upstart writes in with an IRC submission:After Cracking the "Sum of Cubes" Puzzle for 42, Mathematicians Solve Harder Problem That Has Stumped Experts for Decades:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission:In Case of Nuclear Disaster: Stem Cells Derived From Fat Show Promise as a Treatment for Mass Radiation Exposure:
looorg writes:Cleaning up space junk with magnets in space!Prototype mission. It might run into a bit of an issue since a lot of satellites (if not all) tend to be made of things that are not magnetic -- future solution is apparently to attach a magnetic plate to your satellites so this janitor (or recycling-) satellite can attract them and clean them up.They really missed out tho -- they should just have named it Roger WilcoSatellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch:
aristarchus writes:Seems Google is going to start mass-producing Googlers, but not in the traditional fashion.Inside Google's $240 Plan to Disrupt the College Degree:
canopic jug writes:Back in November 2020, the NATO Stratgic Communications Center of Excellence in Riga, Latvia published an analysis of the coordinated online harassment of Finnish government ministers. The conclusion is that the attacks and astroturfing are largely free from automated activity, aka bots. The report includes statistics, lots of analysis, and several illustrative graphs. The main topics triggering the online abuse were the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, immigration, EU relations, and social policies. Finland is not a NATO member but the lessons learned from studying the coordinated harrassment can be generalized to the alliance.