Use the bright star Spica to help you find the constellations of Corvus the Crow, Crater the Cup, and Hydra the Water Snake. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/the_crow_the_cup_and_the_water_snake…
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Relatives’ DNA Leads To Arrest — For a 1976 Double Murder
“You gotta be kidding me,” said a Wisconsin man, when police arrested his 82-year-old next-door neighbor “old Ray” — the guy who would occasionally come over to fix his lawnmower. An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press:
Ray Vannieuwenhoven was his next-door neighbor — a helpful, 82-year-old handyman with a gravelly voice and a loud, distinctive laugh, the kind of guy who…
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Your Certificate Authority Suddenly Revokes Your Cert?
Long-time Slashdot reader rastos1 works for a mid-size software company that for many decades has been developing CAD-CAM software for the textile industry. But last weekend their code-signing certificate was revoked — and they’re looking for advice. On Monday morning we woke up to phones ringing from confused customers unable to launch our software. This has hit mostly Java applications launched…
Teen Makes His Own AirPods For $4
samleecole writes: Apple’s AirPods are a tragedy. Ecologically, socially, economically — they’re a capitalist disaster. The opposite of AirPods, then, is this extremely punk pair of DIY wireless earbuds that someone on Reddit hacked together using an old pair of wired Apple headphones and some hot glue. “I started this project roughly two months ago when my friend got a new…
Penn’s Dr. Susan Davidson on Women in STEM and New Trajectories Into Computer Science
Over the past decade, computer science has gone from a topic for specialists to an essential tool for professionals in nearly every field. Dr. Susan Davidson of the University of Pennsylvania has been at the forefront of this sea change, including co-founding one of the first research centers for bioinformatics in the country. In this […]
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This ‘Doomsday Plane’ Can Survive a Nuclear Attack
A reporter recently got a tour of the secretive military plane. Here’s what she found. Source: https://www.livescience.com/65603-doomsday-plane-can-survive-nuclear-attack.html
Apple Expected To Remove 3D Touch From All 2019 iPhones in Favor of Haptic Touch
Four years after 3D Touch debuted on the iPhone 6s, the pressure-sensitive feature appears to be on the chopping block. From a report: Last week, in a research note shared with MacRumors, a team of Barclays analysts “confirmed” that 3D Touch “will be eliminated” in all 2019 iPhones, as they predicted back in August 2018. The analysts gathered this information from…
Quantum information gets a boost from thin-film breakthrough
Efforts to create reliable light-based quantum computing, quantum key distribution for cybersecurity, and other technologies got a boost from a new study demonstrating an innovative method for creating thin films to control the emission of single photons. …
Today in science: Einstein’s triumph
May 29, 2019, is the 100th anniversary of a total solar eclipse, during which Sir Arthur Eddington observed the bending of light around the sun, thereby proving Einstein’s general relativity theory and catapulting Einstein into rock star fame. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/may-29-1919-solar-eclipse-einstein-relativity…
Systemd Now Has More Than 1.2 Million Lines of Code
This week Phoronix marked a very special anniversary: Five years ago today was the story on Phoronix how the systemd source tree was approaching 550k lines so curiosity got the best of me to see how large is the systemd Git repository today. Well, now it’s over 1.2 million lines. After surpassing one million lines in 2017, when running GitStats on…