upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series laptop shortages likely as Ethereum hunters in China turn to mobile mining:
hubie writes:Biological swarms are fascinating and even mesmerizing things to watch, as hundreds or even thousands of individual entities behave in a manner such that their collective behavior can act almost as a great organism that responds to its immediate environment. A large and diverse number of organisms exhibit collective behavior, so it is generally assumed that this permits tasks to be achieved that are well beyond what a single individual can achieve while operating without the need for top-down control. There has long been significant interest in understanding how to exploit this in engineered systems such as drone or bot swarms.The challenge in understanding collective behavior is that one normally has to assume a priori a mathematical model to simulate, which means trying to extract rules for how the individual entities interact, and their relative interactions can change depending upon their changing environment. A new paper studied swarms of midges and they argued the case for not worrying about the individual particles, but treating it as a thermodynamics problem.
canopic jug writes:Monday is the 75 annivesary of the introduction of the ENIAC, which is regarded the first general-purpose, fully electronic computer. The original six programmers, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances "Betty" Snyder Holberton, Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum and Frances Bilas Spence worked with a physical interface of switches and wires to implement programs they designed on paper. The process of rewiring the machine could take days. The purpose was mainly to calculate ballistic tables.
MrPlow wrote in with a submission for Fnord666.It reverses a landmark victory for privacy advocates.Border Agents Can Search Phones Freely Under New Circuit Court Ruling - The Verge:
Astronomers Confirm Solar System's Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfaroutmartyb writes:Astronomers Confirm Solar System's Most Distant Known Object Is Indeed Farfarout:
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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo that was the inspiration for the following story:Millions of Ford vehicles will run Google's Android operating system starting in 2023:
Cryptomining Causes Power Outages in Tehrantakyon writes:Tehran Faces Power Outages Due To Massive Crypto Mining Operations Consuming Up To 450 Megawatts, That Much Power Can Power A City Of 100K People
Tesla Buys $1.5 Billion in Bitcoin, Plans to Accept It as Paymenttakyon writes:Musk's Tesla says it invested $1.5 billion in bitcoin, sending the cryptocurrency to record levels near $44,000
NASA's Perseverance, China's Tianwen-1 and UAE's Hope arrive at Mars this montharistarchus and an anonymous submitter write:Seems like the solar system is getting smaller all the time. Three nations are having Mars missions land (hopefully) this month, something that has never happened before. Detail at C|Net, and elsewhere.