Tag: hybrid

Nintendo 3DS Discontinued After Almost a Decade

Nintendo has discontinued its 3DS handheld after about 76 million sales over a nine-and-a-half year period. The BBC reports: A notice on the Japanese firm’s site says “manufacturing of the Nintendo 3DS family of systems has ended.” The device had the ability to trick the human eye into seeing 3D images like those in some cinema screenings — but without special…

The Surprising Traits of Good Remote Leaders

New data shows that “the confidence, intelligence and extroversion that have long propelled ambitious workers into the executive suite are not enough online because they simply don’t translate into virtual leadership,” writes Arianna Cohen via the BBC. “Instead, workers who are organized, dependable and productive take the reins of virtual teams.” From the report: The study, published in the Journal of…

UK citizen’s assembly backs flight taxes to reduce climate emissions

A group of more than 100 UK citizens tasked with recommending ways to reduce the country’s carbon emissions to net zero has backed scaling taxes for flights and bans on new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2254114-uk-citizens-assembly-backs-flight-taxes-to-reduce-climate-emissions/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…

Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine

In a year defined by obstacles, a University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign student rocket team persevered. Working together across five time zones, they successfully designed a hybrid rocket engine that uses paraffin and a novel nitrous oxide-oxygen mixture called Nytrox. The team has its sights set on launching a rocket with the new engine at the 2021 Intercollegiate Rocketry and Engineering…

Pesticides and industrial pollutants found in snow atop Arctic glaciers

The long journey of these compounds – likely originating in the U.S. and Eurasia – shows the far-reaching impacts of industrial pollution. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/pesticides-industrial-pollutants-found-atop-arctic-glaciers…

SUSE Releases Major Linux Update

SUSE has released the next versions of its flagship operating system, SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE) 15 Service Pack 2 and its latest infrastructure management program, SUSE Manager 4.1. ZDNet reports: SLE 15 SP2 is available on the x86-64, Arm, IBM POWER, IBM Z, and LinuxONE hardware architectures. This new Linux server edition is based on the Linux 5.3 kernel. This new…

Hybird Solar Converter Harvests Both Sunlight and Heat At 85% Efficiency

Engineers have developed a new type of hybrid solar energy converter, which uses energy from the Sun to create both electricity and steam. The device reportedly has high efficiency and runs at low cost, allowing industry to make use of a wider spectrum of solar energy. New Atlas reports: The device looks like a satellite dish, with a small device suspended…

Linus Torvalds Hopes Intel’s AVX-512 ‘Dies A Painful Death’

“Linux creator Linus Torvalds had some choice words today on Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) found on select Intel processors,” reports Phoronix:
In a mailing list discussion stemming from the Phoronix article this week on the compiler instructions Intel is enabling for Alder Lake (and Sapphire Rapids), Linus Torvalds chimed in. The Alder Lake instructions being flipped on in GCC right now…

A Metal-like quantum gas: A pathbreaking platform for quantum simulation

Electronic properties of condensed matter are often determined by an intricate competition between kinetic energy that aims to overlap and delocalize electronic wave functions across the crystal lattice, and localizing electron-electron interactions. In contrast, the gaseous phase is characterized by valence electrons tightly localized around the ionic atom cores in discrete quantum states with well-defined energies. As an exotic hybrid of…