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guest reader writes:First demonstration of universal control of encoded spin qubits:

upstart writes:It'll allow researchers to develop a 'a mechanistic understanding of how the brain works':

guest reader writes:Hackaday has a story about a simple non-scientific calculator that packs an Alwinner A50 tablet SoC and the Android operating system:

upstart writes:FISA Oversight Board Member Says Americans Need More Privacy Protections As Congress Debates Section 702 Reauthorization:

upstart writes:The pioneering project cuts cement from the recipe and replaces it with industrial waste and carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere:

upstart writes:To check that atomic weapons work, scientists run simulations of explosions using high-energy lasers—and Russia is building the strongest one of all:

upstart writes:Resulting in the birth of several mice that were produced without mothers:

upstart writes:And scientists have only seen four percent of the data so far:

SSD Reliability is Only Slightly Better Than HDD, Backblaze Saysupstart writes:A surprising outcome for the first SSD-based AFR report:

hubie writes:Our brain has its own GPS and it helps us navigate by detecting the movements of the people around us:

upstart writes:Wildfire Smoke Eroded Ozone Layer By 10 Percent In 2020: Study:

upstart writes:IQE says collapse in smartphone sales may wipe one-third off revenue in first half of 2023:

guest reader writes:The Register has a story about a Python compiler called Codon that turns Python code into native machine code without a runtime performance hit.:

upstart writes:Millions of pieces of debris orbit the Earth, prompting scientists to call for a legally binding treaty to address our planet's mounting orbital trash problem:

Freeman writes:Last month, Volkswagen garnered plenty of bad publicity when it emerged that the company's connected car service refused to help track a stolen car—with a 2-year-old child still on board—until someone paid to reactivate the service. Now, the automaker says it's very sorry this happened, and it's making its connected vehicle emergency service free to most model-year 2020-2023 Volkswagens.

hubie writes:A new study suggests that too much – or too little – office noise has a negative effect on employee well-being. The sweet spot? About 50 decibels, comparable to moderate rain or birdsong.

upstart writes:Why Do Some Modern Computers Still Have Serial Ports?:

quietus writes:Last week, Denmark has stored the first volumes of carbon dioxide in an old oil and gas field in the Danish North Sea. The carbon dioxide sequestered comes from a chemical production plant (Ineos Oxide) in the Port of Antwerp, Belgium.Since 2010, Ineos Oxide has captured CO2 as a by-product from its ethylene oxide (plastics) production, cooled it down to a liquid, and resold the product to the food (fizzy drinks, beer) and agricultural (greenhouse cultivation) industry. Now, instead, part of this production was transported to Nini, a previously abandoned oil platform about 200 km in front of the Danish coast, and injected 1,800 meters deep.The test project, named Greensand, needs to prove that the process is possible, and safe. The modified transport vessel used, Aurora Storm, can only take 800 ton CO2 per traject; it will have to shuttle back and forth between Antwerp and Denmark about 20 times, enough for 15,000 ton, this year alone. The project will be upscaled to 1.5 million ton a year by 2025.By 2030, 8 million ton a year is planned, or about half the carbon dioxide emitted by Antwerp's chemical cluster, the largest in Europe. This, however, requires investments in new offshore infrastructure, and larger transport ships known as CO2 carriers.The Greensand project is racing behind another project though. That project is called Northern Lights, and aims to be able to store 1.5 million ton a year, by next year, 2024. Northern Lights is a partnership between Shell, Equinor and Total, and supported by Norway's government Langskip (Longship) CCS project.The EU has set a target of capturing and storing a minimum 300 million ton CO2 a year by 2050.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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hubie writes:A new measure can help scientists decide which estimation method to use when modeling a particular data problem:

upstart writes:Monday's collision avoidance maneuver steered the International Space Station away from a presumed Earth-imaging satellite launched in 2020:

takyon writes:The Time Russians Really Did Target Americans With Microwaves

The Moon or Bust, Says NASA, After Successful Test Flightupstart writes:Heat shield sustained more damage than expected, but this shouldn't discourage astronauts:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/wikipedia-ai-truth-duckduckgo-hopes-so-with-new-answerbot/

fliptop writes:Instead of outputting in plastic, this printer builds models that you can eat:

upstart writes:Newly spotted 50-meter asteroid tops Risk List:

guest reader writes:The results of the great DB debate on The Register were announced. Although it was a close-run race, and RDBMS was well ahead at several points during the week before a late surge for graph DBs yesterday. Over 2,000 readers voted. This debate is a part of the current spotlight on databases.Our first contributor, arguing FOR the motion, was Andy Pavlo, associate professor of databaseology at Carnegie Mellon University. Pavlo's starting point on Monday was that graph DBMSs are "fundamentally flawed and, for most applications, inferior to relational DBMSs."Jim Webber, Neo4j's chief scientist and a professor of computer science at Newcastle University, arguing AGAINST, said in his rebuttal that he could not back the idea that "relational can do anything" and rejected the assertion that graph databases cannot properly support views and migrations.Then, on Wednesday, Pavlo threw down the gauntlet, stating that abandoning the relational database model would be akin to "reinventing the wheel." He also doubled down on a public wager he'd previously made that graph databases won't overtake relational databases in 2030 by marketshare. He has promised that if he loses, Pavlo will replace his official CMU photo with one of him wearing a shirt that says "Graph Databases Are #1."Webber then countered this in his Thursday argument, noting that the pending standard for graphs, GQL, is overseen by the same ISO committee that delivered SQL. If SQL extensions were enough to solve the graph problem, the committee wouldn't have bothered itself, he seemed to be saying. Instead, it decided graphs were different enough to warrant a full query language.Webber also mentioned: In late 2010, I visited former colleagues at the University of Sydney, Australia. I gave a talk on graph databases and ended it by lightheartedly saying something like, "This technology category is going to catch on. You're going to ignore it for now, but in about a decade you will become interested and start telling us that we've done it all wrong."Several papers from CIDR 2023 were cited in the discussion.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Results come from a lab that had an earlier superconductivity paper retracted:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/musk-apologizes-for-mocking-and-firing-twitter-exec-with-muscular-dystrophy/

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/02/how-8086-processor-determines-length-of.html

hubie writes:Study suggests that judgmental forecasting of trends in time-series data, such as weekly sales data, is lower when the information is displayed in bar chart format as opposed to a line graph or point graph:

Woodherd writes:Better prospects are needed in universities and industry to make the most of valuable talent:

upstart writes:Rather than obtaining a warrant, the bureau purchased sensitive data:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/03/tesla-under-new-federal-investigation-for-steering-wheels-that-detach/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/moderna-ceo-says-private-investors-funded-covid-vaccine-not-billions-from-govt/

upstart writes:Hiatus hacking campaign has infected roughly 100 Draytek routers:

upstart writes:The gene-editing tool is being tested in people, and the first treatment could be approved this year:

upstart writes:A large percentage of employees are dissatisfied with their experience of joining a company:

upstart writes:There's never enough time or staff to scan code repositories:

fliptop writes:BlackLotus represents a major milestone in the continuing evolution of UEFI bootkits:

mhajicek writes:https://www.science.org/content/article/ai-re-creates-what-people-see-reading-their-brain-scans

Snotnose writes:Seems the DHS has a secret program to spy on American citizens

Woodherd writes:Hubble In Trouble As Satellite Trails Start Affecting It Too

hubie writes:Coastal city residents would like to do more to reduce their single-use plastic waste and they are trying to recycle more:

upstart writes:Roman Telescope Will Do in Months What Would Take Hubble a Lifetime:NASA is still a few years away from launching the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, but a new study explores what this groundbreaking space observatory will be able to do. Unlike the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes, which zero in on small patches of the sky, the Roman Telescope will be designed to take a wider view of the cosmos. According to the researchers, it would take Hubble decades to see what Roman will be able to see in a few months.The Roman Telescope passed a critical design review in 2021 and is currently under construction at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with the aim of launching it aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket in 2027. When complete, it will have two instruments: a coronagraph for visualizing exoplanets and a wide-field camera with a 300.8-megapixel resolution. It's the latter that will allow the Roman Telescope, which will use a 2.4-meter mirror similar to Hubble, to perform both wide and deep sky surveys.[...] "Roman will take around 100,000 pictures every year," said Jeffrey Kruk, a research astrophysicist at Goddard. "Given Roman's larger field of view, it would take longer than our lifetimes even for powerful telescopes like Hubble or Webb to cover as much sky." Specifically, the study says it would take Hubble 85 years to do what Roman will do in 63 days. However, Roman won't be ideal for precision observations of specific objects. Webb and Hubble will still be vital for that kind of work, but Roman can help nail down observational targets that could solve long-standing mysteries about galactic evolution.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:AstroAccess is on a mission to make it possible for disabled people to live and work in space:

A couple of unrelated Zoom stories submitted by users:Porn Zoom bomb forces cancellation of Fed's Waller eventAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.reuters.com/world/us/feds-waller-virtual-event-canceled-after-zoom-hijack-2023-03-02/

upstart writes:For the second time in four months, the Facebook and Instagram parent company could axe thousands of staff:

upstart writes:Iberians were using heavy metal on hard rock way before it was cool:

fliptop writes:On April 1, Amazon will be permanently closing some of its Amazon Go stores in major cities on both coasts: