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China Launches 'Fujian,' its Most Advanced Aircraft Carrierupstart writes:China launches 'Fujian,' its most advanced aircraft carrier:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:Inspired by palm trees, scientists develop hurricane-resilient wind turbines:

upstart writes:Researchers design cheap plastic processor that could usher in the age of truly ubiquitous electronics:

upstart writes:Bats are one of the most misunderstood mammals:

upstart writes:Fastest-growing black hole of past 9 billion years discovered in bright constellation of Centaurus - ABC News:

CrypticNerd writes:https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2022/06/08/4g-antenna-suspected-of-disturbing-herd-of-cows-in-haute-loire-to-be-shut-down_5986020_114.html[...] "I can see from my tractor that they are all skin and bones. It's enough to make you cry." On the other side of the small road that winds along his property, a short distance from the town of Mazeyrat-d'Allier, in the Haute-Loire department, Frédéric Salgues can spot what he considers to be the cause of his cows' problems, less than 300 meters away: a cell phone tower commissioned by Orange on June 28, 2021.[...] On May 23, the administrative court of Clermont-Ferrand ordered the 4G antenna's cessation of operation for a period of two months.This measure, unprecedented in France, should become effective within three months. The objective is to carry out an expert assessment in order to "establish a potential causal link between the behavior of the cattle and this antenna." The administrative court highlights "a significant drop in the quality and quantity of milk produced, a serious disruption in the behavior of the herd and its voluntary denutrition and abnormally high deaths.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Protecting Against Browser-Language Fingerprinting:

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upstart writes:Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer to Unlock a Quintillion Ops:

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upstart writes:The propellant leak and ensuing investigation has resulted in a one-month delay to the CRS-25 cargo mission:

upstart writes:TSMC's Arizona Fab Construction Emerges at Breakneck Speed:

upstart writes:Activist group called for Happy's release from New York zoo, calling her cognitively complex and autonomous:

upstart writes:A toxic chemical used in hair products for black women fuels breast cancer, study finds:

hubie writes:Astronomers may have discovered the first free-floating black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a technique called gravitational microlensing:

upstart writes:Double-layered catalyst generates more hydrogen:

upstart writes:Microsoft ends Internet Explorer support in Windows 10 tomorrow:

Andrey_Karpov writes:I wrote an "anti-article". I always write about how to perfect C++ code. But this time I'm on the dark side. So, here are "50 terrible coding tips for a C++ developer". Be careful — there's evil in there. I warned you :).However, some developers may disagree that all these tips are terrible. Therefore, I wrote an overview of the most ambiguous tips in advance. I think everyone has a teammate who should read all this :).Enjoy![Ed's comment - this is a light-hearted view of coding in C++. The thing is, many of us will have seen code like this.... Share your own memories.]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Private space company Momentus had previously warned that "challenges" were to be expected during this inaugural mission:

upstart writes:Approach is designed to slow starch digestion to avoid blood sugar spikes:

upstart writes:Samples from the Moon's Oceanus Procellarum may be able to help determine the source of lunar water:

fliptop writes:Leaders today must be ready to take a stand on thorny social and political issues. A case study by Nien-hê Hsieh and Henry McGee examines how Apple CEO Tim Cook turned calls for data access into a rallying cry for privacy, and the complexities that followed:

upstart writes:"Downthem" DDoS-for-Hire Boss Gets 2 Years in Prison:

upstart writes:How plants' threat-detection mechanisms raise the alarm:

hubie writes:Saving Kids From Dangerous Infections – With An Amoeba:

upstart writes:The Weird World Of Liquid Cooling For Datacenters:When it comes to high-performance desktop PCs, particularly in the world of gaming, water cooling is popular and effective. However, in the world of datacenters, servers rely on traditional air cooling more often than not, in combination with huge AC systems that keep server rooms at the appropriate temperature. However, datacenters can use water cooling, too! It just doesn’t always look quite how you’d expect.Cooling is of crucial importance to datacenters. Letting hardware get too hot increases failure rates and can even impact service availability. It also uses a huge amount of energy, with cooling accounting for up to 40% of energy use in the average datacenter. This flows into running costs, as well, as energy doesn’t come cheap.Thus, any efficiency gains in cooling a datacenter can have a multitude of benefits. Outside of just improving reliability and cutting down on emissions through lower energy use, there are benefits to density, too. The more effective cooling available, the more servers and processing power that can be stuffed in a given footprint without running into overheating issues.Water and liquid cooling techniques can potentially offer a step change in performance relative to traditional air cooling. This is due to the fact that air doesn’t have a great heat capacity compared to water or other special liquid coolants. It’s much easier to transfer a great quantity of heat into a liquid. In some jurisdictions, there is even talk of using the waste heat from datacenters to provide district heating, which is much easier with a source of hot liquid carrying waste heat vs. hot air.However, liquid cooling comes with drawbacks, too. Leaks can damage electronics if not properly managed, and such systems typically come with added complexity versus running simple fans and air conditioning systems. Naturally, that improved cooling performance comes at a trade-off, else it would be the norm already.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Linux Malware Deemed 'Nearly Impossible' to Detect:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/google-to-pay-118-million-after-being-accused-of-underpaying-15500-women/

upstart writes:Japanese craftsmanship improves fiber quality, as company plans Europe sales:

upstart writes:Hopes melanoma breakthrough could save Scientists working on 'heat-seeking missile' to destroy deadly skin cancers:

takyon writes:FAA environmental review to allow Starship orbital launches after changes

upstart writes:Lilium achieves main wing transition on its Phoenix 2 eVTOL aircraft:

Crocodile-faced Dinosaur May Have Been Europe's Largest Ever Predatorupstart writes:Crocodile-faced dinosaur may have been Europe's largest ever predator:

hubie writes:Hydrogen Peroxide E-Bandages Treat Wound Infections:

Google Engineer Suspended After Claiming AI Bot SentientFrosty Piss writes:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoineA Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has been suspended with pay from his workGoogle placed Blake Lemoine on leave last week after he published transcripts of conversations between himself, a Google "collaborator", and the company's LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) chatbot development system. He said LaMDA engaged him in conversations about rights and personhood, and Lemoine shared his findings with company executives in April in a GoogleDoc entitled "Is LaMDA sentient?"The decision to place Lemoine, a seven-year Google veteran with extensive experience in personalization algorithms, on paid leave was made following a number of "aggressive" moves the engineer reportedly made? Including seeking to hire an attorney to represent LaMDA, the newspaper says, and talking to representatives from the House judiciary committee about Google's allegedly unethical activities.Google said it suspended Lemoine for breaching confidentiality policies by publishing the conversations with LaMDA online, and said in a statement that he was employed as a software engineer, not an ethicist. Brad Gabriel, a Google spokesperson, also strongly denied Lemoine's claims that LaMDA possessed any sentient capability.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Orit Hazzan (a professor in the Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology) and Koby Mike (a Ph.D student) make the case that machine learning guides learners to ignore the application domain even when it is relevant for the modeling phase of data science:

upstart writes:The skin can realistically bend, stretch, and wrinkle as the finger curls and extends:

takyon writes:Astra launch fails on first TROPICS flight for NASA

DannyB writes:BBC: UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable

upstart writes:NASA's plan to get Ingenuity through the Martian winter:

upstart writes:Japan asteroid probe finds 23 amino acids, researchers confirm:

hubie writes:Soylent readers, you'll need to click through to TFA to see the illusion referenced below.An illusion new to science shows that the pupillary light reflex, which controls the width of the pupil in anticipation of expected changes in light, depends on the perceived environment rather than the physical reality:

upstart writes:'Copyright Troll' Has Already Filed Over 1,000 Piracy Lawsuits This Year * TorrentFreak:

upstart writes:Scientists Create Cement Entirely Out of Waste Material:

upstart writes:New Research Shows That Probiotics Can Help Alleviate Depression:

Booga1 writes:According to Car and Driver: 830,000 Teslas with Autopilot under NHTSA Investigation, Recall Possible

upstart writes:A possible relationship between infant infections and the risk of cardiovascular disease has been discovered:

upstart writes:NASA's second mobile launcher is too heavy, years late, and pushing $1 billion:

upstart writes:Quantum computer succeeds where a classical algorithm fails:

hubie writes:Researchers study society's readiness for AI ethical decision making: