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
Day: October 31, 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