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Valve has begun sending out email notifications to randomly selected users who have been placed into a reservation queue for its upcoming Steam Machine release, and some recipients are turning their spots in line into thousands of dollars on eBay. Or put another way, scalping season for the Steam Machine
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* A designer working with NASA and agricultural experts has created a coffee that tastes like it was grown on Mars * MA student Sarah Ali created the coffee as part of her 'Brew_Lab' project * The project reflects on how climate change might affect the availability and composition of
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* A Chinese medtech firm has gained EU approval for its remote surgery robot * Medbot’s Toumai system can now be moved and marketed freely in the European Union * The approval comes after Toumai was used for the UK's first long-distance surgery A Chinese medical technology firm has gained
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TL;DR FTC cleared Musk to buy Mesh Optical, a startup by ex-SpaceX engineers making optical transceivers for AI data centers. The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers who build optical transceivers for AI data centers.
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TL;DR Apple is lobbying the US government for approval to buy memory chips from CXMT, which sits on the Pentagon’s military blacklist. Apple has been lobbying Commerce Department officials and other members of the Trump administration for approval to buy memory chips from ChangXin Memory Technologies, according to
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Now that Amazon Prime Day is over, it's time to start gearing up for Fourth of July sales. Most large retailers pivoted their summer-sale timing to compete head-on with Amazon's accelerated schedule, but you can still snag great deals this July 4th, particularly in active and
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* A new type of pixel is capable of both controlling and analyzing light * It's based on the Fourier mathematical tool * We'll have to wait some time to get this in our gadget screens Screens that double up as cameras could be packed into future gadgets, as
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A WIRED investigation this week offers insight into a predictive policing program in Bristol, England that has involved 23 separate models over more than a decade, intended to score the likelihood of specific individuals will perpetrate or be victims of different crimes. The investigation draws on data from public records
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The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released the final version of NIST Special Publication 1800-45, Cybersecurity for the Water and Wastewater Sector: Build Architecture, demonstrating how to securely enable remote access to operational technology for critical infrastructure. The Water and Wastewater Systems sector plays an integral role
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The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is continuing its work to solve real-world cybersecurity challenges with a new project that will demonstrate practical approaches for Operational Technology (OT) asset management, including automated and manual discovery, inventory management, configuration management, and change management processes. In this project, the NCCoE
