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hubie writes:Scientists find that a short break to look away from screen every 20 minutes improves symptoms of eye strain for computer users:

Starlink Activated in Irantakyon writes:Elon Musk activates Starlink for Iranian citizens after US Sec of State issued a General License

DART Impacts Asteroid on September 26takyon writes:NASA Invites Media to Witness World's First Planetary Defense Test

An Anonymous Coward writes:SEIS, the Mars lander's seismometer, has picked up vibrations from four separate impacts in the past two years:

upstart writes:Chips "going... down in price is a story of the past," CEO says:

upstart writes:Meta Faces Mounting Questions from Congress on Health Data Privacy As Hospitals Remove Facebook Tracker – The Markup:

upstart writes:One of the Best-Preserved Dinosaurs Of All Time Found in Canada - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:GM invests in Canadian battery recycler to fight supply shortage:

An Anonymous Coward writes:In September 2022 private data for around 9 million Optus users was stolen.

upstart writes:San Francisco police can now watch private surveillance cameras in real time:

upstart writes:SETI Researchers Have Begun Scanning the Backgrounds of Images for Alien Signals - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Spain hits Glovo with €79m fine for labour law breaches:

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upstart writes:AB 2273 could be a sea change for online privacy:

upstart writes:NASA 'encouraged' by tanking test for SLS moon rocket, but launch plan is still in flux:

upstart writes:Researchers Claim to Solve the Mysteries of the Antikythera Mechanism - ExtremeTech:

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upstart writes:Europe's top court chalks up more strikes against bulk data retention:

takyon writes:F.D.A. Warning on NyQuil Chicken Alerts Many to Existence of NyQuil Chicken

upstart writes:US officially added to WHO's list of poliovirus outbreak countries:

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upstart writes:There is no "software supply chain":

takyon writes:New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune's Rings in Decades

takyon writes:AMD Ryzen 5 7520U, Ryzen 3 7320U and Athlon Gold 7220U Mendocino processors unveiled for entry-level thin and light laptops

hubie writes:Refreezing poles feasible and cheap, new study finds:

upstart writes:Hertz to purchase 175,000 General Motors EVs over the next five years:

upstart writes:The last man selling floppy disks says he still receives orders from airlines:

upstart writes:Telegram Has a Serious Doxing Problem:

Nvidia Announces the RTX 4090, 4080 (16 GB and 12 GB), and Moretakyon writes:At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the company announced its first "Lovelace" GPUs for consumers: the RTX 4090 ($1600), RTX 4080 16 GB ($1120), and RTX 4080 12 GB ($900). The graphics cards are made with TSMC's N4 process, and support AV1 encoding and DLSS 3 upscaling.The RTX 4090 comes with 24 GB of GDDR6X VRAM, and launches on October 12. Performance of the 4090 should be at least 60-70% higher than the RTX 3090 Ti, or higher in some cases (raytracing performance should be better than doubled). However, Nvidia is claiming up to quadruple the performance when using DLSS 3, which will not be made available on RTX 20/30-series GPUs due to an apparent requirement of fourth generation Tensor Cores and a newer version of "Optical Flow Accelerator". The new version of Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) can generate entire frames, similar to video interpolation.The RTX 4080 variants differ in both core counts and VRAM capacity, leading to a significant performance gap between them, and will launch sometime in November. The 4080 16 GB has nearly 27% more CUDA cores and 46% higher memory bandwidth than the 4080 12 GB. The GPUs also use different dies (AD103 and AD104). This could lead you to believe that Nvidia has turned the xx70-class card into a "4080" in order to sell it at a higher price.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Hoverbike Makes Its US Debut at Detroit Auto Show - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Human Composting Now Legal in California:

upstart writes:Starlink will ask for exemption to Iran sanctions, says Musk:

JDK 19: the New Features in Java 19upstart writes:JDK 19: The new features in Java 19:

upstart writes:Nvidia's powerful H100 GPU will ship in October:

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upstart writes:The imminent launch of a BlueWalker satellite, with a giant phased array antenna, portends a brightening night sky:

upstart writes:Fossilized vomit tells the tale of an ancient meal:

upstart writes:An IEEE Spectrum opinion piece on the current state of quantum computing:

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upstart writes:Your data may be in danger if you use a spellchecker:

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hubie writes:A new study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that lettuce can take up nanoplastics from the soil and transfer them into the food chain:

upstart writes:Boom's supersonic jet is facing a lack of interest from engine suppliers:

upstart writes:YouTube caught drowning viewers in unskippable ads:

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upstart writes:First light at the most powerful laser in the US:

upstart writes:SEC Charges VMware with Misleading Investors by Obscuring Financial Performance:

hubie writes:New study shows a fast transition to clean energy is cheaper than slow or no transition:

takyon writes:There will be no more Pentium, Pentium Gold, Pentium Silver, Celeron, etc. branded mobile/laptop CPUs starting in 2023:"Intel Processor" Replaces Pentium & Celeron Brands