180267213
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bobdevine writes:
A Chinese group found superconductivity up to 96 K under high pressure in bilayer nickelate single crystals. The difference is that they synthesized the material at ambient pressure.
180014006
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bobdevine writes:
Univ. of Utah found and old 9-track tape that might be the only full copy of V4 Unix from 1973.
It will be analyzed at the Computer History Museum.
179875012
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bobdevine writes:
A worker fell into a reactor pool at the Palisades plant in Michigan. Scary quote: "They ingested some amount of cavity water."
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm...
178394432
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bobdevine writes:
Linux desktops reach 5% of market share in the USA.
https://ostechnix.com/linux-re...
178000737
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bobdevine writes:
12 years ago a baby was born after somebody used bitcoin to pay for a frozen egg IVF.
https://money.cnn.com/2013/06/...
"I, for one, welcome ..."
174798052
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bobdevine writes:
Linux continues to (slowly) grow.
173213442
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bobdevine writes:
Linux gained from 3% to 4% in 8 months.
https://linuxiac.com/linux-cro...
172588971
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bobdevine writes:
"In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1"
