By Paul Rubens Last month, BlackBerry announced that it was quitting the phone-making business, but the BlackBerry name will live on. That’s because the company has entered into a licensing agreement with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: October 2016
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu versus Linux Mint: Which one is better?
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•By Jim Lynch Ubuntu versus Linux Mint Ubuntu and Linux Mint are two of the best known desktop distributions around. Both are extremely popular with Linux users, but which one is better? Since each …read more Source:: OpenSource
Zika infection causes reduced fertility, low testosterone in male mice
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•Zika targets the male reproductive system, at least in mice, say researchers. Three weeks after Zika infection, male mice had shrunken testicles, low levels of sex hormones and reduced fertility. …read more Source:: Science
Making sense of the seneses: ‘Context’ matters when the brain interprets sounds
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•The brain’s interpretation of sound is influenced by cues from other senses, explaining more precisely how we interpret what we hear at a particular moment, according to a report. …read more Source:: Science
Project for porting C to Rust gains Mozilla’s backing
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The central appeal of Mozilla’s Rust language is that it provides a safe platform for fast systems programming — as fast as C but with safety features that C doesn’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
4 big changes coming soon to Firefox
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Mozilla’s ambitions are hard to ignore. An impressive new programming language, Rust, has emerged as a product of the group’s efforts to create Servo, a web rendering engine designed …read more Source:: OpenSource
Autism spectrum disorder linked to mutations in some mitochondrial DNA
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•Children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have greater numbers of harmful mutations in their mitochondrial DNA than family members, researchers report. …read more Source:: Science
NASA missions harvest a passel of ‘pumpkin’ stars
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•Astronomers have discovered a batch of rapidly spinning stars that produce X-rays at more than 100 times the peak levels ever seen from the sun. The stars, which spin so …read more Source:: Science
Underfed worms program their babies to cope with famine
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•Going hungry at an early age can cause lifelong health problems. But the extent of malnutrition’s damage depends on mom’s diet too — at least in worms. A new study …read more Source:: Science
Early Pacific seafarers likely latched onto El Nino, other climate patterns
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•Researchers employed computer simulations and climatic data to help them explore the travels that led to the settlement of islands in Remote Oceania. …read more Source:: Science