By Paul Krill In the Star Wars movies, pilot Han Solo explored the galaxy accompanied by a large, hairy creature known as a Wookiee. Scala developers can build microservices with a framework …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: October 2018
New security flaw impacts most Linux and BSD distros
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•Issue is only a privilege escalation flaw but it impacts a large number of systems. …read more Source:: Linux
How should autonomous vehicles be programmed?
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•A massive new survey reveals some distinct global preferences concerning the ethics of autonomous vehicles, as well as some regional variations in those preferences. …read more Source:: Science
A first ‘snapshot’ of the complete spectrum of neutrinos emitted by the sun
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•About 99 percent of the sun’s energy emitted as neutrinos is produced through nuclear reaction sequences initiated by proton-proton (pp) fusion in which hydrogen is converted into helium, say scientists. …read more Source:: Science
Crater from asteroid that killed the dinosaurs reveals how broken rocks can flow like liquid
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•The same process that allows rock to flow like liquid during impact events allows ‘peak rings’ to form in large craters. …read more Source:: Science
How to mass produce cell-sized robots
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•Researchers have discovered a way to mass produce tiny, cell-sized robots that could be used for industrial or biomedical monitoring. …read more Source:: Science
Ultra-close stars discovered inside a planetary nebula
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•Astronomers have discovered two stars in a binary pair that complete an orbit around each other in a little over three hours, residing in the planetary nebula M3-1. Remarkably, the …read more Source:: Science
Yes, your pet can tell time
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•A new study has found some of the clearest evidence yet that animals can judge time. By examining the brain’s medial entorhinal cortex, the researchers discovered a previously unknown set …read more Source:: Science
Linus Torvalds talks about coming back to work on Linux
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•While in Edinburgh, I caught up with Linus Torvalds. He confided his thoughts about returning to Linux, the Code of Conduct, and some software, BPF, which is fundamentally changing how …read more Source:: Linux
For a lower climate footprint, vegetarian diet beats local
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•A new study provides a more comprehensive accounting of the greenhouse gas emissions from EU diets. It shows that meat and dairy products are responsible for the lion’s share of …read more Source:: Science