Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as ‘intermediate-mass,’ which betrayed its existence by tearing apart …read more Source:: Science
Month: March 2020
Where in the brain does creativity come from? Evidence from jazz musicians
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•A new brain-imaging study has studied the brain activity of jazz guitarists during improvisation to show that creativity is, in fact, driven primarily by the right hemisphere in musicians who …read more Source:: Science
SkySQL, MariaDB-as-a-service, launches on Google Cloud
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Today MariaDB Corporation officially launched SkySQL, a cloud-hosted version of the MariaDB database management system supported and managed by MariaDB’s own creators. Aside from providing convenient access to MariaDB …read more Source:: OpenSource
Weighing in on the origin of heavy elements
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•Nuclear physicists conducted a physics experiment that utilizes novel techniques to study the nature and origin of heavy elements in the universe. …read more Source:: Science
Linux’s WireGuard VPN is here and ready to protect you
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•In the newly released Linux 5.6 kernel, you’ll finally find the long anticipated open-source Virtual Private Network, WireGuard. …read more Source:: Linux
Debian Linux readies an anti-coronavirus hack-a-thon
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•Open-source developers are uniting to create and improve code and programs to help fight COVID-19. …read more Source:: Linux
A Martian mash up: Meteorites tell story of Mars’ water history
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•Researchers probed Martian meteorites to reconstruct Mars’ chaotic history. Their findings suggest that Mars might not have had a global magma ocean. …read more Source:: Science
Cassandra and DataStax: Reunited, and it feels so good
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•By Matt Asay Apache Cassandra is one of the world’s most popular databases… but for years was plagued by a somewhat fractured community. DataStax, long a driving force within …read more Source:: OpenSource
In Earth’s largest extinction, land animal die-offs began long before marine extinction
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•Because of poor dates for land fossils laid down before and after the mass extinction at the end of the Permian, paleontologists assumed that the terrestrial extinctions from Gondwana occurred …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft: First preview of PowerShell 7.1 for Windows, Linux and macOS is out
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•Microsoft is targeting improvements to the PowerShell 7.1 user experience ahead of its release this winter. …read more Source:: Linux