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The city’s lights flicker all night, severely disturbing the phenology of urban plants—the changes that occur when the stamens bloom in the spring, and the leaves change color and fall in the fall. A new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus shows how nighttime lights prolong the growing season in cities, affecting everything from […]

Smart thermostats activate grid demand spikes at bad times of day, according to a study by Cornell University researchers. “Many homes use smart thermostats to lower the room temperature during winter nights,” said Max Zhang, a professor in Cornell University’s Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. “Programming it to raise the room before you

A campaign launched by homeowners threatening to stop mortgage repayments on unfinished homes has quickly heated up on Chinese social media this week. Homeowners from all over the country have declared that they will also “stop lending” if developers fail to deliver on their promises to deliver pre-sale homes on time. At present, the number

Fentanyl, one of the most commonly used analgesics in hospitals, is a mu-opioid agonist that has the potential to permanently impair behavior and sensorimotor abilities in rats. However, we do not know whether fentanyl use promotes the development of autism. Fentanyl causes autism-like behavioral changes in young male and female mice, according to an animal

In 2017, Wikileaks disclosed the CIA hacking toolset, code-named Vault 7, containing exploits and documents to infect devices such as iPhones, Wi-Fi routers, and Cisco gateways, and it is believed to be the largest known collection of classified information in CIA history. leakage. The person who leaked these secrets is believed to be former CIA

Google announced Chrome OS Flex, a new version of Chrome OS in February, designed to run on older PCs and Macs. Chrome OS Flex has the same look and feel as Chrome OS running on Chromebook laptops, and is based on the same codebase and release cycle. Google says that installing Chrome OS Flex is

Nikon stopped the development of SLR cameras and focused on mirrorless cameras that introduced artificial intelligence (AI) and image processing technology. Smartphones with high-definition cameras are eating into the camera market, and Nikon will try to keep cameras alive by adding features that smartphones don’t have. Nikon introduced the first SLR camera, the Nikon F,

ESA officially ends cooperation with Russia on Mars mission ExoMars. The ExoMars rover, named after Rosalind Franklin, was scheduled to launch in July 2020 and land on the surface of Mars in March 2021 to search for signs of life on Mars. But it was pushed back to August 2022 due to the Covid-19 pandemic

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees that hiring will slow down for the rest of the year. The search giant became the latest tech company to cut hiring or lay off staff. He said Google hired about 10,000 new employees in the second quarter, with many more coming this quarter. “In the future, we need

Google uses a variety of operating systems internally, including Linux. Google’s early internal Linux distribution was Goobuntu, which was based on Ubuntu LTS. Ubuntu LTS needs to be updated every two years, which is increasingly inconvenient for businesses. Upgrading more than 100,000 computers before the operating system ends support is not an easy task, and

The open source e-book management software calibre has released version 6.0 . Major new features include: optional indexed e-book library to allow full text search; support for Apple Silicon CPUs under macOS and ARM CPUs under Linux, 32-bit CPUs are discontinued due to Qt 6; support for e-book reading using the operating system’s built-in text-to-speech

Following the release of the first image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723, NASA released more images from the Webb Space Telescope, which you can view at webbtelescope.org , as well as a user-generated comparison of Hubble and Webb’s images of the same region of space , showing Webb’s photo quality is clearly far superior. The

Nothing has officially announced that its first phone, the Phone 1, will start at $475, and it will go on sale July 21: $475 for 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, $535 for 256GB of storage, and $593 for 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage . The Nothing company was founded by OnePlus