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Jul 15, 2022

CEO Arrested for Selling $1 Billion in Fake Cisco Hardware on Amazon, eBay

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Onur Aksoy allegedly imported thousands of fake Cisco networking devices from China.

Jul 14, 2022

Enhanced performance in fusion plasmas through turbulence suppression

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AbstractAlpha particles with energies on the order of megaelectronvolts will be the main source of plasma heating in future magnetic confinement fusion react… See more.


Experiments at the Joint European Torus tokamak show improved thermal ion confinement in the presence of highly energetic ions and Alfvénic instabilities in the plasma.

Jul 14, 2022

New rapid radio burst 3 billion light-years distant has been found

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Jul 14, 2022

Hypergraphs Reveal Solution to 50-Year-Old Problem

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In 1973, Paul Erdős asked if it was possible to assemble sets of “triples” — three points on a graph — so that they abide by two seemingly incompatible rules. A new proof shows it can always be done.

Jul 14, 2022

Odd living matter defies the golden rule of mechanics

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Non-reciprocal interactions in groups of starfish embryos.

Jul 13, 2022

Partial mycoheterotrophs: The green plants that feed on fungi

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Circa 2018


Since plants can’t pick up and move to greener pastures if conditions are tough, some have evolved interesting and sneaky strategies to make a living.

Jul 13, 2022

Why Does the School Day End Two Hours Before the Workday?

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This mismatch creates a child-care crisis between 3 and 5 p.m. that has parents scrambling for options.

Jul 13, 2022

Zuckerberg gives up, will not require Facebook login for Oculus/Meta Quests

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If you’ve been holding off on an Oculus/Meta Quest because it requires a Facebook account, boy do we have good news for you.

Jul 13, 2022

Knowledge distillation for better convergence in multitask learning

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At NAACL HLT, Amazon scientists will present a method for improving multitask learning. Their proposed method lets the tasks converge on their own schedules, an… See more.


Allowing separate tasks to converge on their own schedules and using knowledge distillation to maintain performance improves accuracy.

Jul 13, 2022

New UEFI Firmware Vulnerabilities Impact Several Lenovo Notebook Models

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Researchers at ESET have discovered three new buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the UEFI firmware of several Lenovo Notebook devices.

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