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After Microsoft halted sales of its products in Russia on March 4, searches for Microsoft’s pirated software have surged by 250 percent, and searches for downloads of the spreadsheet program Excel have grown by 650 percent since June. Microsoft said last month that it would slash operations in Russia. The move is a huge blow […]

The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark ruling on the ability of environmental regulators to limit greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is a blow to the Biden administration’s efforts to fight climate change. In a majority opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the justices ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), when it was created

Disinformation is prevalent on all major social media platforms, but TikTok’s audio feature can make the spread of misinformation especially persistent . The London-based Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which studies online disinformation and extremism, noted in a 2021 blog post that short misinformation, edited and saved as what TikTok calls “voices,” operates in a “viral-like

Eating disorders, especially obesity, are one of the most common causes of various diseases in industrialized societies around the world, especially cardiovascular diseases with permanent disability or fatal consequences, such as heart attack, diabetes or stroke. The Robert Koch Institute reported in 2021 that 67% of men and 53% of women in Germany are overweight.

Samsung Electronics started mass production of 3nm chips. Samsung said on Thursday that it has started mass production of 3-nanometer chips on its assembly lines. The chip is the first to use gate-all-around (GAAFET) technology. Samsung said that in the initial production phase, the 3-nanometer process enabled the new chip to increase performance by 23%,

Last summer, a female Alibaba employee surnamed Zhou accused her manager and company clients of sexually assaulting her after getting her drunk at a business dinner. A few months later, things didn’t go as expected. Prosecutors in September decided not to prosecute his leader, saying his actions did not constitute a crime. Alibaba fired the

Brazil plans to introduce similar regulations after the European Union passed a law requiring the use of USB-C chargers for electronic devices, including smartphones, to reduce e-waste. Brazil’s telecommunications regulator, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Agency (Anatel), has published a proposal for public comment, with a deadline of August 26. The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, undoubtedly

Man’s best friend was the first animal to be domesticated by man. But there is no clear dividing line when dogs diverge from wolves. Some of the ancient skeletons were clearly dogs, but there were many more ambiguous skeletons before that. Using the genes of modern and ancient dogs might reveal what once happened. But

The Curiosity rover drilled samples from Gale Crater, where an ancient lake on Mars is located. Using these samples, scientists were able to measure the total amount of organic carbon in Martian rocks for the first time, NASA said in a statement . Organic carbon is carbon bonded to hydrogen atoms and is a prerequisite

As extraordinary creatures with extremely complex brains and cognitive abilities, octopuses are unique among invertebrates. So much so that it is more like a vertebrate than an invertebrate in some ways. As Remo Sanges from Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Port of Trieste, and Graziano Fiorito from Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, recently

The cradle of humankind in Gauteng, South Africa, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, where a large number of early human fossils have been found. Now a dating method developed by geologists at Purdue University has pushed the age of some of the fossils found at the Teckfontein site forward by more than a million

The Vim text editor has released version v9.0 . The main change is the addition of the Vim9 Script language for customization. One of the main goals of Vim9 Script is to significantly improve performance, by compiling commands into efficiently executable instructions to achieve leaps in speed, which are expected to be 10 to 100

Tianjin Kylin Software and the National Industrial Information Security Development Research Center have announced the openKylin desktop operating system developer platform. openKylin is based on Linux, but it is unknown whether it is based on Debian/Ubuntu. The source code is hosted on Gitee, the source code platform released after the first review, but there is