NBC News spoke to 21 people who said they were hooked on casino-style apps and had spent significant sums of money. The industry is almost entirely unregulated. From a report: Shellz, 37, a nurse from Houston, spends at least two hours a day with her husband playing a casino-style smartphone game called Jackpot Magic. The app offers a variety of typical…
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Kew Gardens’ podcast will give you a fresh appreciation for plants
From murder to magic mushrooms, Kew Gardens’ new podcast, Unearthed, challenges us all to learn to love plants as much animals – and discover how they could save life on Earth Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732970-500-kew-gardens-podcast-will-give-you-a-fresh-appreciation-for-plants/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Moon and Scorpius on August 25 and 26
The moon sweeps close to red supergiant star Antares on August 25, 2020. The next night, August 26, the moon is closer to the graceful curved tail of Scorpius the Scorpion, the constellation in which Antares is the brightest star. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-star-antares-on-august-25…
Is Blockchain ‘the Amazing Solution for Almost Nothing’?
Long-time Slashdot reader leathered shares an investigation from the Correspondent about blockchain — and ” what’s so terribly revolutionary about it? What problem does it solve…? I can tell you upfront, it’s a bizarre journey to nowhere. I’ve never seen so much incomprehensible jargon to describe so little… And I’ve never seen so many people searching so hard for a problem…
Intel Defends AVX-512 Against Critics Who Hope It ‘Dies a Painful Death’
“I hope AVX512 dies a painful death,” Linus Torvalds said last month, “and that Intel starts fixing real problems instead of trying to create magic instructions to then create benchmarks that they can look good on.” Friday PC World published some reactions from Intel:
Torvalds wasn’t the only person to kick AVX-512 in the shins either. Former Intel engineer Francois Piednoel also…
The Last Blockbuster Has Been Turned Into An Airbnb
The world’s last Blockbuster is offering movie fans the opportunity to spend the night in the store by booking through Airbnb. The Independent reports: The opportunity to book a one-night stay in the last of the nearly defunct video rental stores, which only remains in Bend, Oregon, will be possible thanks to the property’s owner, Sandi Harding. “As the last standing…
Historic Moon Landing Footage Enhanced By AI, and the Results Are Incredible
“A photo and film restoration specialist, who goes by the name of DutchSteamMachine, has worked some AI magic to enhance original Apollo film, creating strikingly clear and vivid video clips and images,” reports Universe Today:
Take a look at this enhanced footage from an Apollo 16 lunar rover traverse with Charlie Duke and John Young, where the footage that was originally shot…
MAGIC NEOWISE
MAGIC NEOWISE Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
Grant Imahara, Host of ‘MythBusters’ and ‘White Rabbit Project,’ Dies At 49
Grant Imahara, an electrical engineer and roboticist who hosted the popular science show MythBusters and Netflix’s White Rabbit Project, has died suddenly following a brain aneurysm. He was 49. From The Hollywood Reporter: An electrical engineer and roboticist by training, he joined Discovery’s MythBusters in its third season, replacing Scottie Chapman and was with the show until 2014 when he left…
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…