Microsoft will allow people to use their Skype names to sign into Office, OneDrive, Outlook.com and other Microsoft services starting next week. …read more Source:: Linux
Month: October 2016
Microsoft’s CoreRT turns C# into cross-platform C++
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft is slowly changing the .Net toolchain to allow ahead-of-time compilation for applications on platforms where there is no .Net toolchain. The open source CoreRT project does away with …read more Source:: OpenSource
Biocompatible fibers to use light to stimulate cells or sense signs of disease
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•A biocompatible and highly stretchable optical fiber has now been created from hydrogel — an elastic, rubbery material composed mostly of water. The fiber, which is as bendable as a …read more Source:: Science
Making of a desert: Central Asia over the ages
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•The first large-scale map of rainfall declines revealed by signatures in ancient soil could help researchers better understand profound regional and global climate transformation. …read more Source:: Science
Ready for Mars: ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars’ gravity
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•Next week, ESA’s ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars’ gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for arrival. …read more Source:: Science
Risk-taking behavior in teens caused by imbalanced brain activity
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•Adolescents among humans and non-human animals alike are more inclined to engage in heightened risk-taking behavior, exploration and novelty seeking. Although these attributes provide adaptive value in enabling individuals to …read more Source:: Science
IDG Contributor Network: Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) released
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•By Jim Lynch Ubuntu 16.10 released Ubuntu has long been one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions, and now version 16.10 has been released. You can download it from the official Ubuntu …read more Source:: OpenSource
GPG Sync simplifies encryption key management
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•By Fahmida Y. Rashid In all the discussion about using encryption, a critical point keeps getting lost: It’s difficult to work with, and it’s even harder to deploy it at scale. Nowhere is the …read more Source:: OpenSource
Diamonds aren’t forever: Team creates first quantum computer bridge
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•For the first time on a single chip, scientists have demonstrated all the components needed to create a quantum bridge to link quantum computers together. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft open-sources P language for IoT
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•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