By Serdar Yegulalp Developers of Mozilla’s Rust language, devised for fast and safe system-level programming, have unveiled the first release of the Rust Language Service (RLS), a project that …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: October 2016
Monkeys are seen making stone flakes so humans are ‘not unique’ after all
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•Researchers have observed wild-bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil deliberately break stones, unintentionally creating flakes that share many of the characteristics of those produced by early Stone Age hominins. The difference …read more Source:: Science
SDN groups team up to promote standards, open software development
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•By Michael Cooney Software Defined Networking standard bearer the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and ON.Lab have merged with designs on further pushing SDN benchmarks and open source software development of …read more Source:: OpenSource
Quantum computers: 10-fold boost in stability achieved
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•Engineers have created a new quantum bit that remains in a stable superposition for 10 times longer than previously achieved, dramatically expanding the number of calculations that could be performed …read more Source:: Science
IDG Contributor Network: How does Linux need to change to achieve the ‘year of the Linux desktop?’
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•By Jim Lynch Changes and the year of the Linux desktop The year of the Linux desktop has long been the unicorn of the open source movement. People have looked for it for quite …read more Source:: OpenSource
With OpenStack users, dev and test are king
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•By Serdar Yegulalp What’s OpenStack’s killer app? Users say it’s dev and test. According to the latest OpenStack User Survey, most deployments of the open source cloud infrastructure project are on-premises private clouds for …read more Source:: OpenSource
Full-circle viewing: 360-degree electronic holographic display
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•A research team has described a novel tabletop display system that allows multiple viewers to simultaneously view a hologram showing a full 3-D image as they walk around the tabletop, …read more Source:: Science
Mystery species hidden in cave art appears to be unknown bison-cattle hybrid
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•Ancient DNA research has revealed that Ice Age cave artists recorded a previously unknown hybrid species of bison and cattle in great detail on cave walls more than 15,000 years …read more Source:: Science
Age of first chief’s ancient tomb reveals Pacific Islanders invented new kind of society
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•New uranium series analysis of chief’s tomb suggests island’s monumental structures are earliest evidence of a chiefdom in the Pacific — yielding new keys to how societies emerge and evolve. …read more Source:: Science
Migraine sufferers have more nitrate-reducing microbes in their mouths
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•The mouths of migraine sufferers harbor significantly more microbes with the ability to modify nitrates than people who do not get migraine headaches, new research has found. …read more Source:: Science