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Green Car Congress – Canada releases national Small Modular Reactor action plan<\/a><\/p>\n

The Register – DeepMind’s latest protein-solving AI AlphaFold pretty much cracks biology’s 50-year conundrum<\/a><\/p>\n

The Register – New study: DNS spoofing doubles in six years … albeit from the point of naff all<\/a><\/p>\n

The Register – QEMU brings back its one-OS-a-day virtual advent calendar<\/a><\/p>\n

The Register – You’re going to need to unwrap and rewrap those Pi-400 holiday gifts. There’s a new Raspberry Pi OS Update<\/a><\/p>\n

The Register – Seagate says it’s designed two of its own RISC-V CPU cores \u2013 and they’ll do more than just control storage drives<\/a><\/p>\n

The Register – Japan pours millions into AI-powered dating to get its people making babies again<\/a><\/p>\n

CBC | Canada News – What transporting ice cream across Canada tells us about vaccine logistics<\/a><\/p>\n

CBC | Canada News – 1976 U.S. swine flu vaccination program may offer lessons for COVID-19 pandemic<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – How Researchers Used Salt to Give Masks an Edge Against Pathogens<\/a><\/p>\n

New Scientist – \u2013 New Scientist – How is China beating covid-19 and are the reported numbers reliable?<\/a><\/p>\n

New Scientist – \u2013 New Scientist – Google’s AI can keep Loon balloons flying for over 300 days in a row<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Tesla may offer remote access to your car’s Autopilot cameras<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Volkswagen may release a small EV for as little as $24,000<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – DeepMind’s latest AI breakthrough can accurately predict the way proteins fold<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Maserati says all of its cars will be hybrid or fully electric in five years<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Google AI is now piloting Loon’s internet-beaming balloons<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – The Ravn X is a 55,000-pound drone for launching satellites<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Tesla cuts Full Self-Driving upgrade price by $1,000 for some customers<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – CRISPR gene editing shows promise for sickle cell disease<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Apple’s 2021 Mac CPU roadmap reportedly includes 32-core chips<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – ‘Spider-Man: Miles Morales’ combines ray tracing and 60FPS in new PS5 mode<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Ray tracing will come to more games with a new Vulkan SDK<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – MacBook Pro M1 review (13-inch, 2020): Pro, but only to a point<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – F1 engine makers are testing sustainable fuel<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Google AI team demands changes after Dr. Timnit Gebru’s departure<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – Skype’s latest update uses AI to make group calls less awkward<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – Kazakhstan spies on citizens\u2019 HTTPS traffic; browser makers fight back<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – One of the Internet\u2019s most aggressive threats could take UEFI malware mainstream<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – New RISC-V CPU claims recordbreaking performance per watt<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – Quantum device performs 2.6 billion years of computation in 4 minutes<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – High-end SATA SSD shootout: Samsung 860 Pro vs. Kingston DC500M<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – US diplomats\u2019 brain injuries may be from covert microwave attack, experts say<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – FDA authorizes use of a nonprescription home COVID test<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – As the world quieted down in 2020, Raspberry Shakes listened<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – Jeremy Bulloch, the original Boba Fett, has passed away<\/a><\/p>\n

Ars Technica – Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, Sets a New Gaming Performance Bar At $399<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – New Electric Cars Have Problems In Latest Consumer Reports Survey<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Singapore Becomes First Country To Approve Lab-Grown Meat<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Reversal of Biological Clock Restores Vision In Old Mice<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – New RISC-V CPU Claims Recordbreaking Performance Per Watt<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – YouTube and Peacock are Now Streaming James Bond Films For Free<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – LG Developing Sliding Doors Made of Transparent OLED Displays<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Scientists Say They Have Come Up With a Potential Way To Make Oxygen On Mars<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Adobe Releases the Last Flash Update Ever<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Tesla Full Self-Driving System’s Beta Developer Settings Leaked<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit To AI Chief<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Microsoft’s Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Hyundai Motor Buys 80% of Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Are Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles the Future of Autos?<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Pigs<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn’t Require A Prescription<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – High-Frequency Traders Push Closer To Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Academics Turn RAM Into Wi-Fi Cards To Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Facebook Said It’s Developing A Tool To Read Your Brain<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Boring Company Proposes Massive Vegas Expansion Following Monorail Bankruptcy<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – FDA Panel Endorses Moderna’s Coronavirus Vaccine<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – A Successful Experiment Gets Us One Step Closer To a Quantum Internet<\/a><\/p>\n

Slashdot – Australian ‘Super Seaweed’ Supplement To Reduce Cattle Gas Emissions Wins $1 Million International Prize<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Ruffle \u2013 A Flash Player emulator written in Rust<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Undeleting a file overwritten with mv<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Raspberry Pi Used to Hack Tesla Model X<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Why is Apple’s M1 chip so fast?<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – A Plan 9 C Compiler for RISC-V <\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – A chain cuts through a capsized cargo ship filled with cars<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Mesa 20.3 released with out-of-the-box support for Arm’s Mali Bifrost GPUs<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Gustave \u2013 Embedded OS kernel fuzzer<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – A tool for recovering passwords from pixelized screenshots<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Innovative universal flu vaccine shows promise in first clinical test<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Qt 6.0<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – ImHex \u2013 A Hex Editor<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – UK warns people with serious allergies to avoid Pfizer vaccine<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Show HN: Open-source Face Recognition on Raspberry Pi 3\/4<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Pfizer-Biontech vaccine data stolen in cyber attack<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Uhubctl \u2013 control USB power per-port on smart USB hubs<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – How Pfizer Delivered a Covid Vaccine in Record Time<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – HermiTux \u2013 A Linux binary-compatible unikernel<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Pornhub just purged all unverified content from the platform<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – The Most Complete List of Legally Free Python Books (Updated 2021)<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – The Atari 2600 Webserver<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – bspwm: tiling window manager that represents windows as leaves of a binary tree<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Transmits AM radio on computers without radio transmitting hardware<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – A SNES, Ray Tracing<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – Basics Of Remote Cellular Access \u2013 Choosing a Modem<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – Remoticon Video: How to 3D Print onto Fabric with Billie Ruben<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog \u2013 Hackaday – DIY Induction Heater Draws 1.4 kW And Gets Metal Hot<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog \u2013 Hackaday – RC Lawn Mower Cuts With Impunity<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – SuperRT \u2013 Realtime Raytracing on the SNES<\/a><\/p>\n

Nano Patents and Innovations – Stretchable Micro-Supercapacitors to Self-Power Wearable DeviceS<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Think – Scientists find the “magic number” that links forces of the universe<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – FM Radio from Scratch using an Arduino<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – Slot Machine Has a Handle on Fun<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – 3D Printed Rigid Chain Mechanism<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – SLA 3D Printed Vortex Cooled Rocket Engine<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – Slick DIY Compound Bow Uses Coiled Springs, Toothbrush Heads<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – Tunes You Can Eat<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – An Easy DIY Pedal Set For Racing Sims<\/a><\/p>\n

EurekAlert! – Breaking News – Scientists reveal regions of the brain where serotonin promotes patience<\/a><\/p>\n

Hacker News – FlashFloppy: Open-source Firmware for floppy emulators<\/a><\/p>\n

Engadget – The EPA confirms the 2021 Mustang Mach-E can run up to 300 miles<\/a><\/p>\n

PhysOrg.com – latest science and technology news stories – Researcher zeroes in on critical point for improving superconductors<\/a><\/p>\n

Home – Raspberry Pi 4 demonstrates Vulkan 3D graphics conformance<\/a><\/p>\n

New Scientist – \u2013 New Scientist – AI can turn spoken language into photorealistic sign language videos<\/a><\/p>\n

New Scientist – \u2013 New Scientist – CRISPR gene editing of brain cells might prevent Alzheimer’s disease<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Think – Vegans are more likely to suffer broken bones, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Think – Diamonds have been created at room temperature in a lab<\/a><\/p>\n

Hack a Day – TinyTacho: Rotational Speed Measurement Without The Bulk<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog \u2013 Hackaday – Building A Mask To Induce Lucid Dreaming<\/a><\/p>\n

Blog \u2013 Hackaday – Cleaner Laser Cutting With a 3D-Printed Nozzle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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