By Scott Carey For better or worse, Tim O’Reilly has become known as something of an oracle for the technology industry in his forty-year career as a technical publisher, author and venture capitalist, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Month: July 2020
Sniffing out smell: How the brain organizes information about odors
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•Neuroscientists describe for the first time how relationships between different odors are encoded in the brain. The findings suggest a mechanism that may explain why individuals have common but highly …read more Source:: Science
Newer variant of COVID-19-causing virus dominates global infections
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•New research shows that a specific change in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus virus genome, previously associated with increased viral transmission and the spread of COVID-19, is more infectious in cell culture. …read more Source:: Science
Microsoft unveils Pylance, its new Python extension for Visual Studio Code
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•By Serdar Yegulalp Microsoft has pulled back the drapes on Pylance, a Visual Studio Code extension for faster and more complete Python language support in that popular code editor. Pylance doesn’t replace …read more Source:: OpenSource
Linux Mint 20: Still the best Linux desktop despite one quirk
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•As usual, Linux Mint’s latest release, Mint 20, is better than ever, but its developers’ refusal to make it easy to use Ubuntu Snap is a trifle annoying. …read more Source:: Linux
Higher concentration of metal in Moon’s craters provides new insights to its origin
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•There has been considerable debate over how the Moon was formed. The popular hypothesis contends that the Moon was formed by a Mars-sized body colliding with Earth’s upper crust which …read more Source:: Science