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upstart writes:Besides the well-known tastes of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami, recent research proposes that the tongue might also detect ammonium chloride as a basic taste:

PiMuNu writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66964510I thought this was an interesting, albeit extreme, example of how the data that phone software harvests can be used for evil purposes. In this case it's a loan software that harvests contact data.

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A submitter with no name writes:While there are a number of small robot lawn mowers on the market, I think they mostly mow randomly inside a fenced off area (the fence may be a buried wire with an AC carrier signal?) Designed for mowing one residential lawn, and not using any sort of optimal mowing path.Now Honda is demoing a battery powered zero-turn mower that can be trained by a human mowing a big lawn once. Multiple mowing jobs can be stored in memory for future playback. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptN-qrEGqX0 Clearly designed for landscape contractors and other commercial mowing services.They claim various AI features, but from the looks of it, this is limited to safety--stopping if the machine senses people and/or new objects in the stored mowing path. From the YT text:

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hubie writes:Researchers Find Hidden Micro-Stressors in Routine Driving:

upstart writes:NASA's Psyche metal asteroid mission launches this week: Here's what you need to know:

hubie writes:https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.021032

upstart writes:An algorithm that takes just seconds to scan a paper for duplicated images racks up more suspicious images than a person:

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Unity CEO John Riccitiello is Retiring, Effective Immediatelyupstart writes:Former EA CEO will be replaced in interim by James Whitehurst from IBM/Red Hat:

looorg writes:ATARI releasing a "new" game for the 2600 console. 46 years in development, there wasn't just active development, have got to be some kind of record in and by itself.Sold in the classic box and cartridge form. Clearly targeting the collector-market since it's just 500 copies. I'm not sure you'll get your $60 worth tho. It doesn't look very good or appear to be overly interesting as a game. It's not Pitfall.Perhaps this isn't a surprise, or should come as one. After all it seems the game market today is in large just remaking the same titles over and over again, remaking and "updating" previous titles etc. In that sense starting to release games for long dead consoles is perhaps not that far fetched.https://www.engadget.com/atari-is-releasing-a-new-cartridge-for-its-46-year-old-2600-console-183922523.htmlOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Result confirms time-dilation expectations of Einstein's general relativity:

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upstart writes:The Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs:

upstart writes:Records reportedly belong to millions of users who opted in to a relative-search feature:

hubie writes:People with dementia still have the ability to learn new things despite their illness:

hubie writes:'Very online' Gen Z and millennials are most vulnerable to fake news:

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hubie writes:In eye-tracking study, half of participants look only at date:

upstart writes:Paleontologists find first molecular evidence of ginger pigment molecules in fossil frogs:

looorg writes:What is a photography anyway?"World's first AI art award ignites debate about what is photography."The artists won the world's first artificial intelligence art award at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale with a life-like image of sisters cuddling an octopus, which was created using computer prompts, instead of a camera."Many people say my pictures make them uncomfortable ... When I explain that AI creates them as a kind of collage... many laugh, others are distressed and find them disgusting... "https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/world-s-first-ai-art-award-ignites-debate-about-what-is-photography-20231004-p5e9td.htmlOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Somehow, advanced Triada malware was added to devices before reaching resellers:

upstart writes:Tom Hanks has warned an advert that appears to be fronted by him is in fact an artificial intelligence (AI) fake:

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upstart writes:Amazon really doesn't want to show anyone what its Internet satellites look like:

upstart writes:One of the early pioneers in computing, the company disappeared in the late 1990s:

upstart writes:Oldest evidence of human cannibalism as a funerary practice:

hubie writes:Dogs and humans process body postures similarly in their brains:

hubie writes:People endorse conspiracy theories due to complex combination of personality traits, motivations:

upstart writes:"VAR!" 100 years ago tonight, Edwin Hubble found a star that revealed the vastness of the Universe:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/we-now-know-how-cats-purr-why-they-purr-is-still-up-for-debate/

upstart writes:Magneto X "levitates" the tool head on magnetic linear motors:

hubie writes:Fear of being exploited is stagnating our progress in science:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/10/4chan-pushing-bing-dall-e-as-quick-methods-to-spread-racist-images/

upstart writes:The annual Draconid meteor shower peaks this weekend, and viewing conditions are favorable this year.:

upstart writes:"It's really spectacular to have all that material there":

owl writes:https://searchengineland.com/youtubes-crackdown-on-ad-blockers-intensifies-432213

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upstart writes:X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2:

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fliptop writes:Some gas station owners are falling victim to a sophisticated scam. Scammers are using cellphone's Bluetooth option to hack the pump - and get it for free:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/covid-anti-viral-drug-is-actively-helping-sars-cov-2-mutate-and-evolve/

"dalek" writes:As recently as less than a year ago, NASCAR stated it planned to implement hybrid engines in 2024. Although rumors indicate that this timeline may have changed, IndyCar has successfully tested the hybrid engines it will begin using in 2024, and NASCAR probably won't be too far behind. A hybrid engine simply means that it's powered from more than one source of energy, usually a combination of gasoline and electricity.Formula 1 began using hybrid power units in 2014, which are powered both with gasoline and electric power, and use fuel more efficiently than cars without hybrid components. F1's experiences with hybrid power units and their mistakes could provide some guidance for how other racing series might switch to hybrid engines. Chain Bear provides an excellent discussion of how F1 power units work. They still contain an internal combustion engine, but the efficiency is increased and energy is recovered in a few ways.F1 engines are turbocharged, meaning that energy from exhaust getting expelled is used for forced induction. This means that the air in the intake is compressed, and the combustion is more efficient than in a naturally aspirated engine. However, the turbo requires a high exhaust pressure, meaning that there is a lag between when the car accelerates and when the turbo can operate efficiently, which is known as turbo lag. One of the hybrid components is the MGU-K (K for kinetic energy), which captures energy through regenerative braking. Instead of energy being lost as heat during braking, the energy is used to charge the energy store, which is usually a capacitor or a battery. Another component is the MGU-H (H is for heat), which captures energy from the exhaust as it goes through the turbo, and can charge the energy store. The MGU-H can also put energy into the turbo during acceleration to avoid turbo lag.The last time F1 ran a points race on a true oval track was the 1960 Indianapolis 500, only going to street circuits and road courses since then. These tracks usually have hard braking zones, providing frequent opportunities to capture energy during braking. Even without the MGU-H, F1 cars have many opportunities to capture energy during a lap.NASCAR runs a few races each year on road courses, and some short ovals like Martinsville and Gateway also have hard braking zones. This is a combination of high speeds on relatively long straights and much slower speeds through corners with small radii and low banking. Regenerative braking would work well at these tracks. However, most other oval tracks do not require nearly as hard of braking, limiting the opportunity to capture energy through regenerative braking. For hybrid engines to have an effect without hard braking zones, energy will need to be captured in other ways these tracks. Despite the lack of a turbo, the obvious solution would seem to be capturing energy from exhaust heat while on throttle.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform: