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• Can EV Battery Swaps Be as Fast as Filling Up a Gas Tank?

  25-06-2023 23:19 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "One of the biggest pain points that comes with driving an electric vehicle is the time it takes to charge the battery," writes CNET. "Startup Ample's new technology can give drivers a full charge in about the same time it takes to fill a gas tank."Ample's model runs on the idea that the fastest charge is the one you never have to do. Its next-generation battery-swapping station can replace the battery on an electric vehicle in about five minutes...
  Ample currently operates 12 first-generation s
  
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• Here's How We Could Begin Decoding an Alien Message Using Math

  25-06-2023 22:05 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Slashdot reader silverjacket writes:Researchers at Oxford and elsewhere developed a method that figures out the most likely number and size of dimension in which to format a string of bits, with applications to interpreting messages from extraterrestrial intelligence (METI), if we were to receive them.
  The new method "looks at every possible combination of dimension number and size," according to Science News:
  The researchers also measure each possible configuration's global order by seeing how
  
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• Particle Accelerator Reveals A New Type of Atomic Nucleus

  25-06-2023 20:45 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Finland's University of Jyväskylä has an announcement: an experiment performed in its accelerator lab "has succeeded in producing a previously unknown atomic nucleus."
  Dubbed "190-Astatine," it's made from 85 protons and 105 neutrons..
  The nucleus is the lightest isotope of astatine discovered to date. Astatine is a fast-decaying, and therefore rare element. It has been estimated that in the Earth's crust, there is no more than one tablespoon of astatine...
  The new isotope was produced
  
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• After Hours-Long DDoS Attack, Blizzard Restores Access to 'Diablo IV', 'World of Warcraft'

  25-06-2023 19:45 via games.slashdot.org
  
  Blizzard's Battle.net online service was the target of an apparent DDoS attack, "since at least the early hours of Sunday morning," reports Engadget, "making it difficult, if not impossible, to play Diablo IV, World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles." It was just 20 minutes ago that they tweeted that the DDOS attacks "have ended."Engadget notes Blizzard's customer support account had tweeted at 10:24AM EST, "We continue to actively monitor an ongoing DDoS attack which is affecting latency/co
  
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• EOL For Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7 In 1 Year and a Week

  25-06-2023 18:34 via linux.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes:In little longer than 1 year, RHEL7 and CentOS 7 will go EOL. Large enterprises with thousands of these servers are struggling to meet that deadline. Now they also have the option to use Project78 from Linux Belgium which offers a Cloud and OnPrem version to aid in the transition to RHEL 8 or Rocky Linux 8. It promises a 100% success rate for in-place OS upgrading and a 95% success rate for application migrations in a Upgrade-as-a-Service package
  
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• Reducing Cholesterol Lowers Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, and Death, Study Finds

  25-06-2023 17:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from USA Today:A new study reinforces the importance of lowering cholesterol in people at risk for, but who haven't had a heart attack or stroke. The study looked at a statin alternative, called bempedoic acid, and found that as it reduced levels of LDL cholesterol, it also lowered the risk for heart attack, stroke and death.
  Researchers are quick to say bempedoic acid shouldn't be used instead of statins. It's far more expensive and doesn't have the decade
  
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• China's Experimental Molten Salt Reactor Receives Operating Licence

  25-06-2023 16:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Interesting Engineering reports:Chinese authorities have officially given the green light to commission a working thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactor. Currently under construction since 2018, the reactor in question, "Thorium Molten Salt Reactor — Liquid Fuel 1" (TMSR-LF1), is being built at the Hongshagang Industrial Cluster, Wuwei City, Gansu Province.
  If successful, the TMSR-LF1 has the potential to open doors for developing and constructing a more extensive demonstration facility
  
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• Thousands of Subreddits Remain Dark as Reddit Protests Approach Third Week

  25-06-2023 13:34 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  "User protests against Reddit's plan to charge new fees to access its content are about to enter their third week," writes Axios.
  2,503 subreddits remain dark, including at least three with more than 20 million subscribers apiece, the Guardian points out, arguing that CEO Steve Huffman "may win, but the short history of the web is littered with the corpses of predecessors who alienated their fanbases."
  The New York Times adds that in an interview Wednesday, "Mr. Huffman said his goal had been to
  
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• The IMF is Working on a Global Central Bank Digital Currency Platform

  25-06-2023 09:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Reuters reports:
  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is working on a platform for central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) to enable transactions between countries, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday."CBDCs should not be fragmented national propositions... To have more efficient and fairer transactions we need systems that connect countries: we need interoperability," Georgieva told a conference attended by African central banks in Rabat, Morocco. "For this reason at the
  
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• Navy Heard Implosion of Titan Submersible. OceanGate Accused of Exaggerating Design Partnerships

  25-06-2023 05:34 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Long-time Slashdot reader Zak3056 shared this report from the Washington Post:
  U.S. Navy acoustic sensors detected the likely implosion of the Titan submersible hours after the vessel began its fatal descent on Sunday, U.S. Navy officials said Thursday, a revelation that means the sprawling search for the vessel was conducted even though senior officials already had some indication the Titan was destroyed...
  The acoustic detection was one significant piece of information, but the search had to c
  
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• Working From Home 'A Permanent Shift', New US Data Suggests

  25-06-2023 03:34 via it.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from the Washington Post:Working from home appears to be here to stay, especially for women and college-educated workers, according to economic data released Thursday that revealed how Americans spent their time in 2022. The data, from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), suggests that the pandemic changes that upended the workplace, family life and social interactions continue to have a lasting effect on life in the United States.
  Many white-collar workers
  
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• Has Avi Loeb Found the Remains of an Interstellar Object?

  25-06-2023 00:34 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Motherboard reports:Scientists are currently searching for the submerged remains of an interstellar object that crashed into the skies near Papua New Guinea in January 2014 and probably sprinkled material from another star system into the Pacific Ocean, according to an onboard diary by Avi Loeb, the Harvard astronomer who is leading the expedition. The effort, which kicked off on June 14, aims to recover what is left of the otherworldly fireball using a deep-sea magnetic sled.
  The team has alrea
  
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