Daily Tech News 24 July 2022

• Key images in a number of influential papers that have directed 15 years and hundreds of millions of dollars of Alzheimer's research appear to have been algorithmically enhanced. (Science)
  
  By which I mean they're as fake as a Confederate $3 bill, to the point that the chemical they are supposed to be showing evidence of may not even exist.
  
  There's an effect called publication bias in science, where if you don't find what you're looking for , your paper is considered uninteresting and doesn't get accepted by the major journals, even though the failure to find something that every expects to exist can be as much of a breakthrough as finding something no-one expected.
  
  Still, one research did publish two papers back in 2008 noting that he followed all the required protocols and ended up with precisely nothing. But those seem to have been largely ignored.
  
  
  

• A quasicrystal with two time dimensions could be the answer to creating robust memory circuits for quantum computers. (Phys.org)
  
  Or, on the other hand, not.
  
  
  
• The Monkeypox outbreak - just classified as a "mega catastrophe" by the WorldWide Freak-Out Organisation - is exactly what you thought it was. (NBC News)

  [O]f the 699 monkeypox cases for which there was available information, 97% were in gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men. New York City, the U.S. epicenter, has seen only one woman diagnosed with the virus out of 639 cases confirmed through July 19.

  But you'll likely be banned from Twitter if you point this out.
  
  
  
• More on Intel's upcoming Sapphire Rapids workstation chips. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They'll be available with anything from 12 to 56 cores, with the smaller models offering higher clock speeds. They'll support 8 memory channels and up to 112 lanes of PCIe 5.0.
  
  No information yet as to dates or prices, so if you're waiting to build a high-end workstation system you can go right on waiting.
  
  
  

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