By Paul Venezia Fifteen years ago, the deep tech side of the Internet was a vastly different place. Geek news aggregator Slashdot was the place to go for all the latest IT and …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: June 2015
Valve announces official Steam Machines available to preorder
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•Eighteen months after first being announced, living room gaming PCs from Alienware and Syber running SteamOS — along with Valve’s Steam Controller and Steam Link hardware — will finally be …read more Source:: Linux
New Jersey governor sues to stop to ocean sonic boom research
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•(Reuters) – Governor Chris Christie’s administration went to federal court on Friday in the hopes of stopping an underwater study off New Jersey’s coast during summer tourism season, saying sonic …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Paleo-engineering: Complexity of triceratops’ teeth revealed
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•When it comes to the three-horned dinosaur called the Triceratops, science is showing the ancient creatures might have been a little more complex than we thought. In fact, their teeth …read more Source:: Science
Trouble looms as warmer oceans push marine life toward the poles
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rising sea temperatures attributed to global climate change could drive many marine creatures away from the equator, but their move toward the poles promises to put them …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Small vortex on wing makes the elegance of birds’ flight
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•Birds use a thumb-like structure on the wing to create a small vortex which makes their turns and landings smooth, new research shows. This is the first time that researchers …read more Source:: Science
Archaeologists discover evidence of prehistoric gold trade route
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•Archaeologists have found evidence of an ancient gold trade route between the south-west of the UK and Ireland. A study suggests people were trading gold between the two countries as …read more Source:: Science
The FCC is the most powerful privacy regulator in the US … what will happen next?
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•By editor@techworld.com (Forrester Analysts) Since the bulk collection of telephone metadata began, the NSA has been keeping those records in a vast database and maintaining and querying that data for 5 years before being …read more Source:: Open Source
Meet ‘Hellboy,’ the dinosaur with exotic horns and frill
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•WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists had a heck of a time getting the remarkable fossil of a dinosaur they dubbed “Hellboy” out of the hard limestone along a Canadian river bank …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Programming DNA to reverse antibiotic resistance in bacteria
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•New research introduces a promising new tool to combat the rapid, extensive spread of antibiotic resistance around the world. It nukes antibiotic resistance in selected bacteria, and renders other bacteria …read more Source:: Science