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Month: February 2020

New ‘mini-moon’ orbiting Earth

Posted on February 28, 2020 by Agitator!!

For now there is a new ‘mini-moon’ orbiting Earth. A visiting mini-moon is circling Earth, according to astronomers who discovered the cosmic squatter in our planet’s orbit. The tiny asteroid, dubbed 2020 CD3, was spotted by astronomers in Tucson, Arizona, on Feb. 15. For more, check out this NBC News story.

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Self-heating can of coffee

Posted on February 27, 2020 by Agitator!!

What will they think of next – a can of coffee that heats itself! Philadelphia-based La Colombe is test-marketing a self-heating aluminum can of coffee. Simply twist the bottom, wait two minutes, gently shake, pull the tab on the lid, and get 10.3 ounces of coffee delivered at about 130 degrees. For more, check out…

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Why hackers still love your email

Posted on February 26, 2020 by Agitator!!

Email still beats texts…for hackers phishing for your data. Business email getting compromised “is one of the oldest tricks in the book, and super effective,” says Sam Small, the chief security officer for ZeroFOX, a firm that helps enterprises with security protection. For more, check out this USA Today story.

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A double star system with an alter ego

Posted on February 25, 2020 by Agitator!!

It’s sort of like a cosmic story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the National Science Foundation’s Karl F. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers found that this binary star system switches between two alter egos every few years. For more, check out this NBC News story.

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PCIe 6.0 Specification, Version 0.5

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Agitator!!

Version 0.5 of PCIe 6.0 is now available to members. They hope to release the final version next year. PCIe 6.0 Specification Features Overview Data rate of 64 GT/s speeds, doubling the 32GT/s data rate of the PCIe 5.0 specification PAM-4 (Pulse Amplitude Modulation with 4 levels) encoding Low-latency Forward Error Correction (FEC) with additional…

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Tape Tricks Semi-Autonomous Tesla

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Agitator!!

Oops…a simple piece of tape tricked a semi-autonomous Tesla into speeding. Technicians at McAfee Inc. placed the piece of tape horizontally across the middle of the “3” on a 35 mile-per-hour speed limit sign. The change caused the vehicle to read the limit as 85 miles per hour, and its cruise control system automatically accelerated,…

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Two giant icebergs broke off Antarctica

Posted on February 20, 2020 by Agitator!!

What does it mean for the continent’s health? For years, scientists have tracked as chunks of the glacier have broken off, an awe-inspiring event known as “calving” that happens naturally. But it’s happening more often at the Pine Island Glacier, also known as PIG, and it’s got glaciologists worried that climate change is to blame….

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SpaceX to Launch 4 Tourists Into Super High Orbit

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Agitator!!

Got millions burning a hole in your pocket? For this trip, paying customers will skip the space station and instead orbit two to three times higher, or roughly 500 miles to 750 miles (800 kilometers to 1,200 kilometers) above Earth. For more, check out this IEN story.

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Addicted to your phone?

Posted on February 17, 2020 by Agitator!!

I think this problem is getting worse, not better. There are people who rarely look up from their phones. At the rehab center I go to, there are people who sit on the machines absent-mindlessly going through their reps, all the while never glancing up from their phones. It’s an epidemic. Our brains are wired…

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A massive iceberg just broke off a glacier in Antarctica

Posted on February 14, 2020 by Agitator!!

Scientists reported that an iceberg that’s twice the size of Washington, D.C., just broke off of the Pine Island glacier in Antarctica. The Pine Island glacier “is one of the fastest-retreating glaciers in Antarctica,” according to NASA. Along with the nearby Thwaites glacier, the two glaciers contain “enough vulnerable ice to raise global sea level…

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