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looorg writes:IKEA has furnished and is renting out a 10 m apartment in central Tokyo for about a dollar per month. It's clearly a gimmick of sorts as the furniture in the apartment are worth a lot more then that. Still looking at the pictures it looks like living in a nicely furnished prison cell, that is also very high (floor to ceiling). Any takers for such compact living? I dont think climbing around on ladders to get around is for me.It seems very futuristic though; it is a staple of sci-fi to pack people like sardines in a can (Ripley's apartment in aliens, 5th element etc., etc.)https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/business/ikea-japan-tokyo-tiny-apartment-scli-intl/index.html

takyon writes:First RISC-V smartphones could launch in 2022

weilawei writes:Phys.org reports,

takyon writes:An Alzheimer's Nasal Spray Vaccine Is About to Enter Human Trials For The First Time

upstart writes:Giving social support to others may boost your health:

upstart writes:Researchers reveal how to turn a global warming liability into a profitable food security solution:

NPC-131072 writes:From Nature

upstart writes:SpaceX's Starlink Will Make Life Hell for Astronomers Like Me. Telescopes on the Moon Could Help Fix That.:

takyon writes:New Ultrahard Diamond Glass Synthesized

Freeman writes:Ars Technica has a series-recap-thing going on for "The Wheel of Time" series on Amazon: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/11/two-book-readers-recap-the-first-three-episodes-of-amazons-the-wheel-of-time/In the event that you dislike people ruining great books for stupid political agendas, perhaps you should steer clear of this review of Amazon's TV Series.

upstart writes: A Stunning 3D Map of Blood Vessels and Cells in a Mouse Skull Could Help Scientists Make New Bones:

upstart writes:One year on this giant, blistering hot planet is just 16 hours long:

upstart writes:Italy fines Amazon, Apple $230M over reseller collusion – TechCrunch:

takyon writes:Samsung Officially Announces $17 Billion Advanced Semiconductor Site in Texas – Facility to Span More Than 5 Million Square Meters

upstart writes:Retrotechtacular: Office Equipment From The 1940s:

owl writes:https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-secret-history-of-atapi/

upstart writes:Ultrashort-pulse lasers kill bacterial superbugs, spores:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://github.com/rust-lang/team/pull/671

upstart writes:Chemotherapy may affect muscle cells at lower doses than previously thought: The cancer therapy may also affect the protein building process, not just cause muscles to degrade:

On behalf of all the staff I wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving!I am grateful for all the support the community has shown us since we started SoylentNews.org on February 12, 2014.Has it really been that long? Back then, the internet was dominated by HTTP; it would take some time (years?) until we transitioned to Gandhi and then Let's Encrypt!I have been active on the site since we started. Why? It was the spirit of gratitude I saw here to be free from having "corporate overlords"; how people pitched in trying to help. They were looking not at what they could get but rather what they could give! That spirit lives on to this day. Where? I see it in the people who submit stories and journal articles. I see it when people post (and moderate) comments. And lets not forget those who subscribe to the site which pays bills (hosting fees and accounting expenses, primarily). We are all volunteers here; nobody has ever been paid anything for their work here!I'm taking this opportunity to thank all the editors who perform the seemingly thankless task of selecting, reviewing, editing, and posting stories to the site. I hereby invite them to enjoy the long holiday weekend.We will be on a holiday/weekend story schedule from the start of Thursday through the end of Sunday (UTC). Enjoy the well-deserved break! Thank You!Another story will be along presently; this story is in addition to our normal schedule. --martyb/BytramRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Flatpak Is Not the Future:

upstart writes:When bees get a taste for dead things: Meat-eating 'vulture bees' sport acidic guts:

fliptop writes:Apple sues company known for hacking iPhones on behalf of governments

upstart writes:Space Biosecurity: Scientists Warn that Alien Organisms on Earth May Become a Reality Stranger than Fiction:

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upstart writes:Verizon completes Tracfone acquisition after FCC approval:

upstart writes:Researchers boost human mental function with brain stimulation:

rigrig writes:PHP Foundation Announced

canopic jug writes:The Association for Computing Machinery's publication, ACM Queue, had Kirk McKusick of FreeBSD fame interview Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson about the development of Berkeley DB. The two, along with Keith Bostic, have been awarded the 2020 ACM Software System Award for the database. Berkeley DB is a dual-licensed (AGPL and proprietary), simple, efficient, transactional, nosql database and currently maintained by Oracle.

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart writes:NASA nudges James Webb telescope launch date after 'sudden, unplanned' vibration incident:

aristarchus writes:Gizmodo says:

upstart writes:Aspirin Linked With Increased Risk of Heart Failure in New Study:

Phoenix666 writes:Science Daily:

upstart writes:Macrogrid study: Big value in connecting America's eastern and western power grids:

Phoenix666 writes:An absolutely bonkers plan to give Mars an artificial magnetosphere:

upstart writes:LightSail 2 has been flying for 30 months now, paving the way for future solar sail missions:

Phoenix666 writes:New homes in England to have electric car chargers by law:

upstart writes:Scientists capture humour's earliest emergence:

quietus writes:Most of the readers here are probably aware that the European Union is betting heavily on hydrogen as a clean energy carrier.Related to that, Martin Sandbu wrote an interesting article in the Financial Times, titled The Gordian Knot of Europe's gas dependence.In essence, his thesis in the article was that the best way forward for the EU, from an energy perspective, is to keep investing into its gas fields, combined with conversion of that gas into so-called blue hydrogen, combined with carbon capture.The problem was though, he argued, that all of these three things need to happen together: if there's no market for either, the whole system will be caught in a catch-22 situation.Gas producers will not invest in new fields if there are no takers to convert the gas into hydrogen, and mass market realisation of hydrogen technologies will not take off if there is no ample supply. Carbon capture, of course, is needed so the conversion of gas into hydrogen does not cause further climate change, and the EU can reach its carbon emission targets.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:As We Develop, the Brain Connects Lessons Learned Differently:

upstart writes:In the brain’s cerebellum, a new target for suppressing hunger:

Phoenix666 writes:Not Science Fiction: Electric Propulsion Comes of Age With Psyche Mission to an Asteroid:

takyon writes:Bill Gates' nuclear power company selects a site for its first reactor

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for aristarchus

upstart writes:Police Can’t Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Tor Forum: a new discussion platform for the Tor Community:

upstart writes:Malware downloaded from PyPI 41,000 times was surprisingly stealthy:

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takyon writes:Box86 + Box64 Updated For Running Linux x86/x86_64 Programs On Other Architectures