By Paul Krill Microsoft’s P language, for asynchronous event-driven programming and the IoT (internet of things), has been open-sourced. Geared for embedded systems, device drivers, and distributed services, P is a domain-specific language …read more Source:: OpenSource
Day: October 14, 2016
Small impacts are reworking the moon’s soil faster than scientists thought
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•The Moon’s surface is being “gardened” — churned by small impacts — more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface features believed to be young …read more Source:: Science
Possible formation site of icy giant planet spotted
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•A number of extrasolar planets have been found in the past two decades and now researchers agree that planets can have a wide variety of characteristics. However, it is still …read more Source:: Science
America ranks in top 10 in empathy
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•A first-of-its-kind study that ranks nations by empathy puts the United States at No. 7, behind countries ranging from Peru to Korea to Saudi Arabia. While a top 10 finish …read more Source:: Science
Female chimpanzees don’t fight for ‘queen bee’ status
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•New research provides the first detailed look at how social status among wild chimpanzees changes throughout their lifetimes. For wild chimpanzees, social status is more than just a matter of …read more Source:: Science
Two distinct genetic subtypes found in Crohn’s disease patients
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•Crohn’s disease can have devastating consequences and is notoriously hard to treat. Now, scientists have made a discovery that could explain why Crohn’s is so variable: the disease has at …read more Source:: Science
Small-scale agriculture threatens the rainforest
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•An extensive study has mapped the effects of small farmers on the rain forests of Southeast Asia for the first time. The findings are discouraging, with regard to environmental impact, …read more Source:: Science
Ubuntu 16.10 ups cloud ante with Kubernetes, OpenStack
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•By Serdar Yegulalp With Ubuntu 16.10, Canonical sharpens its focus on the cloud. Canonical has previously set up Ubuntu as a cloud building block for deploying technologies like OpenStack quickly, predictably, and consistently. The …read more Source:: OpenSource
Ubuntu 16.10: The Linux for the cloud and containers arrives
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•Ubuntu is still a popular desktop Linux, but it’s clear that what Canonical really wants is to consolidate Ubuntu’s position as the Linux for the cloud. …read more Source:: Linux