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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:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Chinese cargo craft docks with future space station in orbit:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:US Soldiers Accidentally Reveal Nuclear Weapon Secrets:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:1947 'alien autopsy' film frame is up for auction as an NFT:

takyon writes:NASA requests $24.8 billion in 2022, proposes to cancel SOFIA again

takyon writes:U.S. Bill Allocates $30 Million To Help Hong Kong Bypass China's Great Firewall Internet Restrictions

AnonTechie writes:Humans probably can't live longer than 150 years, new research finds:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:A two-year old from California is the youngest American to become a member of Mensa:

AnonTechie writes:Three years younger in just eight weeks? A new study suggests yes!:

takyon writes:Google's 80-acre megacampus will take over a chunk of San Jose - Google does not yet know the cost of the 10- to 30-year construction project

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Navy's experimental drone ship passes through Panama Canal:

mrpg writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210514134119.htmClimate change is exacerbating problems like habitat loss and temperatures swings that have already pushed many animal species to the brink. But can scientists predict which animals will be able to adapt and survive? Using genome sequencing, researchers show that some fish, like the threespine stickleback, can adapt very rapidly to extreme seasonal changes. Their findings could help scientists forecast the evolutionary future of these populations.Journal Reference:Alan Garcia‐Elfring, Antoine Paccard, Timothy J. Thurman, Ben A. Wasserman, Eric P. Palkovacs, Andrew P. Hendry, Rowan D. H. Barrett. Using seasonal genomic changes to understand historical adaptation to new environments: Parallel selection on stickleback in highly‐variable estuaries. Molecular Ecology, 2021; 30 (9): 2054 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15879Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus:Lopsided Galaxy NGC 2276:

aristarchus writes:Flying has never been a safe or precise art. Even when it is not on Mars! Latest from the Ingenuity saga, from NASA it's own self.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Ohio lawmakers want to abolish vaccine requirements:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Ohio lawmakers want to abolish vaccine requirements:

Beryllium Sphere (r) writes:Up to now, people have been discouraged from getting antibody tests to measure what their COVID vaccination did. The reasoning behind that advice is that since nobody knew what a given level meant in actionable terms, it was not useful information.That just changed.Nature has published the results of research into the relationship between antibody levels post-vaccination and vaccine efficacy, with plenty of different vaccines.An easy-to-read overview is at https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01372-6The full paper, with the methodology and conclusions, is at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01377-8 (It looks like careful work but it's over my head in places.)The bottom line is that they found a clear correlation and protection levels keep going up as antibody levels go up, though there's some diminishing returns at the very top end where the mRNA vaccines are.The cool part is they figured out what antibody level would give you the 50% protection that we would have been willing to accept from a vaccine. The mRNA vaccines leave you with an order of magnitude more. That's quite a comforting safety factor against variants and gradual decline.Journal References:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Mars Helicopter Suffered Glitch During Flight, Forced Emergency Landing:

takyon writes:Asahi Linux Dev Reveals 'M1RACLES' Flaw in Apple M1, Pokes Fun at Similar Flaws

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Sleep Evolved Before Brains. Hydras Are Living Proof.:

takyon writes:Marvell Announces First PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD Controllers: Up To 14 GB/s

takyon writes:Ex-official who revealed UFO project accuses Pentagon of 'disinformation' campaign

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Giant tortoise thought extinct 100 years ago is living in Galapagos, Ecuador says:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Vulnerability in VMware product has severity rating of 9.8 out of 10:

AnonTechie writes:Court orders Royal Dutch Shell to cut net emissions by 45%:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Tired of Boring CAPTCHAs, This Developer Created a Doom-Themed One:

canopic jug writes:TorrentFreak, is reporting on a thread at the orange site discussing Comcast allegedly having invoked the DMCA against a customer for having downloaded Ubuntu, a very popular GNU/Linux distro made by Canonical, Ltd. Just to be clear, the license for Ubuntu and its components allow not just downloading, but also even redistribution, modification, and redistribution of the modifications. The DMCA complaint was filed by a German company named OpSec Security. No comment was provided to TorrentFreak by either Canonical or OpSec.

takyon writes:Biden asks intel community to 'redouble' efforts probing COVID-19 origins

DannyB writes:USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Nearly the Speed of Light in One Millimeter: Presenting a New Type of Particle Accelerator:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Not Graphene: New Type of Atomically Thin Carbon Material Discovered:

takyon writes:Exclusive: Valve is making a Switch-like portable gaming PC

New 12.9-inch iPad Pro already has a display problem:

canopic jug writes:There are still a few months to fix this, but for now the US Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Acting Commissioner for Patents, Andrew Faile, and Chief Information Officer, Jamie Holcombe, have announced that starting January 1, 2022, the USPTO will institute a surcharge for applicants that are not locked into Microsoft products via the proprietary DOCX format. From that date onwards, the USPTO will move away from PDF and require all filers to use that proprietary format or face an arbitrary surcharge when filing.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Toyota gives hydrogen car successful debut in Fuji 24 Hours:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for raxas:Deadly Parasite Discovered in Chinese Family Shows You Should Never Eat Raw Centipedes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Introducing Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug: