Month: June 2022

Climate change is altering the chemistry of wine

Warming, wildfires and unpredictable weather are disrupting the winemaking process.

Climate change is altering the chemistry of wine

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Soon after the devastating Glass Fire sparked in California’s Napa Valley in September 2020, wine chemist Anita Oberholster’s inbox was brimming with hundreds of emails from panicked viticulturists. They wanted to know if they could harvest their grapes without a dreaded effect on their wine: the odious ashtray flavor known as smoke taint.

Oberholster, of the University of California, Davis, could only tell them, “Maybe.”

Industry laboratories were slammed with grape samples to test, with wait times of up to six weeks. Growers didn’t know whether it was worth harvesting their crops. Eight percent of California wine grapes in 2020 were left to rot.

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Cortex-X3, Cortex-A715, Cortex-A510 v2: ARMs Dodeca-CPUs verzichten auf 32 Bit

Bis zu zwölf Kerne, bis zu 22 Prozent schneller und bis zu 20 Prozent effizienter: ARMs Cortex-Generation für 2022 legt kräftig zu. Ein Bericht von Marc Sauter (ARM, Smartphone)

Bis zu zwölf Kerne, bis zu 22 Prozent schneller und bis zu 20 Prozent effizienter: ARMs Cortex-Generation für 2022 legt kräftig zu. Ein Bericht von Marc Sauter (ARM, Smartphone)

HTC Desire 22 Pro is a mid-range phone attempting to cash in on VR and crypto trends

In the early days of Android, HTC was one of the top smartphone makers. That hasn’t been the case for a long time, with the company more recently shifting its focus to virtual reality products like the HTC Vive Flow headset. But HTC hasn’t…

In the early days of Android, HTC was one of the top smartphone makers. That hasn’t been the case for a long time, with the company more recently shifting its focus to virtual reality products like the HTC Vive Flow headset. But HTC hasn’t given up on phones… or trying to find reasons why you […]

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Star64 is a RISC-V single-board PC from Pine64

Open hardware company Pine64 has made a name for itself in recent years by offering low-cost, hacker-friendly hardware including smartphones, laptops, and single-board computers sporting ARM-based processors. But Pine64 has also dabbled in RISC-V arch…

Open hardware company Pine64 has made a name for itself in recent years by offering low-cost, hacker-friendly hardware including smartphones, laptops, and single-board computers sporting ARM-based processors. But Pine64 has also dabbled in RISC-V architecture. The Pinecil line of smart soldering irons have a RISC-V chip. So does the Pinecone IoT dev board. Now the […]

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