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"Researchers engineered a strained germanium layer on silicon that allows charge to move faster than in any silicon-compatible material to date," reports Science Daily. "This record mobility could lead to chips that run cooler, faster, and with dramatically lower energy consumption.
"The discovery also enhances the prospects for silicon-based quantum devices..."
Scientists from the University of Warwick and the National Research Council of Canada have reported the highest "hole mobility" ever measured i
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The writer has made a habit of acquiring official-sounding domains for satirical purposes. Read more ›
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Jane Newman says it's been easy to meet new people in Seoul, including through a fan group for a Korean actor she likes. Read more ›
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Cameron teased he'll reveal the plots of 'Avatar 4' and '5' in a press conference if the movies don't get made. Read more ›
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CNET Group is doubling the size of the official CES awards program, and we're inviting you to nominate the most innovative tech. Read more ›
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GitHub has disabled Rockchip's Media Process Platform repository after an FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice, nearly two years after the open-source project first publicly accused the Chinese chipmaker of license violations. The notice, filed December 18, claims Rockchip copied thousands of lines of code from FFmpeg's libavcodec library -- including decoders for H.265, AV1, and VP9 formats -- stripped the original copyright notices, falsely claimed authorship and redistributed... Read more ›
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Every holiday season, Tom Cruise sends a white chocolate coconut bundt cake to a group of famous friends. The cake is available on Goldbelly for $140. Read more ›
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2026 hasn't yet begun, but already carmakers seem to be chasing trends that are going to make the driving experience worse for a lot of people. Read more ›
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Delayed AI infrastructure projects, rising debt, and weaker-than-expected earnings are reviving dot-com-era fears on Wall Street. Read more ›
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President Donald Trump rang in Christmas Day by ordering airstrikes against two ISIS camps in Nigeria. The strikes, involving more than a dozen Tomahawk missiles fired from a Navy ship, came shortly after Trump vowed retaliation against ISIS, which allegedly carried out deadly attacks against US troops and civilians around the world last week. But […] Read more ›
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Asus has directly shut down a spurious rumor claiming it would enter the memory market within the next six months. Read more ›
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The five-year-old Ryzen 7 5800X and its 2024 refresh, the 5800XT, are among the best-selling CPUs this holiday season despite being two generations behind Zen 5. Read more ›
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Complete your pink-and-green set with the second half of the 'Wizard of Oz'-inspired musical starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Read more ›
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Subclade K could fuel one of the worst flu seasons seen in recent history. Read more ›
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Kate Middleton and Princess Charlotte often wear coordinating outfits at public events, from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding to Wimbledon. Read more ›
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Elon Musk claimed on X that xAI will have more computing power than everyone else combined in less than five years. Read more ›
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The talk show host appeared on British TV station Channel 4 to deliver its annual "alternative Christmas message." Read more ›
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I have a great relationship with my mom, who's in her 60s. Over the years, she's given me great advice about happiness, friendship, and gratitude. Read more ›
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Привет, Хабр! Пришло моё время начать писать статьи сюда. И первая моя статья будет посвящена новогодней игрушке. Прошу не судить строго.В 2019-м году Я приобрел 50 микроконтроллеров CH32V003F4P6 по 11 рублей за штуку. В этом году решил пустить их в дело. И первое, что пришло в голову, это сделать игрушку к новому году. Кроме того, появилась возможность лично попробовать WS2812B.Схема и печатная плата устройства были разработаны в свободной САПР KiCad... Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring. "My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030," Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt writes in a post on LinkedIn. "Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft's largest codebases. Our North Star is '1 engineer, 1 month,... Read more ›
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A group of activists has scraped Spotify's entire library, accessing 256 million rows of track metadata and 86 million audio files totaling roughly 300TB of data. The metadata has been released via Anna's Archive, a search engine for "shadow libraries" that previously focused on books. Spotify described the activists as "anti-copyright extremists who've previously pirated content from YouTube and other platforms" and confirmed it is actively investigating the incident. The... Read more ›
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Archive.org now has a page with "the raw analog waveform and the reconstructed digital tape image (analog.tap), read at the Computer History Museum's Shustek Research Archives on 19 December 2025 by Al Kossow using a modified tape reader and analyzed with Len Shustek's readtape tool." A Berlin-based retrocomputing enthusiast has created a page with the contents of the tape ready for bootstrapping, "including a tar file of the filesystem," and... Read more ›
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European public institutions are quietly migrating away from American cloud providers and office software, driven less by policy ambitions in Brussels than by the mundane legal reality that GDPR-mandated risk assessments keep flagging the US CLOUD Act as an unacceptable threat to citizen data. Austria's Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism moved 1,200 employees to the open-source platform Nextcloud in four months. Germany's Schleswig-Holstein has already transitioned 24,000 of... Read more ›
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Phoronix's Michael Larabel writes: An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck... On Meta Servers. Meta has found that the scheduler can actually adapt and work very well on the hyperscaler's large servers. [...] The presentation at LPC 2025 by Meta engineers was in fact titled "How do we... Read more ›
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echo123 shares a report from PBS: The Trump administration is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, moving to dissolve a research lab that a top White House official described as "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism in the country." White House budget director Russ Vought criticized the lab in a social media post Tuesday night and said a comprehensive review of the lab is underway.... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from 9to5Linux: After the controversial news shared earlier this week by Mozilla's new CEO that Firefox will evolve into "a modern AI browser," the company now revealed it is working on an AI kill switch for the open-source web browser... What was not made clear [in Tuesday's comments by new Mozilla CEO Anthony Enzor-DeMeo] is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: CBS cannot contain the online spread of a "60 Minutes" segment that its editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, tried to block from airing. The episode, "Inside CECOT," featured testimonies from US deportees who were tortured or suffered physical or sexual abuse at a notorious Salvadoran prison, the Center for the Confinement of Terrorism. "Welcome to hell," one former inmate was told upon arriving,... Read more ›
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They call it "the business-impersonator scam". And it's fooled 396,227 Americans in just the first nine months of 2025 — 18% more than the 335,785 in the same nine months of 2024. That's according to a Bloomberg reporter (who also fell for it in late November), citing the official statistics from America's Federal Trade Commission: Some pose as airline staff on social media and respond to consumer complaints. Others use... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shared this report from CNBC: The Trump administration on Monday unveiled a new initiative dubbed the "U.S. Tech Force," comprising about 1,000 engineers and other specialists who will work on artificial intelligence infrastructure and other technology projects throughout the federal government. Participants will commit to a two-year employment program working with teams that report directly to agency leaders in "collaboration with leading technology companies," according to an... Read more ›
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