The Royal Institution of Australia is a national non-profit hub for science communication, publishing the science magazine Cosmos four times a year. This month they argued that small modular nuclear reactors “don’t add up as a viable energy source.” Proponents assert that SMRs would cost less to build and thus be more affordable. However, when
Read MoreMacworld Work towards a new career in cybersecurity with The Complete 2024 Cyber Security Expert Certification Training Bundle, now just $49.99 (reg. $195). If you’re interested in a lucrative new career, cybersecurity is a great bet. The industry is only growing as cyber threats become more sophisticated and prevalent. A good first step towards joining this evolving field is
Read MoreAugmented reality (AR) tech is getting more and more powerful, the glasses themselves are getting sleeker and prettier, and at some point, hackers have to conquer this frontier and extract as much as possible. [Void Computing] is writing an open source SDK for making use of AR glasses, and, along the way, they’ve brought us
Read MoreCompared to the usual EV power plants, axial-flux motors are smaller and lighter, and have more torque. But they’re hard to make at scale. Now Mercedes is bringing them to the masses.
Read MoreThe outer layers of the sun’s atmosphere are a blistering million degrees hotter than its surface. NASA sent a probe to find out why—by getting closer to the star than ever before.
Read MoreThursday the BBC reported: Plane bodies made by Boeing’s largest supplier regularly left the factory with serious defects, according to a former quality inspector at the firm. Santiago Paredes who worked for Spirit AeroSystems in Kansas, told the BBC he often found up to 200 defects on parts being readied for shipping to Boeing. He
Read MoreMacworld In today’s era of multi-terabyte hard drives and online storage, many of us don’t keep as close an eye on our disk usage as we used to. Still, even the largest drives fill up eventually. If you don’t know how to check your disk space use on your Mac, here’s where to look first.
Read MoreOver the decades web browsers have changed from the fairly lightweight and nimble HTML document viewers of the 1990s to today’s top-heavy browsers that struggle to run on a system with less than a quad-core, multi-GHz CPU and gigabytes of RAM. All but a few, that is. Dillo is one of a small number of
Read MoreAn anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: The “world’s largest” plant designed to suck planet-heating pollution out of the atmosphere like a giant vacuum began operating in Iceland on Wednesday. “Mammoth” is the second commercial direct air capture plant opened by Swiss company Climeworks in the country, and is 10 times bigger than its
Read MoreWhat’s solder for, anyway? It’s just the stuff that sticks the parts to the PCB. If you’re rapid prototyping, possibly with expensive components, and want to be able to remove chips from the board easily when you spin up the next iteration, it would be great if you didn’t have to de-solder them to move
Read MoreThis week, The Register reported: If you are still running RHEL 7, which is now approaching a decade old, there’s good news. Red Hat is offering four more years of support for RHEL 7.9, which it terms Extended Life Cycle Support or ELS. If you are running the free version, CentOS Linux 7, that hits
Read More“Google’s business is growing at its fastest rate in two years,” reports CNBC, “and a blowout earnings report in April sparked the biggest rally in Alphabet shares since 2015, pushing the company’s market cap past $2 trillion. “But at an all-hands meeting last week with CEO Sundar Pichai and CFO Ruth Porat, employees were more
Read MoreRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 has been released. But also released is Rocky Linux 9.4, reports 9to5Linux: Rocky Linux 9.4 also adds openSUSE’s KIWI next-generation appliance builder as a new image build workflow and process for building images that are feature complete with the old images… Under the hood, Rocky Linux 9.4 includes the same
Read MoreIf you’re anything like us, you really, really miss having a physical keyboard on your phone. Well, cry no more, because [Joe LiTrenta] has made it possible for any modern smartphone whatsoever to have a detachable, physical keyboard and mouse at the ready. [Joe] calls this creation the BlueBerry. The keyboard/mouse combo in question is
Read MoreNo major US app developers have chosen to opt in to new App Store rules allowing outside links for payments, because there is effectively no savings, Apple told a judge during testimony on Friday. Epic’s battle with Apple continues Apple had revised its rules following the original Epic lawsuit, which Apple largely won in 2021.
Read MoreScreenshot: Ghost of Tsushima Steam, Epic, and Green Man Gaming are reportedly canceling and refunding preorders of the PC port of Ghost of Tsushima for buyers who live in over 170 countries without PlayStation Network access, reports Eurogamer. That’s despite the fact that arguably the most important part of the game is still playable without
Read MoreNo major US app developers have chosen to opt in to new App Store rules allowing outside links for payments, because there is effectively no savings, Apple told a judge during testimony on Friday. Epic’s battle with Apple continues Apple had revised its rules following the original Epic lawsuit, which Apple largely won in 2021.
Read MoreBrian Shelton’s type 1 diabetes was treated with an infusion of insulin-producing pancreas cells (grown from stem cells). In 2021, the New York Times reported: Now his body automatically controls its insulin and blood sugar levels. Shelton, now 64, may be the first person cured of the disease with a new treatment that has experts
Read MoreSlashdot reader quonset writes: The last floppy disk was manufactured in 2011. Despite no new supplies being available for over a decade, there are still people, and organizations, who rely on floppy disks. Each has their own story as to why they rely on what is essentially 1970s technology. From the BBC: Tom Persky, a
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority On Monday, OpenAI is holding an event that could see an announcement about a new multimodal digital assistant. Being multimodal would allow the assistant to use images for prompts, such as identifying and translating a sign in the real world. This would be a direct threat against Google’s digital
Read MoreManaging Type 1 diabetes is a high-stakes balancing act — too much or too little insulin is a bad thing, resulting in blood glucose levels that deviate from a narrow range with potentially dire consequences on either side. Many diabetics choose to use an insulin pump to make managing all this easier, but as a
Read MoreManaging Type 1 diabetes is a high-stakes balancing act — too much or too little insulin is a bad thing, resulting in blood glucose levels that deviate from a narrow range with potentially dire consequences on either side. Many diabetics choose to use an insulin pump to make managing all this easier, but as a
Read MoreBrian Shelton’s type 1 diabetes was treated with an infusion of insulin-producing pancreas cells (grown from stem cells). In 2021, the New York Times reported: Now his body automatically controls its insulin and blood sugar levels. Shelton, now 64, may be the first person cured of the disease with a new treatment that has experts
Read More“Does a levitating robot train on the moon sound far-fetched?” asks LiveScience. “NASA doesn’t seem to think so, as the agency has just greenlit further funding for a study looking into the concept.” The project, called “Flexible Levitation on a Track” (FLOAT), has been moved to phase two of NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program (NIAC)
Read MoreThe Dillo browser dates back to 1999, writes the Register, with its own rendering engine. And now Dillo “has returned with a new release, version 3.1. “It’s nearly nine years after version 3.05 appeared on the last day of June 2015.” Version 3.1 incorporates dozens of fixes and improvements, as the official announcement describes. Project
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