US Focuses on Invigorating ‘Chiplet’ Production in the US

Chiplets, a way to design chips for higher performance, has become a key prong of U.S. industrial policy. But pushing for more of this activity domestically is challenging.

Scientists Discover 62 More Moons Orbiting Saturn, Bringing Total to 145 Moons

The satellite haul brings the planet’s total number of moons to over 100 and also means the gas giant takes back the crown as the solar system’s “moon king” from Jupiter.

How the NFL Scheduled 272 Football Games Using 4,000 Virtual AWS Servers

Predicting what fans are going to watch in December, now. What is the NFL up to with AWS and how does it work?

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== or check out this video on the same couple: Unique Couple Depicted in ESPN 30 for 30 Short: ‘The Schedule Makers’

Qbits 30 Meters Apart Maintain Entanglement Across Refrigeration Systems

Experiment linked qubits using a supercold wire over 30 meters long.

The US government wants to recall 67 million airbag inflators

The inflators could reportedly rupture and shoot metal fragments inside the vehicle.

Anthropic’s Claude AI Can Now Digest an Entire Book like The Great Gatsby in Seconds

Claude’s input memory grows to 75,000 words, beating GPT-4 by a wide margin.

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Fake Scientific Papers Are Alarmingly Common

But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture

EU’s Cyber Resilience Act Contains a Poison Pill for Open Source Developers

But the EU commissioners don’t have a clue about how open source software works. Or, frankly, what it is.

Citizen science is helping restore herring populations in B.C.’s Howe Sound

Now in its fourth year, this citizen science project is tracking the herring (Slhawt’ in) that return from the Pacific Ocean in February and begin spawning.

Astronomers detect largest cosmic explosion ever seen

Astronomers have discovered what they believe to be the largest explosion ever detected.

Scientists discover microbes that can digest plastics at cool temperatures

Previously known plastic-eating microorganisms needed industrially unfeasible temps of 86 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Will we ever…hibernate in space?

Taking astronauts to Mars or further will take years. Should they be put into hibernation on the way? There are some surprising health benefits….

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Tipping at Self-Checkout Has Customers Crying ‘Emotional Blackmail’

Self-checkout machines at cafs, sports stadiums, and airports are asking for tips — and customers aren’t happy about giving extra money to machines.

Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise In Small Trial

“This is the first demonstrable success — and I will call it a success, despite the preliminary nature of the study — of an mRNA vaccine in pancreatic cancer,”

Scientists set sail to find out if these ‘unbelievably cute’ marine porpoises still exist

In 2021, there were only about a dozen vaquita marina porpoises known to be alive.

Updated DNA map better reflects human diversity

Scientists have produced an updated map of all human DNA which could help to transform medical research.

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In Parched Arizona, the Produce Gardens Bloom

“I’m recreating my yard in a way that uses less water.”

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Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts

In two landmark experiments, researchers used quantum processors to engineer exotic particles that have captivated physicists for decades. The work is a step toward crash-proof quantum computers.

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Family turns small-town Sask. school into indoor farm ?— and runs a drive-thru for veggies

Nel family dreams of expanding business to teach others, build community

== politicians just never seem to learn that there decisions almost always have unexpected consequences
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You may soon be eating more gene-edited food with Canada’s updated seed rules

Organic sector calls for mandatory registry, says relaxed seed rules puts their produce at risk.

== wonder how nutritious it is?
Researchers Craft a Fully Edible Battery

It has a terrible capacity but shows we don’t need to use toxic materials.

FBI Says It Has Sabotaged Hacking Tool Created By Elite Russian Spies

The FBI has sabotaged a suite of malicious software used by elite Russian spies, U.S. authorities said on Tuesday, providing a glimpse of the digital tug-of-war between two cyber superpowers.

Pearson Taking Legal Action Over Use of Its Content To Train Language Models

Pearson has already sent out a cease-and-desist letter over use of its intellectual property.

‘Mind-boggling’ Methane Emissions From Turkmenistan Revealed

Leaks of potent greenhouse gas could be easily fixed, say experts, and would rapidly reduce global heating

=yjc, I am a fan of cabbage myself, but don’t really need another cookbook Cabbage cookbook author writes big cheque for P.E.I. women’s shelter

When cabbage goes viral, can pumpkins and eggplant be far behind?

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Swiss village of Brienz told to flee imminent monster rockslide

Residents of the tiny Swiss village of Brienz have been told to pack their bags and leave immediately.

Scientists Find Link Between Photosynthesis and ‘Fifth State of Matter’

They saw patterns in the paths of the excitons that looked remarkably familiar. In fact, it looked very much like the behavior in a material that is known as a Bose-Einstein condensate, sometimes known as “the fifth state of matter.”

Can a wind turbine handle hurricane speed winds?

The world’s biggest storms, which whip the high seas into a frenzy or flatten buildings o

The mysteries of Wikenigma

Despite modern technology and scientific advances, there are still many phenomena that remain mysterious and unexplained.

Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis

A new paper showing how water actually travels through a plastic membrane could make desalination more efficient. That’s good news for a thirsty world.

On the trail of the Dark Avenger: the most dangerous virus writer in the world

Bulgaria in the 1980s became known as the ‘virus factory’, where hundreds of malicious computer programs were unleashed to wreak havoc. But who was writing them, and why?

Gene Editing Makes Bacteria-killing Viruses Even More Deadly

The viruses are engineered to damage essential E coli. genes.

JWST captures images of the first asteroid belts seen beyond the Solar System

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to spot strange asteroid belts around the nearby star Fomalhaut, along with evidence for at least three planets

== yjc, never ceases to amaze me what people do with their time and money
This Ontario man’s antique bicycle collection is going to make you rethink your next bike ride

The exhibit has a bike from 1869 and describes why they were called ‘boneshakers’

Altman’s Crypto Project, Worldcoin, Releases First Major Consumer Product

Worldcoin’s “minimalist” wallet, World App, wants to help you prove you’re human in the age of AI.

Yet Another Problem with Recycling: It Spews Microplastics

One recycling facility emits as much as 3 million pounds of microplastics a year.

More than 11.5 million tree seedlings destined for Quebec forests were destroyed last year

Extreme weather conditions led to $3.6M in losses: Ministry of Natural Resources and Forests.

Cosmic-Ray Muons Used to Detect Underground Tombs In Naples

Cosmic rays have revealed an underground Greek tomb in Naples, Italy.

ChatGPT is Powered by $15-an-Hour Contractors

Two OpenAI contractors spoke to NBC News about their work training the system behind ChatGPT.

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Codon Compiler For Python Is Fast - but With Some Caveats

Codon compiles Pythonic code into executables that support parallelism.

‘Faster, Leaner’ Python 3.12 Released Today with Improvements to Speed, Multiprocessing

Improvements to the next (and future) versions of Python are set to speed it up, slim it down, and pave the way toward even better things.

Swift Creator’s Company Builds New Programming Language ‘Mojo’ - a Python Superset

Mojo is a new programming language, based on Python, which fixes Python’s performance and deployment problems.