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• US-Based EV Battery Recycling Company Predicts Material For 1M EVs a Year

  11-02-2023 23:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Last year Redwood Materials announced a new program recycling EV batteries (including partnerships with Ford and Volvo). Now Politico reports that America's Department of Energy tentatively awarded them a $2 billion loan, "which the company says will allow it to produce enough battery materials to enable the production of more than a million electric vehicles a year."The Nevada-based company said it plans to ultimately ramp up to producing 100 gigawatt-hours annually of ultra-thin battery-grade
  
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• Several US Universities Want to Use Micronuclear Reactors

  11-02-2023 22:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The University of Illinois plans to apply for a construction permit for a high-temperature, gas-cooled micronuclear reactor, reports the Associated Press, "and aims to start operating it by early 2028."
  And they're not the only ones interested in the technology:Last year, Penn State University signed a memorandum of understanding with Westinghouse to collaborate on microreactor technology. Mike Shaqqo, the company's senior vice president for advanced reactor programs, said universities are going
  
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• Satellites Show Turkey/Syria Earthquake Opened Massive 300km Fissure

  11-02-2023 21:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader Jarik C-Bol shares Space.com's report on "two enormous cracks" in the Earth's crust that have opened up near the Turkish-Syrian border after two powerful earthquakes Monday:Researchers from the U.K. Centre for the Observation & Modelling of Earthquakes, Volcanoes & Tectonics (COMET) found the ruptures by comparing images of the area near the Mediterranean Sea coast taken by the European Earth-observing satellite Sentinel-1 before and after the devastating earthq
  
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• Cutting Calories May Slow Aging In Humans, Study Suggests

  11-02-2023 20:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  NBC News reports:
  Eating fewer calories appears to slow the pace of aging and increase longevity in healthy adults, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Aging.
  The study, which was funded by the National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, is the first-ever randomized controlled trial that looked at the long-term impact of calorie restriction. It adds to an already large body of evidence that a calorie-restricted diet can provide substantial he
  
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• A Developer is Reimplementing GNU's Core Utilities in Rust

  11-02-2023 19:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  A Rust-based re-implementation of GNU core utilities like cp and mv is "reaching closer to parity with the widely-used GNU upstream and becoming capable of taking on more real-world uses," reports Phoronix:Debian developer Sylvestre Ledru [also an engineering director at Mozilla] began working on uutils during the COVID-19 pandemic and presented last week at FOSDEM 2023 on his Coreutils replacement effort. With uutils growing into increasingly good shape, it's been packaged up by many Linux dist
  
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• How Big Tech Rewrote America's First Cell Phone Repair Law

  11-02-2023 18:34 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  Two non-profit news site, the Markup and Grist, have co-published their investigation into how big tech rewrote America's first cellphone repair law.
  "That New York passed any electronics right-to-repair bill is 'huge,' Repair.org executive director Gay Gordon-Byrne told Grist. But 'it could have been huger' if not for tech industry interference."The passage of the Digital Fair Repair Act last June reportedly caught the tech industry off guard, but it had time to act before Governor Kathy Hochul
  
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• System76 Announces Redesigned 'Pangolin' AMD/Linux Laptop

  11-02-2023 17:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  System76 is announcing a "fully redesigned" version of its AMD-only Linux-powered "Pangolin" laptop with an upgraded memory, storage, processor, and display.9to5Linux reports:It features the AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor with up to 4.7 GHz clock speeds, 8 cores, 16 threads, and AMD Radeon 680M integrated graphics.... a 15.6-inch 144Hz Full HD (1920Ã--1080) display [using 12 integrated Radeon graphics cores] with a matte finish, a sleek magnesium alloy chassis, and promises up to 10 hours of
  
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• After Google's AI Chatbot Made a Mistake, Its Shares Dropped Over $100 Billion

  11-02-2023 16:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  After Google's AI-powered chatbot Bard committed a factual error in a promotional video, Google's parent company Alphabet "lost $100 billion in market value," NPR reported Thursday morning:
  "Social media users quickly pointed out that the company could've fact-checked the exoplanet claim by, well, Googling it."
  The ad aired just hours before Google's senior executives touted Bard as the future of the company at a launch event in Paris. By Wednesday, Alphabet shares had slid as much as 9% during
  
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• PayPal Pauses Stablecoin Work Amid Regulatory Scrutiny of Crypto

  11-02-2023 14:00 via slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PayPal is pausing work on its stablecoin as regulators increase scrutiny of cryptocurrencies and a key partner on the project faces a probe by the New York State Department of Financial Services, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. PayPal had hoped to debut the stablecoin, which will be backed one for one by the dollar, in the coming weeks, Bloomberg reported, citing a person with knowledge of the matter. "We are exploring a stablecoin; if and whe
  
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• US Will See More New Battery Capacity Than Natural Gas Generation In 2023

  11-02-2023 11:00 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  The US' Energy Information Agency (EIA) expects the nation's electrical grid to add more power (just under 55 GW), "and solar will be over half of it, at 54 percent," reports Ars Technica. "Another trend that's apparent is the reversal of the vast expansion in natural gas use following the development of fracking." From the report: In most areas of the country, solar is now the cheapest way to generate power, and the grid additions reflect that. The EIA also indicates that at least some of these
  
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• Pill Treats Constipation By Vibrating Its Way Through Your Body

  11-02-2023 08:00 via science.slashdot.org
  
  A new pill could help alleviate constipation by delivering vibrations that "help kickstart the body's nature processes for getting rid of waste," reports Gizmodo. From the report: Vibrant still comes in the form of a pill, but before swallowing (around bedtime each night), it first needs to be activated by inserting it into a smartphone-connected pod. The pill makes its way through the body the same way food and other orally consumed medications do, but it isn't dissolved or broken down by stoma
  
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• Americans Are Ready To Test Embryos For Future College Chances, Survey Shows

  11-02-2023 04:30 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: Imagine that you were provided no-cost fertility treatment and also offered a free DNA test to gauge which of those little IVF embryos floating in a dish stood the best chance of getting into a top college someday. Would you have the test performed? If you said yes, you're among about 40% percent of Americans who told pollsters they'd be more likely than not to test and pick IVF embryos for intellectual aptitude, despite hand-wringi
  
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• US Army Officer Reply-All Email Chain Causes Pandemonium

  11-02-2023 02:50 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous officer writes in an opinion piece via Military.com: It was the "reply-all" heard around the world. Around 06:30 Eastern time Feb. 2, approximately 13,000 Army inboxes pinged with an email from an unfamiliar sender. It was from a U.S. Army captain, asking to be removed from a distribution list. It initially seemed as though some unfortunate soul had inadvertently hit "reply-all" and made an embarrassing mistake. What followed can really be described only as professional anarchy, as
  
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• PC CPU Shipments See Steepest Decline In 30 Years

  11-02-2023 02:10 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  According to a new report by Dean McCarron of Mercury Research, the x86 processor market has just endured "the largest on-quarter and on-year declines in our 30-year history." "Based on previously published third-party data, McCarron is also reasonably sure that the 2022 Q4 and full-year numbers represent the worst downturn in PC processor history," adds Tom's Hardware. From the report: The x86 processor downturn observed has been precipitated by the terrible twosome of lower demand and an inven
  
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• Google's Go May Add Telemetry That's On By Default

  11-02-2023 01:30 via developers.slashdot.org
  
  Russ Cox, a Google software engineer steering the development of the open source Go programming language, has presented a possible plan to implement telemetry in the Go toolchain. However many in the Go community object because the plan calls for telemetry by default. The Register reports: These alarmed developers would prefer an opt-in rather than an opt-out regime, a position the Go team rejects because it would ensure low adoption and would reduce the amount of telemetry data received to the
  
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• GitHub and EFF Back YouTube Ripper In Legal Battle With the RIAA

  11-02-2023 00:50 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  GitHub and digital rights group EFF have filed briefs supporting stream-ripping site Yout.com in its legal battle with the RIAA. GitHub warns that the lower court's decision threatens to criminalize the work of many other developers. The EFF, meanwhile, stresses that an incorrect interpretation of the DMCA harms people who use stream-rippers lawfully. TorrentFreak reports: In 2020, YouTube ripper Yout.com sued the RIAA, asking a Connecticut district court to declare that the site does not violat
  
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• Librarians Are Finding Thousands of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law

  11-02-2023 00:10 via news.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: On January 1, 2023, a swath of books, films, and songs entered the public domain. The public domain is not a place -- it refers to all the creative works not protected by an intellectual property law like copyright. Creative works may not have intellectual property protections for a number of reasons. In most cases, the rights have expired or have been forfeited. Basically, no one holds the exclusive rights to these works, meaning that living
  
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