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[34]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically [35]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [36]this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! [37]Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! or [38]check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area [39]× 170983851 story [40]United States [41]NYC Is Sinking Due To Weight of Its Skyscrapers, New Research Finds [42](theguardian.com) [43]34 Posted by [44]BeauHD on Saturday May 20, 2023 @06:00AM from the more-you-know dept. New research reveals that New York City is sinking, [45]primarily due to the weight of its tall buildings, exacerbating the threat of flooding from rising sea levels. The Guardian reports: The Big Apple may be the city that never sleeps but it is a city that certainly sinks, subsiding by approximately 1-2mm each year on average, with some areas of New York City plunging at double this rate, according to researchers. This sinking is exacerbating the impact of sea level rise which is accelerating at around twice the global average as the world's glaciers melt away and seawater expands due to global heating. The water that flanks New York City has risen by about 9in, or 22cm, since 1950 and major flooding events from storms could be up to four times more frequent than now by the end of the century due to the combination of sea level rise and hurricanes strengthened by climate change. This trend is being magnified by the sheer bulk of New York City's built infrastructure. The researchers calculated that the city's structures, which include the famous Empire State Building and Chrysler Building, weigh a total of 1.68tn lbs, which is roughly equivalent to the weight of 140 million elephants. This enormous heft is pushing down on a jumble of different materials found in New York City's ground. While many of the largest buildings are placed upon solid bedrock, such as schist, there is a mixture of other sands and clays that have been build over, adding to a sinking effect that is naturally occurring anyway along much of the US east coast as the land reacts to the retreat of huge glaciers following the end of the last ice age. The research has been [46]published in the journal Earth's Future. apply tags__________ 170982701 story [47]NASA [48]NASA Picks Blue Origin To Make a Second Human-Crewed Lunar Lander [49](theverge.com) [50]19 Posted by [51]BeauHD on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:00AM from the win-for-humanity dept. NASA has [52]selected Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to [53]create a lunar lander for an upcoming Artemis mission, with a $3.4 billion contract including an uncrewed "demonstration mission" followed by a human-crewed demo in 2029 for the Artemis V mission. The Verge reports: Currently, the plan for the Artemis V mission is for four astronauts to first fly to the Gateway space station on NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and the Orion spacecraft. Then, two astronauts will go to the Moon on Blue Origin's Blue Moon lander for "about a weeklong trip to the Moon's South Pole region," NASA said. Blue Origin is the second company to land a contract with NASA for a lunar lander for Artemis. SpaceX was the first, winning the sole contract [54]in 2021, and Blue Origin lost a lawsuit against NASA over the decision later that year. However, NASA [55]announced in 2022 that it would develop a second human lunar lander, inviting space companies to make proposals. "Adding another human landing system partner to NASA's Artemis program will increase competition, reduce costs to taxpayers, support a regular cadence of lunar landings, further invest in the lunar economy, and help NASA achieve its goals on and around the Moon in preparation for future astronaut missions to Mars," NASA said. apply tags__________ 170982447 story [56]Java [57]A Crowd-Funded Startup Is Making a Coffee Cup That Can Be Eaten [58](bloomberg.com) [59]89 Posted by [60]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @11:30PM from the edibleware-innovation dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: A trash can overflowing with disposable drink cups is an all-too-familiar sight outside any high-traffic cafe or fast-food joint. It was during a lunch-time walk in Melbourne that colleagues Aniyo Rahebi and Catherine Hutchins passed by several such eyesores and decided to combat the piles of waste. A few months later they arrived at an idea: [61]a to-go cup that can be eaten. After hundreds of hours in the kitchen refining their concept, the duo took it to market. Their startup [62]Good-Edi now offers an edible, biodegradable, plastic-free alternative to the standard polyethylene-lined paper cups used for coffee that largely end up in landfills or gets incinerated. The company raised about $98,000 through a crowd-funding site in 2021, and its baking team currently produces about 500 cups a day for clients across Australia, including coffee shops, roasteries and concert venues, from a facility in a suburb of Melbourne. Good-Edi aims to boost output and expand sales internationally this year. The world goes through more than 250 billion plastic-lined paper drink cups every year, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Only about 1% of those cups are recycled. Good-Edi says about 2.7 million disposable cups find their way to landfills each day in Australia. Good-Edi's product works for both for hot drinks like coffee and tea as well as cold drinks. After about 250 recipe adjustments, the founders settled on a blend of rye flour, wheat bran, oat bran, sugar, salt, coconut oil and water. They say their container stays crispy holding a hot cup of joe for about 40 minutes and won't leak a cold beverage for about eight hours. For Hutchins and Rahebi, who have a combined 20 years experience in the food-processing and packaging sectors, Good-Edi is still a side hustle. They are banking on shifting consumer sentiment and a beverage industry under pressure to offer more sustainable to-go options to drive sales and compensate for the fact that their containers can increase the cost of a cup of takeaway coffee by A$1. "Will coffee drinkers be keen to gobble up the company's innovation, if it doesn't feel like a treat?" asks a Bloomberg Businessweek reporter that says the cup tasted like an unsweetened wheat biscuit. apply tags__________ 170982409 story [63]Bitcoin [64]Australian Stock Exchange Says Software Overhaul Will No Longer Involve Blockchain [65](reuters.com) [66]16 Posted by [67]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @10:02PM from the reversing-course dept. Australia's stock market operator, ASX Ltd, has announced that it will [68]no longer pursue the rebuilding of its software platform using blockchain technology. The decision comes after an external review found that the project would require significant rework, and ASX stated that it will explore more conventional technology options to achieve its business goals. Reuters reports: ASX frustrated market participants in November by "pausing" a rebuild of its all-in-one trading, settlement and clearing software based on the decentralized computing concept, after an external review found it had to be largely reworked after seven years of development. The company has since said it is considering options for another attempt at the rebuild of the 30-year-old software, but at a meeting with participants this week it said it would not involve blockchain or related "distributed ledger technology" (DLT). Asked if the next attempt would "go down the more conventional route, that is without the focus on DLT (or) blockchain," exchange project director Tim Whiteley told the meeting that "while we continue to explore all the options, certainly we will need to use a more conventional technology than in the original solution in order to achieve the business outcomes." The statement signals the end of what was to be one of the world's most prominent use cases of the concept that promises to accelerate online transactions by processing them securely in multiple locations. Until now, ASX has said it may resurrect the project using blockchain-based technology developed by New York-based contractor Digital Asset. It has said it will announce a new strategy for the project by year-end. Whiteley told the meeting ASX was on track to decide a new strategy by year-end. It sent a request for information to potential software vendors and "issued an RFP to a number of vendors who responded more positively ... for more detailed feedback," he said, using the acronym for a request for proposal. Market participants had told ASX they did not want a risky, single-date changeover to new software, and "that feedback has been taken into the implementation planning," Whiteley said. apply tags__________ 170982337 story [69]Social Networks [70]Instagram's New Twitter Competitor Leaks [71](theverge.com) [72]19 Posted by [73]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:25PM from the good-artists-copy,-great-artists-steal dept. Lia Haberman via her [74]ICYMI Substack newsletter appears to have obtained a leaked marketing slide [75]detailing the features of Intagram's rumored text-based Twitter competitor. The new app, codenamed P92, Project 92 or Barcelona, could arrive as soon as late June. The Verge reports: In the app, you'll see a feed, and you can make text posts up to 500 characters long with attached links, photos, and videos. The app looks pretty much like if you mixed Instagram and Twitter together, based on two screenshots included in the leaked marketing slide. And Meta will apparently have some good moderation controls from the start, "equipping you with settings to control who can reply to you and mention your account," the slide says. Any accounts you've blocked on Instagram will apparently carry over. Perhaps most significantly, though, the new Instagram text app will have an element of decentralization as well. "Soon, our app will be compatible with certain other apps like Mastodon," Instagram's slide says. "Users on these other apps will be able to search for, follow and interact with your profile and content if you're public, or if you're private and approve them as followers." (Presumably that compatibility will come through ActivityPub, which Meta has been exploring alongside other tech companies.) apply tags__________ 170982317 story [76]Displays [77]Apple Dives Into Display-Making To Cut Reliance On Samsung [78](nikkei.com) [79]7 Posted by [80]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:45PM from the cutting-out-the-middleman dept. Apple is reportedly [81]expanding its involvement in the mass production of micro-LED displays to reduce its reliance on Samsung and gain more control over the supply chain. Nikkei Asia reports: Apple has spent heavily on the development of micro-LED displays over the past decade and once production starts, it intends to perform the critical "mass transfer" step of the manufacturing process itself, according to sources involved in the project. The mass transfer step involves moving at least tens of thousands of tiny micro-LED chips onto substrates. This process will be carried out at Apple's secretive R&D facilities in the Longtan District in the northern Taiwanese city of Taoyuan, according to multiple people with direct knowledge of the project. Displays are one of the most expensive components in all of Apple's devices. Since the American company first introduced OLED displays on its iPhone in 2017, its reliance on Samsung Display for the screens has only grown. To reduce that dependence and gain price-bargaining power, Apple tried to bring in other suppliers, namely LG Display and China's display champion BOE Technology, but they lag the South Korean leader in terms of technology and quality stability, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. "Apple has spent at least $1 billion on the R&D and samples for micro-LED technologies in the past nearly 10 years," said one of the people who has been directly involved in the project for years. "It wants to secure more control over the next-gen display technologies for its future products." For the project, Apple is partnering with suppliers like ams-Osram for micro-LED components, LG Display for the substrates -- also called backplates -- and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. for 12-inch wafers. In addition to designing the driver integrated circuits for the micro-LED screens, Apple even designed some of the production equipment itself to better control the mass transfer process, according to two of the people with direct knowledge of the matter. "It doesn't mean that Apple will always do the mass transfer on its own. But it shows how determined Apple is to allocate resources to have more control over [these] next-gen display technologies in its own hands," one of the sources said. "Apple's ultimate plan is to introduce the technologies on its iPhone, which is its key revenue source and has much bigger volume, to justify the investments over the years," added one of the sources. apply tags__________ 170982271 story [82]Hardware [83]Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton Discusses Stock Updates, Industry Prioritization [84](tomshardware.com) [85]32 Posted by [86]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @08:02PM from the lots-to-unpack-here dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: YouTuber [87]Jeff Geerling recently flew over to the UK to sit down with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton for a [88]chat about shortages, predictions, the Raspberry Pi Pico and other hot topics. The short of it is that stock levels are improving, close to Upton's 2022 prediction and that we are now seeing better stock levels than 2022 as Raspberry Pi slowly catches up with the backlog. Upton explained the reasoning behind prioritizing OEM customers over consumers, and addresses some of the negativity that was levied on Raspberry Pi by a minority of the passionate and vocal community. The [89]video starts with Geerling candidly explaining that his trip to the UK was not funded by Raspberry Pi, rather it was funded via sponsorship and Patreon supporters. With that out of the way Geerling covers a series of topics with Upton, and we've been through the video and pulled out the key points, with timestamps for you to listen to. In regard to the company's product and shipment progress, Upton said: "So quarter one this year was our worst quarter in terms of production and shipment. [...] We did about 750 to 800,000 units in Q1 this year [due to shifting production during the Christmas period]." With progress being made on filling backlog and availability, Upton said the company expects to move two million units in the second quarter, with the third and fourth quarters of 2023 being "unconstrained." apply tags__________ 170982191 story [90]Software [91]Apple Publishes First-Ever App Store Transparency Report [92](macrumors.com) [93]2 Posted by [94]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @07:20PM from the behind-the-scenes dept. Apple has [95]released (PDF) its [96]first App Store Transparency Report, as mandated by a lawsuit settlement [97]in 2021. In 2022, the report reveals that over 1.6 million apps were rejected, 186,195 apps were removed for violating App Store rules, and China topped the list with the most government-requested app takedowns. MacRumors reports: In 2022, there were 1,783,232 apps on the App Store, with 6,101,913 total app submissions received and 1,679,694 apps rejected for various reasons like safety, performance, design, and legal. Apple provides numbers on the specific App Store guidelines that were violated by rejected apps, with the highest number of single rule rejections (149,378) due to violations of the Design 4.0 rule and the DPLA 3.2 Fraud rule (32,009). A total of 253,466 app submissions were approved after rejection when developers worked with Apple to resolve issues, and 186,195 apps were removed from the App Store for breaking the App Store rules. The majority of apps removed from the App Store were games, followed by Utilities, Business, and Education. Apple outlines the total number of apps removed from the App Store due to government takedowns, and China is at the top of the list. The Chinese government asked Apple to remove 1,435 apps, but 1,276 of those apps were games that were removed for not having the GRN license that China requires. Apple removed 14 apps at the request of India's government, 10 apps for Pakistan, and seven apps for Russia. In other countries including Turkiye, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hong Kong, Italy, Latvia, and Nigeria, fewer than two apps were removed at the government's request. Developers appealed 18,412 app removals in total, and Apple restored just 616 developer accounts. Apple says that apps that are appealed were typically pulled from the App Store for fraud or illegality, which is why the rejected appeal number is so high. There are 36,974,015 registered developers, and in 2022, Apple terminated 428,487 developer accounts. According to Apple, developers are removed from the Apple Developer Program "for a number of reasons," but most commonly because of accounts that are connected with other terminated developer accounts. 3,338 developers appealed their App Store bans, and Apple reinstated just 159 accounts. Again, Apple says that this is because "most developer account terminations that are appealed are removed from the App Store due to fraud," so Apple rejects most of them. 282,036,628 customer accounts were terminated, but that number does incorporate all accounts created, even those made on the website by non-iPhone and iPad users. There were 656,739,889 average weekly visitors to the App Store and 747,873,877 average weekly app downloads. Customer accounts searched the App Store 373,211,396 times on average, and 1,399,741 apps appeared in the top 10 results of at least 1000 searches. You can download the report [98]from Apple's legal site. apply tags__________ 170982155 story [99]Wine [100]CodeWeavers Now Controlled By An Employee Ownership Trust [101](phoronix.com) [102]13 Posted by [103]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:40PM from the time-to-move-on dept. After leading CodeWeavers for 27 years, Jeremy White has decided to leave the company, [104]prompting the transition to an employee ownership trust. CodeWeavers is known for its CrossOver software and contributions to the Wine project. Phoronix reports: CodeWeavers' President James Ramey is now taking on the CEO role while Director of Development Ulrich Czekalla in turn is stepping up to fill the President role. Jeremy White does continue to serve as Chairman of the Board at CodeWeavers. In addition to selling the CrossOver software, CodeWeavers' PortJump effort aides organizations in porting apps/games to macOS, Linux, or ChromeOS. CodeWeavers also engages in technical consulting services for organizations. Among CodeWeavers' clients is Valve in assisting them with their Steam Play / Proton effort. You can read more about the changes via [105]the CodeWeavers blog. apply tags__________ 170982127 story [106]Piracy [107]Anti-Piracy Program Accused of Violating Citizens' Fundamental Rights In France [108]8 Posted by [109]BeauHD on Friday May 19, 2023 @06:00PM from the protecting-rights dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: When the French government formed a new anti-piracy agency called Hadopi, the mission was to significantly disrupt BitTorrent and similar peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. Hadopi was a pioneer of the so-called "graduated response" scheme which consists of monitoring a file-sharer's internet activities and following up with a warning notice to deter their behavior. Any future incidents attract escalating responses including fines and internet disconnections. Between 2010 and 2020, Hadopi issued 12.7 million warning notices at a cost to French taxpayers of 82 million euros. The program's effect on overall piracy rates remains up for debate but according to French internet rights groups, Hadopi doesn't just take citizens' money. When it monitors citizens' internet activities, retains huge amounts of data, and then links identities to IP addresses to prevent behavior that isn't a "serious crime," Hadopi [110]violates fundamental rights. Despite its authorization under the new law, the official launch of the Hadopi agency in 2009 met with significant opposition. File-sharers had issues with the program for obvious reasons but for digital rights group La Quadrature du Net, massive internet surveillance to protect copying rights had arrived at the expense of citizens' fundamental right to privacy. La Quadrature's opposition to the Hadopi anti-piracy program focuses on the law crafted to support it. One of the implementing decrees authorizes the creation of files containing internet users' IP addresses plus personal identification data obtained from their internet service providers. According to the digital rights group's interpretation of EU law, that is unlawful. With support from the Federation of Associative Internet Service Providers, French Data Network, and Franciliens.net, in 2019 La Quadrature filed an appeal before the Council of State (Conseil d'Etat), requesting a repeal of the decree that authorizes the processing of personal information. The Council of State referred the matter to the Constitutional Council and its subsequent decision gave La Quadrature the impression that Hadopi's position was untenable. For their part, Hadopi and the government reached the opposite conclusion. The Council of State heard La Quadrature's appeal and then referred questions to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for interpretation under EU law. In CJEU Advocate General Szpunar's [111]non-binding opinion issued last October, friction between privacy rights and the ability to enforce copyrights were on full display. [...] Faced with an opinion that recognizes difficulties faced by rightsholders but runs up against case-law, AG Szpunar proposed "readjustment of the case-law of the Court." This would ensure that rightsholders retain the ability to enforce their rights, when an IP address is the only means by which an infringer can be identified ([112]CJEU, pdf). The [113]first court hearing occurred on Tuesday, and a further legal opinion is expected in late September 2023. The ruling from the CJEU is expected before the end of the year. apply tags__________ 170982041 story [114]Games [115]Fighting Games, Hobbled by Pandemic, Come Back Swinging [116](bloomberg.com) [117]14 Posted by msmash on Friday May 19, 2023 @05:20PM from the let's-go dept. From Street Fighter 6 to Mortal Kombat 1, 2023 [118]offers a robust slate of big, brawling attractions. From a report: The pandemic stole one of gaming's purest experiences: karate chopping your buddy in the stomach and laughing as their health meter falls to zero. The culture around fighting games -- side by side on a couch or in a whirring arcade -- doesn't translate so well to Zoom. It didn't help that a lot of the online play technology for these games has for years fallen short of expectations. Few mainstream fighting games were released over the last three years. But in 2023, fighting games are returning with a vengeance. The list includes Capcom's Street Fighter 6, Warner Bros Games' just-announced Mortal Kombat 1 and Cygames' Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising. Fans are also hoping to get Project L from Tencent's Riot Games and Tekken 8 from Bandai Namco Studios sometime in the not too distant future. "Rather than trash talking online, it's a lot better to do in person," Street Fighter 6 producer Shuhei Matsumoto told me in an interview this week. We were talking about what his highly-anticipated game, launching June 2, and the broader fighting genre has learned from the pandemic disruptions. The new Street Fighter aims to bring what people love about in-person gaming into the online arena. 2016's Street Fighter 5 famously didn't have the best online experience. "For 5, the team acknowledged there were some issues with the existing net code," Matsumoto said. "As a team, we all agreed that something had to be done for Street Fighter 6." Capcom put together a specialized team to improve the online experience for Street Fighter 6. The team also aimed to upload facets of the culture of Street Fighter. In previous Street Fighter games, the main thing online contenders had to size up their opponent was their gamer tag. Street Fighter 6 has a Battle Hub, which game director Takayuki Nakayama said "is like an extension of arcade culture." Players can now dress up their avatars and show off their outfits while congregating with friends -- a process that Nakayama said can "humanize" online competitors. The culture of fighting games has changed a lot since 2020. Arcades in Japan, where Capcom traditionally debuted its latest titles, shuttered at a rapid fire rate -- a trend that began pre-Covid but accelerated during the lockdowns. Meanwhile, money has bled out of the esports industry, which funded local, national and international tournaments. 2023 promises to reinvigorate fighting games. Capcom's Pro Tour has a $2 million prize pool. "I would say it's fully bounced back and then some," said Alec Polsley, who owns my local LAN cafe. On weekends, the place is teeming with competitors leaning over sweaty controllers. apply tags__________ 170981995 story [119]Apple [120]Companies in Apple's Repair Program Say They Can't Compete With Tech Giant [121](theguardian.com) [122]26 Posted by msmash on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:41PM from the lip-service-inc dept. Companies in Apple's third-party repair program say delays in the process and high pricing for parts [123]make it almost impossible to compete with the juggernaut. From a report: In 2021 Apple, under pressure from a Productivity Commission review on the "right to repair," launched its independent repair provider program in Australia. It was trumpeted as a way for small companies to compete with Apple to repair their products -- such as the iPhone -- using Apple tools and spare parts. At the time, repairers said they felt the move was a token gesture designed to head off any potential right-to-repair legislation that would have been recommended by the Productivity Commission review. Two years later, some say their fears have been realised. A number of repairers Guardian Australia has spoken to in Australia and the US suggest Apple's slow response times and the high cost for replacement parts makes it almost impossible for them to be viable competitors. The repairers requested anonymity to speak about the program, fearing that reprisals from the California-based tech giant might prevent them from remaining in the program. Apple has indicated it takes an average of eight weeks for repairers to be admitted to the program, but repairers Guardian Australia has spoken to said the wait time can be up to six months -- and that it feels like the applications sit in a black hole, without any point of contact within Apple to provide an update on their status. Once repairers are admitted to the program, they receive training from Apple, as well as access to Apple parts, tools, repair manuals and diagnostic software for the company's iPhones and Macs. But they say the price of the parts, as well as the process to get a discounted rate for replacement parts, make it difficult for repairers to compete with Apple's own repair program. One repairer, who says his business repairs between 30 and 40 Apple products every week, said the average repair takes between an hour to an hour and a half. If it charge the rate Apple charges customers for repairs, then its maximum margin is about $60. apply tags__________ 170981857 story [124]Transportation [125]Kia and Hyundai Agree To $200 Million Settlement for Making Cars Viral Theft Targets [126]42 Posted by msmash on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:00PM from the how-about-that dept. Hyundai and Kia will pay out $200 million in a class-action lawsuit settlement, compensating roughly 9 million people for their losses after a 2022 social media trend revealed how [127]relatively simple it was to steal certain models. From a report: As reported by Reuters, $145 million of the payout goes to the out-of-pocket expenses of those whose cars were stolen. Many Kias made between 2011-2021, and Hyundais from 2015-2021, lacked electronic engine immobilizers, which would prevent a car from starting unless an electronically matched key was present. Without the immobilizer, the car could be started by turning the ignition with other objects, such as a USB-A cable that thieves discovered was a perfect fit. Customers whose cars were totaled are eligible for up to $6,125, while damaged vehicles and property can receive a maximum of $3,375, along with costs for raised insurance, car rental, towing, tickets, and others. Kia and Hyundai had previously pledged to provide free software upgrades to vehicles and free wheel locks (i.e. The Club), typically in coordination with regional police departments. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said in February that the companies have given out 26,000 wheel locks since November 2022. A September 2022 report by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) showed that immobilizers were standard on 96 percent of cars sold in the US by 2015 but only 26 percent of Kias and Hyundais. Cars with immobilizers were stolen at a rate of 1.21 per 1,000 insured vehicles, according to the IIHS; those without immobilizers had a 2.18 per 1,000 rate. Kia and Hyundai's far-too-thrifty design decisions might have been simply a balance sheet story were it not for the "Kia Challenge," a 2022 TikTok trend that detailed theft techniques and joyrides. By February 2023, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration attributed 14 crashes and eight deaths to challenge-inspired thefts. apply tags__________ 170979659 story [128]Star Wars Prequels [129]Disney World Is Shutting Down Its $2,500-a-Night Star Wars-Themed Hotel [130](npr.org) [131]219 Posted by msmash on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:20PM from the not-fit-for-this-world dept. [132]Thelasko writes: A Star Wars-themed hotel at Walt Disney World is being [133]shut down about a year after opening, the company announced. The hotel, which is marketed as a two-night immersive experience, will take its last bookings Sep. 28 to 30. New bookings are being paused until May 26 to first accommodate those who made reservations after September. [...] The two-night packages start at about $4,800 for two people, and go up to $5,299 for two adults and one child and $5,999 for three adults and one child. Prices include lodging, meals and admission to Hollywood Studios. Upon arriving, guests enter a launch pod to board the Halcyon starcruiser, stay in a room with a space view and are able to interact with the franchise's characters throughout the ship. apply tags__________ 170979629 story [134]Earth [135]Amount of Water Storage is Declining in Lakes Around the World [136](go.com) [137]19 Posted by msmash on Friday May 19, 2023 @02:40PM from the closer-look dept. The amount of water stored in half of the largest lakes and reservoirs around the world is [138]declining due to human activity and climate change, according to new research. From a report: While lake water storage can naturally fluctuate in response to local precipitation, direct human activities, such as damming and water consumption, are increasingly affecting precious water resources, according to a study published Thursday in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Researchers combined global satellite measurements with climate and hydrologic models to detect trends in lake water storage for nearly 2,000 of the world's largest lakes and reservoirs from 1992 to 2020. The findings revealed "widespread decline," according to the study. About 53% of the water bodies studied were found to have experienced significant water losses over the last 28 years at a rate of roughly 22 gigatonnes, or 1 billion metric tons, per year, according to the study. The declining water storage could affect a quarter of the world's population, Fangfang Yao, a surface hydrologist who conducted the research with the University of Colorado Boulder, told ABC News. 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