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India announced last month that it will adopt USB-C as a universal charging port for smart devices. A universal charger would eliminate the need for a different charger when purchasing a new device, significantly reducing e-waste. India will generate about 5 million tons of e-waste in 2021, second only to China and the United States. […]

The 1999 dark comedy Office Space is set in a company called Initech, in which insecure programmer Peter Gibbons hates the company, and his two best friends are colleagues Michael Bolton and Samir Nagheenanajar, who both hate Initech. When Peter finds out that two close friends are facing layoffs, the three of them hatch a

Research in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans reveals how DNA damage caused by paternal radiation exposure affects offspring, according to a study published in the journal Nature. The researchers found that radiation damage to mature sperm cannot be repaired, but is passed on to offspring. In contrast, female eggs either accurately repair the damage or, if

Operators of malicious programs are increasingly abusing Google Ads to distribute malicious programs to users searching for legitimate software. Victims include Grammarly, MSI Afterburner, Slack, Dashlane, Malwarebytes, Audacity, μTorrent, OBS, Ring, AnyDesk, Libre Office, Teamviewer, Thunderbird, and Brave. Hackers create clones of the official websites of the aforementioned projects, but replace the software that users

NASA and Roscosmos are investigating the cause of a ruptured coolant line in the external radiator of the Soyuz spacecraft MS-22. The spacecraft was originally planned to return two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut to Earth next February. Russia is studying an emergency launch of another Soyuz spacecraft. But if Russia is unable to

Six in 10 subscribers have watched at least one Korean drama, Netflix said on Thursday. Netflix says the K-pop is stronger than ever, with six of the 10 most-searched K-dramas in South Korea coming from Netflix. The two most-watched K-dramas on Netflix in 2022 are the zombie-themed Zombie School and U.S. Lawyer Woo Young-woo, which

The Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter) entered its scheduled orbit around the moon on the 27th. The “Danuri” was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 5 this year. It began to perform the last orbit change mission at about 11:06 am on the 26th, and was confirmed to have successfully entered

In the 1980s and 1990s, dozens of companies were involved in the development of graphics cards, but most of them were eliminated from the competition. By 2010, only AMD and Nvidia were left with competitive graphics products. However, in the past few years, with the rapid growth of the demand for AI, HPC and graphics

Researchers at Florida State University College of Medicine found that aspartame was linked to anxiety behavior in mice. Mice that ate aspartame developed anxiety, and the effects lasted two generations from male mice exposed to the sweetener. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aspartame as a sweetener in 1981. Today, nearly 5,000 metric

Mozilla fixed an 18-year-old Firefox bug. Bug 290125 was first reported on April 12, 2005. The problem is related to Firefox rendering text with the ::first character CSS pseudo-element. The Gecko engine used by the browser ignores any declared line height and inherits the line of the parent box high. The issue has been classified

A research team at Nagoya University in Japan reports that EP3 neurons in the preoptic area of ​​the brain play a key role in regulating body temperature in mammals. The discovery could lead to the development of a technology to artificially regulate body temperature to help treat heatstroke, hypothermia and even obesity. The body temperature

Due to the severe snowstorm in the United States last week, many bitcoin mining farms closed their facilities, causing the hash rate of the bitcoin network to drop by nearly 40% in a few days. The Bitcoin hash rate was 155.28 exahashes per second on Saturday, a decrease of 38.8% from Wednesday’s 253.88 exahashes per

A user named Ryushi peddled the database of 400 million Twitter users on the hacker forum Breached, claiming to use a loophole in the Twitter API to grab it, including email, user name, name, number of fans, creation date and phone number. This user released samples of several celebrities, and the top one is Alexandria