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According to a paper published in the journal npj Aging, research on fruit flies shows that chronic daily exposure to blue light from cellphones, computers and other household devices increases the harmful effects as we age. come bigger. The study analyzed the flies’ odds of surviving in the dark, then transferred them to an environment […]

The largest online encyclopedia has mixed reviews. Wikipedia allows anyone to edit anonymously. How does its articles affect our decisions in reality? How can this impact be measured? Researchers at MIT, Maynooth University and Cornell University have published a paper in which they conducted a randomized experiment creating new legal wiki articles to see how

Micron announced the mass production of 232-layer 3D NAND flash memory chips, the first flash memory chips to break through 200 layers, compared to competitors currently offering technology up to 176 layers. Micron’s new technology doubles the bit density per unit area of ​​storage to 14.6 gigabits per square millimeter of storage. The bottom layer

Russia has introduced a number of policies and regulations over the past few months to tighten control over the Internet . Lawmakers demanded that their home country’s app store be pre-installed on mobile phones, restrict data transfer abroad, tighten foreign agent laws to crack down on VPN use, announced the establishment of a mobile phone

The time left for system administrators to patch newly disclosed vulnerabilities is much shorter than previously thought. Hackers have been monitoring security firms for new vulnerability disclosure reports, typically scanning for vulnerabilities 15 minutes after a CVE is published, with the first vulnerabilities observed within hours, according to an Incident Response Report released by security

Launched on Christmas 2021, the Webb Space Telescope, which officially began making astronomical observations earlier this month, has had a huge impact on astronomy in two weeks. Webb’s ability to observe galaxies and stars in the early days of the universe was most touted, and it lived up to the hype. It has discovered the

Russia has announced that it will end cooperation with NASA and others on the International Space Station in 2024, and Roscosmos has also announced that it will build its own space station. The International Space Station was originally scheduled to be decommissioned around 2024, but NASA has decided to delay the decommissioning until 2030. What

Creative Commons CC0 is a public domain license that allows anyone to publish content worldwide without restrictions. But waiver of content restrictions does not mean waiver of trademark or patent rights. A consensus in the Free Open Source Community (FOSS) is that a license that excludes any form of patent licensing or patent forbearance cannot

The Intel Linux GPU driver developers have submitted a fix that improves ray tracing performance on Intel GPUs by a factor of 100. The update was merged into Mesa 22.2 and is expected to be available to end users by the end of August. The problem with Intel’s older drivers was that the temporary memory

Kaspersky researchers report CosmicStrand , a malicious program that hides in motherboard UEFI images and is difficult to eradicate. The malicious program’s developers are believed to speak Chinese. Qihoo researchers reported in 2017 that the spy shadow Trojan will infect the BIOS boot module in UEFI compatibility mode, and UEFI+GPT mode will not be affected.

Software problems that led to the firing of VW CEO Herbert Diess underscored the importance of software to the auto industry . Serious software development issues have delayed the scheduled launch of new Porsche, Audi and Bentley vehicles. Diess’s hard-line leadership style has made him increasingly isolated, and he has repeatedly clashed with labor leaders

The chip giant announced on Monday that it will produce chips for MediaTek . MediaTek is the fourth largest fabless chip design company, ahead of AMD and behind Broadcom, Nvidia and Qualcomm. MediaTek’s revenue reached $17.6 billion last year, up 61 percent from a year earlier. In addition to designing chips for smartphones, MediaTek designs

Launched in 1990, the Hubble telescope has been in service for 32 years, and its successor, the Webb telescope, launched late last year and became the star of this year’s astronomy. Hubble is above Earth’s atmosphere and orbits at an altitude of 559 kilometers, while Webb orbits at the Lagrangian L2 point between Earth and