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• Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Leak Reveals Specs From 'Unlaunched' RTX 4080

  02-01-2023 23:30 via hardware.slashdot.org
  A new leak could confirm rumors that Nvidia's planning on releasing the "unlaunched" 12GB RTX 4080 graphics card as the RTX 4070 Ti. From a report: The company briefly posted the specs for its upcoming RTX 4070 Ti GPU on its website, but Twitter user @momomo_us managed to snag a screenshot before Nvidia pulled the page down. So far, the leaked specs look identical to that of the 12GB RTX 4080, with the chip sporting 7,680 CUDA cores, a 2.61 GHz boost clock, and 12GB of memory. It also says the G
  
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• Fossil Fuel Power Fell Up To 68% as Blackouts Hit US South

  02-01-2023 22:00 via slashdot.org
  Power plants that burn coal and natural gas to produce electricity had significant drops in generation as a winter storm hit the US Southeast, forcing blackouts that left hundreds of thousands in the dark. From a report: Duke Energy and the Tennessee Valley Authority cut power to homes and businesses during the holiday season as an extreme winter storm pummeled the region. Duke instituted rotating outages Dec. 24 that interrupted service to about 500,000 customers, while TVA for the first time i
  
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• Ahead of Major Court Case, EPA Revises Clean-Water Protections

  02-01-2023 21:00 via news.slashdot.org
  The Biden administration is working to complete a clean water regulation before a Supreme Court ruling that could complicate the government's ability to protect wetlands and other waters. From a report: The Environmental Protection Agency rule, which was finalized on Friday, essentially reverts protections for millions of streams, marshes and other bodies of water to levels that existed before the Obama administration made major changes in 2015, leading to nearly a decade of political and legal
  
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• Apple's Battery Replacement Prices Are Going Up by $20 To $50

  02-01-2023 20:00 via apple.slashdot.org
  Apple is raising the price of getting a new battery installed in most iPhones, iPads, and Macs, starting on March 1st. The company made the announcement on the devices' repair pages, in small text under its price estimators. From a report: How much the price hike is depends on what device you have. For iPhones, it's simple -- Apple's site says "the out-of-warranty battery service fee will be increased by $20 for all iPhone models prior to iPhone 14." For phones with a home button, that means the
  
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• Electric Cars Sales in Norway Near 80% in 2022, Tesla Top-Selling Brand Again

  02-01-2023 19:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  Almost four out of five new cars sold in Norway last year were battery-powered, with Tesla the top-selling brand for the second year in a row, registration data showed on Monday. From a report: Seeking to become the first nation to end the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2025, oil-producing Norway has until now exempted battery-powered fully electric vehicles (BEV) from taxes imposed on rivals using internal combustion engines (ICE). The share of new electric vehicles rose to 79.3% in 2022 fro
  
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• Third of World Economy To Hit Recession in 2023, IMF Head Warns

  02-01-2023 18:00 via news.slashdot.org
  For much of the global economy, 2023 is going to be a tough year as the main engines of global growth -- the US, Europe and China -- all experience weakening activity, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned. From a report: The new year is going to be "tougher than the year we leave behind," IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said on the CBS Sunday morning news program Face the Nation on Sunday. "Why? Because the three big economies -- the US, EU and China -- are all slowi
  
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• Companies Can 'Hire' a Virtual Person For About $14k a Year in China

  02-01-2023 17:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  From customer service to the entertainment industry, businesses in China are paying big bucks for virtual employees. From a report: Tech company Baidu said the number of virtual people projects it's worked on for clients has doubled since last year, with a wide price range of as little as $2,800 to a whopping $14,300 per year. Virtual people are a combination of animation, sound tech and machine learning that create digitized human beings who can sing and even interact on a livestream. While the
  
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• Gemini's Cameron Winklevoss Slams Crypto Exec Barry Silbert Over Frozen Funds

  02-01-2023 16:00 via news.slashdot.org
  Crypto entrepreneur Cameron Winklevoss is accusing fellow businessman Barry Silbert of "bad faith stall tactics" in resolving a dispute between their two companies that grew out of the collapse of FTX. From a report: Gemini, owned by Winklevoss and his twin brother, paused redemptions on a lending product called Earn. It had offered investors the potential to generate as much as 8% in interest on their digital coins -- by lending them out to Genesis Global Capital, one of the companies owned by
  
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• India Set an 'Incredibly Important Precedent' By Banning TikTok, FCC Commissioner Says

  02-01-2023 15:00 via news.slashdot.org
  India set an "incredibly important precedent" by banning TikTok two and a half years ago, FCC Commissioner said, as he projected a similar fate for the Chinese giant Bytedance app in the U.S. From a report: Brendan Carr, Commissioner of the FCC, warned that TikTok "operates as a sophisticated surveillance tool," and told the Indian daily Economic Times that banning the social app is a "natural next step in our efforts to secure communication network."
  The senior Republican on the Federal Communi
  
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• Verizon Warns Its Last 3G Customers to Upgrade Before Losing Service

  02-01-2023 13:34 via mobile.slashdot.org
  Fierce Wireless reports:Verizon is telling customers that if they're still using a 3G CDMA or 4G (non-VoLTE) phone that does not support its newer network technologies, "your line will be suspended without billing and will lose the ability to call, text, or use data."
  Verizon is the last of the Big 3 wireless carriers in the U.S. to shut down a 3G network and repurpose the spectrum for newer technology. AT&T was first, shutting its 3G network down in February. T-Mobile's shuttered its 3G net
  
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• As America Funds Domestic Chip-Making, Some Questions Remain

  02-01-2023 09:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  There's been "an enormous ramp-up in U.S. chip-making plans" over the last 18 months, reports the New York Times. For example:- In September Intel pledged $20 billion for two chip factories in Ohio
  - Micron expects to spend at least that amount on a new manufacturing site in Syracuse, New York.
  - Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company plans to invest $40 billion in Phoenix.
  "The boom has implications for global technological leadership and geopolitics, with the United States aiming to preven
  
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• Could Getting Rid of Old Cells Turn Back the Clock on Aging?

  02-01-2023 05:34 via science.slashdot.org
  Long-time geriatrician James Kirkland is a Mayo clinic researcher joining "a growing movement to halt chronic disease by protecting brains and bodies from the biological fallout of aging," reports Ars Technica.
  "While researchers like Kirkland don't expect to extend lifespan, they hope to lengthen 'health span,' the time that a person lives free of disease."One of their targets is decrepit cells that build up in tissues as people age. These "senescent" cells have reached a point — due to d
  
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• Melbourne's Anti-Graffiti QR Codes Vandalized to Point to 'Alternative' Site

  02-01-2023 03:34 via yro.slashdot.org
  The Australian city of Melbourne recently posted QR codes its citizens could use to report grafitti, reports Australia's public broadcaster ABC.
  Unfortunately, someone overlaid "a number" of those QR codes with "alternative" QR codes leading to a pro-graffiti documentary:The City of Melbourne is investigating how many of the QR codes have been affected and is assessing whether an alternative will be needed in future.... The lord mayor said the City of Melbourne had initiated discussions with Vic
  
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• 'Metropolis', Sherlock Holmes Finally Enter the Public Domain 95 Years Later

  02-01-2023 01:12 via news.slashdot.org
  Guess what's finally entering America's public domain today? Appropriately enough, it's Marcel Proust's 1927 novel Remembrance of Things Past.
  Also entering the public domain today are thousands of other books, plus the music and lyrics of hundreds of songs, and even several silent movies.
  Fritz Lang's sci-fi classic Metropolis enters the public domain today — and so does the Laurel & Hardy comedy Battle of the Century (which culminates with one of Hollywod's first pie fights), accordi
  
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• Nintendo's Upcoming California Theme Park Has Augmented Reality 'Mario Kart' Races

  02-01-2023 00:12 via games.slashdot.org
  "Starting next year, Nintendo fans can step through a life-size warp pipe and enter the Mushroom Kingdom," reports Bloomberg, "for the first time on American soil."
  Bloomberg shares its reaction after "an early preview tour of the land as it finalizes construction," noting that it has "a chirping soundtrack of cheerful instrumentals and distant coin clinks."
  Super Nintendo World, an interactive replica of Nintendo's dynamic lands and characters, will bring its colorful chaos to Universal Studios
  
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