study shows critical need to reduce use of road salt in winter, suggests best practices:

upstart writes:Dinosaurs' last spring: Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact: Groundbreaking study confirms time of year when asteroid wiped out dinosaurs and 75 percent of life on Earth:

upstart writes:Elon Musk named Time Person of the Year:

upstart writes:Malicious NPM packages are part of a malware "barrage" hitting repositories:

upstart writes:Intel Unveils Plan to 'Propel Moore's Law Beyond 2025':

upstart writes:Researchers develop advanced catalysts for clean hydrogen production:

takyon writes:Mexico joins Artemis Accords

upstart writes:Melatonin Exacerbates Asthma Discovers Research Group:

upstart writes:Apple's 'Do Not Track' Button Is Privacy Theater:

upstart writes:Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening:

upstart writes:"Newer, nimbler, faster:" Venus probe will search for signs of life in clouds of sulfuric acid:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2021/08/reverse-engineering-vintage-power.html

upstart writes:The hand-cranked calculator invented by a Nazi concentration camp prisoner:

[ED NOTE: Editors discussed whether we should even run this story. I decided to take a chance. BUT, it's up to the community how this goes. Feel free to downmod comments that attack the *commenter* rather than *add* something to the discussion.--martyb]gznork26 writes:Growing extremism can and has turned almost anything into a political struggle in which people pay diminishing attention to the topics and more to the 'tribal' group that they may be associated with. We've seen the effects on the functioning on the US congress, as well as in how laws on various topics have been playing out lately.But the idea that without a center, things fall apart, may be more real than we thought, as this article at ScienceBlog about a Cornell study describes: https://scienceblog.com/527200/tipping-point-makes-partisan-polarization-irreversible/It seems that up to a point, it is possible to reverse the polarization. Beyond that tipping point, it cannot. From what I've seen, the US is probably in the vicinity of that tipping point. The pattern described here sounds an awful lot like the period-doubling path to chaos, a mathematical construct in which a function that has a single stable state in one range of numbers starts developing two stable states, and then four, until stability is lost and the set devolves into chaos. If this reflection has any validity in the political or social realms, then we should also have seen the same pattern play out within discussions that turn to chaos.Is there predictive power in this observation by the researchers at Cornell? If so, can anything be done to head it off, or are we all doomed to watch it play out?Journal Reference:

upstart writes:At least 100 feared dead after tornadoes devastate six US states:

upstart writes:Government to push for international ban of autonomous weapons, or killer robots:

upstart writes:Water's ultimate freezing point just got lower:

'The Internet is on Fire'upstart writes:'The Internet Is on Fire':

upstart writes:FAA to end commercial astronaut wings program - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:watching the grass grow and how 19th century scientists were rightScientists solve the grass leaf conundrum:

upstart writes:Forbes accidentally exposed '30 Under 30' winners' private info, honoree finds: