In an e-mail to the BBC, Torvalds comes over as a voice of reason in the heated Linux Code of Conduct fights. …read more Source:: Linux
Month: September 2018
Did key building blocks for life come from deep space?
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•All living beings need cells and energy to replicate. Without these fundamental building blocks, living organisms could not exist. Little was known about a key element in the building blocks, …read more Source:: Science
The cart before the horse: A new model of cause and effect
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•Natural little scientists, human babies love letting go of things and watching them fall. Baby’s first experiment teaches them about more than the force of gravity. It establishes the concept …read more Source:: Science
New, highly stable catalyst may help turn water into fuel
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•Breaking the bonds between oxygen and hydrogen in water could be a key to the creation of hydrogen in a sustainable manner, but finding an economically viable technique for this …read more Source:: Science
What’s new in Kubernetes containers
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•By Serdar Yegulalp The latest version of the container orchestration system Kubernetes, 1.12, brings to GA the Kubelet TLS Bootstrap, a feature that automates the provisioning of TLS client certificates for Kubelets. …read more Source:: OpenSource
PCB pollution threatens to wipe out killer whales
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•More than 40 years after the first initiatives were taken to ban the use of PCBs, the chemical pollutants remain a deadly threat to animals at the top of the …read more Source:: Science
Linux now dominates Azure
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•The most popular operating system on Microsoft’s Azure cloud today is — drumroll please — Linux. …read more Source:: Linux
Ledumahadi mafube: South Africa’s new jurassic giant
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•A new species of a giant dinosaur has been found in South Africa’s Free State Province. The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tons and stood about four meters …read more Source:: Science
How swarms of nanomachines could improve the efficiency of any machine
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•All machines convert one form of energy into another form – for example a car engine turns the energy stored in fuel into motion energy. Those processes of energy conversion, …read more Source:: Science
Images: Decoding multiple frames from a single, scattered exposure
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•Engineers have developed a way to extract a sequence of images from light scattered through a mostly opaque material — or even off a wall — from one long photographic …read more Source:: Science