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PSR J0952-0607 is the second fastest spinning pulsar known and the most massive neutron star known , according to a study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. J0952 was discovered in 2016 and is located in the constellation Sextant, about 20,000 light-years away from Earth. It rotates 707 times per second with a rotation period of […]

“A Song of Ice and Fire” series author George R.R. Martin announced in a video statement that he is positive for the new crown and is currently isolating in a Los Angeles hotel. He previously attended Comic-Con in San Diego, and most likely contracted the virus at the live event. Martin said he had no

The new head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, announced earlier this week that Russia will withdraw from the International Space Station after 2024 to build its own space station (ROSS). This decision took NASA by surprise. Will the breakup of the two countries happen soon? Roscosmos officials later clarified that the two sides will continue to

The box office of Marvel’s recent movies is far worse than in the early days . Is it because the audience’s taste has changed or is the new movie making the audience incomprehensible? Since Disney acquired Marvel in 2009, the studio has produced more than 25 films that grossed $25 billion worldwide, including 2019’s “Avengers:

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday added Alibaba to its list of Chinese stocks facing delisting , meaning they could be delisted from U.S. exchanges if their audit firms fail to be inspected by the spring of 2024. Under the Foreign Company Accountability Act of 2020, which goes into effect in 2021,

A survey of nearly 40,000 gamers by the Oxford Internet Institute team found that gaming does not harm mental health unless the player has to play instead of wanting to. The researchers found no causal link between any type of gaming and poor mental health. The games the researchers investigated included casual game Animal Crossing:

Intel reported its Q2 earnings , with sales falling for the second consecutive quarter: Q2 sales fell 22% to $15.3 billion, with a net loss of $454 million, compared with a profit of $5.75 billion a year earlier. Among them, PC chip division revenue fell 25% to $7.7 billion, and data center chip division sales

After Micron sold its 3D XPoint (Optane) factory, Intel has now revealed that it will wind down its Optane business . 3D XPoint is a non-volatile memory (NVM) technology jointly developed by Micron and Intel, which Intel names Optane for storage products that use the technology. Its advantages are that it is faster than NAND

After the Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives swiftly passed a $280 billion bill by a vote of 243-187 to improve U.S. competitiveness in the semiconductor industry. U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to sign the bill. The Chip Act would provide $52.7 billion in direct financial assistance for the construction and expansion of semiconductor

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced (PDF) the inaugural winners of the Post-Quantum Encryption and Signature Algorithms Competition. For encryption algorithms, NIST recommends the use of CRYSTALS-Kyber, consider choosing NTRU (the related patent has expired), both Kyber and NTRU are lattice-based algorithms; for signature algorithms, NIST chooses CRYSTALS-Dilithium as the main

DeepMind released the source code for AlphaFold, an AI system that predicts protein structures, last July and created a database, the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB) . A year later, AlphaFold has been visited by more than a million researchers and is being used to solve important real-world problems, from plastic pollution to antibiotic

Intel is once again making a foray into standalone graphics, and its graphics driver updates are getting closer and closer to Nvidia and AMD. For standalone Arc GPUs and similarly-architected integrated graphics, Intel promises to release a new driver each month with specific fixes and performance enhancements for newly released games. At the same time,

The website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection issued a brief statement , and Comrade Xiao Yaqing, Secretary of the Party Group and Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, accepted the examination and investigation of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.