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• Leprosy Bacteria Might Be Able To Regenerate Organs

  20-11-2022 23:35 via science.slashdot.org
  The BBC reports:
  Leprosy bacteria may hold the secret to safely repairing and regenerating the body, researchers at the University of Edinburgh say. Animal experiments have uncovered the bacteria's remarkable ability to almost double the size of livers by stimulating healthy growth.
  It is a sneakily selfish act that gives the bacteria more tissue to infect. But working out how they do it could lead to new age-defying therapies, the scientists say....
  The bacterium that causes [leprosy], Mycobact
  
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• Nvidia on Melting RTX 4090 Cables: You're Plugging It In Wrong

  20-11-2022 22:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  NVIDIA has responded to a class action lawsuit over melting RTX 4090 GPU adapters. The Verge reports:Weeks after Nvidia announced that it was investigating reports that the power cables for its RTX 4090 graphics card were melting and burning, the company says it may know why: they just weren't plugged in all the way.
  In a post to its customer support forum on Friday, Nvidia says that it's still investigating the reports, but that its findings "suggest" an insecure connector has been a common iss
  
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• Beyond Spike Proteins: Researchers Suggest New Design for Longer Lasting Covid Vaccines:

  20-11-2022 20:34 via science.slashdot.org
  "With new COVID variants and subvariants evolving faster and faster, each chipping away at the effectiveness of the leading vaccines, the hunt is on for a new kind of vaccine," reports the Daily Beast, "one that works equally well on current and future forms of the novel coronavirus.
  "Now researchers at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland think they've found a new approach to vaccine design that could lead them to a long-lasting jab. As a bonus, it also might work on other coronaviruse
  
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• Measuring Virus Exposure Risk Using a CO2 Sensor While Traveling

  20-11-2022 19:34 via science.slashdot.org
  hardaker writes: I wrote up the results from studying graphs of CO2 measurement data during a trip I took from Sacramento, California to London to attend the IETF-115 conference. Since CO2 is considered to be a potential proxy for measuring exposure to airborne viruses, it provided me with a rough guess about how safe (or not) I was at various points of my travel.
  TL;DR: big conference rooms: good, busses: bad, everything else: in between.
  "Numbers alone do not effectively measure risk absolutel
  
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• Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book

  20-11-2022 18:34 via news.slashdot.org
  He's been a contributing editor at the Linux foundation's Linux.com, a contributor to Linux Journal, and a blogger for Linux Pro magazine. Now Bruce Byfield has teamed with the lead editor for the Open Office authors volunteer group (who was also co-lead on Open Office's documentation project) to co-author a second edition of Byfield's book Designing with LibreOffice.
  From the official announcement:The book is available as an .ODT or .PDF file under the Creative Commons Attribution/Sharealike Li
  
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• Hard Science Fiction Master Greg Bear Dies at Age 71

  20-11-2022 17:34 via news.slashdot.org
  In 1999, Slashdot editor Hemos said Greg Bear was "rightly recognized as a master of hard science fiction" (introducing a review of Bear's then-new book, Nebula-winning book Darwin's Radio). In 2011 Bear began writing the Forerunner Saga , a trilogy of books set 100,000 years before the events in the game Halo.
  Today theGamer.com writes that Bear has passed away at age 71:
  Bear's family and fans are paying tribute to the legendary author, who had more than 50 sci-fi novels to his name. Many shar
  
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• Will FTX's Collapse Strand Scientists?

  20-11-2022 16:34 via science.slashdot.org
  "Last week's collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX is sending aftershocks through the scientific community," writes Science magazine:An undergraduate physics major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who founded FTX and quickly became a billionaire, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried began to back philanthropic organizations that supported a wide variety of science-related causes, most designed to improve human well-being. Now, with FTX in bankruptcy and under investigation for m
  
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• Microsoft, Meta and Others Face Risking Drought Risk to Their Data Centers

  20-11-2022 13:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Drought conditions are worsening in the U.S.," reports CNBC, "and that is having an outsized impact on the real estate that houses the internet."Water is the cheapest and most common method used to cool the centers. In just one day, the average data center could use 300,000 gallons of water to cool itself — the same water consumption as 100,000 homes, according to researchers at Virginia Tech who also estimated that one in five data centers draws water from stressed watersheds mostly in t
  
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• Microsoft, Meta and Others Face Rising Drought Risk to Their Data Centers

  20-11-2022 13:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  "Drought conditions are worsening in the U.S.," reports CNBC, "and that is having an outsized impact on the real estate that houses the internet."Water is the cheapest and most common method used to cool the centers. In just one day, the average data center could use 300,000 gallons of water to cool itself — the same water consumption as 100,000 homes, according to researchers at Virginia Tech who also estimated that one in five data centers draws water from stressed watersheds mostly in t
  
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• Will Neural Sensors Lead to Workplace Brain Scanning?

  20-11-2022 09:34 via science.slashdot.org
  "Get ready: Neurotechnology is coming to the workplace," claims IEEE Spectrum:Neural sensors are now reliable and affordable enough to support commercial pilot projects that extract productivity-enhancing data from workers' brains.
  These projects aren't confined to specialized workplaces; they're also happening in offices, factories, farms, and airports. The companies and people behind these neurotech devices are certain that they will improve our lives. But there are serious questions about whe
  
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• Facebook's Fact-checkers Will Stop Checking Trump After Announcement of Presidential Bid

  20-11-2022 06:04 via politics.slashdot.org
  CNN reports:Facebook's fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump following the announcement that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN.
  While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban applies to anything Trump says, and false statements made by Trump can be posted to the platform by others. Despite Trump's ban, "Team Trump," a page run by Trump's political group, is still active and has 2.3 million followers..
  
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• Chinese Takeover of UK's Largest Chip Plant Blocked on National Security Grounds

  20-11-2022 03:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  Slashdot has been covering plans for the UK's largest chip plant to be acquired by Chinese-owned firm Nexperia.
  But this week the U.K. government "has blocked the takeover of the country's largest microchip factory by a Chinese-owned firm," CNBC reported this week, "over concerns it may undermine national security."Grant Shapps, minister for business, energy and industrial strategy, on Wednesday ordered Dutch chipmaker Nexperia to sell its majority stake in Newport Wafer Fab, the Welsh semicondu
  
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• Do Screens Before Bedtime Actually Improve Your Sleep?

  20-11-2022 01:34 via science.slashdot.org
  Having trouble falling asleep, a writer for Vulture pondered a study from February in the Journal of Sleep Research that "runs refreshingly counter to common sleep-and-screens wisdom."For years, science and conventional wisdom have stated unequivocally that looking at a device — like a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or television — before bed is akin to lighting years of your natural life on fire, then letting the flames consume your children, your community, and the very concept of hum
  
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• As US Investigates Ticketmaster, Botched Sale of Taylor Swift Tickets Fuels Monopoly Criticisms

  20-11-2022 00:04 via entertainment.slashdot.org
  Ticketmaster provoked ire with a botched sale of tickets to Taylor Swift's first concert in five years. NPR reports:
  On Thursday afternoon, the day before tickets were due to open to the general public, Ticketmaster announced that the sale had been cancelled altogether due to "extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand." Taylor Swift broke her silence on Friday in statement on Instagram in which she said it is "excruciating f
  
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