Cracking the case: New study sheds more light on the “Brazil nut effect”

Shape and orientation of a given Brazil nut is the key to its upward movement. | Continue reading


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I broke Giant’s handheld scanner system by only buying two things (2020)

Go to a real cashier if you want to buy fewer than seven items, apparently. | Continue reading


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Cops “almost 99.9% sure” Tesla had no one at the wheel before deadly crash

Car was reportedly traveling at a "high rate of speed" in a residential area. | Continue reading


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Denisovans may have met us in the Pacific

Different island populations also intermingled in complex ways. | Continue reading


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Who will win the self-driving race? Here are eight possibilities

The state of the self-driving industry, from Argo to Zoox. | Continue reading


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The humble shrub that’s predicting a terrible fire season

Chamise is kind of a crystal ball for understanding how badly California might burn. | Continue reading


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Novel hydrogels can safely remove graffiti from vandalized street art

Italian chemists successfully tested their hydrogels on actual street art in Florence. | Continue reading


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At 38.5% vaccinated, US may be running low on people eager for a shot

Some worry the country can't keep up the current pace of vaccination. | Continue reading


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Backdoored developer tool that stole credentials escaped notice for 3 months

AWS credentials and private repository tokens could allow self-perpetuating attacks. | Continue reading


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NASA selects SpaceX as its sole provider for a lunar lander

"We looked at what’s the best value to the government." | Continue reading


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Dogecoin has risen 400 percent in the last week because why not

Dogecoin rallied after Elon Musk tweeted a photo of "Doge Barking at the Moon." | Continue reading


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US government strikes back at Kremlin for SolarWinds hack campaign

Treasury Department says it's sanctioning 6 Russian firms for supporting the hacks. | Continue reading


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Intel, Nvidia, TSMC execs agree: Chip shortage could last into 2023

Companies reeling from natural disasters and massive demand from OEMs, consumers. | Continue reading


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Congressmen ask Biden admin to keep chip design software away from China

And no fab should use American tools to sell advanced chips to China, they add. | Continue reading


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Google veteran pans Tesla Autopilot: “We were doing better in 2010”

Aurora more than doubled in size when it acquired Uber's self-driving project. | Continue reading


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Review: The Asus ROG G15, a gaming laptop with Ryzen 9 5900HS and RTX 3070

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Striking Charter workers build ISP where “profits are returned to users”

They built the Spectrum cable network—now they're building a wireless ISP in NYC. | Continue reading


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MIT scientists study spider web structure by translating it into music

We may one day be able to communicate with spiders in "language" of web vibrations. | Continue reading


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99.992% of fully vaccinated people have dodged Covid, CDC data shows

No vaccine is 100% effective. But the COVID vaccines seem pretty darn good. | Continue reading


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Walmart invests in self-driving startup Cruise

Cruise says it's about two years from commercial launch. We've heard that before. | Continue reading


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The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playstation hardware

Dying internal batteries and online timer checks make a disaster waiting to happen. | Continue reading


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The common vaccine ingredient at the center of J&J, AstraZeneca drama

Adenoviruses are an obvious link, but a puzzling suspect in the dangerous cases. | Continue reading


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What to expect from Apple’s “Spring Loaded” event on April 20

This event is mysterious, but we're confident iPads will figure prominently. | Continue reading


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Comparing the actual US grid to the one predicted 15 years ago

Demand and carbon emissions are way down, renewables far more common than expected. | Continue reading


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Oculus Quest 2 gets official wireless-VR mode, 120 Hz support via patch

Vague dates, stern warnings, and Facebook's aspiration to VR-ize your home office. | Continue reading


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Vaccines take weeks to work; distancing and other health measures work immediately. | Continue reading


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Court rules grocery store’s inaccessible website isn’t an ADA violation

The Winn-Dixie website isn't accessible for blind users with screen readers. | Continue reading


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When asked to fix something, we don’t even think of removing parts

Across many experiments, participants tried to fix problems by adding stuff. | Continue reading


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Russia’s Twitter throttling may give censors never-before-seen capabilities

Censorship based on deep packet inspection may work against Tor and VPNs. | Continue reading


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Intel’s Ice Lake Xeon Comes Out Swinging at AMD’s Epyc Milan

Chipzilla's new server processors bring more cores, more RAM, more features. | Continue reading


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Loot boxes too similar to “problem gambling” to avoid regulation, report says

Determinations: Loot box "value" matters; wealth doesn't drive who becomes a "whale." | Continue reading


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30-year-old Soviet TV adaptation of The Lord of the Rings surfaces on YouTube

It's a rather different interpretation than the films by Peter Jackson. | Continue reading


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US sanctions are squeezing Huawei, but for how long?

Huawei's growth slowed in 2020, as it had trouble securing the state-of-the-art chips. | Continue reading


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The director who gave us The Force, inspired 2001, and changed film

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Next iOS Release Near?

Rejections affect apps with SDK that uses device fingerprinting to track users. | Continue reading


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Waymo CEO John Krafcik steps down

Waymo ordered "up to" 82,000 vehicles in 2018. Today it has "well over 600." | Continue reading


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Seconds of body cam video can reveal a biometric fingerprint (2014)

Though the wearer's face is hidden, head and body mounted cameras may not be anonymous. | Continue reading


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Why it's so hard to prove self-driving tech is safe

Self-driving systems won't necessarily make the same mistakes as human drivers. | Continue reading


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Swedish carbon-fiber battery could revolutionize car design

Battery combines carbon-fiber anode and lithium-iron phosphate-coated foil cathode. | Continue reading


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Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says

Biden’s plan goes beyond most states’ definitions of clean power. | Continue reading


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The Emoji Story: You should never have this much fun learning about Unicode

"800M people could use a period emoji right now. How many people are talking about broccoli?" | Continue reading


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Xinuos–owners of what used to be SCO–file suit against Red Hat and IBM

Suit alleges stolen intellectual property in IBM AIX, and collusion with RHEL. | Continue reading


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FDA slams “Real Water” linked to liver failure

A lawyer for the water company said it can't find its plant manager or lead technician. | Continue reading


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Microsoft’s Cortana meets an untimely end on iOS and Android

This is only the latest development in a series of cuts for Cortana. | Continue reading


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Feds say man broke into public water system and shut down safety processes

Indictment underscores the potential for remote intrusions to have fatal consequences. | Continue reading


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Autodialers that don’t use a “number generator” to store numbers now legal

Robocall systems aren't "autodialers" if they don't generate random numbers. | Continue reading


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Xinuos–owners of what used to be SCO–file suit against Red Hat and IBM

Suit alleges stolen intellectual property in IBM AIX, and collusion with RHEL. | Continue reading


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Class-action suit alleges: Amazon colluded with publishers to fix book prices

Retailers complain that contract terms cement Amazon’s dominant position. | Continue reading


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