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Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be Friday, August 25th, 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 be published when available. In the meeting we plan to discuss mechanicjay's report on different entity types and the first draft of the bylaws, which was posted to janrinok's journal previously.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceOur community is encouraged to observe and participate, and is therefore invited to the meeting. SoylentNews is, after all, People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Rocky Mudbutt writes:Collecting charge from a ribbon of single layer graphene, with a pair of diodes at the nanometer scale is a novel approach to converting heat to electricity.Scitechdaily.com article on Non Linear power capture

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upstart writes:Modders just changed GPU overclocking forever:

hubie writes:Positive Reviews Signal Film Will Be A Flop; Negative Reviews - a Hit:

hubie writes:Autonomous Products Like Robot Vacuums Make Our Lives Easier. But Do They Deprive Us of Meaningful Experiences?

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Freeman writes:OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content:

upstart writes:Google announces new algorithm that makes FIDO encryption safe from quantum computers:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/08/datapoint-to-8086.html

hubie writes:Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes:

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taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-zinc-air-batteries-future-powering-electric.htmlZinc-air batteries have emerged as a better alternative to lithium in a recent Edith Cowan University (ECU) study into the advancement of sustainable battery systems.ECU's Dr. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar led the project which discovered lithium-ion batteries, although a popular choice for electric vehicles around the world, face limitations related to cost, finite resources, and safety concerns. The work is published in the journal EcoMat.

upstart writes:And this time nobody got sued:

dw861 writes:As reported by The Verge

upstart writes:To Battle New Threats, Spy Agencies to Share More Intelligence With Private Sector:

upstart writes:Study of traditional society in Amazon suggests why evolution hasn't purged harmful variant:

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takyon writes:Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon

upstart writes:But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible:

hubie writes:Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA:

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taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/smart-rust-estrogen-pollution-water/Estrogen can harm aquatic plants and animals when passed into waterways via human and agricultural waste streams. Researchers have now developed a new way of removing the hormone from water, however, using what's known as "smart rust."Developed by scientists at Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, smart rust takes the form of spherical iron oxide (aka rust) nanoparticles that are covered in phosphonic acid molecules. The molecules protrude from the surface of the spheres like hairs. By binding different compounds to the ends of those hairs, it's possible to make them adsorb different types of waterborne pollutants.The iron oxide particles themselves are superparamagnetic, meaning they're attracted to magnets but not to one another. This quality keeps them from clumping together - so they can be thoroughly mixed into tainted water - while also making it possible to subsequently remove them from that water simply by swirling a magnet through the liquid.[...] Due to the fact that estrogen molecules consist of a large steroid body with a slight negative charge, he coated smart rust particles with two types of molecules. One of these has particularly long "hairs," while the other is positively charged. When combined on the surface of the iron oxide spheres, these molecules form multitudes of estrogen-trapping pockets.When tested on water spiked with estradiol, which is the most potent type of estrogen, the new form of smart rust successfully removed the hormone from that water. Further research will now explore how well the technology works in real-world conditions, and how many times the particles can be reused.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Company that makes rent-setting software for landlords sued for collusion:

upstart writes:YouTube tightens thumbscrew to crack down on ad-blockers:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-installs-laser-communication-system-psyche-asteroid-probe/When NASA's Psyche probe launches in October on its mission to a metal asteroid as much as 309 million miles (497 million km) from Earth, it will be carrying a new laser communications system that promises to revolutionize deep space missions.

upstart writes:The data collection feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it during installation:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/ongoing-scam-tricks-kids-playing-roblox-and-fortnite/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/an-iowa-school-district-is-using-chatgpt-to-decide-which-books-to-ban/

hubie writes:If other visual cues are missing, ants build higher nest hills to facilitate homing of foraging nest mates:

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hubie writes:Particularly if it is an expensive premium product:

looorg writes:To improve productivity in the office MS-Office is getting a new UI ... or well it's getting a new default font and some new colours anyway. No more yellow! How this will improve productivity or make people write or calculate or power-point better is probably unclear, it's probably not even the purpose. This seems like change for the sake of change.Unfortunately they are making the default font a non-serif font again, but they are changing the name cause you can't have a font named "Beer Town" as the default font. Bring back Times New Roman!https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831190/microsoft-office-new-default-theme-font-release-dateOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be Friday, August 18th, 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 be confirmed pending confirmation of who will be attending. The SoylentNews PBC board has been invited to attend and clarify some things about the transition in structure. We also plan to work on the future bylaws of SoylentNews.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information can be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernancePer usual, the community is encouraged to observe and participate and is hereby invited to the meeting. SoylentNews is People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Gaaark writes:From: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-gun-evidence-gravity-gaia-wide.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/isps-complain-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard-urge-fcc-to-scrap-new-rule/

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hubie writes:A unique record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript:

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[Note from the Moq Website: Moq (pronounced "Mock-you" or just "Mock") is the only mocking library for .NET developed from scratch to take full advantage of .NET lambda expressions that make it the most productive, type-safe and refactoring-friendly mocking library available. JR]upstart writes:Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data:

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upstart writes:Private jet owners have long waited for their flight information to be unavailable to the public, and Congress might grant them that: