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In 1965, Popular Hot Rodding magazine bought a $250 '57 Chevy for a test bed, to try out various drag racing parts and tuning techniques. It was called Project X back then, here's a capsule history, https://www.motortrend.com/features/57-chevy-project-x-history/

upstart writes:Dubai dawns a new wave of renewable technology with its MBR Solar Park:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.htmlA team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Research Center on Human Evolution, has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. In their study, reported in Journal of Human Evolution, the group analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.The fossils were excavated at a site in Hualongdong, in what is now a part of East China. They were subsequently subjected to both a morphological and a geometric assessment, with the initial focus on the jawbone, which exhibited unique features-a triangular lower edge and a unique bend.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be this coming Friday, August 11th, 2023 at 20:30 UTC (1:30pm PDT, 4:30pm EDT) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when available.The agenda for the upcoming meeting will come out within the next few days, 24 hours or more before the meeting. The agenda is expected to cover, at a minimum, actions arising from the previous meeting, such as exploring the formation of a new entity, and janrinok's report on management structure.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information can be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceCall for experts: The committee is calling for experts with relevant knowledge of entity formation to attend the meeting. Their advice may be helpful to the committee and the greater community going forward and would be greatly appreciated.As always, the community is welcome to observe and participate and is hereby invited to come and do both. SoylentNews is People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:AI-powered brain implants restore touch and movement to paralysed man:

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upstart writes:Standing 40 cm high and 70 cm wide, the semi-transparent display has translations pop up simultaneously on the screen as the station staff and a foreign tourist speak:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/musks-boring-company-gets-ok-to-dig-68-miles-of-tunnels-under-las-vegas/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-08-art-roman-revealed.html

owl writes:https://computer.rip/2023-07-29-Free-Public-WiFi.html

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/microsoft-cloud-security-blasted-for-its-culture-of-toxic-obfuscation/

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hubie writes:Scientists have discovered that the recoil created by the flexible arch of human feet helps position our legs in the optimal posture for moving forward in bipedal walking:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/08/researchers-figure-out-how-to-make-ai-misbehave-serve-up-prohibited-content/

upstart writes:AWS to charge customers for public IPv4 addresses from 2024:

upstart writes:Egg 'signatures' allow drongos to identify cuckoo 'forgeries' almost every time, study finds:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/reddit-beats-film-industry-wont-have-to-identify-users-who-admitted-torrenting/

DannyB writes:What to know about the ban on incandescent lightbulbsRetailers can no longer sell the banned lightbulbs as of Aug. 1

upstart writes:Tesla's secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints:

evilcam writes:Following a study published in October which claimed the discovery of a room-temperature superconductor, the academics that wrote and co-wrote the paper have been accused of falsifying their data, as well as attempting to cover up their deception.From Nature:

Two recent news items seem to be at cross purposes, just a little bit.:First the WaPo (and other outlets) report that 7 major car companies are joining to install 30,000 new fast battery electric car chargers (Tesla currently has 22,000), with both CCS and Tesla-style plugs, https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/07/26/ev-fast-charger-gm-hyundai-honda-kia-bmw-mercedes/ [or https://archive.is/C4Uih ]Then going back a month or so, we see New York power grid strained by rapid electrification, this link to PBS, plenty of other outlets for this news as well, https://www.wamc.org/news/2023-06-15/nyiso-electrification-causing-surge-in-power-demand

upstart writes:Bringing back extinct molecules to fight modern bacteria:

upstart writes:Eager scientists and a gleaming lab awaits:

upstart writes:A team of researchers suggests the space observatory just spotted "dark stars"-theoretical stellar objects powered by dark matter:

owl writes:https://medium.com/re-form/x-to-close-417936dfc0dc

upstart writes:Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess:

upstart writes:As Twitter destroys its brand by renaming itself X, Mastodon user numbers are again soaring:

hubie writes:A team of researchers from around the world is urging the international community to recognize the full environmental and health threat of plastics:

hubie writes:Five subtypes of heart failure that could potentially be used to predict future risk for individual patients have been identified:

upstart writes:Russia Sends Cybersecurity CEO to Jail for 14 Years:

Stanford University President, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, has resigned after a university investigation found that he had fostered an environment that led to "unusual frequency of manipulation of research data and/or substandard scientific practices" across labs at multiple institutions.The review focused on five major papers for which he was listed as a principal author, finding evidence of manipulation of research data in four of them and a lack of scientific rigor in the fifth, a famous study that he said would "turn our current understanding of Alzheimer's on its head."The Stanford investigation did not find that Dr. Tessier-Lavigne personally altered data or pasted pieces of experimental images together. Instead, it found that he had presided over a lab culture that "tended to reward the 'winners' (that is, postdocs who could generate favorable results) and marginalize or diminish the 'losers' (that is, postdocs who were unable or struggled to generate such data)."A cynical Soylentil might see Dr. Tessier-Lavigne in much the same way as Al Capone who was only found guilty of tax evasion. Who benefited from falsification "across labs at multiple institutions"? It's well past time to put the scientists back in science and rethink the funding system that rewards the bullshitters.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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hubie writes:Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have shown that it can be cheaper to run heavy goods vehicles on electricity than on diesel:

This is a summary report from the SoylentNews PBC meeting of Monday, July 31, 2023. An IRC log of the full text of the meeting (from channel #meeting) is available, as well as a log of the related discussion (IRC log of #meeting-discuss channel).[Ed. note: the # sign gives problems so here they are in plain text, feel free to left click and open in a new window]

upstart writes:Vendors knew all about it, but most customers were clueless:

hubie writes:Robots and Rights: Confucianism Offers Alternative:

upstart writes:ESA awards contract for demo of plane-tracking satellites:

upstart writes:Robots-and then humans-are going back to the lunar surface. Here's what they'll be doing:

upstart writes:Does Intel need the money?

upstart writes:Ivanti rushes to patch zero-day used to breach Norway's government:

Greetings, Soylentils!I am told by those who know, that 75% of the posters here are still from theoriginal group of people that formed the community when we left Slashdot andcreated Soylent News. So some of you may remember me (Audioguy, #25) from thattime.Newer people may not know me, as I tend to be pretty quiet most of the time.Mostly I just read the news articles, and quietly do bits of sysadmin work inthe background to keep the site up.Only when I feel the core values of our community project are in danger, or itsvery existence is threatened, do I come out very publicly, and at such times Ican be QUITE vocal.Now is such a time.I am about to do something which would not only have been uncontroversial, butnormal here until the last six months. In the present climate it will probablypiss a few people off.I am going to update the community on exactly what has been going on behind thescenes here.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes:A sailor and his dog found after months stranded in the Pacific:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/twitter-took-x-handle-from-longtime-user-and-only-offered-him-some-merch/

upstart writes:Ironically, despite America's Cold War fears of being nuked by the Soviet Union, the only government that ever nuked us (and nuked us quite a bit) was our own: