Comment Women and children hit worst (Score -1) 48
Take your pick.
Would someone, please, think of the children?!
Comment 41? (Score -1) 1
designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials
I love, that it is a prime number!
Submission + - The world's tallest chip defies the limits of computing: goodbye to Moore's Law? (elpais.com) 1
dbialac writes: Building chips up instead of smaller may be a solution to the problems encountered with modern semiconductors.
Xiaohang Li, a researcher at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, and his team have designed a chip with 41 vertical layers of semiconductors and insulating materials, approximately ten times higher than any previously manufactured chip. The work, recently published in the journal Nature Electronics, not only represents a technical milestone but also opens the door to a new generation of flexible, efficient, and sustainable electronic devices. “Having six or more layers of transistors stacked vertically allows us to increase circuit density without making the devices smaller laterally,” Li explains. “With six layers, we can integrate 600% more logic functions in the same area than with a single layer, achieving higher performance and lower power consumption.”
Comment Re:TIL (Score 0) 265
I'm an IT professional, not a "geek" or a "nerd". I find such terms to be hateful speech.
Comment I don't want an EV, though. What I want... (Score 1) 130
...is more Hybrid choices. The Ford Fusion Hybrid was one of the best cars I ever owned. Low maintenance, reliable and phenomenal gas mileage. For me to do an EV, I'd have to invest in new service and electrical work to my home. There aren't many charging options in my area. And I think that there's a whole lot of people like me in the market. I feel like hybrid cars/trucks never really got developed further when E came out with the Tesla. Car companies jumped all over the market and moved on from other technologies that worked NOW for a larger market segment.
Comment Wildfire Protocol (Score 1) 37
Comment Re:You don't "know" what Chris would say. (Score 1) 127
And you don't know either. I'm more inclined to believe the scores that knew him and reacted positively.
Comment Their biggest security issue (Score 3, Informative) 39
..is their Secretary of Defense.
Comment Re:At least he's honest? (Score 1) 73
I suspect he doesn't know about - or thinks most people don't know about - ad blockers, and so offering a browser that has more relevant ads will attract people who hate the irrelevant ads but figure they're unavoidable.
Obviously, for those of us who are smart about adblocking, who almost never see ads we don't agree to see, it's stupid.
But shockingly, there are probably plenty of people who will happily sign up for that "improved" experience.
Comment Re:That's not how it's supposed to work. (Score 2) 99
You know, you make good arguments, except they're irrelevant to this case.
The police used the DNA markers found from testing the blood left in knife sheath and found a strong connection to the defendant's father using those databases.
Once the connection was established, they did a cheek swab test and the DNA found on the knife sheath on the crime scene was confirmed to be his.
I'd say that was pretty good detective work, and anything but circumstantial.
Comment SSI, a division of Lumon Industries (Score 1) 69
"The work we do is mysterious and important."
Comment Really have to stop just glancing at the headlines (Score 3, Funny) 51
Got really worried there for a sec, read it as HP to aquire parts of humans and immediately thought "Holy shit, they beat everyone to the AI punch and let Skynet loose".
Comment Re:For profit electric rates (Score 3, Interesting) 72
Interestingly enough, you glossed over the graph lower in the page, in the section titled Size Matters.
PG&E delivers 78 million MWh annually to over 16 million people across 70,000 square miles. The scale of public power operations is much smaller. For example, Silicon Valley power (City of Santa Clara in the graphs) delivers 4.4 million MWh to approximately 60,000 customers across a more densely populated 18 square miles.
They list the miles of transmission and distribution lines running through High Fire Threat District (HFTD) areas as compared to the other power providers.
The investor-owned utilities dwarf the public-owned utility companies, because they have vastly larger infrastructure (and costs) to serve far more customers along significantly larger areas.
Looking at the Net Income for PG&E, they made $2.242 billion in 2023, or roughly $140/person/year in the entire market they serve.
Since PG&E's rates have to be approved by the California Public Utilities Commission, who is made up of 5 commissioners appointed by CA Governor Gavin Newsom, well... they're getting what they voted for.
Comment Government's "War on Fat" (Score -1) 303
The consequences of the big government's War on Fat will be felt for generations. The loving and caring lesser governments even went so far as to outright banning butter in public schools...
Libertarians hate being proven right...
Comment Should be spending on defeating Russia (Score -1) 120
USSR — and then Russia — were/are the supporters and often outright instigators of most of the world's terrorism and other evil.
All efforts should be aimed on defeating that first and foremost.
If the Ukrainians are on the tip of that spear today, they must not lack for weapons, supplies, nor other support.
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