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EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal

First time accepted submitter Jody Bruchon writes “The Environment Protection Agency has lowered the amount of fine-particle matter per cubic meter that new wood stoves are allowed to release into the atmosphere by 20%. Most wood stoves in use today are of the type that is now illegal to manufacture or sell, and old stoves traded in for credit towards new ones must be scrapped out. This shouldn’t be much of a surprise since more and more local governments are banning wood-burning stoves and fireplaces entirely, citing smog and air pollution concerns.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti Review: GK110, Fully Unlocked

An anonymous reader writes “Nvidia lifted the veil on its latest high-end graphics board, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti. With a total of 2, 880 CUDA cores and 240 texture units, the GK110 GPU inside the GTX 780 Ti is fully unlocked. This means that the new card has an additional SMX block, 192 more shader cores, and 16 additional texture units than the $1, 000 GTX Titan launched back in February! Offered at just $700, the GTX 780 Ti promises to improve gaming performance over the Titan, yet the card has been artificially limited in GPGPU performance — no doubt in order to make sure the pricier card remains relevant to those unable or unwilling to spring for a Quadro. The benchmark results simply illustrate the GTX 780 Ti’s on-paper specs. The card was able to beat AMD’s just-released flagship, the Radeon R9 290x by single-digit percentages, up to double-digits topping 30% — depending on the variability of AMD’s press and retail samples.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Watch all 30 minutes of recovered Return of the Jedi footage

A few weeks ago, drips of lost footage filled with cut takes from Return of the Jedi began appearing online. Now you can see all 30 minutes of the recovered footage, compiled into a single video. Read more…

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Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar

mdsolar writes with this bit of news from Green Tech Media “The German government has responded to the next big challenge in its energy transition – storing the output from the solar boom it has created — by doing exactly what it has successfully done to date: greasing the wheels of finance to bring down the cost of new technology. … Now it is looking at bringing down the cost of the next piece in the puzzle of its energy transition — battery storage. … KfW’s aim, according to Axel Nawrath, a member of the KfW Bankengruppe executive board, is to ensure that the output of wind and solar must be ‘more decoupled’ from the grid. … This is seen as critical as the level of renewable penetration rises to around 40 per cent — a level expected in Germany within the next 10 years. … According to Papenfuss, households participating in the scheme will spend between €20, 000 and €28, 000 on solar and storage, depending on the size of the system (the average size is expected to be around 7kW for the solar array and around 4kWh for the battery).” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Researcher Allows Sand Flea To Grow Inside Her Foot To Study It

sciencehabit writes “Marlene Thielecke came to Madagascar to study the sand flea, an insect that spends part of its life cycle burrowed into the human foot — but she wound up getting more intimate with the critter than she cared for. Months into her project, Thieleckewas bitten by a flea herself. She decided to make the best of it, by taking regular photographs and videos and keeping track of her observations. ‘I thought it might be interesting’ to watch what happened, she says. As it turns out, her experience may help resolve an question entomologists have debated foor decades: Where, exactly, does the sand flea have sex?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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$1.2 million in Bitcoins hijacked in ‘social engineering’ attack

So, you’ve amassed a fortune in Bitcoins , possibly ill-gotten . If you’re storing them on a computer that’s exposed to the internet, you may want to rethink that strategy thanks to a huge theft from a digital wallet service called Input.io. 4, 100 Bitcoins worth $1.2 million were plundered through two separate attacks by a hacker that gained access through social engineering, according to “TradeFortress, ” the site’s owner. The thief managed to reset the site’s password through an email recovery scheme, routing the process through a proxy server near the Australian service’s location to avoid suspicion. Unfortunately, Input.io is unable to return the lion’s share of the theft, though TradeFortress told Wired he’d pay back 1, 540 Bitcoins from his personal stash. The service is now dead and you may want to heed to rueful owner’s parting words: “I don’t recommend storing any Bitcoins accessible on computers connected to the internet.” Filed under: Misc , Internet Comments Via: Wired Source: Bitcointalk.org

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Abu Dhabi’s Massive New Airport Terminal Rises In the Desert

A new airport complex is taking shape in Abu Dhabi, where roughly 12, 000 construction workers are on-site daily to finish the massive structure, whose floor area is larger than that of the Pentagon. According to UAE paper The National , it will take 84, 000 tons of steel to build the structure’s dramatic arches, designed by New York-based KPF . Read more…

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Why the Marvel/Netflix deal is the best decision they’ve ever made

Yesterday, Marvel announced a partnership with Netflix that will allow them to conquer television the same way they’ve conquered movies and comics. The deal, which will bring four separate superhero TV shows to Netflix’s on-demand, online streaming service — as well as a miniseries — is not only brilliant, but good for everybody, and that even includes DC and Warner Bros. Here’s how. Read more…

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This is the most accurate model yet of what DNA looks like

This is a stunning 3D map that shows how six feet of of DNA can be crammed inside a single chromosome — a space that’s only a hundredth of a millimeter across. Not surprisingly, it looks like something that would go well with meatballs. Read more…

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3D-Printed Mini Human Liver Survives 40 Days, Works Like the Real Thing

Organovo’s 3D-printed mini-liver just shattered its own record, carrying out the same cellular functions as a natural human liver for 40 days in the lab. That may not seem like a lot — human liver cells are replaced about every 300 to 500 days — but the company’s previous millimeter-sized liver slivers only managed five days. The trick: Organovo uses the same mix of hepatocytes (the cells that carry out liver functions) and endothelial cells (which form the liver’s architectural support) found in nature, leading cells to develop more naturally than other experiments that used only the functional cells. It’s a small but significant step for the more than 120, 000 people on organ transplant waiting lists worldwide. Read more…

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