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canopic jug writes:A long while back, the FCC set a hard deadline of July 13, 2021, for shutting down the last NTSC television transmitters and transitioning channels to being digital fully. The other day, the last of the NTSC transmitters were shut down with hardly anyone commenting, except Hackaday which noted:

upstart writes:How hot is too hot for the human body?:

upstart writes:Siemens Mobility to test hydrogen train on Bavarian rail route:

upstart writes:American west stuck in cycle of 'heat, drought and fire', experts warn:

upstart writes:Planes Sampling Air Above the Amazon Find the Rainforest is Releasing More Carbon Than it Stores - Inside Climate News:

upstart writes:EU unveils sweeping climate change plan:

Eratosthenes writes:Hooray! After millions of astronomers held their breath for a very long time, Hubble is back in action! From Phys.org.

DannyB writes:Curiosity rover discovers that evidence of past life on Mars may have been erased

upstart writes:Google engineer who criticized company in viral comics on why he finally quit:

upstart writes:Surgeon general warns misinformation an 'urgent threat' to public health:

upstart writes:UK Parliament calls for 50/50 streaming royalties split between artists and record labels:

DannyB writes:From Xiaomi has overtaken Apple as the world's second-biggest smartphone seller. Here's how the major players rank.

takyon writes:PINE64 releases a consumer version of the PineTime, its US$26.99 smartwatch

DannyB writes:FAA warns SpaceX that massive Starship launch tower in Texas is unapproved:

upstart writes:Tokyo reports most daily Covid-19 cases in six months as Olympics loom:

upstart writes:California breaks 1 GW energy storage milestone:

upstart writes:United Airlines to buy 100, 19-seat electric planes from Heart Aerospace:

Nearly 800 People Believed to Have Died in Northwest Heat Waveupstart writes:Nearly 800 people believed to have died in Northwest heat wave:

upstart writes:China's Mars rover travels 450 meters on red planet - Xinhua:

upstart writes:Tel Aviv will test dog poop DNA to fine owners who don’t clean up:

Always After Me Lucky Charms writes:NortonLifeLock sniffs around Avast, announces 'advanced discussions' for acquisition:

upstart writes:Dozens killed as severe flooding hits Europe:

Anti-aristarchus writes:NASA is fixing a computer glitch on a giant telescope in space. That's just as hard as it sounds:

Steam Deck is Valve's Switch-like portable PC: Starting at $399 this DecemberFreeman writes:Steam Deck is Valve's Switch-like portable PC, starting at $399 this December

upstart writes:may-they-panick-in-peaceFacebook Users Said No to Tracking -- Now Advertisers are Panicking:

upstart writes:Watch Robots Make Pizzas From Start to Finish at an Automated Pizzeria:

An Anonymous Coward writes:uBlock Origin (and uMatrix) DoS With Strict-Blocking Filter and Crafted URL (Archived).

takyon writes:Russia To Build RISC-V Processors for Laptops: 8-core, 2 GHz, 12nm, 2025

upstart writes:Pesticide caused kids' brain damage, California lawsuits say:

upstart writes:Google fined €500 million in France over bad faith negotiations with news outlets:

upstart writes:They stole prized lumber from a national forest. The trees' DNA proved it, feds say.:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Teardrop star reveals hidden supernova doom:

upstart writes:Firefox 89 delivered more speed:

upstart writes:Alzheimer's symptoms could be due to decline in brain protein not accumulation of amyloid plaques:

upstart writes:Demonstration of World Record: 319 Tb/s Transmission over 3,001 km with 4-core fiber:

upstart writes:Cow manure methane may soon fuel cars, heat homes in Arizona:

upstart writes:Million cubic metre 90GWh thermal storage project in Finland could begin construction next year:

upstart writes:Cerne Giant in Dorset dates from Anglo-Saxon times, analysis suggests:

upstart writes:So happy to see you: our brains respond emotionally to faces we find in inanimate objects, study reveals:

upstart writes:Trouble in Alaska? Massive oil pipeline is threatened by thawing permafrost:

upstart writes:OpenPOWER Foundation | Libre-SOC 180nm Power ISA ASIC Submitted to Imec for Fabrication:

A new driverless, but *not* autonomous, taxi service is starting in Las Vegas, according to https://www.autonomousvehicleinternational.com/news/v2x-news/halo-and-las-vegas-launch-driverless-car-service-powered-by-t-mobile-5g.htmlThis was a new category for your AC submitter--turns out these cars have remote drivers:

upstart writes:Adobe Patches 11 Critical Bugs in Popular Acrobat PDF Reader:

upstart writes:A 'wobble' in the moon's orbit could result in record flooding in the 2030s, new study finds:

upstart writes:Surface of Jupiter's Moon Europa Churned by Small Impacts:

upstart writes:Climate Changed the Size of Our Bodies – And Our Brains:

upstart writes:Harvard-MIT Quantum Computing Breakthrough – “We Are Entering a Completely New Part of the Quantum World”:

upstart writes:FCC speed standard that Ajit Pai never updated is too slow, GAO report says:

An Anonymous Coward writes in with a Hackaday article that points to Analogist:Decoding radio pH capsules with rtl_433:

upstart writes:Johnson & Johnson vaccine linked to rare cases of autoimmune disorder: