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Will Nvidia Spark a New Generation of Linux PCs?
"I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda'," writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. "You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want..."
He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced Project Digits, describing i...
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'Snowball Earth' Evolution Hypothesis Gains New Momentum
The University of Colorado Boulder's magazine recently wrote:
What happened during the "Snowball Earth" period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of atmospheric oxygen, forms of multic...
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Three New Superconductive Materials Were Discovered in 2024
"This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials," reports Quanta magazine. "Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The third shreds it completely...."
After four years of reserch...
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Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework?
Slashdot reader rzack writes:
Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another.
Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, even to this day.
Is...
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Ford's EV Sales Spiked 34.8% in 2024. Electric 'Mustang Mach-E' Outsells Gas-Powered Mustangs
"Every Ford EV model set a new sales record in 2024 with double-digit growth," reports Electrek, with Ford's total U.S. electric vehicle sales jumping to 97,865, an increase of 34.8% from 2023.
And in the last three months of 2024 Ford sold 30,176 EVs — which is also a new record.
The Mustan...
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