netpipe June 17, 2021

Slashdot – Microsoft Says Windows 10X Isn’t Happening

Slashdot – Ethereum Staking Will Drop Power Consumption By 99%

Slashdot – Ford Unveils the F-150 Lightning, Its All-Electric Pickup Truck That Will Start Under $40,000

Slashdot – China Unveils First Mars Photos From Zhurong Rover

Slashdot – Linux on Chromebooks is Finally Coming Out of Beta

Slashdot – Seagate’s New Mach.2 Is the World’s Fastest Conventional Hard Drive

Slashdot – Yuan Longping Dies, Scientist Whose Rice Research Helped Feed World

Slashdot – Drones and Sensors Could Spot Fires Before They Go Wild

Slashdot – Russia Makes Good On Its Threat To Fine Google Over ‘Illegal’ Internet Content

Slashdot – USB-C Power Upgrade Delivers a Whopping 240W for Gaming Laptops and Other Devices

Slashdot – Logitech CEO Says Chip Shortage Could Last for Up To a Year

Slashdot – Primates Change Their ‘Accent’ To Avoid Conflict

Slashdot – Amazon’s ‘Echo Show’ Can Now Watch Your House For You

Slashdot – Robots and AI Will Guide Australia’s First Fully Automated Farm

Slashdot – Millions Can Now Run Linux GUI Apps in Windows 10

Slashdot – World’s Fastest AI Supercomputer Built from 6,159 NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPUs

Slashdot – El Salvador Becomes First Country To Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Passing Law

Slashdot – What Would You Pay For Autonomous Driving? Volkswagen Hopes $8.50 Per Hour

Slashdot – Google Used Reinforcement Learning To Design Next-Gen AI Accelerator Chips

Slashdot – New York Senate Passes Landmark Right To Repair Bill

Slashdot – eBay Sellers Can No Longer Use PayPal Under New Terms

Slashdot – AMD Unveils Radeon RX 6000M Mobile GPUs For New Breed of All-AMD Gaming Laptops

Slashdot – Microsoft To Unveil New Version of Windows On June 24

Slashdot – PayPal Shuts Down Long-Time Tor Supporter With No Recourse

Slashdot – Google Releases ‘Open Source Insights’ Dependency Visualization Tool

Slashdot – El Salvador: World’s First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender?

Slashdot – Sidewalk Robots are Now Delivering Food in Miami

Slashdot – A New Type Of COVID-19 Vaccine Could Debut Soon

Slashdot – McDonald’s Starts Testing Automated Drive-Thru Ordering

Slashdot – Ultra-High-Density HDDs Made With Graphene Store Ten Times More Data

Slashdot – China is Vaccinating a Staggering 20 Million People a Day

Slashdot – Biden Administration To Buy 500 Million Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine Doses To Donate To the World

Slashdot – Mouse Sperm Thrived Despite Six Years of Exposure To Space Radiation

Slashdot – Microsoft’s GitHub Releases ‘Visual Studio Code’ Extension Allowing Editing Without Cloning Repositories

Slashdot – Google To Open First Retail Store Steps Away From Apple in NYC

CBC | Canada News – Why Canada’s big bets on delaying, mixing doses of COVID-19 vaccines could pay off

CBC | Canada News – Timmins declares state of emergency as COVID-19 case numbers surge

CBC | Canada News – Federal government invests $200 million to build an mRNA vaccine plant in Ontario

CBC | Canada News – Canada’s change to Pfizer vaccine storage temperature has major implications on rollout

CBC | Canada News – Seasonal workers living in vehicles can park in Canmore, Alta., on a trial basis

CBC | Canada News – Remains of 215 children found buried at former B.C. residential school, First Nation says

CBC | Canada News – Researchers claim mystery of rare blood clots tied to COVID-19 vaccines solved, but experts urge caution

CBC | Canada News – Nearly 75% of federal prisoners have been vaccinated against COVID-19

CBC | Canada News – Solar windows, shingles and cladding? The building itself is now the solar panel

CBC | Canada News – Police say they’ve made 158 arrests so far at B.C. protests against old-growth logging

Big Think – For $50, convert your phone into a powerful chemical, pathogen detector

Big Think – MIT artificial intelligence tech can generate 3D holograms in real-time

Big Think – Google invents a new tool that can make you hear color

Big Think – ‘Ghost forests’ visible from space spread along the coast as sea levels rise

Big Think – 30 grunts and sounds that may have been the first language

Big Think – Deepfake geography: Why fake satellite images are a growing problem

Big Think – Virtual reality tourism can boost travel in a post-pandemic world

Big Think – First-of-its-kind flower smells like dead insects

Big Think – Scientists find dark matter “bridges” that may reveal future of our galaxy

Hack a Day – An Automatic Shop Vac Dust Extractor

The Hacker News – Over 25% Of Tor Exit Relays Spied On Users’ Dark Web Activities

The Hacker News – New Chrome 0-Day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!

Hack a Day – Review: Battery Spot Welders, Why You Should Buy A Proper Spot Welder

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