Scientists working at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois have made some of the most important discoveries in physics over the years, including the existence of the top quark and characterizing the neutrino. Now, the team working on Fermilab’s Muon g−2 experiment has reported a tantalizing hint of a new type of physics, according to . If confirmed, this would become the fifth known fundamental force in the universe. Our current understanding of particle physics is called the Standard Model, which we know is an incomplete picture of the universe. Concepts like the Higgs boson and dark energy don’t fully integrate with the Standard Model, and the Muon g−2 might eventually help us understand why.
SpaceX doesn’t operate like a traditional aerospace company. For one, the CEO is usually hamming it up on Twitter during launches and providing details that would usually go in a press release. SpaceX also live streams almost all of its launches, even the prototypes that have an unfortunate tendency to blow up lately. It wasn’t even encrypting the Falcon 9 telemetry feed… until now. Unfortunately, some digging by amateur radio tinkerers seems to have convinced SpaceX to . It all started a few weeks ago when several Redditors managed to lock onto the 2232.5 MHz telemetry downlink from a Falcon 9 upper stage.
New support pages published by Microsoft for upcoming Surface Laptops suggest the company will refresh both its AMD and Intel laptops as soon as next week. Under the hood, both machines will receive a generational update, which may still put them on a rather different footing. Note: Intel has decided to stop publishing for its mobile CPUs. It now publishes only the “TDP Up” and “TDP Down” base clocks available when the manufacturer configures the CPU to use more or less power than is typical. This is a decision the OEM makes at the factory and it’s almost never communicated to end customers.
As LG Mobile , Samsung is going full-steam ahead with new smartphone releases. The South Korean technology heavyweight has . These are all budget phones priced at $499.99 or less, some of which are universal unlocked and others that will only appear as carrier exclusives. There’s something for every Samsung fan who doesn’t want to spend a grand on a new phone. Samsung’s A-series phones used to be of questionable value, offering inferior specs for more money because they had the Samsung logo. Increasing pressure from younger Chinese OEMs forced Samsung to step up its game. The last few generations of A-series phones have been more competitive, including the latest batch.
Having multiple spacecraft going to and from the International Space Station (ISS) is great for scientific progress, but it can cause the occasional traffic jam. Astronauts have executed the first-ever Dragon port relocation maneuver at the ISS, , leaving space for the next few capsules to dock at the station. It’s common practice on the ISS to keep at least one human-rated spacecraft docked at all times. This provides a means of escape for astronauts in the event of a system failure on the ISS or a high risk of impact with space debris. The current escape pod is Resilience, the Dragon capsule that went up to the ISS in November, carrying the first crew members on a regular rotation.
For most of the last 2.5 decades, the PC CPU industry has been dominated by a single architecture: x86. While the 1990s opened with a number of architectures technically still competing with Intel, by the end of the decade, AMD stood alone against the chip titan. IBM threw in the towel on G5 by the mid-2000s. Intel, it seemed, had won. But the passage of time has a funny way of reshaping our perceptions of an era. Intel’s near-total victory by the mid-2000s now looks more like a temporary pause than a permanent win — and the CPU market is heating up now in ways we haven’t seen in decades.
Ice Lake-SP is finally ready for prime time. Intel’s latest server CPU will debut in-market to power Intel’s 3rd Generation of Xeon Scalable processors, and close some performance gaps vis-a-vis AMD’s Epyc family. Intel’s 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable family debuted almost exactly two years ago, only to be run over by AMD’s Epyc a few months later. While Intel still held an edge in specific workloads and scenarios, AMD’s ability to pack up to 64 cores in a socket, combined with features such as PCIe 4.0 support, has boosted the company’s server market share. AMD’s third-generation Epyc CPUs (codename Milan) debuted back in mid-March, and now we’ve got Ice Lake-SP to answer it.
Our online lives are becoming more and more cluttered. As anyone who spends any amount of time online will tell you, ads will slow down your browser, and cookies gather your data and you have little choice, and and adult content are rife – it’s difficult to control the content that appears on your screens, and the screens of your family. But as these internet issues have arisen, so have solutions. The is a simple-to-set-up solution to many of these issues, a piece of hardware that makes your time online faster, simpler, safer, and easier to control. And it’s currently on sale for just $179, a healthy 10 percent discount off the full purchase price of $199.
Microsoft has been exploring innovative ways to cool its data center servers for some years now. In the past, the company has previously made waves for its offshore data center cooling using seawater via its Project Natick. Now, it’s showing off a two-phase liquid cooling solution it says enables even higher server densities. The uses a non-conductive cooling fluid. Microsoft doesn’t precisely identify it, but it sounds similar to 3M’s Novec 1230, with a very low boiling point around 122F (Novec 1230 boils at 120.6F). Boiling off the coolant creates a vapor cloud, which rises and contacts a cooled condenser at the top of the tank lid.
