Scientists have used a new form of hardened wood to create a steak knife that is nearly three times sharper than a stainless steel dinner table knife. It can even be washed in the dishwasher! New Atlas reports: This hardy new form of wood is the handiw…
GPSD Bug Will Switch Your Time-Keeping Systems To March 2002 This Weekend, Unless You Update
“Apparently a bug in GPSD, the daemon responsible for deriving time from the GPS system, is going to trigger on October 24, 2021, jumping the time back to March of 2002,” writes Slashdot reader suutar. “There’s a fix that’s been committed since August,…
PS3 Emulator Will Now Boot Every Game Ever Released On the Console
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Kotaku, written by Luke Plunkett: RPCS3, an emulator I’ve been writing about since 2016, but which first began in 2011, has come along way since it made its first tentative steps towards making PS3 games playabl…
AMD and Microsoft Issue Fixes For Ryzen CPU Slowdowns On Windows 11
AMD and Microsoft have issued patches to address the slowdowns reported with Ryzen processors when Windows 11 launched. Engadget reports: The latest chipset driver (version 3.10.08.506) should take care of the UEFI CPPC2 issue, which in some cases didn…
VR Treatment For Lazy Eye In Children Gets FDA Approval
The Food and Drug Administration approved a virtual reality-based treatment for children with the visual disorder amblyopia, or lazy eye, the company behind the therapy announced today. The Verge reports: Luminopia’s approach uses TV and movies to deve…
Fed To Ban Policymakers From Owning Individual Stocks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Responding to a growing controversy over investing practices, the Federal Reserve announced Thursday a wide-ranging ban on officials owning individual stocks and bonds and limits on other activities as wel…
A Drone Will Rescue Three Dogs Trapped By La Palma Volcanic Eruption
Three dogs that are trapped near the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano on the Canary Islands may soon be saved by a drone. Gizmodo reports: The poor, emaciated pups have been stuck in a yard surrounded by lava for a month. The volcano began erupting in Sep…
Investors Use AI To Analyze CEOs’ Language Patterns and Tone
CEOs and other managers are increasingly under the microscope as some investors use artificial intelligence to learn and analyze their language patterns and tone, opening up a new frontier of opportunities to slip up. Reuters reports: In late 2020, acc…
Man Arrested For Uncensoring Japanese Porn With AI In First Deepfake Case
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Japanese police on Monday arrested a 43-year-old man for using artificial intelligence to effectively unblur pixelated porn videos, in the first criminal case in the country involving the exploitati…
FDA Approves Mixing COVID Vaccines
U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially. The Asso…