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A flora of the economic plants of California, for agricultural students,including the important crop plants, agricultural weeds, poisonous plants, honey plants, medicinal plants, chaparral shrubs Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? This news arrives just in time for the holiday shopping season, when demand for GPUs is expected to increase even more, as if that is even possible.

According to a translation of the board posting , AMD is citing TSMC wafer costs as the reason for the change, and as we reported earlier, subnm prices, including 12nm, 7nm, and 5nm, are said to have increased roughly 10 percent, while TSMC's older nodes have gone up by as much as 20 percent.

AMD seems to be passing this price increase along to its partners, who in turn are passing it along to us, the customer, or the scalper, as it were. Then the scalper passes it along to us, the gamers. From the report: Nissan said it will produce 23 new electrified models by , 15 of which will be fully electric. The company is targeting a 50 percent electrification mix for its Nissan and Infiniti brands by the end of the decade.

In the US, Nissan plans to take things a little slower, only targeting 40 percent of its sales to be EVs by The company is preparing a "pilot plant" in Yokohama, Japan, for early Solid-state batteries could theoretically charge faster, hold more power, and last longer than traditional lithium-ion batteries, which use liquid electrolytes to move energy around. While solid-state batteries have eluded researchers for years, some companies claim that a breakthrough is nearly at hand.

For example, Volvo and General Motors have vowed to become EV-only companies by and , respectively. A group of Democrats wants to stop the Grinch from stealing Christmas. Except this time around the spoilsport they're targeting is not a furry green creature, but a robot. From a report: Lawmakers including Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chuck Schumer introduced a bill to crack down on "cyber Grinches" using bots to quickly snap up entire inventories of popular holiday toys and resell them at higher prices.

Their actions could make some of the items almost impossible to buy, the politicians say, exacerbating shortages sparked by supply chain woes. On the other hand, we have great plans for what we are going to do over the next five years. That lets scientists produce color imaging at an "unprecedented" level, rather than having to settle for molecular vibrations. The developers modified an existing "superfocusing" tool already used to measure vibrations to detect signals across the entire visible spectrum.

Light travels in a flashlight-like conical path. When the nanowire's tip passes over an object, the system records that item's influence on the beam shape and color including through a spectrometer. With two pieces of specrtra for every 6nm pixel, the team can create color photos of carbon nanotubes that would otherwise appear gray. There's a polluted square-mile lake known as "the Salton Sea," about miles southeast of Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Times calls it California's "largest and most troubled lake," after a recent visit with biogeochemist Timothy Lyons. But is it about to experience a change of fortune? That should worry people, because the Salton Sea is shrinking and exposing more and more of this stuff to scouring winds that carry them far and wide," he added.

Clouds of salty, alkaline toxic dust containing heavy metals, agricultural chemicals and powdery-fine particulates linked to asthma, respiratory diseases and cancer are rolling off newly exposed playa, threatening the health of thousands of nearby residents. Delays and costs are mounting for many projects that were designed to be showcases of restoration and dust mitigation.

Scientists say it's because the projects were developed without consideration for heat waves, severe droughts and water cutbacks due to climate change, or for the constantly evolving underlying geology at the hyper-saline landlocked lake at the southern end of the San Andreas Fault, where shifting tectonic plates bring molten material and hot geothermal brine closer to Earth's surface. Now, large corporations investing in proposals to suck lithium out of the brine produced by local geothermal operations have revived hopes of jobs and revenue from land leases, with lithium recovery projects potentially supporting internships, education programs and environmental restoration projects for years to come.

The Times got an interesting quote from Frank Ruiz, a program director at the nonprofit environmental group Audubon California — a man who is also a member of the Lithium Valley Commission lawmakers and community leaders trying to help guide decisions. The researchers describe their recipe for their programmable, microbial ink in a study published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications.

The material is still being developed, but the authors suggest that the ink could be a crucial renewable building material, able to grow and heal itself and ideal for constructing sustainable homes on Earth and in space The researchers induce bacterial cultures to grow the ink, which is also made of living bacteria cells.

When the ink is harvested from the liquid culture, it becomes firm like gelatin and can be plugged into 3D-printers and printed into living structures, which do not grow further and remain in their printed forms Bacteria may seem an unconventional building block.

But microbes are a crucial component of products such as perfumes and vitamins , and scientists have already engineered microbes to produce biodegradable plastics. A material like a microbial ink has more grandiose ambitions, according to Neel Joshi, a synthetic biologist at Northeastern University and an author on the new paper.

Such inks are an expanding focus of the field of engineered living materials. Unlike structures cast from concrete or plastic, living systems would be autonomous, adaptive to environmental cues and able to regenerate — at least, that is the aspirational goal, Dr. Joshi said. Manjula-Basavanna is shooting for the moon, Earth's satellite, where there are no forests to harvest for wood and no easy way to send bulk building materials.

There, he said, the ink might be used as a self-regenerating substance to help build habitats on other planets, as well as places on Earth. Datta conceded. But, he noted, just five years ago creating robust structures out of microbes was unimaginable; conceivably, self-healing buildings could be a reality in our lifetime.

An anonymous reader shares a report : marked a big year for the Galaxy Note series, but not in a good way. Rather, it was the beginning of the end as Samsung prioritized its foldables over the Galaxy Note line. Now, the death of the Note seems set in stone, as Samsung reportedly has no plans for a Galaxy Note, and is also planning to end production of the Galaxy Note ET News reports that Samsung has pretty much confirmed the end of the Galaxy Note series through two actions.

Firstly, Samsung apparently has no plans for a Galaxy Note device in its roadmap. Likely that means the only flagship-tier Galaxy smartphones coming next year will be the Galaxy S22 series and new foldables. On top of that, Samsung will also apparently end production on its Galaxy Note 20 series entirely by the end of Until now, production on the Galaxy Note 20 has continued as the device has still been selling.

In , the series reportedly sold around 3. Of course, we know well at this point that the Galaxy S22 Ultra will act as a spiritual successor to the Galaxy Note series, with the device adopting a design closer to the Note 20 series as well as using the same built-in stylus. The Galaxy Fold series also inherits the S Pen, but still lacks a good place to store it.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Component shortages have been wreaking havoc on the tech industry since the onset of the COVID pandemic, and smartphones are no outlier. Decelerated production schedules have given way to smaller stock and delayed launches. All of this has resulted in a decline in smartphone sales in Q3 of compared to Q3 , Gartner reported today.

According to numbers the research firm shared today, sales to consumers dropped 6. A deficit in parts like integrated circuits for power management and radio frequency has hurt smartphone production worldwide. The analyst added that the production schedules of "basic and utility" phones were more affected by supply constraints than "premium" ones. As a result, premium smartphone sales actually increased during this time period, even though smartphone sales overall declined. Still, shoppers were left with limited options, Gartner noted.

Samsung ended up winning the greatest market share Apple's quarterly market share Gartner also pointed to interest in 5G. South Australia on Sunday became the first gigawatt scale grid in the world to reach zero demand when the combined output of rooftop solar and other small non-scheduled generators exceeded all the local customer load requirements. Renew Economy reports: The landmark event was observed by several energy analysts, including at Watt Clarity and NEMLog, where Geoff Eldridge noted that a number of measures for South Australia demand notched up record minimums for system normal conditions.

It was later confirmed by the Australian Energy Market Operator, which noted that "scheduled" demand -- local demand minus the output of rooftop solar and small unscheduled generators such as small solar farms and bio-energy -- fell to minus 38MW in a five minute period at pm grid time, or AEST.

Minimum demand is now possibly the biggest challenge for market operators like AEMO, because under current market settings it needs to have a certain amount of synchronous generation to maintain system strength and grid stability. It does this by running a minimum amount of gas generation, and through the recent commissioning of spinning machines called synchronous condensers that do not burn fuel. It also needs a link to a neighboring grid, in this case Victoria, so it can export surplus production.

Rolls-Royce has announced that its all-electric plane, dubbed the "Spirit of Innovation," is the fastest of its kind in the world after it reached a maximum speed of Gizmodo reports: In a recent news release, the company, not to be mistaken for the car company owned by BMW, claimed that the Spirit of Innovation set three new world records earlier this week.

On flight tests carried out on Nov. It broke another record in a subsequent 9. The Spirit of Innovation didn't stop there, though. Rolls-Royce affirms that it smashed another record when it reached 9, In the company's view, it also took the title of the world's fastest all-electric vehicle when it reached a maximum speed of The company's aircraft is powered by a kW electric powertrain and "the most power-dense propulsion battery pack ever assembled in aerospace. Qualcomm has announced some key changes to how it brands its Snapdragon chips, including a shift away from the three-digit numbering system it's been using to differentiate between its products for years.

From a report: To start, Snapdragon will now exist as a standalone brand, separate from the "Qualcomm" brand which won't be showing up as much on its chips.

It's a direction the company has started moving in earlier this year the Snapdragon Plus badge, for example, notably lacked the word "Qualcomm" , but today's news solidifies that plan going forward.

But the biggest change might be in how the company handles actually naming its semiconductor products. For years, Qualcomm has labeled its chips with three-digit names, like the Snapdragon , Snapdragon , or Snapdragon The first number broadly informed customers how powerful the chip was with the 8-series chips serving as flagships, while 4-series models were for entry-level products.

The second number typically indicated annual generational releases going from a Snapdragon to an , while changes in the third number generally showed more minor updates like the Snapdragon G to the Snapdragon G.

The problem, though, is that in addition to being slightly jargony and confusing to keep track of, Qualcomm is also simply running out of numbers in its naming scheme. The 8-series lineup hit Snapdragon last year, the 7-series is already at Snapdragon , and the 6-series is already on the brink with the Snapdragon Going forward, though, Qualcomm says that it'll be shifting to "a single-digit series and generation number, aligning with other product categories," starting with the upcoming announcement of its next 8-series flagship which had previously been expected to be called the Snapdragon , based on Qualcomm's old pattern.

America's push to manufacturer more products domestically gets an in-depth look from CNET — including a new Intel chip factory outside of Phoenix. CNET calls it a fork in the road "after squandering its lead because of a half decade of problems modernizing its manufacturing Later this year, it hopes to announce the U.

The goal is to restore the U. But returning Intel to its glory days — and anchoring a resurgent U. Making chips profitably means running fabs at maximum capacity to pay off the gargantuan investments required to stay at the leading edge. To catch up after its delays, Intel now plans to upgrade its manufacturing five times in the next four years, a breakneck pace by industry standards. He's pledged to accelerate manufacturing upgrades to match the technology of TSMC and Samsung by and surpass them in And he's relying on other foundries, including TSMC, for about a quarter of Intel's near-term chipmaking needs to keep its chips more competitive during the upgrades.

This three-pronged strategy is called IDM integrated design and manufacturing 2. That's a new take on Intel's philosophy of both designing and making chips.

It's more ambitious than the future some had expected, in which Intel would sell its factories and join the ranks of "fabless" chip designers like Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm that rely on others for manufacturing Shareholders may not like Gelsinger's spending-heavy strategy, but one community really does: Intel's engineers Gelsigner told the board that Intel is done with stock buybacks, a financial move in which a company uses its cash to buy stock and thereby increase its price.

Intel will even outpace Moore's law , Gelsinger tells CNET — more than doubling the transistor count on processors every two years. It's going to end when somebody says I don't want to pay for smaller transistors. But one NFT startup company now says they tried downloading the archive — and discovered most of it was zeroes. Many of the articles are careful to point out "we have not verified the contents of the torrent," because of course they couldn't. A 20TB torrent would take several days to download, necessitating a pretty beefy internet connection and more disk space to store than most people have at their disposal.

Fortunately, we can save you the trouble of downloading the entire torrent — all you need is about 10GB. Download the first 10GB of the torrent, plus the last block, and you can fill in all the rest with zeroes. In other words, it's empty; and no, Geoff did not actually download all the NFTs. Ironically, Geoff has archived all of the media articles about this and linked them on TheNFTBay's site , presumably to preserve an immutable record of the spread and success of his campaign — kinda like an NFT We were hoping this was real This is why we were initially skeptical of Geoff's statements.

But even if he had actually downloaded all the NFT media and made it available as a torrent, this would not have solved the problem In order to restore a file to IPFS so it can continue to be located by the original link embedded in the NFT, you must know exactly the settings used when that file was originally uploaded, and potentially even the exact version of the IPFS software used for the upload.

For these reasons and more, ClubNFT is working hard on an actual solution to ensure that everybody's NFTs can be safely secured by the collectors themselves. We look forward to providing more educational resources on these and other topics, and welcome the attention that others, like Geoff, bring to these important issues.

The International Business Times has also covered ClubNFT, identifying it as a startup whose mission statement is "to build the next generation of NFT solutions to help collectors discover, protect, and share digital assets. Speaking to International Business Times, Bailey said, "We are looking at early to roll out the backup solution.

But between now and then we should be feeding 1, beta testers valuable information about their wallets. Here is the problem explained: NFTs are basically a collection of metadata, that define the underlying property that is owned.

Just like in the world of internet documents, links point to the art and any details about it that are being stored. But links can break, or die. Unlike in the world of internet domains, you don't need to own the domain to really make sure the data is safe. Explaining the problem which the backup tool will address, Bailey said, "When you upload an image to IPFS, it creates a cryptographic hash. And if someone ever stops paying to store that image on IPFS, as long as you have the original image, you can always restore it.

That's why we're giving people the right to download the image And we're not going to charge any money for that. Bailey said that the rest of the tools will process after gathering lessons based on user feedback on the first set of solutions.

He, however, seemed positive that the talks of the next set of tools will begin in the Spring of next year as the company has laid a "general roadmap.

Though fusion energy would involve controllng a "plasma" gas of positively charged nuclei and negatively charged electrons heated to million degrees Celsius, progress is being made — and the upside could be tremendous: One major advantage of using fusion as an energy source is that its underlying physics precludes either a fuel meltdown — such as what happened at Three Mile Island and Fukushima Daichi — or a runaway reaction, such as at Chernobyl.

Furthermore, the amount of radioactive material that could be released in an accident in a fusion power plant system is much less than in a fission reactor.

Consequently, a fusion system has much less capability to damage itself, and any damage would have much less dangerous consequences. As a result, current concepts for fusion systems may not necessitate an evacuation plan beyond the site boundary. Another advantage of fusion is that neither the fuel nor its products create the very long-lived radioactive waste that fission does, which means that fusion does not require long-term, geological storage When and how can fusion contribute to mitigating climate change?

Private companies are in a hurry to develop fusion, and many say that they will be able to put commercial fusion power on the US electric grid in the early s. After looking over the state of publicly and privately funded fusion research, the National Academies recommended that the United States embark upon a program to develop multiple preliminary designs for a fusion pilot plant by , with the goal of putting a modest amount of net electricity on the U.

The United Kingdom has recently announced a plan to build a prototype fusion power plant by China has a plan to begin operation of a fusion engineering test reactor in the s, while the European Union foresees operation of a demonstration fusion power plant in the s We must look beyond the timeframe to see how fusion can make a major contribution, and how it can complement renewables An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Texas, already home to the most vulnerable power grid in the U.

An army of cryptocurrency miners heading to the state for its cheap power and laissez-faire regulation is forecast to send demand soaring by as much as 5, megawatts over the next two years. The crypto migration to Texas has been building for months, but the sheer volume of power those miners will need -- two times more than the capital city of almost 1 million people consumed in all of -- is only now becoming clear.

The boom comes as the electrical system is already under strain from an expanding population and robust economy. Even before the new demand comes online, the state's grid has proven to be lethally unreliable. Catastrophic blackouts in February plunged millions into darkness for days , and, ultimately, led to at least deaths. Proponents like Senator Ted Cruz and Governor Greg Abbott, both Republicans, say crypto miners are ultimately good for the grid, since they say the miners can soak up excess clean power and, when needed, can voluntarily throttle back in seconds to help avert blackouts.

But it raises the question of what these miners will do when the state's electricity demand inevitably outstrips supply: Will they adhere to an honor system of curtailing their power use, especially when the Bitcoin price is itself so high, or will it mean even more pressure on an overwhelmed grid?

Miners setting up shop in the Lone Star State can often count on a year tax abatement, sales tax credits and workforce training from the state, depending on where they are located and how many jobs they add. Even without formal incentives, the cheap power prices and the state's hands-off policy toward business is often enough of a lure.

Right now, Ercot has somewhere between and 1, megawatts of mining capacity, out of about 2, nationwide. The state grid will add another 3, to 5, megawatts of mining demand by the end of , he said.

Zero emissions and, soon, zero crew: the world's first fully electric autonomous cargo vessel was unveiled in Norway , a small but promising step toward reducing the maritime industry's climate footprint.

Sasuke arrives to save the day, but the leader of the group shows up, with stealth skills that surprise even Sasuke. Meanwhile, the Third Hokage announces that it's time once again for the Chuunin selection exams. After the three ninjas take their leave, Sasuke realizes he has a powerful rival out there. The next day, Kakashi announces that he has recommended all of them for the Chuunin Exams. While Naruto and Sasuke are pleased, Sakura is afraid of letting everyone down.

Also, someone decides they aren't ready and decides to test their abilities. All Konoha Genins are put to an introductory test to determine who will continue on in the actual exam.

All Genins meet together and begin a written test as part of the first Chuunin Exam. The Genins work on gathering information furtively while worries over the tenth question surface. A Naruto Special which recaps the previous 25 episodes and sets the stage for the second Chunnin exam. The second Chuunin Exam begins as the Genins start their search for two scrolls to enable them to finish the second Exam. The Genin teams continue their search for the two scrolls in the Forest of Death.

Meanwhile, Team 7 is sidetracked by a powerful enemy. Naruto and the rest of Team 7 continue their fight against their ruthless enemy in the Shi no Mori. Sasuke finally recovers his will to fight and receives a dangerous "present" from Orochimaru. The emergency surrounding Orochimaru in Konoha spreads to village officials.

The Sound Ninja attack incapacitated Team 7 and Sakura is left to fight them all. Team 10 gains the courage to help Sakura defeat the Sound Genin. The other Genin teams continue their search for the scrolls and Gaara's power is revealed to Team 8. Naruto muses peeking into his team's scroll and Kabuto joins Team 7 in order to reach the tower in the center of the Forest of Death.

Team 7 and Kabuto engage the Rain ninja after breaking through the Rain ninjas' illusionary technique. Kabuto is secretly revealed to be a traitor to Konoha and Sasuke starts his match against Yoroi Akado. Sasuke continues his fight against Yoroi Akado despite the pain from his Cursed Seal. Kakashi decides to help Sasuke after the battle by sealing the Cursed Seal. Kakashi performs the sealing ritual on Sasuke, while the fight between Zaku Abumi and Shino Aburame commences.

The battle between Sakura and Ino intensifies as friendships and hardships between the two are revealed. Naruto finally gets his chance to fight against Team 8's Kiba Inuzuka. Naruto's fight against Kiba draws to a climax and Naruto's newest "techinque" is introduced. Neji Hyuga and Hinata Hyuga fight to defend the honor of themselves and of their families.

Hinata decides to prove her worth against Neji as the battle between the two draws to a close. The youthful Rock Lee clashes against the powerful and deadly Gaara of the Sand. Rock Lee keeps fighting against the ferocious Gaara.

Lee is weakened due to the use of his technique, Omote Renge, but his will is strong. In order to defeat Gaara, Lee would open the first gates, to be able to use a forbidden technique.

Lee finally reveals his trump card, the power of the Eight Gates, while Gaara prepares for a bloody showdown. Choji Akimichi versus Dosu Kinuta in the final match of the third preliminary exam.

Naruto learns he is getting a new trainer to prepare for the third Chuunin Exam. Naruto, in preparation for the third Chuunin Exam, begins his training with Ebisu, with some unexpected consequences. While Ebisu trains Naruto on how to walk on water in a hot spring, he spies somebody trying to peep on women in a hot spring.

Ebisu attacks him, only to be defeated quickly.