A team of astronomers has picked up on a curious, repeating rhythm of fast radio bursts emanating from an unknown source outside our galaxy, 500 million light years away. …read more Source:: Science
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Google’s Flutter: 2 million developers, uptick in enterprise use, new release model revealed
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•Google adopts new update model for its Flutter user-interface framework to improve stability. …read more Source:: Linux
Traces of ancient rainforest in Antarctica point to a warmer prehistoric world
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•Researchers have found evidence of rainforests near the South Pole 90 million years ago, suggesting the climate was exceptionally warm at the time. …read more Source:: Science
Ancient shell shows days were half-hour shorter 70 million years ago
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•Earth turned faster at the end of the time of the dinosaurs than it does today, rotating 372 times a year, compared to the current 365, according to a new …read more Source:: Science
Fossil is the oldest-known scorpion
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•Scientists studying fossils collected 35 years ago have identified them as the oldest-known scorpion species, a prehistoric animal from about 437 million years ago. The researchers found that the animal …read more Source:: Science
Customer-driven open source is the future of software
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•By Matt Asay By some estimates there are roughly 190 million companies on earth today. Imagine if they were all contributing to open source. Of course, most of those companies aren’t in a …read more Source:: OpenSource
The real number of open source developers
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•By Matt Asay GitHub just released its latest State of the Octoverse report with some astonishing numbers. Unfortunately, some of the numbers—like the claim of 40 million developers—are not just astonishing, …read more Source:: OpenSource
Arthropods formed orderly lines 480 million years ago
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•Researchers studied fossilized Moroccan Ampyx trilobites, which lived 480 million years ago and showed that the trilobites had probably been buried in their positions — all oriented in the same …read more Source:: Science
Researchers unearth ‘new’ mass-extinction
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•A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago. …read more Source:: Science
Ancient animal species: Fossils dating back 550 million years among first animal trails
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•A geoscientist calls the unearthed fossils, including the bodies and trails left by an ancient animal species, the most convincing sign of ancient animal mobility, dating back about 550 million …read more Source:: Science