White Dwarfs Are Actually…Yellow, Green, Pink, and Purple?
The universe hosts a myriad of star types, including supergiants, giants, main sequence, red dwarfs, brown dwarfs, white dwarfs, and neutron stars. What makes these stars...
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KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin’s Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support
With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma...
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This Week in Plasma: Fixing All the Bugs, PiP, and Performance
Welcome to a new issue of This Week in Plasma. And it’s going to be a big one, folks! This week, a familiar pattern played out:...
Read moreOBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading
OBS Studio 33.0 is out tonight as the latest major update to this popular open-source and cross-platform video recording and live streaming application...
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Automatic Coil Winder Takes the Tedium out of Actuators
Anyone who’s ever built their own motors knows how tedious winding the coils soon becomes; in [Larry]’s case, the issue was even worse. He’s building his...
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NASA updates lander plans for Moon landings, finally solves long-festering Orion issue
"We have the mandate, we have the resources, and the support from our stakeholders."
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Why private equity acquisitions like the one that just claimed BioWare are so dreaded
BioWare is just the latest casualty in a long history of private equity carnage.
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NASA, Partners Accelerate Lander Development for 2028 Moon Missions
As NASA returns humans to the lunar surface and establishes a long-term presence on our closest celestial neighbor, the agency and commercial human landing system providers...
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NASA’s Artemis III Mission to Test Future Moon Lander Operations
Before astronauts return to the lunar surface, NASA will first conduct one of the most ambitious and complex test missions in the agency’s history. Launching in...
Read moreThe Vulnerability Apocalypse and Why We Should Fund Open Source
If you use the internet at all, you may have noticed that a large percentage of sites suddenly went down earlier this week—and all your nerdiest...
Read moreComputer Security Is About to Get a Lot Worse, Here’s What You Can Do
It is a commonly held truth among computer geeks that there is no such thing as bug free software, or a secure computer. Any piece of...
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27 Exoplanet Targets for the World’s First Private Space Telescope
Get ready for the age of private space telescopes. The Lazuli Space Telescope will launch in a few years and part of its mission is to...
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