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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

upstart writes:MIT Physicists Use Fundamental Atomic Property To Turn Matter Invisible:

AnonTechie writes:This paper is from 2017, however, I found it interesting and thought our community would also find this worthy of discussion ...

SomeGuy writes:In the early morning hours of June 24, 2021, half of the 12-story Surfside Florida luxury condominium, Champlain Towers South, came crashing to the ground, killing 98 occupants.In a recent public update, the NIST detailed the lengthy work needed to uncover the causes of this collapse.This includes building design, construction, modification, and deterioration analysis, evidence preservation, remote sensing analysis using data collected with tools such as LIDAR during recovery, material tests on recovered evidence, a geotechnical analysis of the surrounding soil and geologic conditions, as well as detailed structural and failure analysis using computer modeling.Additionally, they will interview people with historic knowledge of construction in south Florida, and continue to accept information from the public that could shed additional light on this tragedy.Although answers from NIST's investigation will not be forthcoming for a number of years, many individuals unrelated to the NIST have combed through publicly available information to find possible causes.While precise triggers leading to the collapse may never be known, most public evidence, as this video demonstrates, points to two key factors: Badly neglected and deteriorated pool deck concrete slab that lead to a pool deck collapse, and resulting damage to three key building support columns that lead to the building collapse minutes later.A timeline based on public witness accounts, details the dramatic events of that morning.In an interesting twist, this USA Today article digs deep in to possible drug related money laundering and corruption surrounding the building's construction.AP News reports a lawsuit that was just filed alleges previous construction next door contributed to the collapse.Most of the media has focused on the lack of "answers" from the NIST and other organizations. Youtuber Jeff Ostroff has compiled an informative explanation of who NIST is, why the NIST is investigating, and why this takes so long.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US in one year, a record:

upstart writes:Scientist advances prospect of regeneration in humans:

upstart writes:NASA's Perseverance captures challenging flight by Mars helicopter:

upstart writes:NASA tracked wild 'earthgrazer' meteor fireball for 186 miles through the air:

takyon writes:Microsoft is no longer bringing x64 emulation to Windows 10 on ARM

Phoenix666 brings us this EV-themed story from the BBC:

takyon writes:Paralysed mice walk again after a single injection

upstart writes:Developing Telecoms reveals the biggest data center in UAE.:

upstart writes:Black holes slamming into the moon could end the dark-matter debate:

upstart writes:Perceptual links between sound and shape may unlock origins of spoken words:

owl writes:https://www.niemanlab.org/2021/11/the-end-of-click-to-subscribe-call-to-cancel-one-of-the-news-industrys-favorite-retention-tactics-is-illegal-ftc-says/

upstart writes:OSU study yields a first in fossil research: Seeds sprouting from an amber-encased pine cone:

New iodine-based plasma thruster tested in orbitFreeman and AnonTechie write:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/11/new-iodine-based-plasma-thruster-tested-in-orbit/

takyon writes:The shareholder fight that forced Apple's hand on repair rights

An Anonymous Coward writes:The latest offering of FPGAs may have just been announced.

An Anonymous Coward writes:I think this was posted before, but worth repeating since it will come about this Friday.https://www.npr.org/2021/11/17/1056205732/lunar-eclipse-moon-friday-morning-how-to-see

takyon writes:'Apple Must be Stopped' and Google is 'Crazy' Says Tim Sweeney

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/nuclear-radiation-used-to-transmit-digital-data-wirelessly

upstart writes:Open-sourcing of protein-structure software is already paying off: