NLP (Natural Language Processing): Be it a Voice Assistant(Alexa, Siri) or Voice Prompts while calling customer service.

Automatic Assistance in Cars: Be it Tesla's automation; or more generic automatic braking assist and lane following. It is still sensor input being evaluated for dangers and a computer taking an action that a human would, but usually faster.

Advertisements (Deep Learning): Someone I know walked into a store recently, didn't buy anything, and got a physical mailing the next week thanking them for their visit. The data sharing between phone companies, location services, stores and advertisers is a vast network of interconnectedn-ess that is arguably an AI system.

Computer vision: Camera face identification/tracking and then focusing on that face; Facebook/Snapchat silly face filters; Facebook face identification and name tagging.

What I learned while getting a degree in Cognitive Science, is that AI is a moving target. What you consider mundane computer assistance today, was the future of AI of a decade ago. It seems like we are never there, but AI is everywhere. Granted, it is domain-specific AI, and not General AI(consciousness), but it is still technically the field of Artificial Intelligence. The goal is to replicate aspects of the human mind, which is advancing rapidly, as seen in the above list.

Should be according to the PCWorld article:

"Sunny Cove will also be the first CPU cores to include hardware mitigation for Variant 3 and L1TF side-channel attacks that goose data by exploiting how CPUs prefetch data to improve performance."

**SPOILER**

That reminds me of the glider they used in Seveneves.
If I remember right, It was able to detect wind patterns at a distance and used that to glide up to the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
It would be interesting to build a craft that can increase it's height without propulsion.

Reminds me of this great sci-fi book I just read. If you ever wanted to know what spiders might think about the world.
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Here is Yubico's statement on what features of the Yubikey 4 are affected:
https://www.yubico.com/2017/10...

https://xkcd.com/1897/
Oddly, only from a week or so ago.

Percussion impacts
You can see best from Fig 1. in your link. They aren't randomly flaked, but usually in a pattern of larger to smaller flakes to create a fine edge. And I think the other figures are showing what are known as "hammers" that were used to create the blades. They would show repeated impacts in the same place or scratches in a certain area.

That aren't just random crushed rocks, if you know what you are looking for.

If he is referring to Gregor Mendel(d. 1884), the founder of modern genetics, no they didn't.
They did promote him to be abbot of his abbey, where he didn't have time from science. I guess that's technically a confirmation of the Peter Principle.

This doesn't appear to be like sintering, it is more like welding titanium wire to create the basic form and then milling it to the final dimensions.
To quote Norsk's brochure about why this is better:
"One component of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner requires 40 pounds of titanium to be machined down to each 1 pound that flies on the airplane, illustrating the inefficiency of legacy forging techniques.
Norsk Titanium’s revolutionary additive manufacturing solution preserves the strength and weight benefits of titanium, while reducing processing time and cost up to 75%"

Source: www.norsktitanium.com

I think it's most likely the edge of some Aurora, based on the height off the earth and the changing appearance he showed.

Just like this video: (Which is time lapsed, so much faster movement)

Youtube
or this pic:
Pic

And why are they going thorough the trouble of removing improvements from CFQ?
There is already a choice of schedulers in the kernel. Why not just make an addition one named BFQ?
That seems much safer than mucking with the current default scheduler and potentially breaking performance for a type of workload.

That is interesting, and never thought about that before.

Seeing as that order are all "ground-eating" birds, the reason is probably mostly based on: "Bird that doesn't fly too high when I try to catch it."

As long as it's not the re-awakening of a mantle plume under this!

Siberian Traps

That puts any supervolcanoes to shame.

Although the plates have shifted locations since that eruption.

And a Catholic priest proposed the Big Bang in the first place:

Georges_Lema%C3%AEtre

It was ejected by the scientific community for a while since it was too close to a 'creation' story.

This is not news for people who have been paying attention to such things.

Yeah, I agree. That's your problem there: google map location

Someone needs to go tell that plant to go clean up their act. At the very least, it's wasting methane.