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Nuclear power supplies 70 percent of France’s electricity needs, but more than half of its 56 nuclear reactors are shut down due to maintenance and age-related corrosion problems. Today’s extreme heat has the potential to further impact its power generation . Climate usually has little effect on nuclear power, but this year’s heat was different, […]

Mu Changchun, director of the central bank’s digital currency research institute, said in a speech at the conference on Sunday that the central bank’s digital currency would not have complete anonymity . Mu Changchun said that in order to maintain financial security and stability, central banks and international organizations have taken risk prevention as an

SpaceX originally planned to fly NASA’s Crew-5 crewed mission in early September, but the Falcon 9 rocket that was planned to be used for this mission was inspected and found to have problems with parts, and the launch was delayed for several weeks. Until then, Sandra Magnus, a former astronaut and a member of NASA’s

SpaceX successfully completed its Starlink Group 3-2 launch mission on Friday, sending 46 Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit. The mission, originally scheduled to launch at 10:39 AM PDT (17:39 UTC) on July 21, was aborted due to problems with valve sensor readings, and the launch was delayed by a day at the same

Confluence, the enterprise wiki software developed by Australian company Atlassian, was found to have hardcoded passwords, and to make matters worse, the passwords were leaked . The hardcoded application is Questions for Confluence , which when installed creates an account called disabledsystemuser, designed to help administrators transfer data between the application and the Confluence cloud

This is a rare accident in the field of international maritime transport: two containers arriving at Chittagong in Bangladesh were found to have the same number SLHU4500470, but different seal numbers, 001535 and GTS 005946. For identification, tracking and destination determination, containers are assigned a unique number by ISO through the International Bureau of Containers.

One study found that increased exercise did not offset the negative effects of a low-quality diet . A high-quality diet refers to at least five servings of fruit and vegetables per day, two servings of fish per week, and less red meat, especially processed meat. The study found that people who ate a high-quality diet

To keep track of train positions, the railway line is divided into small segments with an average length of one to two kilometers, and each segment is connected to a signal that informs if there is a train on that segment. The signal is controlled by a relay that senses the current. Similar to a

An anonymous reader wrote , “In September last year, the Wikimedia Foundation removed and blocked a group of Wikipedia users, most of whom were members of the “Chinese Wikipedia User Group”, the organization’s “contact” Yan Enming (username: Techyan) They have told the BBC that they will create a “Chinese version” wiki, using the content of

A widely accepted hypothesis for the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease is the amyloid hypothesis , which suggests that the accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) in the brain may be the underlying cause of Alzheimer’s disease. Key support for this hypothesis was provided in a 2006 Nature paper by first author Sylvain Lesné (Nature had warned

New York has reported a case of polio, or polio , the first polio to emerge in the United States in years. The patient is located in Rockland County, New York, which had a measles outbreak in parts in 2019 due to low vaccination rates. The patient is a young adult, unvaccinated and has not

After mastering massive amounts of data and tracking users almost perfectly, will AI be omnipotent? Economists at the University of Illinois and Stanford University have studied the ability of machine learning to predict consumer choices , and they concluded that predicting consumer choices is very difficult and AI is not particularly good at it. They

Biden has tested positive for the new crown and will be quarantined at the White House for five days. Despite being fully vaccinated and given two booster doses, the positive result has raised concerns about the 79-year-old president’s health. The White House said Biden had “very mild” symptoms and would continue to work while in