For the second time in two years, AMD blows up its laptop CPU numbering system
AMD reverses course on “decoder ring” numbering system for laptop CPUs. Enlarge / AMD's Ryzen 9 AI 300 series is a new chip and a new naming scheme. (credit: AMD) Less than two years ago, AMD announced that it was o.....»»
Gold nanoparticles kill cancer—but not as thought
Gold particles of the size of billionths of a meter are lethal to cancer cells. This fact has been known for a long time, as has a simple correlation: The smaller the nanoparticles used to fight the cancer cells, the faster they die. However, a more.....»»
Most pristine trilobite fossils ever found shake up scientific understanding of the long extinct group
Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas of Morocco and are being referred to by scientists as.....»»
Play the definitive edition of this classic RPG for free in July thanks to Amazon Prime
A lot of games are coming to Prime Gaming and Amazon Luna this month, including the remastered version of one of the most important CRPGs of all time......»»
Dell’s most popular business laptop has a $600 price cut today
Want a workplace laptop that will put your colleagues’ machines to shame? Purchase the Latitude 5540 from Dell and save yourself $600!.....»»
Last surviving woolly mammoths were inbred but not doomed to extinction, genomic analysis suggests
The last population of woolly mammoths was isolated on Wrangel Island off the coast of Siberia 10,000 years ago, when sea levels rose and cut the mountainous island off from the mainland......»»
Researchers develop deep-learning model that outperforms Google AI system to predict peptide structures
Researchers at the University of Toronto have developed a deep-learning model, called PepFlow, that can predict all possible shapes of peptides—chains of amino acids that are shorter than proteins, but perform similar biological functions......»»
Kick-starting seagrass for a climate-proof sea
Once upon a time, seagrass meadows of about 150 square kilometers covered the bottom of the Dutch Wadden Sea. Now, seagrasses have all but disappeared, just like in many other places in the world. But these unique saltwater plants play a vital role i.....»»
Overburdened caseworkers put foster youths" online safety on the back burner
Foster parents and caseworkers agree: Sexual-related risks are the top concern for online safety for youths in the U.S. child welfare system. But how these two groups approach technology access and other online risks is conflicted, according to resea.....»»
6 phones coming out in summer 2024 we can’t wait for
The summer is a wonderful time, full of long sunny days and smartphone launches. Alright, we're big geeks, but here are 6 huge phones coming this summer......»»
US offers $10 million for information on indicted WhisperGate malware suspect
A federal grand jury in Maryland returned an indictment charging a Russian citizen with conspiracy to hack into and destroy computer systems and data. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison. The U.S. Department of State’s.....»»
Lattice launches two solutions to help users stay ahead of cyberthreats
Lattice Semiconductor launched two new solutions to address customer challenges around increasing threats to system security. The company announced the Lattice MachXO5D-NX family of advanced secure control FPGAs, offering crypto-agile algorithms, har.....»»
Largest Croatian hospital under cyberattack
The University Hospital Centre Zagreb (KBC Zagreb) is under cyberattack that started on Wednesday night, the Croatian Radiotelevision has reported. Because of the attack, the hospital has shut down its information system and will be switching parts o.....»»
Study determines stellar mass and origin of a protostellar system
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers have conducted molecular line observations of a protostellar system known as VLA 1623. Results of the observational campaign, published June 18 on the pre-print server arXiv,.....»»
Scientists uncover previously unknown properties of gallium
Nearly 150 years after gallium was discovered and added to the periodic table, University of Auckland scientists have uncovered previously-unknown aspects of the metal's structure and behavior......»»
Why the harsh Snowball Earth kick-started our earliest multicellular ancestors
For a billion years, single-celled eukaryotes ruled the planet. Then around 700 million years ago during Snowball Earth—a geologic era when glaciers may have stretched as far as the Equator—a new creature burst into existence: the multicellular o.....»»
No Tour de France without geology
It's hard to imagine a cycling season without the contributions of Geo-Sports.org. After the successful editions of previous years, the sports commentaries for the Tour stages will once again be supplemented with mini-lectures......»»
Wind tunnel study shows hypersonic jet engine flow can be controlled optically
What if the future of space travel were to look less like Space-X's rocket-based Starship and more like NASA's "Hyper-X," the hypersonic jet plane that, 20 years ago this year, flew faster than any other aircraft before or since?.....»»
Aging-emulating biosystem derived from hTSCs
A research team from the Center for Translational Stem Cell Biology (CTSCB) under the LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) has developed the world's first cellular system that can be used to rapidly discover molecules for a.....»»
Evidence of Apple’s Private Cloud Compute for AI first surfaced in iOS 16.4
9to5Mac last year found evidence of a new “ComputeModule” device class hidden in the iOS 16.4 beta SDK. At the time, we speculated that it could be either a Raspberry Pi type device. It turns out that Apple’s recently announced Private Cloud Co.....»»
SpaceX will help to crash the International Space Station
The space station faces a dramatic end when it ends operations in about six years from now, and SpaceX will help to make it happen......»»