3D printers usually work by extruding long strings of molten plastic onto a surface. When MIT Media Lab researchers spotted a broken printer squirting out plastic erratically, they had an idea: By programming a normal home 3D printer, they could simulate that erratic extrusion and create a sort of light, flexible lace…
Source: Gizmodo – A Broken 3D Printer Inspired This Futuristic Fabric
This year, trick-or-treating probably doesn’t look like you thought it would, and Halloween parties are (hopefully, in the name of public health) cancelled, but there’s still something pretty spectacular going on tonight. Best of all, it’s free and you can probably see it from your own backyard (or fire escape). Not…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Spot Tonight’s Halloween Blue Moon & A Few Planets, Too
Regardless of the outcome of the upcoming election, there will probably be the usual choruses of “I’m moving to Canada!” from those who aren’t on board with the results. And it’s not only voters: one of the two major-party candidates, current president Donald Trump, issued a similar threat/promise earlier this month.…
Source: LifeHacker – These Countries Have Shorter Residency Requirements for Citizenship & Passports
Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to update to Fedora 33 on your Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not […]
Source: LXer – How to rebase to Fedora 33 on Silverblue
Sir Sean Connery, star of stage and screen and the legendary actor who catapulted Ian Fleming’s spyfi novel hero into a movie and pop-cultural icon, has passed away at 90.
Source: Gizmodo – Sir Sean Connery, the Enduring Face of James Bond, Has Died
Almost a year ago, developer Riot Games unveiled Ruined King, a story-driven title set in the League of Legends universe. We haven’t heard much about the game since then, which isn’t surprising — the company has been busy with Valorant, Legends of R…
Source: Engadget – ‘League of Legends’ RPG ‘Ruined King’ will launch in early 2021
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Amazon.com said it now has about 1 million employees after hiring 250,000 workers in the third quarter, part of a growth spurt driven by booming ecommerce sales during the coronavirus pandemic and a milestone for a company founded in 1995 by Jeff Bezos as an online bookseller. Despite its rapid ascent, Amazon still has fewer workers than the nation’s biggest private employer, Walmart, which has 2.2 million global workers.
Even so, Amazon’s explosive growth underscores the historic shift in financial might from manufacturers such as General Motors, U.S. Steel and General Electric. In the 1950s, these three corporations were the country’s biggest employers, with a combined workforce of more than 1 million employees at the time. Today, the three employ about 400,000 workers as the U.S. economy has shed factory jobs in favor of service-oriented work. In a conference call on Thursday, Amazon Chief Financial Officer Brian Olsavsky said the company hired “a lot more people to support the strong customer demand.” After hiring 250,000 full-time and part-time workers in the quarter ended in September, Amazon has hired another 100,000 workers in October, he said. The jobs pay a minimum of $15 an hour and include benefits such as health insurance, retirement benefits and parental leave, he added.
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Source: Slashdot – Amazon Now Has More Than 1 Million Employees
Sure, we’re all panicked and on edge right now, but at least there’s free (or cheaper) food to be had. In addition to next week’s Election Day offers, a bunch of restaurants are luring people in on Halloween for their pre-candy meals. Here’s what you can get and where you can get it.
Source: LifeHacker – Go Trick-or-Treating for These Halloween Food Deals and Freebies
This week brought the release of AMD’s ROCm 3.9 as their open-source compute stack for Radeon GPUs. With ROCm 3.9 the AOMP work for LLVM/Clang-based compiler with OpenMP offload capabilities to Radeon GPUs was integrated. AOMP though is still advancing independently of the ROCm releases with Friday night marking the release of AOMP 11.11…
Source: Phoronix – AOMP 11.11 Released For LLVM Clang OpenMP Offloading To Radeon GPUs
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The hard part of connecting a gooey, thinking brain to a cold, one-ing and zero-ing computer is getting information through your thick skull—or mine, or anyone’s. The whole point of a skull, after all, is keeping a brain safely separate from [waves hands at everything].
So if that brain isn’t yours, the only way to tell what’s going on inside it is inference. People make very educated guesses based on what that brain tells a body to do—like, if the body makes some noises that you can understand (that’s speech) or moves around in a recognizable way. That’s a problem for people trying to understand how the brain works, and an even bigger problem for people who because of injury or illness can’t move or speak. Sophisticated imaging technologies like functional magnetic resonance can give you some clues. But it’d be great to have something more direct. For decades, technologists have been trying to get brains to interface with computer keyboards or robot arms, to get meat to commune with silicon.
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Source: Ars Technica – A new way to plug a human brain into a computer: Via veins
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Source: LifeHacker – Conquer Your Pup’s Dander and Fur With 0 Off a Cobalt or Charcoal Bobsweep PetHair Plus Robot Vacuum
After years of building political pressure for antitrust scrutiny of major tech companies, this month Congress and the US government delivered. The House Antitrust Subcommittee released a report accusing Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook of monopolistic behavior. The Department of Justice filed a complaint against Google alleging the company prevents consumers from sampling other search engines.
The new fervor for tech antitrust has so far overlooked an equally obvious target: US broadband providers. “If you want to talk about a history of using gatekeeper power to harm competitors, there are few better examples,” says Gigi Sohn, a fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy.
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Source: Ars Technica – The tech antitrust problem no one is talking about
YOURLS is a free, open-source and self-hosted URL shortener written in PHP. It is very similar to TinyURL or Bitly and allows you to run your own URL shortening service.
Source: LXer – How to Install YOURLS self-hosted URL shortener on CentOS 8
The LLVM Clang compiler stack has merged its support for AVX-VNNI, the Vector Neural Network Instructions for AVX to complement the AVX-512 version…
Source: Phoronix – LLVM Clang 12 Adds Support For AVX-VNNI
Apple said on Friday that it’s replacing AirPods Pro headphones that have sound problems. CNBC reports: These problems include a static or crackling sound that increases in loud environments and issues with active noise cancellation. Apple said AirPods Pro made after October 2020 don’t have the problems. Owners who experience problems can contact Apple online or make an appointment at an Apple store to get their AirPods Pro replaced for free. Only devices that are confirmed to have the issue will be replaced. The replacement applies only to the buds, not the charging case. Apple’s not offering a similar program for other AirPod models.
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Source: Slashdot – Apple Says Some AirPods Pro Have Sound Problems, Will Replace For Free
The bug fixing in KDE land continues and ends the month with a “bug massacre”, for how KDE developer Nate Graham describes it in his weekly recaps…
Source: Phoronix – KDE Saw A “Bug Massacre” This Week With Better NVIDIA Wayland Experience, Many Fixes
Less than two weeks ago, SSC NorthgAmerica announced that its Tuatara has taken over the claim of “fastest production car in the world,” after going over 330 MPH down a seven-mile stretch of Highway 160 in Nevada. It provided video evidence of the ef…
Source: Engadget – SSC NA promises a re-run of the Tuatara’s top speed record attempt
Atom is a free (open-source) source code editor that can be used on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It provides support for plug-ins written in Node.js, has an embedded Git control that is developed by GitHub.
Source: LXer – How to install and use Atom editor on CentOS 8
At the end of September, a dispute with Sinclair cut off YouTube TV’s deal for Fox regional sports networks across the country, and as October comes to an end it’s also dropping Boston network NESN. NESN broadcasts games for the Red Sox and Bruins, a…
Source: Engadget – YouTube TV drops Boston regional sports network NESN
It’s looking like Paragon Software’s “NTFS3” read-write Linux driver for Microsoft’s NTFS file-system is on a trajectory where we could see it land possibly with the Linux 5.11 kernel kicking off at year’s end. Friday marked the eleventh iteration of these patches that Paragon previously offered to commercial customers but is now in the process of being upstreamed…
Source: Phoronix – “NTFS3” Linux Driver Spun Up An 11th Time With More Optimizations
