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Submission + - Transporting antimatter on a truck is tricky ...

Qbertino writes: ... but the CERN Project "Antimatter in motion" just did it. For the first time in history researchers at CERN have transported 92 antiprotons on a truck in a specially designed magnetic enclosure. The test-drive went so well that the researchers spontaneously decided to go another round. One hard pothole could cause the antiprotons to exit their magnetic enclosure and be destroyed. The purpose of the experiment was to test the feasibility of transporting antimatter to other facilities in Europe to conduct further antimatter research. German news Tagesschau has a nice report.

Comment Chinese cars welcome in my driveway (Score 1) 237

Cars with Chinese Communist Party spyware or the means to remotely install it are not.

Net result: I'll welcome a Chinese build of a totally disconnected,* manually controlled car if it met US safety standards and was cost-effective to own and operate. "Totally disconnected" pretty much rules out modern EVs.

* obviously connecting to the power grid is allowed, and I'll want to add an aftermarket AM/FM terrestrial radio.

Comment Governments will abuse it/slippery slope (Score 2) 116

If this were implemented today, by "tomorrow" users would effectively lose control because the governments would find a way to either legally change things so there is no control, or make it very inconvenient to live without giving up that control.

For the sake of maintaining some privacy it's best to not go down this path unless there is a way to prove to independent observers that it can't be hijacked or abused.

Comment Re:How? (Score 1) 24

The example here had an address in Florida and a bank account in Missouri.

Not unusual.

And they matched the workers emails to an ISP not in Florida.

VPN user or was traveling.

Just ask some questions for god's sake.

The trick is to ask the right questions without coming across as so nosey that you make well-qualified legit candidates not only say "pass" but tell their friends to do the same.

Submission + - Thorny issue plaguing lithium-ion batteries laid bare in new study (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: Lithium dendrites, i.e. tiny crystalline thorns that grow off of lithium-ion battery anodes during charging, have been a persistent challenge for the world's most widely used form of energy storage. "Dendrites can penetrate the battery's separator, causing catastrophic short circuits and safety hazards," said Qing Ai, a former research scientist at Rice University who is a first author on a new study published in Science that reports for the first time exactly how these tricky structures behave inside batteries. "Despite decades of study, the fundamental nanomechanical properties of lithium dendrites remained a mystery—until now."

Submission + - Executives say AI boosts productivity but the real gain is just 16 minutes per w (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: A new study suggests the productivity boost from artificial intelligence may be far smaller than executives claim. According to research cited in Foxitâ(TM)s State of Document Intelligence report, while 89 percent of executives and 79 percent of end users say AI tools make them feel more productive, the actual time savings shrink dramatically once people account for reviewing and validating AI-generated output.

The survey of 1,000 desk-based workers and 400 executives in the United States and United Kingdom found executives believe AI saves them about 4.6 hours per week, but they spend roughly 4 hours and 20 minutes verifying those results. End users reported a similar pattern, estimating 3.6 hours saved but 3 hours and 50 minutes spent reviewing AI work. Once that âoeverification burdenâ is factored in, executives gain just 16 minutes per week, while end users actually lose about 14 minutes.

Comment Re:Seriously ...? (Score 1) 255

What business does an immigration agency have imprisoning U.S. citizens

Only two reasons I can think of:
*Pending transfer to regular police. For example, if I assault an immigration officer, he has every right to arrest and hold me but only as long as is reasonably necessary to call the "real cops" and transfer me into their custody to face assault charges.
* If he has a reasonable belief that I am an alien subject to arrest and I don't identify myself as a citizen. Once I identify myself as a citizen, he is obliged to quickly determine if I'm telling the truth. Once he no longer has a reasonable belief that I'm an alien subject to arrest he has no reason to keep me, assuming I'm not being held for other reasons like having just punched him in the face (see above).

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