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upstart writes:Centuries-old capture documents now online:

upstart writes:How NASA plans to destroy the International Space Station, and the dangers involved:

canopic jug writes:Late last month the US Department of Defence (DoD) published a memorandum on software development (warning for PDF). It focuses specifically on Open Source Software (OSS), though it misses the fact that OSS can also be commercial in nature.

upstart writes:Turning waste PPE into water and vinegar:

upstart writes:Forget state surveillance. Our tracking devices are now doing the same job:

canopic jug writes:The annual Linux Questions softwarepoll results are in for the year 2021.

upstart writes:NASA's Perseverance celebrates first year on Mars by learning to run:

upstart writes:ConocoPhillips is selling extra gas to bitcoin miners in North Dakota:

upstart writes:Scientists identify how caffeine reduces bad cholesterol:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Free Cybersecurity Services and Tools:

upstart writes:Easy aluminum nanoparticles for rapid, efficient hydrogen generation from water:

upstart writes:Multiple vulnerabilities found in Snap-confine function on Linux systems:

upstart writes:Innovation is slowing down—and Big Tech is to blame:

upstart writes:Want to be a developer? These are the coding skills that can get you hired:

upstart writes:Classic Chat: Preserving Computer History:

upstart writes:The Paradox of the Lizard Tail, Solved:

upstart writes:World funds own destruction with $1.8 tn subsidies: study:

owl writes:Dad takes down town's internet by mistake to get his kids offline:

upstart writes:The surprising structural reason your kitchen sponge is disgusting:

canopic jug writes:The Apple-1 Registry, currently maintained by Achim Baqué, has used handwriting analysis to solve the mystery of who hand wrote serial numbers on the first Apple-I motherboards. Photos of many boards and several actual boards were examined. One reason for the investigation not happening earlier is that the investigation required writing samples. Achim goes through that and other aspects of the investigation. After two forensic handwriting analyses, the result was clear.

upstart writes:You'll need a Microsoft account to set up future versions of Windows 11 Pro:

upstart writes:James Webb Space Telescope Locked Onto Guide Star for High Accuracy Mirror Alignment:

upstart writes:Discovery of key protein in malaria parasite opens door to novel treatment:

takyon writes:Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

Freeman writes:Corn ethanol no better—and probably worse—than burning gasoline, study says:

Freeman submitted a story which became:Facial recognition firm Clearview AI tells investors it's seeking massive expansion beyond law enforcement:

upstart writes:Australian encryption laws used to force provider to help in homicide case:

upstart writes:A Network of Fake Test Answer Sites Is Trying to Incriminate Students – The Markup:

upstart writes:New Atomic Clocks Measure Time Dilation of Einstein's General Relativity at Millimeter Scale:

upstart writes:Meta policy head Clegg receives promotion to be on par with Zuckerberg and Sandberg:

upstart writes:NASA drops plans to fly Earth science instrument as commercial hosted payload - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:Microsoft's 'Surface Laptop 5' could get latest AMD mobile processors for the first time:

upstart writes:Here's Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It):

owl writes:https://passo.uno/why-collect-read-old-computer-manuals/:

upstart writes:Windows 11 no longer the fastest OS for Alder Lake: Linux 5.16 on Core i9-12900K emerges winner in most benchmarks:

upstart writes:Scientists discover how galaxies can exist without dark matter:

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upstart writes:Intel buys Tower Semiconductor for $5.4 billion to diversify foundry business:

upstart writes:U.S. to inspect new 787 Dreamliners, says Boeing cannot self-certify:

Woman Appears Cured of HIV After Umbilical-Cord Blood Transplantupstart writes:Woman Appears Cured of HIV After Umbilical-Cord Blood Transplant:

upstart writes:Elon Musk quietly donated nearly $6 billion last year. Where did it go?:

upstart writes:Study highlights worldwide disparities in treatment rates for major depressive disorder: Meta-analysis suggests need for scaling up treatment for this severe depression in some low and lower-middle income countries:

upstart writes:Akamai To Acquire Linode to Provide Businesses with a Developer-friendly and Massively-distributed Platform to Build, Run and Secure Next Generation Applications:

upstart writes:IBM Execs Call Older Workers 'Dinobabies' in Age Bias Lawsuit:

upstart writes:Experiment With Turnstiles of Single Electrons Lights Way Towards New Power Standard:

upstart writes:Intel is officially in the bitcoin mining business now:

takyon writes:Android 13 virtualization lets Pixel 6 run Windows 11, Linux distributions

upstart writes:Biologists Investigate Smallest Propeller on Earth – Used by One of the Fastest Organisms on the Planet:

upstart writes:Drones as Big as 747s Will Fly Cargo Around the World With Low Emissions, Startup Says:

upstart writes:A diamondlike structure gives some starfish skeletons their strength: