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upstart writes:"Invisibility Cloaks" May Soon Be Real: Creating Invisibility With Superconducting Materials:

upstart writes:Making quantum computers even more powerful:

upstart writes:Dogs know when you're speaking a different language -- and talking nonsense:

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Successfully Unfolds its Massive Mirrorupstart writes:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope successfully unfolds its massive mirror:

upstart writes:PayPal confirms it's exploring the launch of its own stablecoin:

upstart writes:A big failed Russian rocket just came crashing back to Earth out of control:

upstart writes:Turkmenistan's leader wants 'Gates of Hell' fire put out:

owl writes:https://medium.com/@_sdc/how-apple-taught-its-users-to-hate-android-through-subtle-design-cues-518cd7eda80

upstart writes:Magnetic surprise revealed in 'magic-angle' graphene:

owl writes:https://www.os2museum.com/wp/unidentified-pc-dos-1-1-boot-sector-junk-identified/

upstart writes:Drone helps save cardiac arrest patient in Sweden:

upstart writes:Kosovo bans cryptocurrency mining after blackouts:

upstart writes:Volcano erupts on Galapagos island home to endangered iguana:

upstart writes:Verizon will bring ultrafast C-Band 5G to 100 million Americans within weeks:

upstart writes:US regulator rules that Google infringed on Sonos speaker patents:

Giant dying star explodes as scientists watch in real time — a first for astronomyowl writes:https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_a6c9307a6c1df0d4cc9e84ee945f232c

owl writes:The case of the programs that were launched with impossible command line options

upstart writes:Global chip shortage: Samsung expects its profits to jump by 52%:

takyon writes:Apple gets Cydia app store lawsuit dismissed, for now

upstart writes:Coming to a laptop near you: A new type of security chip from Microsoft:

upstart writes:Students Are Learning To Resist Surveillance: Year in Review 2021:

upstart writes:French regulators to fine Google and Facebook combined $235 million for cookie tracking: report:

upstart writes:Chrysler to go all-electric by 2028, starting with the Airflow in 2025:

upstart writes:Report: Meta pulls the plug on its AR/VR operating system ambitions:

upstart writes:Judges to decide whether Assange can appeal against extradition as he reaches 1,000 days in jail:

Apple Becomes First Company to Reach $3 Trillion Market Valueupstart writes:Apple becomes first company to reach $3 trillion market value:

Do You Have a Cold, the Flu or Covid-19? Experts Explain How to Tell the Differenceupstart writes:Do you have a cold, the flu or Covid-19? Experts explain how to tell the difference:

upstart writes:Arctic hunter-gatherers were advanced ironworkers more than 2,000 years ago:

owl writes:How to Grow Green Potassium Ferrioxalate Crystals from Iron Rust:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/new-solar-roof-can-be-nailed-just-like-old-school-shingles/

upstart writes:Uber lets you send anyone an email claiming to be from Uber.com:

upstart writes:Enceladus' plumes might not come from an underground ocean:

takyon writes:Mobileye Announces EyeQ Ultra: A Level 4 Self-Driving System In A Single SoC

[UPDATE: 2022-01-05 20:48:08 UTC]

takyon writes:AMD Rembrandt MobileAMD announced Rembrandt 6000-series mobile processors with Zen 3+ CPU cores and RDNA2 integrated graphics.The 8-core processors (e.g. 45W Ryzen 7 6800H and 15W Ryzen 7 6800U) all have 12 RDNA2 graphics cores (CUs), up from the previous generation Cezanne's 8 Vega graphics cores. This could mean a doubling of graphics performance. On the other hand, the 6-core processors (e.g. 15W Ryzen 7 6600U) slash this in half to only 6 RDNA2 CUs.Rembrandt uses DDR5 or LPDDR5 memory and adds support for 40 Gbps USB4 ports, PCIe Gen 4.0 GPUs and storage, HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2, and AV1 hardware decode.There are also three "Barcelo" models which are refreshes of Cezanne chips (8-core Ryzen 7 5825U, 6-core Ryzen 5 5625U, and 4-core Ryzen 3 5425U).Rembrandt will be one of the first products to integrate Microsoft's "Pluton" security chip.Intel Alder Lake MobileIntel announced Alder Lake-H (high performance) and Alder Lake-U (low power) mobile processors, with a heterogeneous microarchitecture featuring performance (P) and efficiency (E) cores.Alder Lake-H has a "base power" of 45 Watts and a "max turbo power" of 115 Watts. The top i9/i7 chips have 14 cores (6P + 8E). In the middle there is an i7-12650H with 10 cores (6P + 4E) and an i5-12600H and i5-12500H with 12 cores (4P + 8E), so that may lead to some confusion. Finally, there is an i5-12450H with 8 cores (4P + 4E).Alder Lake-U has a "base power" of 15 Watts and a "max turbo power" of 55 Watts. At the top there are a few chips with 10 cores (2P + 8E) and 80 or 96 graphics execution units (EUs). The i3-1215U has 6 cores (2P + 4E) and 64 EUs. Finally there are a Pentium 8505 and Celeron 7305 with 5 cores (1P + 4E) and 48 EUs.More* Intel announced cheaper and lower power Alder Lake desktop CPUs, including CPUs made from a smaller die with no efficiency cores, and the world's fastest dual-core CPU (the Pentium G7400).

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upstart writes:This HPE software update accidentally wiped 77TB of data:We covered this story here University Loses Valuable Supercomputer Research After Backup Error Wipes 77 Terabytes of Data. I, like some others, suspected finger trouble on the part of those doing the backup, but the company writing the sofware have put their hands up and taken responsibility.

upstart writes:Microsoft fixes harebrained Y2K22 Exchange bug that disrupted email worldwide:

upstart writes:Milton Keynes to hold large-scale driverless car trial:

Elizabeth Holmes Found Guilty on 4 of 11 Chargesupstart writes:Elizabeth Holmes found guilty on 4 of 11 charges:

upstart writes:JAPAN AIMS TO PUT A PERSON ON THE MOON BY LATE 2020S:

owl writes:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/future-interoperability-not-big-tech-2021-review

upstart writes:Analysis: A pandemic-scarred year [2021]ends in darkness -- but with hope on the horizon:

upstart writes:Research Shows Intermittent Fasting Works for Weight Loss:

upstart writes:Massive ~2.3k Patch Series Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix "Dependency Hell":

upstart writes:U.S. officials ask AT&T, Verizon to delay 5G wireless over aviation safety concerns:

IDC Estimates Global Desktop Shipments Rose 7% YoY in 2021 After Dropping Sharply in 2020owl and upstart writeIDC estimates global desktop shipments rose 7% YoY in 2021 after dropping sharply in 2020, as some remote workers who started on laptops switched to desktops:

upstart writes:James Webb Space Telescope unfurls massive sunshield in major deployment milestone:

upstart writes:France Has Ordered Clearview AI To Delete Its Facial Recognition Data:

upstart writes:Busting cat-color myths: Your orange tabby isn't dumber than its feline pals: