Pixel and Nexus owners will get the September Android patch as part of the Android 8.0 Oreo rollout. …read more Source:: Linux
Month: September 2017
Humans still evolving, large-scale study of genetic data shows
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•In a study analyzing the genomes of 210,000 people in the United States and Britain, researchers have found that the genetic variants linked to Alzheimer’s disease and heavy smoking are …read more Source:: Science
Swings in dad’s testosterone affects the family — for better or worse — after baby arrives
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•Testosterone levels are a key factor in a family’s health and happiness after a newborn arrives. Researchers have found that a drop can signal postpartum depression in dad, and a …read more Source:: Science
Sun set: Oracle closes down last Sun product lines
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•Oracle is shutting down SPARC and Solaris. Good bye, Sun. It was nice knowing you. …read more Source:: Linux
Contagious yawning more closely associated with perceptual sensitivity than empathy
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•Contrary to common belief that the yawning contagion is associated with empathy, it is in fact, more likely that perceptual sensitivity is to blame, research suggests. …read more Source:: Science
Discovery of boron on Mars adds to evidence for habitability
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•The discovery of boron on Mars gives scientists more clues about whether life could have ever existed on the planet, according to a new paper. …read more Source:: Science
Face value: Brain’s ability to recognize faces is shaped through repeated exposure, study suggests
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•Scientists have long deemed the ability to recognize faces innate for people and other primates — something our brains just know how to do immediately from birth. However, the findings …read more Source:: Science
More ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ predicted for Southern Ocean seafloor animals
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•A new study of the marine invertebrates living in the seas around Antarctica reveals there will be more ‘losers’ than ‘winners’ over the next century as the Antarctic seafloor warms. …read more Source:: Science
Stellar corpse sheds light on origin of cosmic rays
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•New research revealed that the entire zoo of electromagnetic radiation streaming from the Crab nebula — one of the most iconic objects in the sky — has its origin in …read more Source:: Science
IDG Contributor Network: Open core products: Are they worth the trade-off?
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•By Pierre Fricke Open source projects, companies and business models have been with us for more than two decades now. There are business success stories around Linux, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, Apache Camel, and others …read more Source:: OpenSource