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Jul 18, 2020

Western Digital Releases First EAMR Disks in 18TB, 20TB Capacities

Posted by in category: energy

Western Digital has launched its WD Gold 16TB and 18TB drives using EAMR (Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording) and has a 20TB SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) version of the drive on the way. After being a bit slow for several years, drive capacities are growing more quickly again.

Jul 18, 2020

Scientists unlocked the secret of how these ultrablack fish absorb light

Posted by in category: futurism

The fish skin absorbs more than 99.5% of light thanks to pigment-packed granules.

Jul 18, 2020

The UAE’s Hope Mars orbiter: Here’s 6 things to know about the historic mission

Posted by in category: space

Here’s what you need to know about the United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary spacecraft, the Hope mission to Mars.

Jul 18, 2020

Astronaut Bioengineers Human Cartilage in Space Using Magnetic Fields

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, space

One small step for cells, one giant leap for science.

Jul 18, 2020

Global business in covid 19 era Guest: Fatah Bouatrous, Algeria

Posted by in category: business

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Jul 18, 2020

Rebirth of leading European facility promises revolutionary advances in x-ray science

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, science

A brilliant new light shines in Grenoble, France, where officials at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility(ESRF) last week announced the reopening of their completely rebuilt x-ray source. The ring-shaped machine, 844 meters around, generates x-ray beams 100 times brighter than its predecessor and 10 trillion times brighter than medical x-rays. The intense radiation could open up new vistas in x-ray science, such as imaging whole organs in three dimensions while resolving individual cells.


Shining 100 times brighter than its predecessor, the new European Synchrotron Radiation Facility is the first of more than a dozen of its kind in the works.

Jul 18, 2020

AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code that Learns

Posted by in categories: habitats, information science, mathematics, robotics/AI

The snake bites its tail

Google AI can independently discover AI methods.

Then optimizes them

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Jul 18, 2020

On eve of bankruptcy, U.S. firms shower execs with bonuses

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, business, law

(Reuters) — Nearly a third of more than 40 large companies seeking U.S. bankruptcy protection during the coronavirus pandemic awarded bonuses to executives within a month of filing their cases, according to a Reuters analysis of securities filings and court records.

Under a 2005 bankruptcy law, companies are banned, with few exceptions, from paying executives retention bonuses while in bankruptcy. But the firms seized on a loophole by granting payouts before filing.

Six of the 14 companies that approved bonuses within a month of their filings cited business challenges executives faced during the pandemic in justifying the compensation.

Jul 18, 2020

Amazon went online 25 years ago today — look inside the Seattle house where Jeff Bezos started the company

Posted by in category: habitats

In the ’90s, Jeff Bezos rented a house in the Seattle suburbs where he would launch an online bookstore from his garage. That house — billed as the birthplace of Amazon — sold last year for an estimated $1.5 million.

Jul 18, 2020

Former Mac boss predicts PC makers will have to dump AMD and Intel to ‘go ARM’

Posted by in categories: computing, entertainment

So, you’ve set aside a chunk of change to build a new gaming PC and are just waiting for AMD and Nvidia to launch their next-gen GPUs, is that it? A solid plan, except for one thing—your next build is already obsolete. That’s because whatever you spec’d out is undoubtedly sitting on an AMD or Intel foundation, and didn’t you hear, x86 computing is basically dead. Finished. Kaput. We’re on the cusp of the end of an era, and all because Apple is dumping Intel for ARM.

Okay, maybe not, but that’s essentially the case made by Jean-Louis Gassée, a former Apple executive who led the development of Mac computers in the late 1980s. In no uncertain terms, he says Apple’s decision to phase out Intel CPUs in favor of its own silicon based on ARM will force “PC OEMs to reconsider their allegiance to x86 silicon…and that will have serious consequences for the old Wintel partnership.”