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upstart writes:Craob X: An Intel Alder Lake CPU-based laptop that is completely wireless & void of any connectors:

upstart writes:US DoJ, Microsoft and 35 states support an appeal of Epic Games-Apple decision:

upstart writes:Huge record-breaking lightning bolt spans 3 U.S. states:

upstart writes:Taiwan firm's takeover of German chip supplier falls through:

FBI Urges Athletes to Keep Personal Devices at Home, Use Burners During Beijing Winter Olympicsupstart writes:FBI urges athletes to keep personal devices at home, use burners during Beijing Winter Olympics:

owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/02/tesla-recalls-53822-cars-because-they-wont-stop-at-stop-signs/

takyon writes:Earth has a second known 'Trojan asteroid' that shares its orbit

upstart writes:FCC aims to stop broadband bill shock, reviving plan nixed by Ajit Pai:

upstart writes:Hubble Space Telescope Revisits a Galactic Oddball:

upstart writes:US bans telecom giant China Unicom over spying concerns:

upstart writes:Simulations Reveal Fundamental Insights on Janus Particles:

takyon writes:'The New York Times' buys Wordle

upstart writes:Meta stablecoin project Diem confirms shut down and $200m asset sale:

upstart writes:Sony bolsters PlayStation, buying Destiny game maker Bungie for $3.6 billion:

upstart writes:Imagine Regrowing Lost Limbs – It's a Step Closer With New Treatment That Helped Frogs Regenerate Amputated Legs:

upstart writes:Seagate starts shipping enormous 22TB hard drives to "some customers":

upstart writes:The PC is back again. But for how long?:

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upstart writes:The US plans to reduce roadway deaths with smarter road design:

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Robin K. Hill writes Cryptocurs Don't Asportate [*]:

upstart writes:Secret of Lizard Camouflage: A Simple Mathematical Equation:

fliptop writes:Starting this summer, you'll need to provide a video of your face to access the agency's website. It's a major expansion of the use of facial recognition software by the government, and Congress is not amused:

upstart writes:SpaceX could attempt three Falcon 9 rocket launches in next two days:

upstart writes:BT data centres will give London Underground 4G a welcome boost:

upstart writes:GNOME Network: Worldwide Coordinated Search for Dark Matter:

upstart writes:Researchers use GPU fingerprinting to track users online:

upstart writes:Mega Iceberg – One of the Largest on Record – Released 150 Billion Tons of Freshwater Near Island:

[Ed note: I've provided a brief list of alternative sources for streaming free music and podcasts at the end of this story. Please help out your fellow Soylentils by mentioning your favorite Soundcloud alternative in the comments. --martyb]upstart writes:Joni Mitchell joins Neil Young in ditching Spotify over COVID misinformation:

hendrikboom writes:The universe may have learned its own physical laws.

upstart writes:NASA "Oceans Melting Greenland" Mission Complete – Six Years of Mapping Unknown Terrain:

takyon writes:Lenovo invests nearly US$50 million into its chip-design ambitions

owl writes:Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Microsoft: Windows needs at least 8 hours online to update reliably:

mhajicek writes:Surgical robot performs world-first autonomous laparoscopic procedure:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Intel fails to get Spectre, Meltdown chip flaw class-action super-suit tossed out:

upstart writes:What wintering squirrels can teach astronauts: The unique way that ground squirrels burn almost no energy when they hibernate – with no loss of muscle mass – has implications for space travel:

upstart writes:Surveys with repetitive questions yield bad data, study finds:

upstart writes:Microsoft Azure customer hit by largest 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack:

upstart writes:The Prequel app is yassifying our selfies into hot cartoons:

upstart writes:Windows 11 frame rate stuttering reported by some users with AMD CPUs:

upstart writes:A Crunching Multiverse To Solve Two Fundamental Physics Puzzles at Once:

Labor Regulator Accuses Amazon of Intimidation as Union Drives Move Forwardupstart writes:Labor regulator accuses Amazon of intimidation as union drives move forward:

upstart writes:Look who's talking now: The fishes! Widespread sound communication among fish:

upstart writes:JEDEC Publishes HBM3 Update to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) Standard:

upstart writes:Players needed to solve puzzles and help advance cancer research:

upstart writes:Uncontrolled blood pressure is sending more people to the hospital: Men are more likely than women to be admitted for a hypertensive crisis, but women have similar hospital mortality rates:

upstart writes:Crowding, climate change, and the case for social distancing among trees:

upstart writes:Australia scientists find 'spooky' spinning object in Milky Way:

upstart writes:MPs to debate landmark IoT security law:

upstart writes:US Navy wants to get crashed stealth fighter back -- before China can: