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upstart writes:Bank accidentally deposits $176 million into people's accounts on Christmas Day:

What skills do you have and take for granted but can recommend somebody give a try? Not everybody here is a greybeard with decades of experience behind them. What do you wish you had mastered earlier on in your own careers? Here are some that others have suggested:How to Add Safe Mode to the Boot Menu in Windows 11upstart writes:How to add Safe Mode to the boot menu in Windows 11:

upstart writes:Flexible tentaclelike robotic manipulators inspired by nature:

upstart writes:Ski Lift Design Does The Impossible | Hackaday:

upstart writes:2022 is 'Soylent Green' year. Here's why you shouldn't worry.:

takyon writes:White House commits to ISS extension

upstart writes:A bicycle riser bar made from jute fibre reinforced polymer composite materials:

End of the Line Finally Coming for BlackBerry Devicesupstart writes:End of the line finally coming for BlackBerry devices:

canopic jug writes:As the new year starts, Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain reminds us that works from 1926 ascend to public domain, and become available for use by any and all in any manner they may wish. There is also a lot of recorded music starting to enter the public domain, as an estimated 400,000 sound recordings from before 1923 hit the scene. Most of them music recordings are salvaged from very fragile 78 RPM platters using multiple methods.

upstart writes:Tesla is recalling over 475,000 Model 3 and Model S vehicles:

upstart writes:Plans To Capture Co2 From Coal Plants Wasted Federal Dollars, Watchdog Says - The Verge:

takyon writes:Year 2021 in review – Top 10 posts and statistics

upstart writes:CES 2022 attendees scale back plans but keep plane tickets as Lenovo, T-Mobile, Twitter and Meta back out:

upstart writes:Elon Musk rejects claims his satellites are squeezing out rivals in space:

upstart writes:Researchers offer future 6G network concept:

upstart writes:Drone flight trials in Poland bring EU-wide urban air mobility a step closer:

upstart writes:China's Xi'an lockdown hits some of the world's largest chipmakers:

upstart writes:Mexico's central bank to launch digital currency by 2024:

upstart writes:University Loses Valuable Supercomputer Research After Backup Error Wipes 77 Terabytes of Data:

Happy New Year!

upstart writes:For mammals, eating other animals can increase cancer risk:

upstart writes:China upset about needing to dodge SpaceX Starlink satellites:

upstart writes:Intel to invest $7.1B in Malaysia chipmaking expansion:

upstart writes:Why you should consider purchasing refurbished over new electronics:

takyon writes:Optical Chip Promises 350x Speedup Over RTX 3080 in Some Algorithms

takyon writes:Apple ditched Intel, and it paid off

upstart writes:Mapping the musical mind: Interesting patterns of brain activity emerge during musical analysis exercises:

upstart writes:A virtual reality simulator to train surgeons for skull-base procedures:

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upstart writes:RedLine malware shows why passwords shouldn't be saved in browsers:

upstart writes:Vikings may have fled Greenland to escape rising seas:

upstart writes:India unveils $10.2B plan to attract semiconductor makers:

owl writes:https://www.os2museum.com/wp/first-dual-channel-ide/The OS/2 Museum recently came into possession of what may be the first adapter with support for two IDE channels... sort of:The adapter was made by Plus Development Corporation, a subsidiary of the disk maker Quantum. This particular specimen was manufactured in 1989, though its BIOS has a 1988 copyright.The adapter is quite obscure for something made by a well known company. I could not find any information about it whatsoever. The only public reference to its existence is its FCC ID, EU95T8IMPULSE80-2 (note that Plus Impulse was a brand name under which some Quantum drives were sold). The FCC application is from March 17, 1989, and it mentions a "hard disk controller card for internal & external hard disk drives".Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Rich writes:The holiday season has brought us major releases of three lighthouse projects of the Free Software world:Krita has reached version 5.0 on the 23rd: https://krita.org/en/item/krita-5-0-released/Blender already got to version 3.0 on the 3rd: https://www.blender.org/press/blender-3-0-a-new-era-for-content-creation/and KiCAD hit 6.0 on the 25th: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2021/12/KiCad-6.0.0-Release/The upgrades are significant, and these three applications already rule their domains at the entry level. How much further will they go?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Scientists draw inspiration from catchweed to create biodegradable Velcro:

fliptop writes:Lasers have been demonstrated to be capable of all kinds of attacks, from breaking into a smart home to non-line-of-sight imaging. Researchers at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Technical University of Braunschweig, and the Technical University of Berlin demonstrated that physically isolated (air-gapped) computer systems can be hacked using a directed laser:

upstart writes:Alexa tells 10-year-old girl to touch live plug with penny:

upstart writes:Coffee's health benefits aren't as straightforward as they seem:

upstart writes:Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo grew by 46% in 2021:

upstart writes:Riot Games agrees to pay $100 million in settlement of class-action gender discrimination suit:

Archbishop Desmond Tutu Dies at 90upstart writes:Archbishop Desmond Tutu dies at 90:

upstart writes:Black Holes of All Shapes and Sizes in Largest Catalog of Gravitational Wave Events Ever Assembled:

upstart writes:CDC cuts isolation, quarantine time for health workers as omicron cases surge:

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upstart writes:These fish work together by the hundreds of thousands to make waves:

upstart writes:"Doomsday Glacier" Threat: Rapid Retreat of Antarctica's Riskiest Glacier:

takyon writes:Russian-Made Elbrus CPUs Fail Trials, 'A Completely Unacceptable Platform'

upstart writes:Stress Ball Morphogenesis: Humble Lizards Offer Surprising Approach to Engineering Artificial Lungs:

mrpg writes:https://hakaimagazine.com/news/the-future-is-full-of-zombie-garbage/