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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:With MWC 2020 canceled, most new Android phones face a tough debut:

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martyb writes:How bird flocks with multiple species behave like K-pop groups:

takyon writes:Threadripper 3990x brings more CPU threads than Windows Pro can handle

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Igor Sfiligoi sent in a story submission which was the inspiration for:Second GPU Cloudburst Experiment Yields New Findings

Coward, Anonymous writes:Facebook starts fact-checking partnership with Reuters:

DannyB wrote in with a story which was the foundation for:South Korea's government explores move from Windows to Linux desktop

Nuke writes:The construction of HS2, a high speed rail link between London and the north of England, has been approved. The announcement was made by Boris Johnson yesterday. Phase 1, due for completion in 2028 at the earliest, will be between London and Birmingham; Phase 2, due in 2035 at the earliest, will be two separate lines onwards to Manchester and Leeds.The trains will travel at up to 250 mph. They will otherwise be conventional, and will take electrical power from overhead catenary. The line will have connections with existing ones, enabling some trains to continue at lower speeds to further destinations, such as Liverpool and Scotland.The routes will be broadly parallel with existing ones, which are generally running at full capacity. Rail passenger travel in the UK has greatly increased in recent years and this, rather than the reduction in journey times, is the main driver for the project.Note : It is called HS2 because it is the second high speed line in the UK, HS1 being the link from St. Pancras International railway station in central London to the Channel Tunnel.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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FatPhil writes:http://www.ajudaily.com/view/20200207175148638Video discussed in the story is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oglnV2P_QBI (in Korean).

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Cascade:People Are Jailbreaking Used Teslas to Get the Features They Expect:

martyb writes:SpaceX brings on NASA's former top spaceflight official as it prepares to launch first astronauts:

martyb writes:Each year, the GSMA (GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) Association) holds three MWC (Mobile World Congress) events. The next is MWC Barcelona and is scheduled for 24-27 February 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. The next event scheduled for this year is MWC Shanghai 2020, scheduled for 30 June - 2 July 2020 in Shanghai, China. And rounding out 2020 is the last event, MWC Los Angeles, California on 28-30 October 2020.Since 2011, MWC Barcelona has been known as the GSMA Mobile World Capital. It is the oldest and largest of the MWC series, so some of the largest mobile product announcements occur at this event. The 2018 event attracted attendees around the world. Approximately half of the attendees hold senior positions in their firms. In other words, in the mobile market, MWC Barcelona is a "Really Big Deal."That was all history. The recent outbreak of the 2019-nCoV Coronovirus has made quite a stir worldwide. Major players in the mobile arena are concerned about sending their representatives to a venue with approximately 100,000 attendees drawn from all around the world.Major companies in the mobile space have recently announced plans to either skip MWC Barcelona entirely or, in some cases, make presentations remotely. These include: including Intel, TCL, Sony, Amazon, Samsung, Nvidia, Ericsson Vivo, and MediaTek among many others.[...] It will be "interesting" to see what the follow-on effects will be from the reduced attendance. The June MWC is scheduled for Shanghai (a major city in China - the country that is the apparent source of the 2019-nCov coronoavirus and imposing major quarantines trying to stem its spread). Thus, unless 2019-nCoV is brought under control in record time, things do not look good for those who were diverted from Barcelona to look forward to making up the difference 4 months later. That leaves waiting for MWC LA at the end of October, or making more one-on-one connections to work out buying and selling decisions.[Editors' Note: The World Health Organisation has formally renamed the virus to COVID-19]Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

quietus writes:Germany's economy nowadays emits as much carbon dioxide as it did in the 1950s, when it was 10 times smaller.According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), carbon dioxide emissions trends for 2019 suggest clean energy transitions are underway. Global power sector emissions declined by some 170 Mt, or 1.2%, with the biggest falls taking place in the advanced economies of the European Union, Japan and the United States. There, CO2 emissions are now at levels not seen since the late 1980s, when electricity demand was one-third lower.In these advanced economies, the average CO2 emissions intensity of electricity generation declined by nearly 6.5% in 2019. This is a rate three times faster than the average over the past decade.This decline is driven by a switch from coal to natural gas, a rise in nuclear power and weaker electricity demand, combined with the seemingly unstoppable growth in renewables. These now constitute over 40% of the energy mix in Germany (wind power +11%) and the United Kingdom, where rapid expansion in offshore wind power generation is happening.The bummer lies with the rest of the world.There emissions continue to expand with close to 400 Mt last year. About 80% of that increase is happening in Asia. Coal demand here continues to expand, accounting for over 50% of energy use.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

martyb writes:Windows 7 will not go gentle into that good night: Ageing OS refuses to shut down:

c0lo writes:Ars Technica reports (with nice photos):

martyb writes:Judge approves $26 billion merger of T-Mobile and Sprint:

DannyB writes:'The intelligence coup of the century'In case of paywall...

takyon writes:Samsung Announces The Galaxy Z Flip: Foldable Phone With Glass

takyon writes:SK Hynix has licensed technology that could enable the production of 16-layer High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) stacks. Bandwidth could also be increased by a superior interconnect density:

takyon writes:OneWeb's first large batch of satellites launch on Arianespace Soyuz rocket

takyon writes:A 3D Hentai Camgirl Is Taking Over Chaturbate, and Human Models Are Worried (probably NSFW)

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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following stories from CNBC and cnet:Google's HR head to step down amid tension among employees:

spiraldancing writes:Discovery of a North American apex predator 16 million years older than Tyrannosaurus rex.https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/feb/10/reaper-of-death-t-rex-dinosaur-species-canada:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Choosing common pain relievers: It's complicated: Researchers examine benefits and risks of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:One small grain of moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studies:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Molecular 'switch' reverses chronic inflammation and aging:

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Coronavirus RoundupBoth c0lo and takyon write in with today's coronavirus collection of stories:c0lo writes:Why are children 'missing' from coronavirus outbreak cases?

martyb writes:Wacom Tablet Data Exfiltration Raises Security Concerns:[Editors' Note UPDATE 200211-14:16]: It has been pointed out that this story is a duplicate of a previous story. The editor concerned will be made to sit on the naughty step for 15 minutes.]

martyb writes:Breathing may change your mind about free will: Do you think that you are clicking on that button when your mind decides to do so? Think again:

martyb writes:British Airways 747 just set subsonic speed record for Atlantic crossing:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Equifax: US charges four Chinese military officers over huge hack:

DannyB writes:SpaceX’s first astronaut mission could take off in May

martyb writes:Easter Island society did not collapse prior to European contact, new research shows:

spiraldancing writes:www.phoronix.com

martyb writes:CityU new droplet-based electricity generator: A drop of water lights up 100 small LED bulbs:

[Update: 20200210_181822 UTC] The original source of the story reported the cost of the yacht to be £500; there were conversion errors in the stories quoted here. Click the spoiler for the details:The Telegraph (a UK publication):

hubie writes:Genetic ancestry tests are a multi-billion dollar industry. In exchange for a sample of genetic material, one receives charts and figures mapping them onto popular concepts of race. The problem with this approach is that although there are minor genetic differences that allow geneticists to trace population migrations, these differences don't support the idea that one can sort races on genetic differences alone. Social scientists have argued that given how race definitions have changed over time and place, that race classifications are more a social construct defined more in terms of geographic proximity and cultural norms than they are based on genetics. At the other end of the spectrum is the concept of genetic essentialism. This views the concept of race as being exclusively defined in terms of genetic makeup and how these differences imbue different races with different inherent abilities or liabilities. Genetic essentialist views promote the concept of genetic exclusivity and reinforces racial stereotypes, underpinning negative policies such as eugenics and apartheid.The problem with genetic ancestry testing, apart from the privacy issues that we typically see stories about here, is the inconsistency of analysis and popular misconceptions of what the results mean. With tens of millions of people taking these tests every year, an open question has been what effect these results have on people's concepts of race. Some have argued that they are likely to reinforce a genetic essentialist view of race because the results are broken down into distinct groups and people interpret the results as being objective and authoritative. Others have argued the opposite in that people have a more social construct idea of race when the results do not confirm their experience ("All my life I thought I was German, but I found out I'm actually Italian!").Researchers from the University of British Columbia attempted to answer this question with a paper published in the open access journal Plos One. They conducted a randomized controlled trial where they assembled a group of people who were willing to take a genetic ancestry test and provided half of them with a test. The group was then evaluated to gauge the extent that they supported genetic essentialism ideas. In addition, at the outset the group was also quizzed on their general knowledge of genetics. What the researchers found was that, on average, getting these test results did not change one's views on genetic essentialism; however, when considering a person's overall level of genetics understanding, they found that genetic essentialism ideas were strengthened in people who had lower knowledge of genetics after they received their ancestry test results. "Taking a test thus has a polarizing effect, magnifying differences in essentialist beliefs even further between those with weaker and stronger understandings of the science behind them."Roth WD, Yaylacı Ş, Jaffe K, Richardson L. (2020) Do genetic ancestry tests increase racial essentialism? Findings from a randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE 15(1): e0227399. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0227399Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

canopic jug writes:The presentations from FOSDEM 2020 are online. FOSDEM is an annual, non-commercial conference for Free and Open Source software developers and takes place for two days every year in Brussels, Belgium. This year it was the first weekend in February, Saturday the 1 and Sunday the 2. It is organized by volunteers and aims to promote the use of free and open source software. One beneficial aspect is the many developer rooms where various projects can meet and exchange ideas, plan, discuss, and hack. Participation is free of charge.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.