Linux 5.6 “has a bit more changes than I’d like,” Linus Torvalds posted on the kernel mailing list, “but they are mostly from davem’s networking fixes pulls, and David feels comfy with them. And I looked over the diff, and none of it looks scary…” TechRadar reports that the new changes include support for USB4 and GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics…
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Apple’s App Store Rules Limit Rival Gaming Services While Arcade Runs Free
Video-game fans suddenly have their pick of a huge menu of titles thanks to a raft of new mobile subscription services from Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet’s Google and Nvidia. But for the more than 1 billion users of Apple’s iPhone and iPad, the only real option is Arcade, the subscription service launched by the company in September. From a report: That’s because…
Did early humans in Africa interbreed with a mysterious, extinct species?
New research suggests that early humans in Africa interbred with a ghost population that likely split from the ancestors of humans and Neanderthals between 360,000 and 1.02 million years ago. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/early-humans-africa-interbred-with-extinct-species…
Stone Age replica raft almost ready to repeat epic prehistoric voyage
Archaeologists want to know how humans reached Australia 65,000 years ago – so they have built a raft using Stone Age tools and are about to repeat the voyage Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2232327-stone-age-replica-raft-almost-ready-to-repeat-epic-prehistoric-voyage/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Astronomers Discover Huge Gaseous Wave Holding Milky Way’s Newest Stars
Astronomers have discovered a gigantic, undulating wave of dust and gas where newborn stars are forged over a 50 million billion mile stretch of the Milky Way. The Guardian reports: The gaseous structure, which holds more mass than 3 million suns, runs directly behind our solar system as viewed from the heart of the galaxy, but has eluded observation until now….
Climate Change is Forcing One Person From Their Home Every Two Seconds, Oxfam Says
Climate-fueled disasters have forced about 20 million people a year to leave their homes in the past decade — equivalent to one every two seconds — according to a new report from Oxfam. From a news report: This makes the climate the biggest driver of internal displacement for the period, with the world’s poorer countries at the highest risk, despite their…