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When a Beijing-based military institute in September published a patent for a new high-performance chip, it offered a glimpse of China's bid to remake the half-trillion dollar global chip market and withstand U.S. sanctions.The People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences had used an open-source standard known as RISC-V to reduce malfunctions in chips for cloud computing and smart cars, the patent filing shows. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture, a computer language used to design anything from…

Once considered the hottest startup in Silicon Valley, 23andMe’s fall from grace has been swift and brutal. The genetic testing company, which was valued at $6 billion just a few years ago, is now facing both a possible delisting from Nasdaq and dozens class action lawsuits.It’s all part of the continuing fallout of the hacking of the company last year. The company has since admitted it failed to detect the data breach for more than five months, giving the bad actors the chance to steal the ancestry data of some 6.9…

In 2015, I directed the American premiere of an Israeli play that grapples with Gaza — a play I could never direct today.Gilad Evron’s “Ulysses on Bottles” centers on Izakov, a Jewish Israeli lawyer representing two clients: a Palestinian teacher, nicknamed Ulysses, arrested by Israel for trying to reach Gaza on a raft made of plastic bottles in hopes of bringing Russian literature to the strip, and an Israeli defense official, Seinfeld, seeking advice about whether Israel’s blockade of Gaza could implicate the country…

Flight delays and cancellations continue to mount at Denver International Airport due to difficult weather conditions and despite “normal’ operations at the airport itself. “While the airport is experiencing cold temperatures, we ask that passengers check with their airlines before heading to the airport, arrive at least two hours before their boarding time and expect some delays if deicing procedures are in place,” said Ashley Forest, an airport spokesperson. FlightAware, a flight tracking website, reports 99 delayed…

Not all treadmills are built equally, especially when it comes to the room they leave you to place your phone when you get moving. That’s where Belkin’s fitness mount comes to your aid, making sure you can strap it onto a treadmill and always have a spot for it that handles some shakier treadmill time.Belkin Magnetic Fitness Mount: Price and availability(Image credit: Mike Sawh)The Belkin iPhone Magnetic Fitness Mount costs $34.95/£34.99 and can be picked up directly from Belkin. You can also grab it from the Apple Store…

While the unaided eye or binoculars can reveal much of the night sky, a telescope reveals so much more. Seeing Saturn's rings or the Moon's craters with your own eyes can be an “oh wow” moment. However, choosing the right telescope can be tricky. There are telescopes with lenses and telescopes with mirrors.Telescopes that are moved by hand and others that are electronically controlled. Telescopes also come in a range of sizes, with a trade-off between light-gathering power, portability and price. While there's much to…

A team from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has developed “BridgePRS,” a new statistical technique to improve disease prediction for non-European individuals, especially those of African descent. This method addresses the limitations of current polygenic risk scores, which are less accurate for non-European ancestries, and marks a significant step towards personalized medicine and reducing healthcare inequities. Credit: SciTechDaily.comStatistical technique enhances genetic disease prediction in non-European…

By Lindsey Doermann, NASA Earth Observatory November 29, 2023 Satellite view of the summit crater of Mount Erebus on November 25, 2023, captured by the Operational Land Imager-2 on Landsat 9. The fiery and icy upper reaches of the Antarctic volcano pierced through a canopy of clouds. On a late spring day in 2023, the summit crater of Mount Erebus, the world’s southernmost active volcano, emerged majestically above the clouds. Captured by Landsat 9’s Operational Land Imager-2 (OLI-2), this stunning view of the…

Vertically mounting your graphics card rarely has a performance benefit, but who cares about that when it looks so much cooler facing out through your side panel? While flipping your GPU vertically used to be a complicated, costly, and time consuming process, it's now super easy to do with the right tools and kit. Here's how to get started with vertically mounting your graphics card. Thermaltake Make sure your case is compatibleBefore you vertically mount your graphics card, it's…

Credit: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2023), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO One of the world's most active volcanoes, Mount Etna, erupted on Sunday—spewing lava and clouds of ash high over the Mediterranean island of Sicily. This image, captured on 13 November by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, has been processed using the mission's shortwave-infrared bands to show the lava flow at the time of…