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hubie writes:When employees leave their jobs, coworkers call it quits: UBC study:

upstart writes:Plastic pervasive in food supply, says new study:

fliptop writes:Google may turn Bard generative AI chatbot into a widget on Pixel smartphones and tablets, according to a 9to5Google code dive report. Bard is publicly available, but only through a web portal. An Android-accessible version, even limited to Pixel devices, could help the company nab more of the market currently dominated by OpenAI and Microsoft through ChatGPT and the ChatGPT-powered Bing:

upstart writes:NASA's Lucy spacecraft adjusts course for asteroid flyby in November:

owl writes:https://www.devever.net/~hl/regmap

upstart writes:The rebirth of Japan's semiconductor industry depends on it:

Helion Energy Will Provide Microsoft With Fusion Power Starting in 2028upstart writes:Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with fusion power starting in 2028:

upstart writes:The 'music of the spheres' was born from the effort to use numbers to explain the universe:

upstart writes:Pearson has already sent out a cease-and-desist letter over use of its intellectual property:

hubie writes:Early crop plants were more easily 'tamed':

upstart writes:ESA taps RISC-V for AI and HPC chip:

upstart writes:Researchers ruled out overexuberant antibodies in an autoimmune response:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/sbf-says-dishonesty-and-unfair-dealing-arent-fraud-seeks-to-dismiss-charges/

takyon writes:Australian lawmakers press US envoy for Julian Assange release

upstart writes:AI can predict pancreatic cancer three years ahead of humans:

upstart writes:Royal Ransomware Expands to Target Linux, VMware ESXi:

upstart writes:Sodium-based batteries could start hitting the market this year, if companies follow through on their plans:

upstart writes:A popular tool for identifying meteorites can destroy scientific information:

takyon writes:Hearing Aids Are Changing. Their Users Are, Too.

upstart writes:A high-profile legal case recently showed how useful dashcams can be, but French regulations are unclear over whether they can be used as evidence:

upstart writes:As the country looks to decarbonize, nuclear’s popularity climbs to the highest level in a decade:

hubie writes:Learning multiple tasks led to cognition improvements that got better with the passage of time:

takyon writes:'Too greedy': mass walkout at global science journal over 'unethical' fees

upstart writes:Pinging Locations - The Hacker Factor Blog:

upstart writes:Paper details previously unknown step in process of converting light energy to chemical energy:

upstart writes:Samsung bans use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT after April internal data leak:

upstart writes:The US Marshals Service claims the shutdown isn't affecting its ability to track down fugitives:

hubie writes:Mechanism for breaching the blood-brain barrier described for the first time:

upstart writes:The biofuel's bipartisan support isn't about science, but politics:

upstart writes:Samsung to unveil first details about SF3 process technology with MBCFETs:

upstart writes:Australia: Woman survives on wine during five days stranded in Australian bush:

upstart writes:The co-creator of the Internet's protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks:

hubie writes:Sex in space is a real possibility with the expected growth in space tourism over the next decade:

upstart writes:AI chatbots oftentimes make headlines for their strange behavior. Nvidia's new software could fix that.:

upstart writes:Millimeter-wave fizzles and regulatory hurdles plague progress:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Australia will create a new privacy commissioner position as part of the ongoing effort to improve privacy laws following devastating data breaches.

upstart writes:Modern technology is helping researchers make new discoveries using old data:

upstart writes:A race to reserve usernames is kicking off on Discord:

quietus writes:"Remind me that the most fertile lands were built by the fires of volcanoes." -- Andrea Gibson, The Madness Vase.Ninety-two (92) percent of Kenya's electricity comes from renewable resources. About 50 percent of all that is covered by the 5 geothermal power stations at Olkaria, near Hell's Gate National Park.That park is just a tiny part of the thousands of miles long East African Rift System, where the Indian, Arabian and African continental plates meet.The big advantage of geothermal power is that it produces a steady base load of electricity -- currently 5GW at Olkaria, with an estimated total 10GW potential.That has aroused the interest of the German government, co-investors and providers of technical expertise for the project. The potential for geothermal power in Germany, through deep (miles deep) drilling is estimated at a quarter of the country's heating needs: before 2030, at least 100 geothermal power projects should be in place.Geothermal energy projects, however, are capital intensive -- the Olkaria project actually started getting steam in the 90s, mainly supported by the Japanese government and the United Nations Development Programme; Germany has been coinvesting for the last 20 years, alongside with the European Investment Bank. Besides, utility-scale solar and onshore wind is hovering at around $35 per MWh, while geothermal currently is slotted around $70 per MWh.However, solar and wind are intermittent sources of energy: if you want to buy reliability, nuclear or coal- and gas-fired plants are your comparison. In an April 2023 comparison, investment bank Lazard comes to an estimated cost, unsubsidized, between $68 and $166 per MWh for coal, $141 and $221 for nuclear, and $61 to $102 per MWh for geothermal energy. Only gas-combined-cycle power generation could potentially be cheaper ($39 to $101 per MWh), for providing base load (see page 2 in the pdf).Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Introducing OURphone—an open-source DIY smartphone made with our favorite SBC:

upstart writes:The decades-old Sullivan's conjecture, about the best way to minimize the surface area of a bubble cluster, was thought to be out of reach for three bubbles and up:

hubie writes:Monkeys are Smarter Than We Thought:

upstart writes:A coalition of more than 50 European consumer and digitals rights groups, smaller ISPs and broadcasters are urging EU policymakers and Member States to reject a controversial network fee proposal being lobbied for by major telcos in the region:

upstart writes:Run your whole system from your GPU:

upstart writes:A sneak peek at Earth's eventual fate:

upstart writes:Boring Company Gets Approval to Expand Las Vegas Tunnels to 65-Mile Network:

upstart writes:Meta's ad business slapped with interim measures in France over suspected antitrust abuse:

upstart writes:As big as a football field and heavier than 200 elephants, de-orbiting the International Space Station represents a monumental challenge:

upstart writes:New process significantly speeds up 2D transistor production:

canopic jug writes:Entertainer Ed Sheeran has been found not guilty of infringing on four chords used in both his song and in Marvin Gaye's hit, "Let's Get It On". The same four-chord sequence is used in a lot of songs and at a key point in the trial a musicologist testified that the same four-chord sequence has been used in popular songs many times prior to Gaye's 1973 hit. The trial took place in Manhattan in New York and the jury took only three hours to reach a unanimous decision. The two songs featured at the trial also have very different lyrics and melodies as well as different use of the common four chords.While the decision does not form a legal precedent, it is likely to affect similar cases in the future.