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But they believe it is basically a matter of a new, disruptive technology gradually gaining traction in a market, then rocketing up when buyers catch on. This isn't just happening on the West Coast. Since January , about 25, privately made firearms have been confiscated by local and federal law enforcement agencies nationwide There is a huge surfeit of supplies in circulation, enough to supply dealers who sell pre-assembled guns, via social media platforms or the dark web, for years.
At the same time, the increasing availability of 3-D printers, which can create the plastic and metal components of guns, has opened a new backdoor source of illegal weapons for gangs and drug dealers who would otherwise have to steal them. Brian Muhammad, who works with at-risk young people in Stockton, said he recently asked a group of teenagers where they got their guns.
They looked at him as if he were crazy. Slashdot reader AltMachine writes: In October , Google said its Sycamore processor was the first to achieve quantum supremacy by completing a task in three minutes and 20 seconds that would have taken the best classical supercomputer, IBM's Summit, 10, years. That claim — particularly how Google scientists arrived at the "10, years" conclusion — has been questioned by some researchers , but the counterclaim itself was not definitive.
Now though, in a paper to be submitted to a scientific journal for peer review, scientists at the Institute of Theoretical Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences said their algorithm on classical computers completed the simulation for the Sycamore quantum circuits [possibly paywalled; alternative source of the same article] "in about 15 hours using graphics processing units GPUs " at a higher fidelity than Sycamore's.
Further, the team said "if our simulation of the quantum supremacy circuits can be implemented in an upcoming exaflop supercomputer with high efficiency, in principle, the overall simulation time can be reduced to a few dozens of seconds , which is faster than Google's hardware experiments".
As China unveiled a photonic quantum computer which solved a Gaussian boson sampling problem in seconds that would have taken million years on classical computer, in December , disproving Sycamore's claim would place China being the first country to achieve quantum supremacy. Research studying the possibility of electrifying rail-based freight "finds that the technology is pretty much ready," reports Ars Technica , "and under the right circumstances, the economics are on the verge of working out.
So the researchers created a battery big enough to move that distance as part of a large freight train four locomotives, freight cars, and about 7, tonnes of payload. They found that lithium ferrous phosphate would let each of the four locomotives be serviced by a single freight car configured as a giant battery.
The battery would only occupy 40 percent of the volume of a typical boxcar and would be seven tonnes below the weight limit imposed by existing bridges. Because of the efficiency of direct electric power, the train would use only half the energy consumed by an internal combustion engine driving an on-board generator Even if these damages are ignored, a rise in the price of diesel and allowing freight companies to buy power at wholesale rates come close to shifting the costs to neutral In extreme cases, this system could actually pay for the entire infrastructure.
Special thanks to clovis Slashdot reader 4, for the submission — and for also sharing "some general info about diesel-electric locomotives " and " some detail on the AC-DC-AC drive. The fastest GPU on the market today features about 54 billion transistors.
Cerebras Systems' chip, the WSE-2, includes 2. The typical approach to chip production is carving as many as several dozen processors into a silicon wafer and then separating them. Cerebras Systems is using a vastly different method: The startup carves a single large processor into the silicon wafer that isn't broken up into smaller units. The 2. The chip's impressive specifications translate into several benefits for customers, according to the startup, most notably increased processing efficiency.
To match the performance provided by a WSE-2 chip, a company would have to deploy dozens or hundreds of traditional GPU servers With the WSE-2, data doesn't have to travel between two different servers but only from one section of the chip to another, which represents a much shorter distance.
The shorter distance reduces processing delays. Cerebras Systems says that the result is an increase in the speed at which neural networks can run. North Dakota has just electric cars, the fewest of any state in America, reports the Washington Post.
But the state's biggest booster for electric cars may be: the coal industry : The thinking is straightforward: More electric cars would mean more of a market for the [ lower carbon ] lignite coal that produces most of North Dakota's electricity, and if a long-shot project to store carbon emissions in deep underground wells works out, it might even result in cleaner air as well.
Without an intensive turn to carbon capture — a technically feasible but commercially unproven technology — electric vehicles may not be able to make that much of a difference in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Young Generation Station adjacent to the BNI mine, devised by a partnership of scientists and the Minnkota Power Cooperative, could make coal more attractive in the clean-energy future — if it works.
The idea, known as Project Tundra, is to scrub the carbon dioxide out of the plant's exhaust smoke, condense it and inject it into deep wells Carbon capture has been a popular idea within the coal, oil and gas sectors for years now. The technology is not out of reach. Plenty of pilot projects have been launched.
But so far no one has been able to make it a paying proposition. North Dakota hopes to break through that last barrier, for both coal and oil If Project Tundra can show that stuffing carbon dioxide back into the earth is economically feasible, he said, "it's opening the door for a CO2 economy. It gives the lignite [coal] industry a way to survive. Clean-air advocates range from dubious to dismissive.
The promise of electric vehicles wasn't that they would spur more coal mining — or oil extraction And unproven though it may be, critics contend, the publicity surrounding carbon capture has created a false sense of complacency that world-changing solutions are just around the corner.
The Post also reports that "the oil sector, too, is putting its chips on carbon capture As a result, ratepayers could see an increase in their bills for the next 30 years. The governor's office knew of the looming shortages days before they happened, yet the preparations they made did little to alter the course of the disaster Meanwhile, many Texans suffered through blackouts and bitter cold, and people died, according to the latest estimate from the Texas Department of State Health Services.
In the wake of the storm, many officials have called on utilities and oil and gas companies to winterize their operations Texans aren't the only ones whose bills are higher as a result of producers' and utilities' unwillingness to winterize their equipment. Utilities around the country were forced to buy natural gas at significantly higher prices when Texas' markets went haywire as a result of low supply and high demand. Slashdot reader schwit1 first shared the news with us.
The BBC reports: The rare Hawaiian koa wood-cased Apple-1 -- still functioning -- is one of only made and sold in kit form. The sale included user manuals and Apple software on two cassette tapes. The koa wood case of the auctioned model was added by a pioneering early computer retailer, ByteShop, in California, which took delivery of around 50 of the Apple-1 machines. It is believed there are around 20 such computers in the world still capable of functioning.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: Companies in North America added a record number of robots in the first nine months of this year as they rushed to speed up assembly lines and struggled to add human workers.
That surpassed the previous peak set in the same time period in , before the global pandemic upended economies.
The rush to add robots is part of a larger upswing in investment as companies seek to keep up with strong demand, which in some cases has contributed to shortages of key goods. At the same time, many firms have struggled to lure back workers displaced by the pandemic and view robots as an alternative to adding human muscle on their assembly lines.
Robots also continue to push into more corners of the economy. Auto companies have long bought most industrial robots. But in , combined sales to other types of businesses surpassed the auto sector for the first time -- and that trend continued this year. Although the capacity of the drive is unconfirmed, Seagate used images of the Exos X18 for the presentation, which has a maximum capacity of 18TB. Further, by creating consistency across different types of storage device, NVMe HDDs could drastically simplify datacenter configurations.
That said, it will take a number of years for these hard drives to enter the mainstream. Seagate says it expects the first samples to be made available to a small selection of customers in Autumn next year, while full commercial rollout is slated for at the earliest. One reason Chromebooks have succeeded in education is because of Chrome OS, which is well-suited for lower-end hardware, easy for IT administrators to manage, and hard to break with errant apps or malware.
Unlike past efforts like Windows in S mode which is still its own separate thing , Windows 11 SE isn't just a regular version of Windows with a cheaper license or a cut-down version that runs fewer apps. Windows 11 SE defaults to saving all files including user profile information to students' OneDrive accounts, and it has had some standard Windows 11 features removed to ensure a "distraction-free" learning environment that performs better on low-end devices.
The operating system also gives IT administrators exclusive control over the apps and browser extensions that can be installed and run via Microsoft Intune. If you're a school IT administrator with a fleet of PC laptops or desktops, you might wonder if you can buy and install Windows 11 SE on hardware you already have so you can benefit from its changes without buying new hardware.
The answer, Microsoft tells us, is no. And if you re-image a Windows 11 SE device with a different version of Windows 10 or Windows 11, it won't even be possible to reinstall Windows 11 SE after that. Valve has delayed the release of its Steam Deck handheld by several months , it announced in a statement today.
The anticipated handheld will now start rolling out in February , pushed back from an initial December release. Kotaku reports: "We're sorry about this -- we did our best to work around the global supply chain issues, but due to material shortages, components aren't reaching our manufacturing facilities in time for us to meet our initial launch dates," Valve wrote.
This will be the new start date of the reservation queue -- all reservation holders keep their place in line but dates will shift back accordingly. Apple says it will back off its plan to break Face ID on independently repaired iPhones. Ars Technica reports: The company's often contentious relationship with the repair community was tested again when "unauthorized" iPhone 13 screen replacements started resulting in broken Face ID systems.
A new report from The Verge says that Apple "will release a software update that doesn't require you to transfer the microcontroller to keep Face ID working after a screen swap.
Apple included a new microcontroller in the iPhone 13's display that pairs each screen with other components in the phone. As iFixit reported , if a third-party repair shop replaced the iPhone 13 display, Apple would disable the phone's Face ID system. It would be nice if this was never an issue in the first place, though. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Just outside of Shiprock, New Mexico, on land belonging to the Navajo Nation, a Bitcoin mine owned and operated by a Canadian investment company consumes seven megawatts of power each month -- enough to power 19, homes.
According to a press release from the mine's parent company, Luxxfolio, the mine accesses these resources "at significantly reduced cost in the bottom decile of global power costs. The Navajo Tribal Utility Authority NTUA , the nation's non-profit utility enterprise that initially partnered with Calgary, Alberta blockchain company WestBlock on the mine project, is working to connect more homes on the nation to basic utilities.
A short documentary detailing the project by Bitcoin mining hosting company Compass was released last week, framing the mine as a means to achieve sovereignty and economic prosperity for the nation.
But some Dine are bristling at the idea of a foreign Bitcoin mining company getting access to dirt cheap electricity while residents in Navajo Nation live without basic utilities like power and running water. Tyler Puente, who commented on a since-deleted Facebook post from Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez's Facebook page about the mine's groundbreaking ceremony that Navajo leadership are allowing outsiders to take advantage of Dine, told Motherboard that he sees the Bitcoin mine as a form of "financial colonialism.
PolygamousRanchKid shares a report from the BBC: Rolls-Royce has been backed by a consortium of private investors and the UK government to develop small nuclear reactors to generate cleaner energy. The creation of the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor SMR business was announced following a [ million pound] cash injection from private firms and a [ million pound] grant from the government.
It is hoped the new company could create up to 40, jobs by However, critics say the focus should be on renewable power, not new nuclear. Rolls-Royce SMR said one of its power stations would occupy about one tenth of the size of a conventional nuclear plant -- the equivalent footprint of two football pitches -- and power approximately one million homes.
The firm said a plant would have the capacity to generate MW of power, which it added would be the same produced by more than onshore wind turbines. Warren East, Rolls-Royce chief executive, said the company's SMR technology offered a "clean energy solution" which help tackle climate change.
However, Paul Dorfman, chairman of the Nuclear Consulting Group think tank, told the BBC's Today program there was danger that the money spent on nuclear power would hit funding for other power sources.
Greenpeace's chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said SMRs were still more expensive than renewable technologies and added there was "still no solution to dispose of the radioactive waste they leave behind and no consensus on where they should be located. This " When a film switches to an IMAX Digital ratio, the usual black bars that signify a wider-screen ratio will be reduced, adding approximately 26 percent more image to your HDTV, all framed as originally intended.
France will start building its first new nuclear reactors in decades as part of efforts to meet its promises to reduce planet-warming emissions, French President Emmanuel Macron announced Tuesday. The Associated Press reports: He spoke as climate negotiators in Glasgow debate how to speed up efforts against climate change, and amid concerns around Europe about recent spikes in energy prices and the continent's dependence on global gas and oil producers, including Russia.
He did not give any details of the plans. It's part of a much broader effort with Windows 11 SE , a new student edition designed to compete with Chrome OS that will ship on a range of low-cost laptops in the coming months.
While it retains the same keyboard and trackpad found on Microsoft's Surface Laptop Go, the all-plastic body houses an This is the first Surface device in more than seven years, after Microsoft switched to for its Surface line with the Surface Pro 3 launch in Lenovo's Chromebook Duet ships with a better Japan will create a scheme to subsidize construction of domestic chip factories with a new plant planned by Taiwan's TSMC likely to be the first recipient, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday.
Reuters reports: The government will set aside several hundreds of billion yen under this year's supplementary budget to create a pool of funds at NEDO, a state-run body promoting research and development on energy and industrial technology, the paper said. Companies will be eligible for the subsidies on condition they ramp up chip production in times of short supply, the Nikkei said without citing sources.
The plant in Kumamoto, southern Japan, is expected to produce semiconductors for automobiles, camera image sensors and other products which have been hit by a global chip shortage, and is likely to start operations by , the paper said.
They're also using them to engage in extended surveillance of people suspected of nothing, hovering over large gatherings and deploying infrared cameras to peer inside of buildings just for the fuck of it. Putting your stuff in the cloud means opening up additional attack vectors for those seeking your secrets. That appears to be the root source of this new leak. What a time to be alive! Talking at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Arm CEO Simon Segars said this chip-supply crisis was the worst he'd ever seen according to an EE Times article shared by Slashdot reader dkatana : The most important thing to do to get out of the woods in this situation and minimize similar ones in the future, he argued, is to improve collaboration between all players in the ecosystem.
So, make sure we understand the bottlenecks and build resilience into this supply chain in a steady state that works okay. But when you get an event and obviously the pandemic was a Black Swan event, like no other, it froze things off the hillside, and it's very hard to recover. And that's going to add about 50 percent additional capacity over the next five years And prices might not come down for a while. What is essential, Segars said, is to be patient, collaborate and invest. I expect these supply chain constraints to be a little better, but [they] won't be completely fixed because this isn't a short-term problem with a short-term solution.
Billions of dollars are going to need to be spent in the coming years. And the decisions that we make today are going to affect the supply of this life, critical materials, semiconductors, over the next decade. Will we spend enough? We spent too much, but we accidentally break the industries? That remains to be seen. That is the challenge that the industry is stepping up to" he added. You need industrial style, very pure chemicals to feed into these factories downstream So you need much more than just a chip factory to address these supply chain issues.
Slashdot reader DanDrollette who is also the deputy editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shares their report on "The secret history of the world's largest nuclear detonation, coming to light after 60 years. At a. As the bomb fell, an enormous parachute unfurled to slow its descent, giving the pilot time to retreat to a safe distance.
A minute or so later, the bomb detonated. A cameraman watching from the island recalled: A fire-red ball of enormous size rose and grew.
It grew larger and larger, and when it reached enormous size, it went up. Behind it, like a funnel, the whole earth seemed to be drawn in. The sight was fantastic, unreal, and the fireball looked like some other planet. It was an unearthly spectacle! Within ten minutes, it had reached a height of 42 miles and a diameter of some 60 miles. One civilian witness remarked that it was "as if the Earth was killed. Its single test represents about one tenth of the total yield of all nuclear weapons ever tested by all nations Within two years, though, the Soviet Union and the United States would sign and ratify the Limited Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting atmospheric nuclear weapons testing, and the megaton bomb would fall into relative obscurity.
Drollette notes that "The United States dismissed the gigantic Tsar Bomba as a stunt, but behind the scenes it was working to build a 'superbomb' of its own. Alternate URL here. Developers say industrial-scale solar farms are needed to meet the nation's goals to mitigate the rise of climate change, but locals are fighting back against what they see as an encroachment on their pastoral settings, the loss of agricultural land and a decline in property values. Until recently, most farms were built in the West, where abundant sunshine powers industrial-scale solar arrays and installations were farther away from sight lines.
But now, with federal and state governments committing to a reduction in fossil fuels, joined by corporate giants like Amazon and Microsoft , the industry is seeking solar installations in areas where the calculus is more complicated Improvements in the capabilities of the panels — including the development of so-called bifacial panels that capture the sun on both sides of a panel — allow for greater electricity generation in fewer panels, meaning a smaller footprint.
Nonetheless, finding appropriate sites with sufficient sunlight, proximity to the grid and up-to-date infrastructure is challenging. Approximately 0. Urban settings usually lack enough space for significant projects; as a result, 90 percent of the suitable land sits in rural areas.
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