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"upstart" writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow4408Satnav watching over rugby players

hubie writes:A memristor (memory resistor) is a hypothetical circuit element that, in principle, would make up the fourth basic circuit element joining the resistor, capacitor, and inductor. One of the more interesting properties of an ideal memristor is that there exists a non-liner relationship between the applied voltage and current which gives rise to non-volatile memory behavior. This has resulted in a lot of exciting research in the semiconductor industry for new and improved memory chips.The hallmark of a memristor is that the non-linear relationship between the electric flux and charge gives rise to a voltage-current plot that exhibits a pinched hysteresis behavior, namely that it looks like a frequency-dependent Lissajous figure that always crosses the plot at the origin. If one takes a step back from solid state devices and defines memristors in terms of this voltage/current behavior, there are a number of biologic-based systems that qualify, including human skin. If skin is a memristor, does that mean that it acts like non-volatile memory? In a new paper published in Nature's open-access journal Scientific Reports, Pabst et al show that this is indeed the case. They applied direct current voltage pulses to various parts of the human skin and show that analog information can be stored for at least three minutes.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:Nvidia has announced its next chip for self-driving cars years in advance:

canopic jug writes:VPNs are a way of stitching together separate networks, often physically separate ones, such that they resemble a single logical network. They are (mis-)used heavily these days on the mistaken premise that the network inside any given firewall is somehow secure and the network outside that firewall is somehow less secure. The idea of not trusting the network at all, the foundation of several of the services developed in the 1980s under MIT's Project Athena, such as Kerberos, is returning. Zero Trust is the new name for the networking concept in which no part of the network is considered secure, whether inside or outside a firewall. The pendulum is swinging back and multiple articles this year cover the fact that Zero Trust Networking is trending.

takyon writes:NASA's X-59 QueSST cleared for final assembly

c0lo writes:Only 6 years after the weathermen needed a new color for just one spot of extreme temperatures on the map, this is how it looks when that color needs to be used for over 30% of the Australia's area. And that for 3 days in a row, starting today, Dec 18 2019 (like, meh, just a balmy 40C in Melbourne at 18:30, she'll be apples).[40C is 104F and 50C is 122F --ed.]Coverage:

martyb writes:iFixit surgeons dissect Apple's pricey Mac Pro: Industry standard sockets? Repair diagrams? Who are you and what have you done to Apple?

martyb writes:Where's our data, Google? Chrome 79 update 'a catastrophe' for Android devs with WebView apps:

takyon writes:What Ancient 'Chewing Gum' Can Tell Us About Life 5,700 Years Ago

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/secret-fisa-court-issues-highly-unusual-rebuke-fbi-mistakes-n1103451

takyon writes:Hugging Face raises $15 million to build open source community for cutting-edge conversational AI

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow4408.Put the crypt into cryptocoin: Amid grave concerns, lawyers to literally dig into exchange exec who died owing $190m

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takyon writes:Gate-All-Around Transistors, Quantum Refrigerators To Be Targeted By U.S. Export Rules

takyon writes:Europe's launch of space telescope called off at last minute

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.npr.org/2019/12/17/788775642/boeing-will-temporarily-stop-making-its-737-max-jetliners

canopic jug writes:Famed hardware hacker Bunnie Huang has published an electronic edition of his Essential Guide to Shenzhen. The PDF version is now available for download free of charge, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. His book is intended to help non-Mandarin speakers navigate the sprawling electronics markets, Hua Qiang Bei, in Shenzen. It specializes in finding components, setting quantities and packaging, agreeing on payments and deliveries, and remembering the vendor's location within the dense mazes.

"upstart" writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow4408.Your workmates might still be reading that 'unshared' Slack document

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Mastercard tests new digital identity service - Help Net Security

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.How Facebook's Political Ad System Is Designed to Polarize

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An Anonymous Coward writes:From the Guardian

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for chromasSustainable sand pulls pollutants from stormwater

canopic jug writes:Bows are more accurate, have greater range, and can fire more frequently than spears. They mostly replaced the spear. In many areas where thrown spears were used for a longer time, a lever known as an atlatl was use to add power to the throws. Some Canadian researchers reckon that if bow use, for example, was learned by children using child-sized bows and arrows, then spear use would be learned by children using child-sized spears and atlatls. Now they seem to have found archeological evidence of that in Par-Tee, Oregon, USA where they have uncovered small, child-sized whalebone atlatls.

c0lo writes:Picked via Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram, the story of a massive electronic vote miscount, luckily paper ballots were available

"upstart" writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Feds prescribe $9m cash injection to counter 5G phobias

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.Ads on Facebook are spreading misinformation about anti-HIV drugs

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://tails.boum.org/news/celebrating_10_years/

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Tech industry asks US court to reconsider net neutrality ruling

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow-Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for carny.Valuable personal info leaks from Facebook – not Zuck selling it, someone stealing hard drive of staff data

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.Max Q: Blue Origin launches a New Shepard and Rocket Lab officially opens U.S. launch site – TechCrunch

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Feds Break Up Illegal Streaming Network That Dwarfs Netflix and Hulu Libraries

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Lofty promises for autonomous cars unfulfilled

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Google Maps has now photographed 10 million miles in Street View

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for chromas.Windows 10 App Starts Showing Ads, Microsoft Says You Can't Remove Them

Fnord666 writes:VISA Warns of Ongoing Cyber Attacks on Gas Pump PoS Systems

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramUS finally giving boot to official foot measurement

Fnord666 writes:Senate Judiciary Committee Interrogates Apple, Facebook About Crypto

Fnord666 writes:Google Achieves Its Goal of Erasing the WWW Subdomain From Chrome

Fnord666 writes:A sobering message about the future at AI's biggest party

Fnord666 writes:Nebula VPN routes between hosts privately, flexibly, and efficiently

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for chromasThe US, like China, has about one surveillance camera for every four people, says report

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for chromasYour Internet Provider Likely Juiced Its Official Speed Scores