A triple drug combination has been used to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 48 percent in a new study. …read more Source:: Science
Month: September 2019
Mechanisms of real-time speech interpretation in the human brain revealed
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•Scientists have come a step closer to understanding how we’re able to understand spoken language so rapidly, and it involves a huge and complex set of computations in the brain. …read more Source:: Science
Sun Microsystems founders celebrate legacy
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•By Paul Krill More than 1,000 former employees of Sun Microsystems gathered near San Francisco International Airport recently to reminisce about the glory days. In attendance were all four founders of the company—Andreas …read more Source:: OpenSource
Brave new world: Simple changes in intensity of weather events ‘could be lethal’
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•Faced with extreme weather events and unprecedented environmental change, animals and plants are scrambling to catch up — with mixed results. A new model helps to predict the types of …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft to Linux developers: We want your help to bring Edge browser to Linux
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•Microsoft might build Edge for Linux because doing so could attract web developers. …read more Source:: Linux
Richard Stallman to Microsoft: Publicly retract ‘open source is a cancer’ claim
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•If you love open source so much, say sorry for the horrible things you said, software pioneer Stallman suggests. …read more Source:: Linux
Linux to get kernel ‘lockdown’ feature
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•New Linux kernel “lockdown” module to limit high-privileged users — even root — from tampering with some kernel functionality. …read more Source:: Linux
Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake
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•The extreme environment of Mono Lake was thought to only house two species of animals — until now. …read more Source:: Science
Leave GNOME alone: This patent troll is asking for trouble
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•Sure, anyone can sue anyone, but winning this intellectual property lawsuit against the GNOME Foundation, a leading open-source and Linux non-profit group, will be a heck of a challenge. …read more Source:: Linux
GNOME faces ‘baseless’ patent lawsuit for organising images
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•The patent is for a system and method for distributing digital photographic images. …read more Source:: Linux