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Intel will have to pay up in an antitrust case dating back to 2009, Reuters reported on Wednesday. The company has lost its challenge against a €376 million ($438.7 million) regulatory fine levied by the European Commission. However, Intel managed to get the amount reduced to 237 million euros ($276.6 million).The case began in 2009, when mobile computing was in its infancy and netbooks (remember those?) were all the rage in the PC space. At the time, the EU ruled that Intel violated antitrust laws on multiple fronts. First, it used illegal hidden rebates to push rivals out of the…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. A robot inspired by desert tumbleweeds may be the first of a new generation of energy-efficient explorers rolling into future disaster zones. While the Hybrid Energy-efficient Rover Mechanism for Exploration Systems (HERMES) described in the journal Nature Communications recalls the desert ramblers, its creator initially envisioned the idea while watching humans enjoy wind simply for the thrill of it. “The inspiration struck on a windy winter afternoon along the shores of Lake Neuchâtel [in western Switzerland],” said Sanjay Manoharan, a study co-author and researcher at the…
Most Democratic-led states say they will continue to universally recommend and administer the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, despite new guidance against it issued last week by a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.The Northeast Public Health Collaborative and the West Coast Health Alliance, which formed earlier this year in response to Kennedy’s concerning overhaul of vaccine policy, along with a other blue states, plan to to defy the latest recommendations made by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP.Hepatitis B is a serious,…
I love this time of year. Cozy weather. Tasty cookies and warm cocoa. Festive events in games. And of course, all the Christmas lights hanging on houses, businesses, and elsewhere. In particular, I have a soft spot for all the colorful lights that get hung up during December. They just look so magical at night and fill me with nostalgic feelings. What can I say? I’m a sucker for plastic lights. So when I randomly discovered Light Up the Town, a newly released cozy indie game all about decorating a wintry small town with Christmas lights, I immediately installed it…
The US Department of State is unwinding a 2023 decision to use san-serif Calibri font on all official communications and switching to Times New Roman instead, The New York Times reports. In a memo obtained by NYT titled “Return to Tradition: Times New Roman 14-Point Font Required for All Department Paper,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio frames the change as a way to return professionalism to the State Department.”Switching to Calibri achieved nothing except the degradation of the department’s official correspondence,” Rubio said in the memo. That’s because the font is “informal” and clashes with the State Department’s letterhead, according…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Archaeologists examining an ancient boat discovered in Denmark over a century ago are getting some help from a clue usually associated with crime scenes. A human fingerprint left on the Hjortspring Boat brings archeologists closer to figuring out which ancient European group sailed on this 2,400-year-old boat. The findings are detailed in a study published today in the journal PLOS One, and are helping scientists understand where shipbuilders of the oldest plank-built vessel in northern Europe may have come from. “Finding a fingerprint on the tar…
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All You Need Is Kill is a Japanese “light novel” by Hiroshi Sakurazaka, published in 2004, that became the basis for the surprisingly excellent Tom Cruise sci-fi flick Edge of Tomorrow. It’s now receiving a much more faithful anime adaptation from director Kenichiro Akimoto, coming out next month, and the first trailer is breathtaking. I need to confess: To my own detriment, I am not an anime guy. It’s a massive gap in my cultural awareness and personal entertainment, and I deserve all your ire. However, from the opening frames of the All You Need Is Kill trailer, I was…
YouTube TV, which launched in 2017 as a $35-per-month all-in-one service, will soon introduce YouTube TV Plans. Although the announcement is light on details, we know the initiative will let you sign up for genre-specific packages, such as sports and news. In other words, it’s the final step in the legacy-cable-ification of the service.YouTube hasn’t said anything about pricing. But it’s probably safe to assume that narrowing your available content will reduce your bill. A year ago, the company raised its monthly cost to $83. That’s 137 percent higher than the service’s launch price nearly nine years ago.We don’t yet…
The Amazon rainforest is inching toward a “hypertropical” climate regime that has not existed on Earth for at least 10 million years, new research suggests.Scientists predict this regime will cause more frequent and extreme droughts, which could lead to mass tree dieoffs. By 2100, hot droughts could bake the Amazon for 150 days of the year, extending even into the wet season, according to a study published Wednesday (Dec. 10) in the journal Nature.”When these hot droughts occur, that’s the climate that we associate with a hypertropical forest, because it’s beyond the boundary of what we consider to be tropical…