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• ESA Delays Vega C Return To Flight To Late 2024

  02-10-2023 23:22 via science.slashdot.org
  
  The return to flight of Europe's Vega C small launch vehicle has slipped to late 2024 after the European Space Agency concluded a rocket motor nozzle needs to be redesigned. From a report: ESA announced Oct. 2 the completion of an independent investigation into an anomaly that took place during a static-fire test of a Zefiro 40 motor June 28. That test was part of efforts to return the Vega C to flight after a December 2022 launch failure blamed on that motor. Giovanni Colangelo, ESA's inspector
  
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• IronNet, Founded by Former NSA Director, Shuts Down

  02-10-2023 22:40 via it.slashdot.org
  
  IronNet, a once-promising cybersecurity startup founded by a former NSA director and funded by cyber and defense investors, has shuttered and laid off its remaining staff following its collapse. From a report: In a regulatory filing published Friday, IronNet's president and chief financial officer Cameron Pforr said the company had ceased all business activities as it prepares for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, effectively liquidating the company's remaining assets to pay its remaining debts. The Virgini
  
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• The Orion Nebula Is Full of Impossible Enigmas That Come in Pairs

  02-10-2023 22:02 via science.slashdot.org
  
  We have discovered a lot in this universe. Planets that orbit stars at right angles. Forbidden worlds that have cheated death. Space explosions that defy explanation. Yet the cosmos continues to surprise us. The latest spectacle, observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, is an agglomeration of nearly 150 free-floating objects amid the Orion Nebula, not far in mass from Jupiter. From a report: Dozens of these worlds are even orbiting each other. The scientists who discovered them have called th
  
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• Cooler Master's Sneaker Gaming PC Sells For $3,799

  02-10-2023 21:20 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  Cooler Master's new Sneaker X mimics the exact look of an authentic sneaker but doesn't sacrifice its visuals for performance, coming with a full-blown i7-13700K and an RTX 4070 Ti graphics card. The only drawback of the system is its high price, coming in at a whopping $3,799.99. From a report: Cooler Master's sneaker case is anything but ordinary; the case has all the visual queues of a giant sneaker doused in red and white. Inside is a mini ITX chassis, equipped with a mini-ITX motherboard, C
  
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• Kenya Panel Urges Shutdown of Worldcoin's Crypto Project Within Country

  02-10-2023 20:49 via slashdot.org
  
  A Kenyan parliamentary panel called on the country's information technology regulator on Monday to shut down the operations of cryptocurrency project Worldcoin within the country until more stringent regulations are put in place. From a report: The government suspended the project in early August following privacy objections over its scanning of users' irises in exchange for a digital ID to create a new "identity and financial network". Worldcoin was rolled out in various countries around the wo
  
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• Nobel Prize Awarded To Covid Vaccine Pioneers

  02-10-2023 20:04 via science.slashdot.org
  
  Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who together identified a chemical tweak to messenger RNA, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday. Their work enabled potent Covid vaccines to be made in less than a year, averting tens of millions of deaths and helping the world recover from the worst pandemic in a century. From a report: The approach to mRNA the two researchers developed has been used in Covid shots that have since been administered billions of times globally and has
  
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• Americans Are Still Spending Like There's No Tomorrow

  02-10-2023 19:20 via news.slashdot.org
  
  Consumers should be spending less by now. Interest rates are up. Inflation remains high. Pandemic savings have shrunk. And the labor market is cooling. Yet household spending, the primary driver of the nation's economic growth, remains robust remains robust. From a report: Americans spent 5.8% more in August than a year earlier, well outstripping less than 4% inflation. And the experience economy boomed this summer, with Delta Air Lines reporting record revenue in the second quarter and Ticketma
  
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• Chromebook Plus is Google's New Certification for Premium Chromebooks

  02-10-2023 18:47 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Google has introduced Chromebook Plus, a new certification that's meant to help shoppers identify high-quality Chromebooks to buy. From a report: Much like Intel's Evo program for Windows PCs, the Chromebook Plus branding will be awarded to laptops that meet a set of minimum requirements. The idea is that even a shopper who's not familiar with PC specs can see the "Chromebook Plus" label on a product and be assured that Google thinks it's a good product. Chromebook Plus devices must have:
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• Microsoft CEO Says AI Will Help Google Extend Search Edge

  02-10-2023 18:00 via search.slashdot.org
  
  Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said AI could help Google extend its dominance of the search market, as he took the stand Monday in the Google antitrust trial. From a report: When Microsoft introduced its new Bing AI-based search in February, beating Google to the punch, Nadella touted the technology as a way for Bing to get back in the market and make Google uncomfortable. But now, he told the judge, Google could accelerate its current lead by using the massive profits it makes
  
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• Dimon Sees AI Giving a 3 1/2-Day Workweek To the Next Generation

  02-10-2023 17:24 via slashdot.org
  
  Jamie Dimon said artificial intelligence is already being used by thousands of employees at his bank, and is likely to make dramatic improvements in workers' quality of life, even if it eliminates some jobs. From a report: "Your children are going to live to 100 and not have cancer because of technology," Dimon said in an interview on Bloomberg TV Monday. "And literally they'll probably be working three-and-a-half days a week." Dimon, who has called AI "critical to our company's future success,"
  
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• Tom Hanks Warns of an AI Version of Him Used To Promote Dental Plan

  02-10-2023 16:40 via slashdot.org
  
  Tom Hanks is warning fans not to trust a video of him circulating about a dental plan. From a report: The Oscar-winning actor took to his Instagram on Sunday to give his fans a heads-up that anything they may see about him online linked to a dental plan was not actually him. "BEWARE!! There's a video out there promoting some dental plan with an AI version of me. I have nothing to do with it," Hanks wrote over a photo of a computer-generated image of him from the clip. The Asteroid City star prev
  
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• European Telecom Groups Ask Brussels To Make Big Tech Pay More For Networks

  02-10-2023 16:00 via tech.slashdot.org
  
  Europe's biggest telecoms companies have called on the EU to compel Big Tech to pay a "fair" contribution for using their networks, the latest stage in a battle for payments that has pitched the sector against companies such as Netflix and Google. From a report: Technology companies that "benefit most" from telecoms infrastructure and drive traffic growth should contribute more to costs, according to the chief executives of 20 groups including BT, Deutsche Telekom and Telefonica, who signed an o
  
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• Robot 'Monster Wolves' Try to Scare Off Japan's Bears

  02-10-2023 13:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  "Bear attacks in Japan have been rising at an alarming rate, so the city of Takikawa [about 570 miles from Tokyo] installed a robot wolf as a deterrent," reports the BBC. "The robot wolf was originally designed to keep wild animals from farmlands, but is now being used by local governments and managers of highways, golf courses, and pig farms."Digital Trends describes the "Monster Wolf" as "complete with glowing red eyes and protruding fangs."[T]he solar-powered Monster Wolf emits a menacing roa
  
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• US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations

  02-10-2023 09:34 via hardware.slashdot.org
  
  This week America's Department of Energy announced $264 million for 29 projects as part of its Energy Earthshots Initiative "to advance clean energy technologies within the decade."
  The funding will support 11 new research centers — along with 18 university research teams — studying things like industrial decarbonization, carbon storage, and offshore wind energy. The ultimate goal is a clean-energy revolution that will "accelerate innovations toward more abundant, affordable, and rel
  
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• 'Embarrassing' Court Document Google Wanted to Hide Finally Posted Online

  02-10-2023 06:46 via yro.slashdot.org
  
  America's Department of Justice "has finally posted what judge Amit Mehta described at the Google search antitrust trial as an 'embarrassing' exhibit that Google tried to hide from the public," reports Ars Technica:
  The document in question contains meeting notes that Google's vice president for finance, Michael Roszak, "created for a course on communications," Bloomberg reported. In his notes, Roszak wrote that Google's search advertising "is one of the world's greatest business models ever cre
  
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• Millions of Digital Nomads are Traveling the World -- and Sometimes Working at Night

  02-10-2023 03:44 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "Almost 17 million U.S. employees describe themselves as digital nomads," reports Bloomberg, "more than double the pre-pandemic number, according to MBO Partners, a firm that connects companies with freelance talent."
  Bloomberg says one worker sees their lifestyle as less of a vacation and "more about forming a genuine connection with a place and the people who live there."
  [T]he abrupt shift to remote work during the pandemic pulled what was long an idle fantasy for many into the realm of the p
  
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• Apple Promises Software Update to Address iPhone 15 Overheating Complaints

  02-10-2023 02:24 via apple.slashdot.org
  
  An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC:
  Apple said on Saturday that it will issue a software update that would address customer complaints about the latest iPhone 15 models, released just over a week ago, running hot.
  Apple said that the new iPhone models were running hot because of a combination of bugs in iOS 17, bugs in apps, and a temporary set-up period... After Apple released the new iPhone 15 models earlier this month, user complaints on Apple's forums, Reddit, and social media
  
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• San Francisco's Empty Offices Might Start Converting Into Housing

  02-10-2023 00:44 via it.slashdot.org
  
  "San Francisco's downtown has lost roughly 150,000 daily workers since the pandemic," reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
  But on the bright side, "Some of San Francisco's empty office buildings are one step closer to being converted into residential units," reports SFGate:The owners of eight San Francisco office buildings responded to a request from the city for landlords interested in converting their properties into condos or apartments, the San Francisco Chronicle reported... The properties
  
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