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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Monarch butterfly population moves closer to extinction:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:As Ajit Pai exits FCC, Charter admits defeat on petition to impose data caps:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:The Climate Events of 2020 Show How Excess Heat is Expressed on Earth:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for raxas:Windows 10 bug corrupts your hard drive on seeing this file's icon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Census Bureau director to resign amid criticism over data:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:To Celebrate Wikipedia’s 20th Birthday, Try Editing It:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Expired Domain Allowed Researcher to Hijack Country's TLD:

hemocyanin writes:The NY Times, in a Jan 17, 2020, article outlines new details in an anti-trust suit brought by ten states: Behind a Secret Deal between Google and Facebook. These apparently come from an unredacted version of the lawsuit filed in October 2020: Redacted Version. (I did not find an unredacted version)From TFA:

c0lo writes:Scientists shed light on how and why some people report "hearing the dead"

takyon writes:Lee Jae Yong: Samsung heir gets prison term for bribery scandal

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Traces of a Mysterious Particle Predicted Decades Ago May Have Been Detected:

MotorTrend and probably many other car sites discuss a new Tesla recall: https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-model-x-s-nhtsa-screen-recall/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:How Many Galaxies Are in the Universe? A New Answer From the Darkest Sky Ever Observed:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:EU regulator: Hackers 'manipulated' stolen vaccine documents:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:US blacklists Xiaomi, CNOOC, Skyrizon, raising heat on China:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reaches space on 2nd try:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:WhatsApp changes: Signal messaging platform restored after surge prompts outage:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:After a decade, NASA's big rocket fails its first real test:

takyon writes:Google reportedly requires new Android TV devices support AV1 video decoding

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requerdanos writes:How the famed Arecibo telescope fell—and how it might rise again:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus:NRA declares bankruptcy, plans to incorporate in Texas:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Studying chaos with one of the world's fastest cameras:

hendrikboom writes:At last someone recognizes that it matters what you do on a screen.

requerdanos writes:Robotic swarm swims like a school of fish:

requerdanos writes:Science journals to offer select authors open-access publishing for free:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Google says it's closing the Fitbit acquisition:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Hackers used 4 zero-days to infect Windows and Android devices:

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takyon writes:AMD has launched Zen 3-based "Cezanne" Ryzen 5000 mobile APUs at 15W, 35W, 45W, and 45W+ (overclockable Ryzen 9 5980HX and Ryzen 9 5900HX) TDPs. Compared to the previous-generation Zen 2 "Renoir" APUs, Cezanne has 19% higher instructions per clock. L3 cache is doubled (to 16 MB) and accessible by any core. Integrated graphics performance ("Vega"-based) has not improved aside from slightly higher clock speeds. All of the Cezanne models announced so far have 6 or 8 cores, with 2 threads per core. In addition to Cezanne, there are three Zen 2-based "Lucienne" models (5300U, 5500U, and 5700U) that are refreshes/rebadges of 15W Renoir APUs.Benchmarks have been spotted for a Cezanne desktop APU, the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G, which may not be limited to OEMs like Renoir APUs were.AMD also launched two OEM-only Zen 3 desktop CPUs: the 8-core AMD Ryzen 7 5800 and 12-core Ryzen 9 5900. These are rated at 65 Watt TDPs, instead of the 105 Watt TDPs of their 'X' counterparts.AMD's exclusivity deal with Lenovo for Threadripper Pro CPUs (Threadripper with 8 memory channels and 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes) has ended, and manufacturers are preparing new sWRX8 motherboards. 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX, 32-core 3975WX, and 16-core 3955WX should be available to consumers around March. There's no word yet on Zen 3-based Threadrippers, but AMD will be launching Zen 3-based "Milan" Epyc CPUs later in Q1.See also: AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su: Interview on 2021 Demand, Supply, Tariffs, Xilinx, and EPYC

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA Will Soon Choose One of These 3 Landers to Go Back to the Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Craft brewers now have a new tool for sniffing out trace flavor compounds:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA declares Mars lander InSight's burrowing 'mole' is dead:

An Anonymous Coward writes:'No longer acceptable' for platforms to take key decisions alone, EU Commission says

martyb writes:Tetris is no longer just a game, but an algorithm that ensures maximum hotel room occupancy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1962:NASA TV to Air Hot Fire Test of Rocket Core Stage for Artemis Missions:

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takyon writes:Wine 6.0 Released With A Plethora Of Improvements For Windows Software On Linux

takyon writes:Intel is splitting its high-end Tiger Lake mobile chip lineup to meet two TDP targets: 35 Watts and 45 Watts. Tiger Lake-H35 chips have been launched, with 4 cores, 8 threads, and 96 graphics "Xe" (Gen12) execution units. Later in Q1, Intel will launch 45 Watt TDP Tiger Lake with up to 8 cores, 16 threads.Intel has also launched new "Jasper Lake" Celeron/Pentium chips on a "10nm" process node. Jasper Lake uses the Tremont Atom core previously used in Lakefield. TDPs range from 6-10 Watts. 16 GB of memory is explicity supported, up from 8 GB of Gemini Lake Refresh (although boards like the ODROID-H2+ supported 32 GB, go figure). Graphics performance of the Pentium Silver N6005 should be substantially higher than its predecessor due to the use of Gen11 graphics and an increase to 32 execution units.See also: Intel says the Iris Xe Max isn't really for gaming. They're not wrong

takyon writes:Qualcomm to Acquire NUVIA: A CPU Magnitude Shift

takyon writes:Vulkan SDK Now Formally Available For Apple Platforms - Including Apple Silicon Support

takyon writes:$119+ BeagleV powerful, open-hardware RISC-V Linux SBC targets AI applications

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Intel Rocket Lake Desktop CPUs Will Launch in March, Gigabyte Confirms - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Danke Apartment: The 'broken eggshell' that left young Chinese homeless:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:COVID-19 severity linked to gut bacteria in first-of-its-kind study:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Rotten Egg Gas Could Guard Against Alzheimer’s Disease:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:You Can Now Easily Download All CIA UFO Documents to Date:

canopic jug writes:In recent years, the odds of orbital collisions has doubled due to all the debris, large particles, and just plain scrap flying around in orbit. These are fragments left from launches as well as from collisions between other objects already in orbit. The Economist is reporting that several methods for de-oribiting space junk are being tested, with the goal to get a handle on the problem while there is still time to do so. So far, nets, harpoons, and magnets are among the options which have been considered.

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martyb writes:Trump impeached for 'inciting' US Capitol riots: