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takyon writes:AMD announced its first Zen 3 (Ryzen 5000 series) desktop CPUs on October 8.Compared to Zen 2 (Ryzen 3000 series) CPUs, the Zen 3 microarchitecture has higher boost clocks and around 19% higher instructions per clock. A unified core complex die (CCD) allows 8 cores to access up to 32 MB of L3 cache, instead of two groups of 4 cores accessing 16 MB each, leading to lower latency and more cache available for any particular core. TDPs are the same as the previous generation, leading to a 24% increase in performance per Watt.AMD estimates a 26% average increase in gaming performance at 1080p resolution, with the Zen 3 CPUs beating or tying Intel's best CPUs in most games.Ryzen 9 5950X, 16 cores, 32 threads, boosts up to 4.9 GHz, 105W TDP, $800.

Phoenix666 writes:Zoologists uncover new example of rapid evolution in Southeast Asia – meet the Sulawesi Babblers:

AnonTechie writes:Understanding Free Will With Science:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Study Confirms 'Slow Blinks' Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat:

looorg writes:Is Microsoft dropping the subscription model? Next year they'll once again offer Office as a stand-alone product without the need for a monthly subscription payment. You probably won't actually save any money since it will probably cost as much as many months of subs but still it could be nice or an interesting step away, or as a supplement to, the subscription based model. Perhaps it's not all that it's cracked up to be.Is this a way for MS to try and recapture all the users that decided to switch to one of the non-subscription based Office alternatives (e.g. OpenOffice) Because they wouldn't offer this if all was fine in subscription land.New version of Microsoft Office won't require you to pay for a subscription.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Discovery enables adult skin to regenerate like a newborn’s:

DECbot writes:First spotted over at XDA Developers, the US Antitrust Subcommittee has finally released its long awaited report. To the astute, it lists the blatant obvious conclusions.

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Ice-cream in Space! ISS gets a fridge.looorg writes:The ISS is getting a new fridge. So they can keep their Tang chilled or possibly just get something that is more yummy than freeze-dried nutrients sucked thru a straw.No rotating parts, radiation resistance and it can't blow heat out the back like a normal fridge but instead it is going to be hooked up to the existing ISS liquid cooling system.https://www.colorado.edu/aerospace/2020/04/23/new-fridge-could-bring-real-ice-cream-space:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:Five bar and cafe owners arrested in France for running no-log WiFi networks:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus:NASA's James Webb Space Telescope passes crucial launch-simulation tests:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:'Do Not Track' Is Back, and This Time It Might Work:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:OxyContin maker said to be brokering plea deal in criminal probe:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:Coronavirus can survive on skin for 9 hours:

Freeman writes:The wreck of the WWII steamship Karlsruhe may hold lost Russian treasure:

Phoenix666 writes:Russia successfully tests new hypersonic Tsirkon missile:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Hurricane Delta Becomes A Category 4 Storm As Winds Reach 140 MPH:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:Stunning Bronze Age statuette with a tattooed face and a bone mask found in Siberia:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Trump's return means more anxiety for White House reporters:

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DannyB writes:Cellmate: Male chastity gadget hack could lock users in:

takyon writes:Elon Musk's SpaceX wins a $149 million Pentagon contract to build missile-tracking satellites

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:This rare bird is male on one side and female on the other:

acid andy writes:500,000 sharks may have to die in the fight against COVID-19

An Anonymous Coward writes:Eddie Van Halen, Hall of Fame Guitarist Who Revolutionized Instrument, Dead at 65 :

Phoenix666 writes:Holy lockdown! The Batman and Dune movies’ releases delayed:

Phoenix666 writes:Cisco Ordered to Pay $1.9 Billion in Cybersecurity Patent Infringement Case:

takyon writes:DDR5 is Coming: First 64GB DDR5-4800 Modules from SK Hynix

AnonTechie writes:Black hole breakthroughs win Nobel physics prize:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow639:Apple sues recycler for allegedly reselling 100,000 devices it was hired to scrap

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Gemini South's high-def version of 'A Star is Born':

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Custom-made UEFI bootkit found lurking in the wild:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:John McAfee Indicted for Tax Evasion:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow0495:Clinical Trials Hit by Ransomware Attack on Health Tech Firm:

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RandomFactor writes:Researchers at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Notre Dame, University of Florida, and Ohio State Universities have identified genes that regulate the process of neuron regeneration in some animals.

takyon writes:Nvidia has announced a cheaper version of its $99 Jetson Nano developer kit. The Jetson Nano pairs a quad-core Cortex-A57 ARM CPU with 128 Maxwell GPU cores. The new model has 2 GiB of RAM instead of 4 GiB, drops one of the four USB ports (which may be USB 2.0 instead of 3.0), and drops DisplayPort output.Elsewhere at NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference 2020:NVIDIA Online GTC 2020 Kicks Off Today But No Open-Source Linux Announcement Expected

MrPlow wrote in with a submission, via IRC, for nutherguy.US Senate to issue subpoenas for Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Sundar Pichai:

AnonTechie writes:The 2020 NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for guy_:Facebook leak hints at its defense against a government-ordered breakup:

martyb writes:Pain Relief Caused by SARS-CoV-2 Infection May Help Explain COVID-19 Spread:

MrPlow wrote in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow639.It Takes Hackers 1 Minute To Find And Abuse Credentials Exposed On Github - Comparitech:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:One family's five-year battle for a terminally ill's mother's choice on how to die:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:'Naked' shark was born without skin or teeth in world first:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Publishers Worry as Ebooks Fly off Libraries' Virtual Shelves:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow639:Google announces crackdown on in-app billing, aimed at Netflix and Spotify:

RandomFactor writes:Discover has an article up discussing ongoing work on the the coming quantum internet.