What causes pools below waterfalls to periodically fill with sediment?
Deep pools below waterfalls are popular recreational swimming spots, but sometimes they can be partially or completely filled with sediment. New research showed how and why pools at the base of waterfalls, known as plunge pools, go through natural cy.....»»
Google Play’s New Data Safety Section Shows Exactly How Apps Use Your Data
Google introduced a new section on app pages inside of Google Play this week, a required section that developers will need to fill out with how an app collects, shares, and secures user data. This new section is called the Data Safety Section. Accord.....»»
Scientists find a hidden source of greenhouse gases: Organic matter in groundwater
Dry land isn't really dry. It's saturated with truly vast volumes of groundwater, hidden in the spaces of the earth we walk on. How much? Recent estimates put it at almost two trillion Olympic swimming pools of water stored in the upper 10 km of cont.....»»
Deepest sediment core collected in the Atlantic Ocean
A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical sediment sample from the deepest part of the Puerto Rico.....»»
Taiwan firms eyeing bigger presence in industrial MCU market
With IDMs such as Infineon and STMicroelectronics experiencing prolonged delivery lead times for industrial MCUs, Taiwan-based MCU suppliers are looking to fill the growing supply shortfalls of both 32- and 8-bit offerings for industrial applications.....»»
How Apple"s Monster M1 Ultra Chip Keeps Moore"s Law Alive
By combining two processors into one, the company has squeezed a surprising amount of performance out of silicon. From a report: "UltraFusion gave us the tools we needed to be able to fill up that box with as much compute as we could," Tim Millet, vi.....»»
How large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies
Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell genomics by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to t.....»»
FERMI satellite hunts for extremely long wavelength gravitational wave signals
Coalescing supermassive black holes in the centers of merging galaxies fill the universe with low-frequency gravitational waves. Astronomers have been searching for these waves by using large radio telescopes to look for the subtle effect these space.....»»
Walgreens Turns To Robots To Fill Prescriptions
Walgreens Boots Alliance is opening robot-powered micro-fulfillment centers across the U.S. to fill customers' prescriptions as the role of stores and pharmacists change. CNBC reports: Inside of a large facility in the Dallas area, they fill thousand.....»»
Researchers" novel tool to help develop safer pesticides
The majority of commercial chemicals that enter the market in the United States every year have insufficient health and safety data. For pesticides, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency uses a variety of techniques to fill data gaps in order to e.....»»
"Starstruck" Season 2 will make you fall even harder for the millennial rom-com
What happens after a grand romantic gesture? After the big finale, now what? Do you sit in silence like the dentist's aquarium fish in Finding Nemo once they've rolled to oceanic freedom (stay with me) or do you fill that awkwardness with so many act.....»»
Microsoft wants to help fill millions of cybersecurity jobs worldwide
Microsoft looks to focus on boosting employment in countries with an elevated cyberthreat risk......»»
How Microsoft Plans To Fill 3.5 Million Cybersecurity Jobs
Microsoft announced on Wednesday that it will expand its cybersecurity skilling initiative to 23 additional countries. The campaign, which began last year in the U.S., is part of the company's push to help solve the cybersecurity industry's growing t.....»»
Q&A: Why ponds and kettle holes are also water sources worth protecting
Small bodies of water, i.e., natural ponds, kettle holes and pools, account for 30 to 50% of the world's standing water. Owing to their size, however, the importance of small water bodies was long underestimated. As a result, they are scarcely mentio.....»»
Ford moves top HR exec into new Ford Blue role, makes other leadership hires
Ford Motor Co., seeking to fill the leadership team of its newly created Ford Blue division, said Kiersten Robinson, its top human resources executive, would become general manager of Ford Blue's family vehicles as well as president of Ford's operati.....»»
6 of the best cordless lawn mowers for your garden
Gardening can be a tricky business. You can fill your garden with a wide range of beautiful flowers, shrubs, and trees, but it's all for nothing if your lawn isn’t up to par. No amount of water features and hanging baskets that can make up for.....»»
Satellites and surveys help count population to fill census gaps
Geographers at the University of Southampton have produced high resolution population maps of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) nearly 40 years after its last population and housing census. The study is the latest in a number aimed at suppor.....»»
How a Massachusetts salt marsh is changing what we know about New England"s coast
New research led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst into the life and times of a New England salt marsh fundamentally changes our understanding of how salt marshes acquire the sediment that keeps them viable. This research, published recently.....»»
Microsoft is planning to bring tabs to File Explorer in Windows 11
On Wednesday, Microsoft released a new Windows 11 preview build to Insiders on the Dev Channel, which includes several fixes under the hood, some cosmetic changes, and a new video editing tool that will supposedly fill the hole left by the discontinu.....»»
Obi-Wan Kenobi premiere trailer: Familiar faces meet deadly Inquisitors
"The key to hunting Jedi is patience." Enlarge / Finally, we see Ewan McGregor return to the role of Obi-Wan Kenobi in... Disney+'s Obi-Wan Kenobi, debuting May 25. (credit: Disney / Lucasfilm) Disney+ is about to fill its sho.....»»
Stalagmites trace climate history and impact from volcanic eruptions
The soils and vegetation of Patagonia's fjord regions form a unique and highly sensitive ecosystem that is closely linked to marine ecosystems, sediment deposition and carbon storage in the ocean. A research team, including the University of Götting.....»»