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3 days agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Corsair’s first-ever gaming laptop has a touch bar
Corsair, after having been a leader in the desktop space for decades, is releasing its first-ever gaming laptop. The new Voyager a1600 is an AMD powerhouse, equipped with both Ryzen 6000-series processors and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series. The device is Corsair’s first venture into mobile hardware after acquiring the enthusiast PC builder Origin in 2019.
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9 days agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
'Night-time solar' technology can now deliver power in the dark
UNSW researchers have made a major breakthrough in renewable energy technology by producing electricity from so-called ‘night-time’ solar power. The team from the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering generated electricity from heat radiated as infrared light, in the same way as the Earth cools by radiating into space at night.
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10 days agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Kim blasts pandemic response as North Korean outbreak surges
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un criticized officials over slow medicine deliveries and mobilized the military to respond to a surge in suspected COVID-19 infections, as his nation struggled to contain a fever that has reportedly killed dozens and sickened nearly a million others in a span of three days.
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10 days agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
The dramatic untold story of what happened inside Apple after Steve Jobs died and Tim Cook and Jony Ive took over is told in a new book
When Apple founder and impresario Steve Jobs died in 2011, there were two competing narratives that dominated the conventional wisdom about the prospects for the company.
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2 weeks agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Humanity will go to Mars 'in this decade,' SpaceX president predicts
A crewed Mars mission could happen sooner than you think. Astronauts will likely make it to the Red Planet's surface before the end of the 2020s, SpaceX President and Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell told CNBC's Shepard Smith recently.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Netflix aims to curtail password sharing - and bring in ads
An unexpectedly sharp drop in subscribers has Netflix considering changes it has long resisted: Minimizing password sharing and creating a low-cost subscription supported by advertising. Looming changes announced late Tuesday are designed to help Netflix regain momentum lost over the past year. Pandemic-driven lockdowns that drove binge-watching have lifted, while deep-pocketed rivals such as Apple and Walt Disney have begun to chip away at its vast audience with their own streaming services.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Biden administration to require U.S.-made steel and iron for infrastructure projects
The Biden administration is taking a key step toward ensuring that federal dollars will support U.S. manufacturing — issuing requirements for how projects funded by the $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package source their construction material.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Nasa climate scientist who was arrested speaks about his tearful protest
Peter Kalmus was among a group of scientists who chained themselves to a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles in protest of the bank’s financing of fossil fuels
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov's $735 million superyacht Dilbar — the largest in the world — has been impounded in Germany
Germany's Federal Police have seized the largest megayacht in the world after determining it to be owned by the sister of Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov. The police said they were able to reveal the actual owner following an investigation into "offshore concealment," and that the yacht would remain at a shipyard in Hamburg.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Apple Says Plan for Nearly 50% Commission on Metaverse Purchases 'Lays Bare Meta's Hypocrisy'
Apple has responded to Meta's plan to take a nearly 50% commission for digital asset purchases made inside the metaverse after complaining about fees in the App Store, calling the decision hypocritical.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
5 ways to Reuse and Recycle your old gadgets in 2022
How to Recycle your old gadgets in 2022? E-waste (Electronic waste) has become one of the most common problems across the world where disposing of your old device can become a headache. Most people exchange their old devices when they buy a new one.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
West Virginians Gear Up for "Coal Baron Blockade" at Joe Manchin's Coal Plant
Since Sen. Joe Manchin has blockaded Democrats’ landmark Build Back Better climate and jobs legislation, at least 400 West Virginians and allied activists say they are planning to return the gesture in kind by blockading Senator Manchin’s family business at the Grant Town Power Plant on Saturday, April 9.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
NASA begins critical final test on mega Moon rocket
NASA on Friday began a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a simulated countdown, as the agency gears up to return humans to the Moon. Known as the "wet dress rehearsal," it is the final major test before the Artemis-1 mission this summer: an uncrewed lunar flight that will eventually be followed by boots on the ground, likely no sooner than 2026.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Maybe comets didn’t bring Earth its water, it was made here
A question scientists have asked is, where did all that water come from? Many have pointed to the abundant water in the cometary belt and said there is where it came from. Some have hypothesized that somewhere in the first 500 million years after the Earth formed, it was hit with millions of icy comets. It is a popular hypothesis taught as fact, in high schools, and colleges, despite the only significant evidence for it is there is water there and here.
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
The System Shock remake is nearly finished, and we got a peek at its completed arsenal
Change the name, and I suspect Nightdive's remake of System Shock could pass for an entirely new game in 2022. There are a few telltale signs it has roots in a 1994 PC game, like the hotbar on the bottom of the HUD packed with gear and the grid-based inventory. The pipe hacking minigame is perhaps a dead giveaway. The pump action on the pulse rifle's reload animation, on the other hand, makes System Shock look like a wholly new shooter, as does the electricity that arcs off a cyborg...
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1 month agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Obi-Wan Kenobi to Premiere May 27 with Two Episodes
We’ll soon say “Hello there!” to Obi-Wan Kenobi — a little later than expected, but with a surprise bonus. Ewan McGregor, star of the Disney+ limited series as the titular Jedi Master, announced today that Obi-Wan Kenobi will now premiere on Friday, May 27. Instead of just one episode, however, fans will be treated to the first two installments at launch, with subsequent episodes debuting each Wednesday.
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1 month agoAnalysis weekendhobo
Algae-produced oil may be a greener, healthier alternative to palm oil
Palm oil is a very widely-used food ingredient, but its production has a huge environmental impact, plus it may not be entirely healthy to consume. A greener, "lower-fat" alternative could be on the way, however, in the form of oil produced by algae.
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2 months agoCurrent Event weekendhobo
Apple's M1 Ultra Benchmarked: 2.6X Slower Than AMD's Threadripper Pro 5995WX
As more Apple's Mac Studio desktops end up in the hands of curious end-users, more details about their performance and features emerge. This time around someone has run PassMark Software's CPU benchmarks on a Mac Studio equipped with Apple's 20-core M1 Ultra processor. The chip demonstrated very good single-thread performance, its general CPU performance was ahead of most desktop CPUs, yet it could not compete against high-end workstation-grade processors.