Systemd 245 Released

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@lwn.net | 4 years ago

BBEdit 13.0.5

Maintenance release that focuses on fixes for niggling bugs for the long-standing text editor. ($49.99 new, free update, 13.9 MB) | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 4 years ago

CleanMyMac X 4.6

Introduces Application Permissions management feature in Privacy module for more control over your personal data. ($89.95 new, free update, 49 MB) | Continue reading


@tidbits.com | 4 years ago

Simple loopholes in Facebook and PayPal helping victims lose millions in scam

A big scam involving security loopholes in Facebook and PayPal is making its rounds, causing victims to lose millions every month in the UK. | Continue reading


@cybernews.com | 4 years ago

SpaceX's 20th station shipment arrives with candy, science

A SpaceX cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, delivering the company's 20th batch of gear and treats. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Women Hold Key Positions in Chapel Hill's Film Fest 919

A report on a new film festival driven by female creative voices. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

Just in the Minuscule Things That Happen in a Day: Kelly Reichardt on First Cow

An interview with adapting co-writer and director Kelly Reichardt about her new film, First Cow. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

J'ai faim!!!: A Cutting Movie About Women On Absurd Diets

A Far-Flung Correspondent from Montreal reports on a daring 2001 French comedy. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

Whispered Fears: The Quiet Place of Parenting

A piece on why A Quiet Place resonates so strongly. | Continue reading


@rogerebert.com | 4 years ago

Apple Opens Repair Extension Program for 3rd Generation iPad Air

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@512pixels.net | 4 years ago

Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

It points to Wall Street’s anxiety about the global economy. | Continue reading


@axios.com | 4 years ago

Astronomers identify nearly 3,000 candidate stars of a nearby star-forming galaxy

Using the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted photometric observations of a nearby star-forming galaxy known as NGC 6822. They have identified nearly 3,000 candidate stars of this galaxy, which is reported in a … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Additive manufacturing of cellulose-based materials with continuous, multidirectional stiffness gradients

Functionally graded materials (FGM) allow diverse applications in multidisciplinary fields from biomedicine to architecture. However, their fabrication can be tedious relative to gradient continuity, interfacial bending and directional freedom. Most commercial design software doe … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Eva Castillo: Manchester Defender

This week on The Trip podcast: Eva Castillo on Presidential politics and immigrant advocacy in New Hampshire in the time of Trump. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Eva Castillo: Manchester Defender

This week on The Trip podcast: Eva Castillo on Presidential politics and immigrant advocacy in New Hampshire in the time of Trump. The post Eva Castillo: Manchester Defender appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms. | Continue reading


@roadsandkingdoms.com | 4 years ago

Retracted: Paper claiming climate change caused by distance from Sun

The editors at the journal Scientific Reports have retracted a paper that was published last summer challenging the human factor in climate change. In their retraction notice, the editors cited concerns about the paper regarding how the Earth-sun distance responded to oscillation … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Image: Hubble spies galactic traffic jam

The barred spiral galaxy NGC 3887, seen here as viewed by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, lies over 60 million light-years away from us in the southern constellation of Crater (the Cup). It was discovered on Dec. 31, 1785, by astronomer William … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems

Westworld is soon to return with season three. Four episodes in to the impossibly glamorous, highly urbanised future, I can't wait to find out what's going on, writes Emily Wilson | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

Bridges, Overpasses and Underpasses for Crabs

Putting "shoes" on your Toyota Land Cruiser is an unusual mod for a 4x4. Photographer Chris Bray did it (we showed it here) to prevent crushing crabs as he and his wife traverse Christmas Island, where some 40 to 50 million of the little red crustaceans conduct an annual mass | Continue reading


@core77.com | 4 years ago

Trump bet on containing the virus — and that failed. Now all he cares about is claiming he's done a great job | Continue reading


@salon.com | 4 years ago

Squandering inherited rank may have life-and-death consequences for hyenas

Like all spotted hyena newborns, she spills onto the Kenyan grassland with open eyes and a full set of teeth. But as the daughter of a high-ranking mother in a matriarchal society, she also inherits an advantage over many of the local cubs: an enviable social status. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Researchers look at noisy quantum computer

Researchers from CSC—IT center for science, Aalto University and Åbo Akademi and their collaborators from Boston University in the U.S. have for the first time demonstrated how the noise impacts on quantum computing in a systematic way. The results are published in the prestigiou … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Effects of Palau fishing restrictions studied

Restrictions associated with the newly enacted Palau National Marine Sanctuary (PNMS) are likely to negatively affect the supply of offshore fish, including tuna, in the short term, but may open up opportunities for native Palauans in the long term, according to a team led by Uni … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

What's up with all the crane flies in Tucson?

They've descended in droves on the Tucson area, swarming the weeds in backyards, hovering around lighted windows at night and wafting inside as soon as a door opens. Some people think they're giant mosquitoes, some believe they eat mosquitoes, and others mistake them for spiders— … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Check a food for ingredients you want to avoid

The first search engine for checking if food is Vegan, Vegetarian, or Gluten Free. Enter custom ingredients to avoid, review products, and save products for later. | Continue reading


@chompthis.com | 4 years ago

Growinging wellpaid.io (a jobs board) to 4,500 applications per month

An Interview with London based bootstrapped founder Chris Villa, creator of wellpaid.io (4,500 job applications per month). | Continue reading


@indiebeers.co | 4 years ago

Java ThreadLocalRandom Explained (2016)

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@alvaro-videla.com | 4 years ago

EuroPython 2020 – The call for proposals is open

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@ep2020.europython.eu | 4 years ago

Hitting the High Notes (2005)

In March, 2000, I launched this site with the shaky claim that most people are wrong in thinking you need an idea to make a successful software company: The common belief is that when you’re … | Continue reading


@joelonsoftware.com | 4 years ago

Dorsz w kremowym sosie ze szparagami i chorizo

Polędwiczka z dorsza w kremowym sosie ze szparagami i podsmażoną kiełbaską chorizo. | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 4 years ago

Entire hillsides of trees turned brown this summer. Is it the start of ecosystem collapse?

The drought in eastern Australia was a significant driver of this season's unprecedented bushfires. But it also caused another, less well known environmental calamity this summer: entire hillsides of trees turned from green to brown. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Book Fairs 2020

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@qcal.freetimeshop24.de | 4 years ago

Is the website Zero Hedge a Russian trojan horse?

The father of the founder of the conspiratorial site filed a criminal complaint against me in Bulgaria. Then things got weird. | Continue reading


@newrepublic.com | 4 years ago

Intel's changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec

Intel's new ATX12VO spec eliminates 3.3-volt and 5-volt rails and rejiggers the balance of power in future PCs. | Continue reading


@pcworld.com | 4 years ago

Ancient ocean crust suggests Earth was once almost entirely covered in water

Evidence from multi-billion-year-old rocks suggest land was scarce when Earth was young | Continue reading


@cbc.ca | 4 years ago

Chomsky Hierarchy

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@en.wikipedia.org | 4 years ago

Own Your Email

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@tom.fm | 4 years ago

How to Generate Permutations of a String in C++

Generating all possible permutations of a set of elements is generally done by using recursive methods. Therefore, to generate the permutations of a string we are going to use backtracking as a way to incrementally build a permutation and stop as soon as we have used every poss … | Continue reading


@inversepalindrome.com | 4 years ago

Designer Spotlight: Aisling Camps

Amanda Winnie Kabuiku chats with knitwear designer Aisling Camps for All The Pretty Birds in the latest installment of our Designer Spotlight series! | Continue reading


@alltheprettybirds.com | 4 years ago

The Big Idea: Premee Mohamed

For the Big Idea about her novel Beneath the Rising, author Premee Mohamed considers the nature of one of the most important types of relationship we have, yet also the one that is many ways the least understood by those who participate in it. Which type of relationship is this? … | Continue reading


@whatever.scalzi.com | 4 years ago

Browser ext replaces all faces with Nicolas Cage

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@mobile.twitter.com | 4 years ago

Microbiological and Nutritional Analysis of Lettuce Grown on the ISS

The ability to grow safe, fresh food to supplement packaged foods of astronauts in space has been an important goal for NASA. Food crops grown in space experience different environmental conditions than plants grown on Earth (e.g., reduced gravity, elevated radiation levels). To … | Continue reading


@frontiersin.org | 4 years ago

A Fake Recovery Is Worse Than a Healthy Recession

Even if the Coronavirus outbreak passes, or markets somehow learn to ignore it, eventually something will come along and end this charade | Continue reading


@thesoundingline.com | 4 years ago

Mathematical thinking begins in the early years with dialog and real-world exploration

It's natural to think that mathematics is primarily about numbers. In school, we first learn how to recite numbers and then spend considerable time writing them down and manipulating them on paper. Of course, numerals (the written notation for numbers), along with other symbols, … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Defunctionalisation: An underappreciated tool for writing good software

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@gresearch.co.uk | 4 years ago

Cool Stuff: NEON Releases Beautiful ‘Parasite’ Poster Prints By Greg Ruth

Show your love for the first South Korean Best PIcture winner by picking up a pair of Parasite poster prints by artist Greg Ruth from the NEON shop. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Sustainable development goals need a final push with just 10 years to go

Since their adoption by 193 countries in 2015, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have been hailed as the "most ambitious" and "transformative" agenda for fixing the world's biggest challenges to date. | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

The Poor and Marginalized Will Be the Hardest Hit by Coronavirus

We need to rethink our public health strategies before the next outbreak, even if the conversations are uncomfortable | Continue reading


@blogs.scientificamerican.com | 4 years ago