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upstart writes:SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites into orbit:

upstart writes:COP26 climate deal includes historic reference to fossil fuels but doesn't meet urgency of the crisis:

upstart writes:Humans hastened the extinction of the woolly mammoth:

mhajicek writes:Zero Motorcycles announced their groundbreaking new battery "technology", in which they sell you a large capacity battery in a motorcycle with powerful motors and advanced traction control systems, and then lock all that away behind a software paywall that you can unlock (for a fee) in their app.https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/zero-motorcycles-2022-battery-paid-upgrades/Zero is not the first vehicle company to do this sort of thing. Notably, Tesla sells vehicles with capabilities that can be unlocked via software "upgrades". This strategy is also common in the CNC machine tool industry; it's long frustrated machinists that they can buy a machine with all the hardware, but then have a sizable portion of memory, advanced motion smoothing, and other functions locked behind activation keys, which often cost several thousand dollars. In that industry at least, if you know the right people and have a machine with a common control, you can get what you need to unlock it through other sources.I anticipate a similar approach in the vehicle market, which has long sold "tuner" chips and has a great deal of modding enthusiasts.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIJiXNzpRMYOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:Where *Isn't* Planet 9? Search for Planet Nine still continues

upstart writes:Not how big, how longDon't miss the longest partial lunar eclipse of the century next week:

upstart writes:Surprising findings on how salt affects blood flow in the brain:

canopic jug writes:Software analyst Geoff Chappell was the expert hired by Caldera to dig into the infamous AARD code. Recently he made a review of the discovery, publication, earlier work, personal work, and scale of effort involved in analyzing the AARD code, from a historical perpective. He doesn't adress the ethical or political repercussions of the code. However, being a principal in the analysis, he is able to set the record straight on some technical and legal facts.The AARD code is from back when MS Windows was still just a graphical shell on top of a text-based disk operating system (DOS) and existed briefly as some XOR-encrypted, self-modifying, deliberately obfuscated machine code and using a variety of undocumented DOS structures and functions. The purpose of the code was to detect competing DOSes, specifically, the then popular DR-DOS, and throw up an unnecessary warning when detected.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/intestinal-parasites-burrowed-into-mans-brain-and-lived-there-for-years/

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upstart writes:How do we learn to learn? New research offers an education: Study on mice reveals importance of ignoring distraction while learning:

upstart writes:DOJ sues Uber for allegedly discriminating against passengers with disabilities:

takyon writes:Seagate Demonstrates HDD with PCIe NVMe Interface

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upstart writes:NASA solar probe 'touched the sun' but is enduring dangerous plasma explosions:

upstart writes:TSMC and Sony officially create partnership to build $7 billion fab in Japan:

Phoenix666 writes:New Atlas:

DannyB writes:Last of original SCO v IBM Linux lawsuit settled

takyon writes:Google Makes Some Major Changes To Summer of Code 2022 - No Longer Limited To Students

upstart writes:Archaeologists discover ancient 'hangover prevention' ring:

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DannyB writes:(Deliberately keeping summary politically neutral. There will be plenty of blame to go around if this goes anywhere.)House Energy and Commerce Committee Unveil Comprehensive Strategy to Establish a National Privacy Standard:

upstart writes:Can't find your keys? You need a chickadee brain: Scientists identify a link between spatial memory and genes in a bird:

upstart writes:NASA's stalwart Mars helicopter is back and better than ever:

Judge Denies Apple's Request for a Stay After Epic Trialupstart writes:Judge denies Apple's request for a stay after Epic trial:

Freeman writes:Google sends anti-regulation propaganda to small businesses using Google Maps:

upstart writes:Anxiety effectively treated with exercise:

DannyB writes:Tuvalu looking at legal ways to be a state if it is submerged:

upstart writes:Robinhood Trading Platform Data Breach Hits 7M Customers:

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upstart writes:Multiple BusyBox Security Bugs Threaten Embedded Linux Devices:

upstart writes:Once mighty conglomerate GE to split into three units:

takyon writes:Samsung Announces LPDDR5X DRAM for Smartphones; 1.3x Faster Than LPDDR5 With Speeds up to 8.5Gbps

upstart writes:Bedtime linked with heart health:

DannyB writes:Ferocious 'penis worms' were the hermit crabs of the ancient seas:

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takyon writes:AMD has announced its "Milan-X" Epyc CPUs, which reuse the same Zen 3 chiplets found in "Milan" Epyc CPUs with up to 64 cores, but with triple the L3 cache using stacked "3D V-Cache" technology designed in partnership with TSMC. This means that some Epyc CPUs will go from having 256 MiB of L3 cache to a whopping 768 MiB (804 MiB of cache when including L1 and L2 cache). 2-socket servers using Milan-X can have over 1.5 gigabytes of L3 cache. The huge amount of additional cache results in average performance gains in "targeted workloads" of around 50% according to AMD. Microsoft found an 80% improvement in some workloads (e.g. computational fluid dynamics) due to the increase in effective memory bandwidth.AMD's next-generation of Instinct high-performance computing GPUs will use a multi-chip module (MCM) design, essentially chiplets for GPUs. The Instinct MI250X includes two "CDNA 2" dies for a total of 220 compute units, compared to 120 compute units for the previous MI100 monolithic GPU. Performance is roughly doubled (FP32 Vector/Matrix, FP16 Matrix, INT8 Matrix), quadrupled (FP64 Vector), or octupled (FP64 Matrix). VRAM has been quadrupled to 128 GB of High Bandwidth Memory. Power consumption of the world's first MCM GPU will be high, as it has a 560 Watt TDP.The Frontier exascale supercomputer will use both Epyc CPUs and Instinct MI200 GPUs.AMD officially confirmed that upcoming Zen 4 "Genoa" Epyc CPUs made on a TSMC "5nm" node will have up to 96 cores. AMD also announced "Bergamo", a 128-core "Zen 4c" Epyc variant, with the 'c' indicating "cloud-optimized". This is a denser, more power-efficient version of Zen 4 with a smaller cache. According to a recent leak, Zen 4c chiplets will have 16 cores instead of 8, will retain hyperthreading, and will be used in future Zen 5 Ryzen desktop CPUs as AMD's answer to Intel's Alder Lake heterogeneous ("big.LITTLE") x86 microarchitecture.Also at Tom's Hardware (Milan-X).Previously: AMD Reveals 'Instinct' for Machine Intelligence

upstart writes:Drinking linked to a decline in brain health from cradle to grave: Harm prevention policies must take the long view, say experts:

upstart writes:New glue sticks easily, holds strongly, and is a gas to pull apart: Research expands number of temporary adhesives:

JoeMerchant writes:Quantum Brilliance was founded in 2019 on the back of research undertaken by its founders at the Australian National University, where they developed techniques to manufacture, scale and control qubits embedded in synthetic diamond.The company has already built a number of "Quantum development kits" in rack units, each with around 5 qubits to work with, and it's placing them with customers already, for benchmarking, integration, co-design opportunities and to let companies start working out where they'll be advantageous once they hit the market in a ~50-qubit "Quantum Accelerator" product form by around 2025. "We think over a decade," says Luo, "we can even produce a quantum system-on-a-chip for mobile devices. Because this is truly material science technology that can achieve that." From their whitepaper, the technical description of their technique is:

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upstart writes:Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled 'Asteroids' arcade game:

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upstart writes:How space solar panels could power the Earth with 24/7 clean energy:

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takyon writes:Astronomy and Astrophysics Decadal Survey

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