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Rare Meteorite Found

Almost 300 g of the so-called Winchcombe meteorite, a space rock that fell from the fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28, 2021, have been located in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, the United Kingdom. A fragment of the Winchcombe meteorite. Image credit: Trustees …

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Martian Storms Zodiacal Light

The zodiacal light is sunlight reflected by interplanetary dust in the inner Solar System. Variations in the zodiacal light with ecliptic latitude reveal discrete bands of dust orbiting near the ecliptic plane. NASA’s Juno spacecraft, in transit from Earth to Jupiter, recorded a sufficient number of impacts with these dust …

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ExtremeTech Upgrading

  The best thing about ExtremeTech has always been you, our loyal readers–the ones that show up in the comments and keep the discussion going. We take pride in having one of the best comment sections on the Web. We always learn a lot from all of you. On Thursday, …

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T-Mobile Data Opt Out

  T-Mobile has made some significant changes to its privacy policy and customers who care will need to change their defaults to keep their personal data personal. The new privacy document states: Starting April 26, 2021, T‑Mobile will begin a new program that uses some data we have about you, …

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New Warp Drive Study

    (Credit: Eduard Muzhevskyi/Getty Images) Exploring the universe in Star Trek is as easy as firing up the warp drive and zipping off to the next adventure, but real life is much more tedious without faster-than-light (FTL) travel. Physicists have speculated on the possibility of a real warp drive for …

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iPhone 12 Mini Production

  Apple released a new generation of iPhones late last year, and the says of just one or two new iPhones are dead and gone — there are five members of the iPhone 12 family, including the iPhone 12 Mini. You probably heard a lot of banter about the tiny …

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Verizon’s New 4G

  Verizon is rolling out a new cellular service in a frequency band that could bring big performance improvements. In some cases, the gains have been large enough to push 4G performance over and above the newer 5G standard. That’s according to PCMag’s Sascha Segan, who got an opportunity to …

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DARPA Cryptography’s

  Microsoft and Intel will be working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and implement fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) in hardware. A breakthrough in this field would have a profound impact on cybersecurity. The encryption schemes in use today all have a common weakness: decryption. You …

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Google 10 Years of Chrome

  Google launched Chrome OS a decade ago with a device you couldn’t even buy called the CR48. Now, you can get Chrome OS laptops from numerous manufacturers for a pittance, and they’re selling better than Apple computers. Google is celebrating 10 years of Chrome OS with the launch of …

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Chip Shortage Hits

  Advantech, the world’s largest manufacturer of industrial computers you don’t use but sure appreciate in retrospect, has announced that the semiconductor shortage is impacting its business and reducing shipments worldwide. This new foray into what’s gone wrong in semiconductors is brought to you by the phonemes “CO” and “VID,” …

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