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Do you want to check your battery health in Ubuntu from the command-line, without needing to install anything extra to do it? Well, you can. Most of using Ubuntu on a laptop will monitor our battery level from the top bar (I always enable battery percentage in the top barContinue Reading

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For the past year, Austin has deployed a group of community folks and city staff to analyze the curriculum at the police academy and suggest reforms: It’s not going well. The community reviews material, makes recommendations, but little gets implemented. It seems at this point like the goal is toContinue Reading

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The unprecedented move highlights regulatory tensions between Gov. Roy Cooper, a Democrat, and an environmental rule-making commission controlled by appointees of Republican state legislative leaders. By Lisa Sorg RALEIGH, N.C.—The Southern Environmental Law Center is petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to take over the state’s water permitting authority, an unprecedentedContinue Reading

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that the biggest challenge facing Kyiv in its war with Russia is allies’ fear of escalating support for Ukraine due to concerns about war escalation, reports TVN24. Speaking at a joint panel with his Polish counterpart Radosław Sikorski at the Campus Polska Przyszłości forum,Continue Reading

Hubble traces star formation in nearby nebula NGC 261

NGC 261 is located within one of the Milky Way’s closest galactic companions, the Small Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. C. Johnson (Northwestern University); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) NGC 261 blooms a brilliant ruby red against a myriad of stars in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.Continue Reading