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South Korean antitrust regulators have fined Tesla 2.85 billion won ($2.2 million) for failing to inform customers that its electric vehicles have a shorter driving range in cold temperatures. Tesla exaggerates the car’s range on a single charge on its official website, and the electric car’s cruising range in cold weather is only 50.5% of […]

NASA administrator Bill Nelson talks about the US-China space race in an interview with Politico. He said that if China landed on the surface of the moon before the United States, China may advertise that the moon is Chinese territory. NASA completed the first lunar flight of the Artemis mission in November last year. This

A series of anti-graffiti QR codes were posted around Melbourne’s CBD, some of which were replaced as part of a documentary discussing hip-hop culture. This documentary discusses graffiti in hip-hop culture. Mayor Sally Capp said she believed the number of QR codes compromised was significant and expressed frustration at the hacking of QR codes. The

“DistroWatch Weekly”, which tracks Linux distributions, released its first issue in 2023, and it is also the thousandth issue since its inception. It has accumulated 2,500 articles of about 5.6 million words in nearly two decades of publication. The contributors to DistroWatch Weekly took the opportunity to talk about their distribution journey, as well as

2022 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Gregor Mendel, the father of modern genetics, who was born in 1822. How to commemorate his 200th birthday? Excavating his body for sequencing, of course. That’s what a team of scientists in the Czech Republic did. Mendel lived and worked in Brno, the second largest city in

The Android community distribution LineageOS has released version v20. LineageOS is a branch of CyanogenMod, which was created after Cyanogen announced that it would stop developing CyanogenMod. LineageOS 20 is based on Android 13, stripped off Google apps, and added some of the project’s own apps, including the new camera app Aperture (based on Google

If human beings detect the message sent by an advanced civilization, it will undoubtedly be an event of concrete and significant significance to the entire human race, and all countries in the world must be prepared for it. Or are they really ready? Looking at the chaos created by the new crown epidemic, we are

Nearly 10,000 years ago, humans who settled the Fertile Crescent—the region of the Middle East around the Tigris and Euphrates rivers—first moved from hunter-gatherers to farmers, developing a close relationship with mouse-eating cats, which lived in ancient times Played the role of pest control. A new University of Missouri study finds that changes in human

Imagine working on your laptop while looking out at the view. You’re in a tourist spot, but your work is on the other side of the world. More than forty countries now offer digital nomad visas, attracting those who work in one country but live and spend in another. Want to go to the beach?

According to a report published in the journal Advances in Space Research, researchers have identified the oldest known record of a candidate aurora in ancient Chinese texts. The auroral event may have occurred in 977 or 957 BC. The earliest record of candidate aurora prior to this was found on Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating from

SpaceX completed a total of 61 launches in 2022, setting a new record for the number of launches, and SpaceX is expected to be busier in 2023, including two NASA space station manned launch missions, two commercial manned launch missions, two Space Station cargo missions, and the first orbital launch of the heavy-lift rocket Starship.

Two weeks ago, users reported a user-agent string (UA string) to Mozilla about a site compatibility issue. UA strings have been around since the 1990s, and websites can use this data to tweak performance and functionality, or block outdated browsers. The UA string for the upcoming Firefox 110 is Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64;

Liu Deyin, chairman of TSMC, officially announced the mass production of 3-nanometer chips at a ceremony held at the Fab 18 factory in Tainan Science Park. Liu Deyin said that compared with 5nm chips, the logic transistor density of 3nm chips has increased by 60%, and the power consumption has been reduced by 30% to