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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Firefox 89: Can this redesign stem browser's decline?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Reducing poverty can actually lower energy demand, finds research:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for raxas:Killer Drone 'Hunted Down A Human Target' Without Being Told To:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for raxas:China maintains 'artificial sun' at 120 million Celsius for over 100 seconds, setting new world record:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/charter-charges-more-money-for-slower-internet-on-streets-with-no-competition/

Anti-aristarchus writes:From NPR, National Public Radio:

Eratosthenes writes:Best View Yet of Exceptional Cosmic Explosion – Challenges Established Theory of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Universe:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:FCC fight against robocalls goes international:

martyb writes:Mockingbird song decoded:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Japan will send a transforming robot ball to the Moon:

takyon writes:Google Replaces Millions of Intel's CPUs With Its Own Homegrown Chips

takyon writes:U.S. Finds No Evidence of Alien Technology in Flying Objects, but Can't Rule It Out, Either (archive)

Anti-aristarchus writes:Recent story at The New York Times:

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mendax writes:NewAtlas published an article that may outline the future of secure computing:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Stack Overflow sold to tech investor Prosus for $1.8 billion:

looorg writes:NASA is launching 100 baby squids — and thousands of other organisms — into space for testing. Lets just hope it doesn't end like the classic NROL-39 badge.[*]SpaceX’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Mission to Space Station Launches Water Bears, Squid, Solar Panels:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:WordPress force installs Jetpack security update on 5 million sites:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law:

DECbot writes:Wyoming has selected billionaire Bill Gates's company TerraPower LLC and Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway's owned power company PacifiCorp to build the nation's first Natrium reactor. As reported by Reuters:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Girl, 9, and sister, 4, walk away from crash with truck after taking parents’ car to drive to beach – My Blog:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:AMD is bringing performance-boosting SmartShift tech to Linux laptops:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Scientists make powerful underwater glue inspired by barnacles and mussels:

martyb writes:Venus can't wait—NASA plans blockbuster return to hothouse neighbor:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:FBI: REvil cybergang behind the JBS ransomware attack:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:New 'Swiss Army knife' cleans up water pollution:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:New 'superfood' for bees may be able to help detoxify hives contaminated with pesticides:

An Anonymous Coward writes:QUIC is Now RFC 9000:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:A Driverless Truck Got a Shipment Cross-Country 10 Hours Faster Than a Human Driver:

Fnord666 writes:It looks like the launch date for the James Webb Space Telescope has slipped again. It was slated to launch this coming Halloween but now it will be at mid-November at the earliest.According to Ars Technica:

martyb writes:Meat Producer JBS Says Expects Most Plants Working Wednesday:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Amazon Faced 75,000 Arbitration Demands. Now It Says: Fine, Sue Us:

takyon writes:Raspberry Pi Announces RP2040 Chips For $1

An Anonymous Coward writes:Employees are Quitting Instead of Giving Up Working from Home:

takyon writes:GCC 9.4 Compiler Released With 190+ Bug Fixes

Freeman writes:The US military is starting to get really interested in Starship:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:30-year stellar survey cracks mysteries of galaxy's giant planets:

martyb writes:Escape From Oblivion: Innovative Experiment Shows How the Brain Reboots After Deep Anesthesia:

takyon writes:AMD's Ryzen 5000G APUs now have a release date for the DIY market: August 5th. The 8-core Ryzen 7 5700G has a suggested price of $359, while the 6-core Ryzen 5 5600G will be $259.AMD announced the Radeon RX 6800M, 6700M, and 6600M discrete GPUs for laptops, promising better performance, efficiency, and battery-constrained performance. The Radeon RX 6800M is a 40 compute unit design (equivalent to the Radeon RX 6700 XT on desktop) with 12 GB of VRAM.AMD biggest announcements were the introduction of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and the demonstration of a 3D chiplet design. FSR uses a spatial scaling algorithm to upscale game graphics for higher frame rates at a given resolution. The algorithm competes with Nvidia's Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), but will be released as open source and work with some older AMD GPUs, integrated graphics, as well as competing products from Nvidia and Intel (it was shown running on an Nvidia GTX 1060).AMD CEO Lisa Su also showed off a modified, delidded Ryzen 9 5900X CPU prototype, with "3D V-Cache technology". It was identical to the standard 5900X with the exception of through-silicon via (TSV) stacked L3 cache. This allowed the 5900X prototype to have 192 MB of total L3 cache instead of 64 MB (96 MB per 8-core chiplet). AMD claims it can run games with an average of +15% performance (simply due to the larger cache size), and some version of this will appear in products that are starting production at the end of 2021.Related: TSMC "5nm", "3nm", Stacked Silicon, and MoreOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

martyb writes:Antibody from cold can neutralize COVID-19 and could lead to vaccine against all coronaviruses:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Space station robotic arm hit by orbital debris in 'lucky strike' (video):

An Anonymous Coward writes:How the Commodore Amiga Powered Your Cable System in the '90s:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Two New Laws Restrict Police Use of DNA Search Method:

takyon writes:Confronted By Aging Population China Allows Couples To Have Three Children

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Microsoft discovers new Russian cyber attack on 150 government, NGO sites:

martyb writes:Non-hallucinogenic Psychedelic Analog Rapidly Reverses Effects of Stress on the Brain:

martyb writes:Intermittent Fasting in mice demonstrably more effective at promoting long term memory retention:

takyon writes:Sabrent Unveils The Ultra-High Endurance Plotripper & Plotripper Pro SSDs Specifically Designed For Mining The Chia Coin

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Tesla Will Have to Ship Its Texas-Built Cars Out of State to Sell Back to Residents:

[Ed note: This is highly summarized; it is well-worth reading the entire article.]upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people: