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Comment Maybe it's backwards science (Score 1) 12

by schwit1 (#66021514) Attached to: Superagers' 'Secret Ingredient' May Be the Growth of New Brain Cells

They are looking at people who already have exceptional memories. The causation is that the super-agers stayed sharp because they exercised, were always learning new stuff, ate right and didn't let inflammation run wild. They lived their lives in build-mode instead of decay-mode. The baby neurons are the downstream of effect of not letting the system degrade.

They aren't super because their brains magically sprouted neurons, their brains sprouted neurons because their owners were super at living.

Submission + - Motorola forms partnership with GrapheneOS (motorolanews.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: Motorola is introducing a new era of smartphone security through a longterm partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation, the leading nonprofit in advanced mobile security and creators of a hardened, operating system based on the Android Open Source Project. Together, Motorola and the GrapheneOS Foundation will work to strengthen smartphone security and collaborate on future devices engineered with GrapheneOS compatibility.

Submission + - The NIMBY War Against Micron (piratewires.com)

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schwit1 writes: A chip company wants to bring 50,000 jobs to Syracuse. but mountains of paperwork, 'endangered bats,' and nimbys from literally California have added years to the timeline.

Submission + - Nvidia's new AI system Vera Rubin is 10x more efficient than its predecessor (cnbc.com)

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schwit1 writes: CNBC got an exclusive first look at Vera Rubin, Nvidia's next AI system that's due to ship in the second half of the year.

Vera Rubin will use about twice as much power as Blackwell but will be far more efficient by delivering 10 times more performance per watt, Nvidia told CNBC.

Nvidia dominates the artificial intelligence chip market but faces intensifying competition from companies including Advanced Micro Devices, Broadcom and Google.

Submission + - Paramount Skydance comes out on top of bidding war for Warner Bros (nypost.com)

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schwit1 writes: Paramount Skydance won the months-long bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery as rival Netflix bowed out of the competition Thursday.

The streaming giant said it wouldn’t raise its offer after WBD’s board earlier labeled a revamped bid from Paramount Skydance a “superior proposal.”

Warner Bros.’ announcement had the potential to trigger a four-business-day window for Netflix to match Paramount’s offer. But by the evening, the streaming giant opted to bow out, instead.

Submission + - "World's largest battery" soon at Google data center: 100-hour iron-air storage (interestingengineering.com)

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schwit1 writes: The battery has a 30 GWh capacity and a 100-hour duration.

Form Energy’s batteries work very differently from most large batteries today. Instead of using lithium like the batteries in electric cars, they store electricity by making iron rust and then reversing the rusting process to release the energy when needed.

When oxygen from the air passes over small pieces of iron inside the battery, the iron rusts and produces electricity. To recharge the battery, an electric current removes the oxygen from the rust, turning it back into iron and releasing it again.

Form’s iron-air batteries are heavier and less efficient than their counterparts; they can only return about 50% to 70% of the energy used to charge them, while lithium-ion batteries return more than 90%.

However, Form’s batteries have one distinct advantage. They are cheaper than lithium-ion batteries, costing about $20 per kilowatt-hour of storage, which is almost three times as cheap.

Submission + - Microsoft Considered Harmful (battleswarmblog.com)

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schwit1 writes: Microsoft has long had a reputation of an abusive company, all the way back to its origins, when Gary Kildall accused Bill Gates of stealing parts of CP/M for DOS. The list of lawsuits against Microsoft for anti-competitive or shady business business practices is so extensive it has its own Wikipedia article. But it’s latest moves to force both subscription models and AI into every nook and crevice of its software may be the final straws that break the Borg’s back, as longtime Windows users finally seem to be abandoning ship.

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