Comment Re: "if you smash two photons together hard enough (Score 1) 103
Doppler shift? An emitter on a centrifuge maybe
Comment Re:Social networks are for morons (Score 1) 148
The Whitehouse website needs to get a social network like the Locke and Demosthenes part of the Ender's Game books.
Comment Re:Bleach (Score 1) 217
It seems like the modern Trump Party is all about being anti-mainstream. So if the mainstream says something they reflexively insist on refuting it. Thus, goofball medicine gets accepted as fact by these people, causing them to ignore whatever the mainstream says even if it's safe and effective. There's no use of brainpower here except to lash out.
They don't use their brain to lash out either - they invite ridicule and when the sting of it fades they recycle all of the carefully crafted insults from the smarties. It's like everyone has cleverly decided that manipulating others to think for them is the true way.
Comment yeah but (Score 1) 18
Can a frog float on the resulting junction, float upside down?
Comment Re:needs a few decades (Score 0) 58
Eating normal fish is essentially like eating a water filter after having cleansed some water of it's mercury, microplastic, etc. so fish definitely needs to be lab grown.
Submission + - SPAM: What We're Expecting From Google's Custom 'Whitechapel' SoC In the Pixel 6
An anonymous reader writes: It sounds like this custom Google SoC-powered Pixel is really going to happen. Echoing reports from about a year ago, 9to5Google is reporting that the Pixel 6 is expected to ship with Google's custom "Whitechapel" SoC instead of a Qualcomm Snapdragon chip. The report says "Google refers to this chip as 'GS101,' with 'GS' potentially being short for 'Google Silicon.'" It also notes that chip will be shared across the two Google phones that are currently in development, the Pixel 6 and something like a "Pixel 5a 5G." 9to5 says it has viewed documentation that points to Samsung's SLSI division (Team Exynos) being involved, which lines up with the earlier report from Axios saying the chip is "designed in cooperation with Samsung" and should be built on Samsung's 5nm foundry lines. 9to5Google says the chip "will have some commonalities with Samsung Exynos, including software components."
XDA Developers says it can corroborate the report, saying, "According to our source, it seems the SoC will feature a 3 cluster setup with a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit). Google also refers to its next Pixel devices as 'dauntless-equipped phones,' which we believe refers to them having an integrated Titan M security chip (code-named 'Citadel')." A "3 cluster setup" would be something like how the Snapdragon 888 works, which has three CPU core sizes: a single large ARM X1 core for big single-threaded workloads, three medium Cortex A78 cores for multicore work, and four Cortex A55 cores for background work. The Pixel 6 should be out sometime in Q4 2021, and Pixel phones always heavily, heavily leak before they launch. So I'm sure we'll see more of this thing soon.
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XDA Developers says it can corroborate the report, saying, "According to our source, it seems the SoC will feature a 3 cluster setup with a TPU (Tensor Processing Unit). Google also refers to its next Pixel devices as 'dauntless-equipped phones,' which we believe refers to them having an integrated Titan M security chip (code-named 'Citadel')." A "3 cluster setup" would be something like how the Snapdragon 888 works, which has three CPU core sizes: a single large ARM X1 core for big single-threaded workloads, three medium Cortex A78 cores for multicore work, and four Cortex A55 cores for background work. The Pixel 6 should be out sometime in Q4 2021, and Pixel phones always heavily, heavily leak before they launch. So I'm sure we'll see more of this thing soon.
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Submission + - smores law, vacuum tube like things could replace semiconductors (ieee.org)
An anonymous reader writes: A novel field emission transistor that uses air gaps could breathe life into Moore’s Law
Comment Re:This does not scale well (Score 2) 264
A long, long time ago when I was learning EE from an even older textbook I recall something about capacitance.
There were no large volume capacitors at the time the author was at university. The book discussed the oddity of the farad unit. Theoretically one could have made a one farad capacitor with the best materials but would encompass most of the Empire State Building in volume. That always stuck with me. Today you can buy a one farad 12v capacitor off amazon about the size of a water bottle, but have width to height ratios remarkably similar to the Empire State Building.
The point to remember is that limitations imposed by theoretical physicists are tentative at best. Remember, physics without empirical evidence isn't science and isn't necessarily reflective of reality.
so the wings need to be designed with alternating layers of insulator/conductor material (fiberglass/tinfoil/epoxy?) so that they can help store energy but also coated with a fuzzy electrostatic accumulator for regenerative air braking. solved.
Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) 103
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Waste fish parts will be used to power ships in a new initiative to use green energy for polluting cruise liners. The leftovers of fish processed for food and mixed with other organic waste will be used to generate biogas, which will then be liquefied and used in place of fossil fuels by the expedition cruise line Hurtigruten. Hurtigruten operates a fleet of 17 ships, and by 2021 aims to have converted at least six of its vessels to use biogas, liquefied natural gas -- a fossil fuel, but cleaner than many alternatives -- and large battery packs, capable of storing energy produced from renewable sources. Biogas can be generated from most forms of organic waste by speeding up and harnessing the natural decomposition process to capture the methane produced. Organic waste is produced by all food industries but is frequently disposed of in landfill, where it contributes to greenhouse gas emissions as it decomposes. Hurtigruten is currently building three new hybrid-powered cruise ships in Norway, to be delivered in the next three years.
Comment Re: Dinosaurs had feathers (Score 2) 172
you are describing debate, not science. What is to be gained by supporting an erroneous conclusion?
Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says (cnet.com) 294
A new study from AAA highlights the high repair costs associated with cars that have advanced safety technology. "[S]eemingly small damages to a vehicle's front end can incur costs nearing $3,000," CNET reports. From the report: The study looked at three solid sellers in multiple vehicle segments, including a small SUV, a midsize sedan and a pickup truck. It looked at repair costs using original equipment list prices and an established average for technician labor rates.
Let's use AAA's examples for some relatable horror stories. Mess up your rear bumper? Well, if you have ultrasonic parking sensors or radar back there, it could cost anywhere from $500 to $2,000 to fix. Knock off a side mirror equipped with a camera as part of a surround-view system? $500 to $1,100. Windshields are especially tricky. People who own cars with windshields that have embedded heating elements already have to pony up hundreds of dollars to replace what you might think is just a piece of glass. Factor complex camera systems (like autobrake) into the mix, and not only do folks get hit with the windshield replacement, they possibly have to find a trained professional to recalibrate all that tech behind it.
Let's use AAA's examples for some relatable horror stories. Mess up your rear bumper? Well, if you have ultrasonic parking sensors or radar back there, it could cost anywhere from $500 to $2,000 to fix. Knock off a side mirror equipped with a camera as part of a surround-view system? $500 to $1,100. Windshields are especially tricky. People who own cars with windshields that have embedded heating elements already have to pony up hundreds of dollars to replace what you might think is just a piece of glass. Factor complex camera systems (like autobrake) into the mix, and not only do folks get hit with the windshield replacement, they possibly have to find a trained professional to recalibrate all that tech behind it.
Comment Re:Russia Comedy Channel (Score 1) 423
Why is it okay if Donald Trump does it?
Because what could they possibly hope to gain?
Comment Re: Virtue signalling (Score 1) 810
They're not saying 50%. And CEO's, if anyone, can be delicate unlike those comparisons of big strong jobs so far removed from even white collar stuff. Not a good comparison, can one be too psychopathic or even not autistic enough?
Comment Re:Solution (Score 2) 198
If I were in a position to worry about deep fakes I would pre-emptively release a deluge of preposterous fakes to amuse and inform (and promote). Like you suggest - adapt
Comment so what? (Score 1) 116
PC's BIOS contains code that allow security mechanisms to be bypassed, code injected, formatted, and even become hijacked with alternative OS'es. I'm glad they are discovering this for us but it's not that scary - to me the news is that this is undocumented.. assuming they googled the results.
