Engineers have happened upon a way to stop the movement of the colorful eddies on the surface of soap bubbles. The results are works of art that could lead to …read more Source:: Science
Day: September 13, 2016
New fabric uses sun and wind to power devices
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•Fabrics that can generate electricity from physical movement have been in the works for a few years. Now researchers have taken the next step, developing a fabric that can simultaneously …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft readies Azure Service Fabric on Linux, inches toward open source
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft edged another step toward making Azure Service Fabric open source. The company released not the long-awaited Service Fabric source code but the next best thing: an official, supported release …read more Source:: OpenSource
IDG Contributor Network: Vim 8.0 released
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•By Jim Lynch Vim 8.0 released Vim has long been an important tool for programmers and anyone else who needs a highly configurable text editor in Linux. And now version 8.0 of Vim has …read more Source:: OpenSource
Link between walk, aggression discovered
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•The way people walk can give clues to how aggressive they are, a new exploratory study has found. The work found that the exaggerated movement of both the upper and …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft readies public preview of its Service Fabric microservices platform on Linux
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•Microsoft will make available on September 26 a public preview of the Linux version of its Service Fabric microservices platform. …read more Source:: Linux
Magma build-up at Japanese volcano poses threat to ‘Naples of the Eastern World’
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•One of Japan’s most active volcanoes could be close to a major eruption, threatening the safety of hundreds and thousands of residents of a nearby city, a new study has …read more Source:: Science
Missiles to Legos: 10 reasons to run Linux instead of Windows
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•From the Large Hadron Collider to the Tesla Model S, this 25-year-old operating system can be found in some amazing places. But there’s one place Windows still has the edge. …read more Source:: Linux
MySQL 8.0: More Unicode, less hassle
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The development team for the open source MySQL database provided users yesterday with a peek into the future — no TARDIS required. In a blog post announcing MySQL 8.0.0’s …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linus Torvalds reveals his favorite programming laptop
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•It’s the Dell XPS 13 Developer Editon, here’s why. …read more Source:: Linux