There are many technical problems to be solved before this popular, formerly proprietary file system can be in the shipping open-source Linux code. …read more Source:: Linux
Month: August 2019
A face for Lucy’s ancestor
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•Researchers have discovered a remarkably complete 3.8-million-year-old cranium of Australopithecus anamensis at Woranso-Mille in Ethiopia. The 3.8 million-year-old fossil cranium represents a time interval between 4.1 and 3.6 million years …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft readies exFAT patents for Linux and open source
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•For years, Microsoft has profited from its FAT file system patents. Now the company is making it explicit that it’s freeing its remaining exFAT patents for Open Invention Network members. …read more Source:: Linux
7 open-source tools that make AWS Lambda better
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Serverless applications strip software down to the barest of essentials: one short snippet of code, invoked and scaled on demand. Serverless is just the ticket for smaller apps, like a …read more Source:: OpenSource
Prehistoric puma feces reveals oldest parasite DNA ever recorded
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•The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been found in the ancient, desiccated feces of a puma. …read more Source:: Science
The biggest events in Linux’s history
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•A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux’s history to date. …read more Source:: Linux
Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspbian: Two months in, here’s what I’ve learned so far
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•The Raspberry Pi 4, and the associated Raspbian GNU/Linux release, have been out for a couple of months now. Here are my latest experiences and thoughts. …read more Source:: Linux
Physicists mash quantum and gravity and find time, but not as we know it
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•Researchers say they have discovered ‘a new kind of quantum time order’. The discovery arose from an experiment the team designed to bring together elements of the two big — …read more Source:: Science
A novel technology for genome-editing a broad range of mutations in live organisms
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•Researchers have developed a new tool — dubbed SATI — to edit the mouse genome, enabling the team to target a broad range of mutations and cell types. The new …read more Source:: Science
Tech time not to blame for teens’ mental health problems
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•A new study suggests that the time adolescents are spending on their phones and online is not that bad. The study tracked young adolescents on their smartphones to test whether …read more Source:: Science