Scientists have discovered an unexpected mineral in a rock sample at Gale Crater on Mars, a finding that may alter our understanding of how the planet evolved. …read more Source:: Science
Day: June 22, 2016
New origins for farmed rice discovered
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•Chew on this: rice farming is a far older practice than we knew. In fact, the oldest evidence of domesticated rice has just been found in China, and it’s about …read more Source:: Science
The universe: Learning about the future from the distant past
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•Our universe came to life nearly 14 billion years ago in the Big Bang — a tremendously energetic fireball from which the cosmos has been expanding ever since. Today, space …read more Source:: Science
X-ray echoes of a shredded star provide close-up of ‘killer’ black hole
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•Billions of years ago in the heart of a distant galaxy, a monster black hole shredded a passing star and emitted X-rays. Now astronomers are using X-ray echoes to study …read more Source:: Science
Self-learning arm controlled by thought
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•Scientists are developing a robotic arm prototype and its control algorithm using myoelectric signals. The mechanical limb will independently recognize the motions of its owner and be able to perform …read more Source:: Science
Eclipse’s annual release train focuses on JavaScript, PHP
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•By Paul Krill It’s late June, so it must be time again for the Eclipse Foundation’s annual “release train” of open source software development technologies. JavaScript, PHP, and Docker are getting special attention …read more Source:: OpenSource
Severe flaws in widely used open source library put many projects at risk
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•By Lucian Constantin In a world where any new software project is built in large part on existing third-party code, finding and patching vulnerabilities in popular open-source libraries is vital to creating reliable …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux distributions: Recommendations for a novice
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•I was recently asked to recommend a Linux distribution for a Linux novice. Here is my reply. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft Azure makes Docker a first-class citizen
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The most striking thing about Microsoft’s latest spate of announcements about containers and Azure is not how visible Microsoft is trying to be to developers, but how invisible. In the <a class="colorbox" …read more Source:: OpenSource