For the first time in history, NASA astronauts have launched from American soil in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft on its way to the International Space Station. …read more Source:: Science
Month: May 2020
Evolution of pandemic coronavirus outlines path from animals to humans
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•A team of scientists studying the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that has caused the COVID-19 pandemic, found that it was especially well-suited to jump from animals to humans by …read more Source:: Science
First new Docker release under Mirantis appears
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•Docker, the company, couldn’t make a go of it, but Docker Enterprise, under its new owner Mirantis, is moving forward. …read more Source:: Linux
New Raspberry Pi 4: 8GB RAM model out now for $75 – plus you get a new 64-bit OS
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•The official Raspberry Pi operating system is no longer called Raspbian but just ‘Raspberry Pi OS’. …read more Source:: Linux
You can build Linus Torvalds’ PC: Here’s all the hardware and where to buy it
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•Normally, Torvalds would pop into his local Fry’s. But in these pandemic times, he ordered everything from Amazon. Here’s the complete list of parts. …read more Source:: Linux
Look what’s inside Linus Torvalds’ latest Linux development PC
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•The Linux creator recently announced he’d upgraded his main PC to a speedy AMD Threadripper 3970x-based processor. But a computer is more than a CPU. In an exclusive conversation, Torvalds …read more Source:: Linux
New fuzzing tool finds 26 USB bugs in Linux, Windows, macOS, and FreeBSD
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•Eighteen of the 26 bugs impact Linux. Eleven have been patched already. …read more Source:: Linux
Astronomers discover new class of cosmic explosions
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•Analysis of two cosmic explosions indicates to astronomers that the pair, along with a puzzling blast from 2018, constitute a new type of event, with similarities to some supernovae and …read more Source:: Science
How Redis scratched an itch — and changed databases forever
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•By Matt Asay Why would you ever write a new database? Particularly an in-memory database, which, back in 2009, made zero sense to the ruling database class of the time. Salvatore Sanfilippo didn’t …read more Source:: OpenSource
GNOME gets big open-source patent win
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•GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, didn’t just avoid paying a patent troll, it won the right for any product under an Open Source Initiative license to use code covered by …read more Source:: Linux