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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:800,000 years ago a huge meteorite struck Earth. We might have just found its crater:

aristarchus writes:So it seems that AI is a big thing, especially predictions on how it will kill us all. But the Boston Review currently has a rather interesting article on the ethics of algorithms.

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:2019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Cogent cut off from ARIN Whois after scraping net engineers' contact details and sliding them to sales staff:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/amazons-ring-fired-at-least-four-employees-for-snooping-on-user-videos/

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RandomFactor writes:The European Patent Office has rejected two patent applications filed on behalf of an AI by researchers. The AI is named DABUS ('device for the autonomous bootstrapping of unified sentience'),

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/paul-krugmans-no-good-very-bad-internet-day/

takyon writes:Testosterone treatment should be given only for sexual dysfunction, guideline suggests

takyon writes:What Is Thunderbolt 4? Tiger Lake Tech Isn't Faster, Thunderbolt 3 With a New Name

hendrikboom writes:Thought the Y2K bug was over and done with? Read the New Scientist article A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now and think again!

Phoenix666 writes:How a chunk of human brain survived intact for 2600 years:

An Anonymous Coward writes:China has sent armed vessels and fishing boats into Indonesian waters fueling tensions between the nations in another move by China to try to claim ownership of the region. With China now deliberately sending vessels into the waters of other countries, their actions may be seen as the start of armed hostilities. For years China has made political and financial maneuvers to claim control over other nations through debt and intimidation. Indonesia has refused to negotiate with China on the matter as they see the actions as China invading their territory. With both sides bringing both sky and sea vehicles into the region the outcome of this issue may be a deciding point to determine whether or not China will be pushed out of the region. While the ruling by the UN is very clear about the region, China refuses to accept it.China appears to have forgotten why the UN was formed in the first place. Japan learned a hard lesson in 1945.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Phoenix666 writes:Researcher promoting red meat, sugar failed to disclose industry ties—again:

canopic jug writes:Digital Rights/Restrictions Management (DRM) technologies affecting new tractors are behind the continuing rise in popularity of the models. Particularly in the midwest, farmers are finding that 40-year-old tractors do the job with less trouble and expense.

NPC-131072 writes:From ZDNet:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Phoenix666 writes:Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress against Lung Cancer:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/5-5-inch-dragon-horn-grew-out-of-mans-back-from-unaddressed-skin-cancer/:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Study: More than a third of healthcare costs go to bureaucracy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Animal life thriving around Fukushima: Researchers document more than 20 species in nuclear accident zone:

barbara hudson writes:The Guardian is reporting that the effects of child privation are lifelong.

MostCynical writes:The Guardian is reporting that a cyber-attack forced currency exchange firm Travelex to take down all its global websites. Travelex is based in London, but is owned by Finablr, which is based the United Arab Emirates. Travelex operates in more than 70 countries with more than 1,200 branches and 1,000 ATMs worldwide.

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Anonymous_Coward:New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:China's lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:PGP keys, software security, and much more threatened by new SHA1 exploit:

Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to Chinatakyon writes:Samsung Phones Said to Come with Chinese "Spyware" Phoning Home

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Ditching coal in the US is saving lives, helping crops:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Anonymous_Coward:US finally prohibits ISPs from charging for routers they don't provide:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Finding a new way to fight late-stage sepsis by boosting cells' antibacterial properties:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Moon lost its magnetic field 1B years ago after its 'internal dynamo' ended, study finds:

c0lo writes:The Verge, Techcrunch, and the BBC report on Sony unveiling a (EV, what else?) concept car at the CES tech show. From The Verge:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Unpatched US government website gets pwned by pro-Iran script kiddie:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Which is larger? Yours, or mine? Australia or the United States of America, that is. With the bushfires in Australia out of control incinerating large swathes of the country a map was produced to visually depict how widespread the fires are. For emphasis the map was overlaid on top of America to give people an idea of the scope of the problem Australia is dealing with. Americans responded with disbelief that Australia was just as large as the USA. People were also in shock over how large an area, measured by size of US states, are currently burning. Responses on social media show how shocked and dumbfounded people were learning this.

Phoenix666 writes:CNet:

Phoenix666 writes:The Register:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Backdoors and Breaches incident response card game makes tabletop exercises fun:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:I spy, with my little satellite AI, something beginning with 'North American image-analysis code embargo':

martyb writes:Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake:

martyb writes:Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth:

takyon writes:AMD has announced its new Ryzen 4000-series mobile APUs for laptops, including 8-core parts for both 15W and 45W TDPs. The new chips all support up to 64 GB of LPDDR4X memory.At the 15W TDP, Ryzen 7 4800U has 8 "7nm" Zen 2 cores (16 threads), and 8 "7nm" Vega graphics compute units (CUs) which perform better than the 11 Vega CUs from the previous generation, due in part to a much higher 1750 MHz clock speed. There is also an 8c/8t/7CU Ryzen 7 4700U, 6c/12t/6CU Ryzen 5 4600U, 6c/6t/6CU Ryzen 5 4500U, and 4c/4t/5CU Ryzen 3 4300U.At the 45W TDP, Ryzen 7 4800H has 8c/16t at a 2.9 GHz base frequency (compared to 1.8 GHz for the 4800U), but only 7 graphics CUs. Ryzen 5 4600H has 6c/12t with 6 CUs, and the Ryzen 7 4800HS is identical to 4800H except for a lower TDP, and will be an ASUS exclusive chip for the first six months.At the low end, there are two new Zen-based 15W laptop chips, a 2 core, 4 thread Athlon Gold 3150U, and a 2 core, 2 thread Athlon Silver 3050U.AMD's 64-core Threadripper 3990X will be available on February 7th for $3,990, double the price of the 32-core TR 3970X. A 48-core version was not mentioned.AMD has launched Radeon RX 5700M and RX 5600M discrete GPUs for laptops to complement the RX 5500M that was previously launched. A mid-range Radeon RX 5600 XT desktop GPU was also announced.Also at cnet.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E Moniker for 802.11ax in the 6 GHz Spectrum

RandomFactor writes:A new method, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, could allow NASA's James Webb telescope to detect oxygen molecules in exoplanet atmospheres (a potential indicator of life).

Coward, Anonymous writes:Vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs, pronounced vixels) are high-power workhorses with applications from laser printing to LIDAR sensing. But their geometry, which consists of large alternating layers, presents fabrication difficulties, limiting the devices' output colors.In new research, scientists built An electrically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor green laser.