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05 Oct

What to read this weekend: Preventing an asteroid apocalypse, and Cult of the Lamb’s first arc wraps up

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.HarperNormally a book described as being largely about a teen love triangle wouldn’t be something I’d reach for, but I decided to give this one a go after reading many glowing reviews, and found myself drawn in by Louise Erdrich’s prose right away. There is a love triangle, yes, but The Mighty Red is about much more than that. It covers a lot of ground, including the struggles of a farming community facing economic recession, land degradation and concerns about the chemicals being used to keep the land productive. The…

01 Oct

23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

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Kteily says by the time the company rolled out these services, it was too late. Customers had already left the platform. “I think they hit on something viral, which was the concept of where you’ve come from. People found that so fascinating. But once you know that information, you’re not going to come back five years later and pay for a subscription,” he says.Sumit Nagpal, a serial entrepreneur in the health tech space and a self-described early adopter of 23andMe, says he was among the company’s subscribers but eventually stopped logging into the online platform. He says the reports didn’t…

01 Oct

Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor Industry

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A spokesperson for Sibelco said: “As of September 26th, we have temporarily halted operations at the Spruce Pine facilities in response to these challenges.“We are working closely with our local team to safely restart operations as soon as we can and are actively coordinating with local authorities and other partners to manage the situation. Our top priority remains the health, safety, and wellbeing of our employees, as well as ensuring the security of the Spruce Pine facility.”Quartz Corp did not reply to an immediate request for comment from WIRED.Viral social media posts have claimed that due to the flooding, global…

24 Sep

The AI Boom Is Raising Hopes of a Nuclear Comeback

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For five years, reactor one at Three Mile Island nuclear power station in Pennsylvania has lain dormant. Now, thanks to a deal with Microsoft, the reactor will start running again in 2028—this time to exclusively supply the tech firm with oodles of low-carbon electricity.It’s all part of an ongoing flirtation between Big Tech and nuclear power. In March, Amazon Web Services agreed to buy a data center powered by Susquehanna nuclear power station in Pennsylvania. At an event at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned small modular nuclear reactors as one potential source of energy…

24 Sep

I Tried These Brain-Tracking Headphones That Claim to Improve Focus

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One afternoon I was using the device for a little over an hour when I heard a voice in the headset: “You’ve earned a brain break.” Alcaide says the device can detect when your focus is starting to decline and that this feature is meant to help people avoid burnout. “We can tell you when to take a break once we start detecting that your brain is fatiguing,” he says. I didn’t feel fatigued, but I went ahead and took a 10-minute break at the app’s suggestion.Another day, I collected 200 points in a day and earned a trophy with…

21 Sep

Live episode: will AI make a good companion? – podcast

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In a special episode recorded live at the British Science Festival, Madeleine Finlay and guests explore the question: will AI make a good companion? AI could give us new ways to tackle difficult problems, from young people’s mental health issues to isolation in care homes. It also raises challenging questions about the increasing role of tech in our personal lives. To explore these questions, Madeleine is joined by the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample; Tony Prescott, a professor of computational robotics at Sheffield University; and Dr Mhairi Aitken, an ethics fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and visiting senior lecturer…

20 Sep

Master Git in 30 Minutes: Unlock Essential Terms and Commands for Efficient Collaboration

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“Understanding the technical jargon used in software development is crucial before diving into advanced commands.” If you agree, then you're in the right place. Learning the Git workflow and its core concepts will significantly boost your productivity when managing your code with the Git version control system on a daily basis. Unlocking the Power of Git Git, like other Version Control Systems (VCSs), tracks different versions of the same data or file type. What sets Git apart from other VCSs is its distributed nature, also known as a Distributed Version Control System (DVCS), where every developer machine serves as both…

16 Sep

A new report raises concerns about the future of NASA

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from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) expresses some serious concerns about the future of America’s space exploration agency.The NASEM report was written by a panel of aerospace experts and lays out what it sees as a possible "hollow future” for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It addresses issues of underfunding due to “declining long-term national emphasis on aeronautics and civil space,” that NASA itself is aware of and agrees with. The report also notes that NASA’s problems extend far beyond having enough funding to carry out its missions and operations.Some of the report’s “core…

15 Sep

The Polaris Dawn crew is back on Earth after a historic mission

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The Polaris Dawn crew safely returned to Earth early Sunday morning, bringing the historic privately funded mission to a close. The Dragon capsule carrying the mission’s four astronauts — Jared Isaacman, Scott “Kidd” Poteet, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon — splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico around 3:30AM ET.On Thursday, Isaacman and Gillis completed the first commercial spacewalk, each taking a turn to exit the craft and perform a series of spacesuit mobility tests. And with this mission, Gillis and Menon have now traveled farther from Earth than any women before. Polaris reached a peak altitude of about 870…

14 Sep

What to read this weekend: The Night Guest, Is Earth Exceptional? and Into the Unbeing

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New releases in fiction, nonfiction and comics that caught our attention.The Night Guest by Hildur KnútsdóttirAnyone who lives with a difficult-to-diagnose chronic illness and has endured the demoralizing process of trying to get proper treatment can tell you it is, at times, a living nightmare. Advocating for yourself, fighting to be taken seriously; it’s something I’ve dealt with most of my life as a person with autoimmune diseases. So when I read the description of Hildur Knútsdóttir’s psychological horror novel, The Night Guest, it resonated with me immediately:Iðunn is in yet another doctor's office. She knows her constant fatigue is…