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takyon writes:White House further postpones disclosure of JFK assassination documents, citing Covid

"upstart" writes:Seamless wayfinding by a deafblind adult on an urban college campus: A case study:

looorg writes:Dutch forensic lab says it has decoded Tesla's driving data.A Dutch government forensic lab claims to have decrypted the data generated and stored in the cars made by Tesla. While doing so uncovered a lot more information than they expected, one would assume Tesla logged a lot more information than previously claimed (no surprise there for anyone).

takyon writes:We're closing the gap with Arm and x86, claims SiFive: New RISC-V CPU core for PCs, servers, mobile incoming

upstart writes:Researchers call for armchair astronomers to help find unknown hidden worlds:

upstart writes:How pearls achieve nanoscale precision:

takyon writes:Raspberry Pi 4 2GB gets a price hike to $45, 1GB version coming back for $35

upstart writes:“Largest Meat-Eating Predatory Dinosaur” of Triassic Period, Actually a Timid Vegetarian:

upstart writes:Ocean Cleanup Device Shows It Can Remove Plastic From the Pacific:

upstart writes:CDC panel recommends boosters for many Americans:

upstart writes:Elephants are rapidly evolving without tusks to escape ivory poachers, study finds - ABC News:

upstart writes:from the TMIAHM dept.Mining the moon's water will require a massive infrastructure investment, but should we?:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Trump’s Brand New TRUTH App May Violate Terms Of Open Source Code It’s Built On

JoeMerchant writes:Top FCC Official Calls For Ban of DJI Drones, Citing National Security Risk:

upstart writes:WHO honours Henrietta Lacks, whose cells changed medicine:

upstart writes:China's FAST telescope could detect self-replicating alien probes:

upstart writes:FDA authorizes Moderna, Johnson & Johnson booster shots for many Americans:

canopic jug writes:The New York Times has written about study results published recently in Nature which show rather precisely when Vikings had been living in what is now Canada, specifically at L’Anse aux Meadows.

DannyB writes:Senate directs NASA to choose another company to build a lunar lander:

upstart writes:Nine UK schools start scanning children’s faces to take their lunch money:

The US American Automobile Association ("AAA" — national auto club) has over 60 million members. It recently ran tests on current Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and concluded that heavy rain caused a high rate of errors. https://www.automotivetestingtechnologyinternational.com/news/cavs/aaa-research-reveals-that-heavy-rain-often-defeats-adas-functions.html

looorg writes:Groundbreaking transplant a step toward solving organ shortage.Researchers at NYU Langone have managed to attach a pig kidney to a human and get it to work (for 54 hours).That said a first tiny step perhaps. The process require gene-modified pigs.PETA etc. object, naturally.https://usatoday.com/in-depth/news/health/2021/10/19/pig-kidney-organ-transplant-into-human-milestone-science/5948819001/ [paywalled].Also at The New York Times:

owl draws our attention to the following:https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

upstart writes:More than 99.9% of studies agree: Humans caused climate change:

upstart writes:Tom Morey, inventor of the Boogie Board, dies at 86:

upstart writes:Scientists partially restore vision in legally blind people with the help of CRISPR Gene- Editing - OnePexel:

AnonTechie writes:Alibaba Just Unveiled One of China’s Most Advanced Chips:

owl writes:https://petapixel.com/2021/10/19/traffic-camera-mistakes-woman-for-car-issues-ticket-to-car-owner/

takyon writes:Russ Kick, 'Rogue Transparency Activist,' Is Dead at 52

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upstart writes:Sinclair Confirms Ransomware Attack That Disrupted TV Stations:

upstart writes:Expansion of wind and solar power too slow to stop climate change:

Freeman writes:Lucy’s solar panel hasn’t latched:

mhajicek writes:https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/143

upstart writes:NASA planet-hunting satellite discovers a dying star 'switching on and off':

upstart writes:Sim City for food science takes on Listeria outbreaks:

takyon writes:Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor

takyon writes:Apple has announced two new Arm SoCs for its upcoming MacBook Pro laptops. Both share the same CPU, but differ in GPU and RAM size.The Apple M1 SoC for Macs has 8 CPU cores: 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. The newly announced M1 Pro and M1 Max have 10 cores: 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores. CPU performance (multi-threaded) is about 70% faster, at around a 30 Watt TDP (M1 Pro) instead of 15 Watts for the M1. The 16-core "neural engine" with 11 TOPS of machine learning performance is unchanged from the M1.While the M1 has an (up to) 8-core GPU with 2.6 TFLOPS FP32 of performance, the M1 Pro doubles that to 16 cores and 5.2 TFLOPS, and the M1 Max doubles it again to 32 cores and 10.4 TFLOPS. The M1 Pro is comparable to an Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti discrete laptop GPU, while the M1 Max is comparable to an RTX 3080 laptop GPU. These levels of performance are achieved at around 30 Watts for the M1 Pro and 60 Watts for the M1 Max, compared to around 100-160 Watts for laptops with discrete graphics.The M1 Pro has around 33.7 billion transistors fabbed on TSMC "5nm" in a 245 mm die space, while the M1 Max has 57 billion transistors at 432 mm. The M1 Pro will include up to 32 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and the M1 Max will include up to 64 GB.Also at Wccftech.See also: Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-UpPreviously: Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors

upstart writes:Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad:

upstart writes:Password Auditing Tool L0phtCrack Released as Open Source:

Facebook investing millions in vr internet replacementlooorg writes:Facebook plans to hire 10,000 people in the EU to build its vision for a 'metaverse'. Facebook said it plans to create 10,000 highly-skilled jobs in the EU over the next five years. The recruitment drive is part of Facebook's ambition to create a digital world known as the "metaverse." A number of other companies, including Microsoft, Roblox and Epic are investing in their own versions of a metaverse.

Freeman writes:Best Buy’s new $200/yr membership locks PS5, hot holiday items behind sign-up"

upstart writes:Treasury defends IRS plan to track most bank accounts:

upstart writes:Confused governor says looking at webpage's HTML is criminal hacking:

upstart writes:US task force proposes adults 60 and older should not start daily aspirin to prevent heart disease or stroke:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink:

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takyon writes:TSMC delivers first batch of Baikal BE-M1000 CPUs based on ARM Cortex-A57 cores

upstart writes:'Sophisticated': ancient faeces shows humans enjoyed beer and blue cheese 2,700 years ago: