OpenStack’s biggest fans are working in telecom and moving the cloud from running on the internet to being the internet. …read more Source:: Linux
Day: October 12, 2016
Genome engineering paves way for sickle cell cure
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•A team of physicians and laboratory scientists has taken a key step toward a cure for sickle cell disease, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to fix the mutated gene responsible for …read more Source:: Science
Oldest known squawk box suggests dinosaurs likely did not sing
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•The oldest known vocal organ of a bird has been found in an Antarctic fossil of a relative of ducks and geese that lived more than 66 million years ago …read more Source:: Science
Soft robots that mimic human muscles
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•Robots are usually expected to be rigid, fast and efficient. But researchers have turned that notion on its head with their soft robots. …read more Source:: Science
Tatooine worlds orbiting two suns often survive violent escapades of aging stars
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•Planets that revolve around two suns may surprisingly survive the violent late stages of the stars’ lives, according to new research. The finding is surprising because planets orbiting close to …read more Source:: Science
Regeneration of spinal nerve cells boosted
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•Researchers successfully boosted the regeneration of mature nerve cells in the spinal cords of adult mammals — an achievement that could one day translate into improved therapies for patients with …read more Source:: Science
IDG Contributor Network: FreeBSD 11 released
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•By Jim Lynch FreeBSD 11 released Linux has long gotten the lion’s share of media attention when it comes to open source operating systems. But FreeBSD is also an important and useful operating system …read more Source:: OpenSource
Fedora 25 beta released: Community Linux for containers arrives
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•Fedora used to be just for cutting-edge desktop users and programmers. Today, it’s still for them, with the long, long delayed release of the Wayland display server, but it’s also …read more Source:: Linux