By Serdar Yegulalp Lever, a new open source programming language now in its 0.8.0 release, may be inspired by Python, but it doesn’t intend to be limited by it. Lever’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
Day: August 19, 2016
Europe’s oldest known living inhabitant
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•A Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) growing in the highlands of northern Greece has been dendrocronologically dated to be more than 1,075 years old. This makes it currently the oldest known …read more Source:: Science
NASA monitors the ‘new normal’ of sea ice
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•This year’s melt season in the Arctic Ocean and surrounding seas started with a bang, with a record low maximum extent in March and relatively rapid ice loss through May. …read more Source:: Science
Tool or weapon? Research throws light on stone artifacts’ use as ancient projectiles
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•Scientists contend that ancient stones discovered at an archeological site nearly 30 years ago served not as tools, as previously thought, but as weapons for defense and hunting. …read more Source:: Science
Maternal language shapes infants’ cry melodies
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•The very first cry of neonates is marked by their maternal language. This seems to be especially apparent in tonal languages, where pitch and pitch fluctuation determine the meaning of …read more Source:: Science
Need a tamper-proof, encrypted PC? The portable, open-source ORWL could be what you’re looking for
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•If you’re paranoid about someone gaining physical access to your computer, the palm-sized ORWL could put your mind at ease. …read more Source:: Linux
Open source uproar as MariaDB goes commercial
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•By Simon Phipps MariaDB Corp. has announced that release 2.0 of its MaxScale database proxy software is henceforth no longer open source. The organization has made it source-available under <a class="colorbox" href="https://mariadb.com/bsl" …read more Source:: OpenSource