Opyros writes: Fossil footprints in New Mexico have been dated to 21,000-23,000 years before present. As a result, human habitation of the Americas can be pushed back several thousand years. The footprints were found in sedimentary rock at White Sands National Park, near the location of a long-vanished lake. Since the rock contains seeds of…

If your hopes are for semiconductor prices to return to what they used it be, there’s nothing but bad news on the horizon. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Oracle’s Java magazine takes a look at some current JDK Enhancement Proposals, “the vehicle of long standing for updating the Java language and the JVM.” Today, concurrency in Java is delivered via nonlightweight threads, which are, for all intents, wrappers around operating-system threads… Project Loom aims to deliver a lighter version of threads, called virtual…

The former president asks a US court to issue a preliminary injunction that would restore access to his Twitter account. …read more Source:: CNet

In a world where smartphones have commoditized precision MEMS Sensors, the stage is set to reimagine clusters of these sensors as something totally different. That’s exactly what [chronopoulos] did, taking four proximity sensors and turning them into a custom gesture input sensor for sound generation. The result is Quadrant, a repurposable human-interface device that proves…

“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use,” James Fallows writes. “According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more…

A New York Times science/global health reporter reminds us that “Newer variants of the coronavirus like Alpha and Delta are highly contagious, infecting far more people than the original virus.” But then they add that “Two new studies offer a possible explanation: The virus is evolving to spread more efficiently through air.” Most researchers now…

“Cyber criminals using a ransomware-as-a-service scheme have been spotted complaining that the group they rent the malware from could be using a hidden backdoor to grab ransom payments for themselves,” reports ZDNet: REvil is one of the most notorious and most common forms of ransomware around and has been responsible for several major incidents. The…

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Tesla announced that it’s delivered a new record number of electric cars in its third quarter, according to Reuters, “beating Wall Street estimates after Chief Executive Elon Musk asked staff to ‘go super hardcore’ to make a quarter-end delivery push.” Slashdot reader McGruber shared Reuters’ report: Tesla has weathered the chip crisis better than rivals,…