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DannyB writes:Bezos’ Blue Origin loses NASA lawsuit over SpaceX $2.9 billion lunar lander contract:

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Freeman writes:Intel's Alder Lake big.LITTLE CPU design, tested: It's a barn burner:

upstart writes:Bilingualism Comes Naturally to Our Brains:

upstart writes:Machine learning identifies new brain network signature of major depression: Novel signature could improve understanding of depression and its subtypes, and how to treat them:

upstart writes:University of Adelaide built a robot spider to scan Australia's Naracoorte Caves:

upstart writes:Los Angeles County sheriff doubles down on not enforcing vaccine mandate as he warns of mass exodus:

upstart writes:Babies wanted: Chinese province may offer a year of maternity leave:

takyon writes:Microsoft launches Google Wave

DannyB writes:Astronauts grew green chile on the space station and made themselves space tacos:

hubie writes:Probably not the most profound of results, but this Scientific Reports paper is interesting nonetheless.

driverless writes:Canon have just unveiled their entry for the Worst Idea in Tech competition for 2021, an AI-camera that watches you 24/7 and streams anything it thinks is interesting.Canon Unveils its First Smart Camera set to Transform how Families Photograph:

upstart writes:Pushing renewable power immediately could save trillions in health costs:

upstart writes:Better diabetes treatment: New insulin molecule can self-regulate blood sugar:

upstart writes:Hubble remains in safe mode after latest glitch - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:Talk-to-tilt: head tilting in dogs:

DannyB writes:As teens left Facebook, company planned to lure 6-year-olds, documents show:

DannyB writes:NASA Delays SpaceX Launch Due to "Medical Issue":

upstart writes:Yahoo pulls out of China over 'challenging' business conditions:

takyon writes:High-Speed Laser Writing Method Could Pack 500 Terabytes of Data into CD-Sized Glass Disc

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/google-fi-is-getting-end-to-end-encrypted-phone-calls/

upstart writes:Student Cracks the High-Dimensional Quantum Code – Reveals Hidden Structures of Quantum Entangled States:

upstart writes:https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/1/22757102/apple-iphone-car-crash-detection-feature-onstar

Freeman writes:John Carmack issues some words of warning for Meta and its metaverse plans:

owl writes:CT scan of a pumpkin:

progo writes:Brian Krebs reports today on the biggest global information security freak-out since Heartbleed (2014). Or not -- I'm not sure.

takyon writes:Goodbye Hadopi: France Will Launch New 'Arcom' Anti-Piracy Agency in 2022

takyon writes:Revised budget reconciliation package reduces NASA infrastructure funds

SomeGuy writes:Action News Jax reports: Last chunk of Golden Ray Cargo ship removed from St. Simons Sound

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-59072745

Update: 2021-11-01 13:25:28 UTC; added F@H history; elaborated on contest.--Bytrammartyb writes:Welcome to November! Here's a quick update on the site.Holiday

upstart writes:New synthesis process paves way for more efficient lasers, LEDs:

Snotnose writes:You'll never guess what the most back-ordered item in the Apple catalog is. Go on, guess. I promise you'll be wrong, because it's the inane thing you can think of.Apple's Most Back-Ordered New Product Is Not What You Expect:

Freeman writes:Meta removing Facebook login requirement for Quest headsets by next year:

canopic jug writes:Back in 1998, Paul Strassmann, a former CIO of Xerox, NASA, and the US Department of Defense, wrote in Computerworld about how Microsoft's overly complex, defective, and vulnerable systems which were already a threat to national security even back then. The intervening time has shown Strassmann to have been more than correct as the problems he identified with Microsoft and its products worsen monatonically. Mitchel Lewis writes a guest post at Techrights about the current situation and how Microsoft remains a security threat against national security and systematic reliability of our computer-based society today:

upstart writes:Science of fear: Why we love being terrified on Halloween:

upstart writes:Not spooked by Halloween ghost stories? You may have aphantasia:

upstart writes:Elon Musk Reveals Real Reason He Supports Dogecoin, Says Many People at Tesla and Spacex Own DOGE – Altcoins Bitcoin News:

Freeman writes:Children poisoned by birthday cake decorations loaded with lead, copper:

upstart writes:Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems:

Freeman writes:FCC defends Starlink approval as Viasat, Dish urge court to block SpaceX license:

DannyB writes:From TechDirt:Swiss Court Says ProtonMail Isn't A Telecom, Isn't Obligated To Retain Data On UsersBackground:

upstart writes:A fridge-size asteroid skimmed Earth this week in the third-closest fly-by ever:

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Intel Targeting Zettascale (1000 Exaflops) by 2027?takyon writes:'We will not rest until the periodic table is exhausted' says Intel CEO on quest to keep Moore's Law alive

upstart writes:Chicago Car Thieves Now Target Locksmiths For Key Fobs And Programming Devices:

upstart writes:Emergency Google Chrome update fixes zero-days used in attacks:

looorg writes:Facebook is changing its name to Meta as it focuses on the virtual worldFacebook is now a meta product.I'm not certain which name is worse; meta or alphabetI doubt it will wash away the stink, people will still refer to it as Facebook just as everyone just appear to call all things google related to alphabet.https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/28/facebook-meta-name-change/

martyb writes:Is a master's in computer science worth it? A consideration checklist:

takyon writes:NASA wants to buy SLS rockets at half price, fly them into the 2050s