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A new release of elementary OS 8 (“Circe”) is out. Here’s the rundown of the best new features of this release. After almost two years of development since the prior release, elemnetary OS is now out with its latest release 8.0 code-named “Circe”. This release is based on Ubuntu 24.04Continue Reading

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Teams encapsulate in early January, NASA’s Pandora small satellite, and NASA-sponsored Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS), Black Hole Coded Aperture Telescope (BlackCAT) CubeSat and several other payloads, inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 payload fairing along with several other satellites at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, as part of theContinue Reading

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Artist’s concept of Pandora spacecraft without thermal blanketing. NASA’s Pandora small satellite will travel to sun-synchronous orbit to study the atmospheres of at least 20 exoplanets and the activity of their host stars. In this orbit, it will pass over the same spot on Earth at roughly the same timeContinue Reading

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Scientists have used CRISPR to give the goldenberry a modern makeover, shrinking the plant by about a third and making it easier to farm. Goldenberries are tasty and nutritious but notoriously unruly, with bushy plants that complicate harvesting. By editing a few key genes and selectively breeding the best-tasting fruits,Continue Reading

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A second round of voting has been held in Myanmar’s controversial election., NewsFeed A second round of voting has been held in Myanmar’s controversial election, which critics say will cement the military’s grip on power. Al Jazeera’s Tony Cheng has visited rebel-controlled areas where millions of civilians, living in fearContinue Reading

Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s Pandora exoplanet-studying satellite on Jan. 11

Artist’s concept of NASA’s Pandora mission, which will help scientists untangle the signals from exoplanets’ atmospheres — worlds beyond our solar system — and their stars. (Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Conceptual Image Lab) SpaceX will launch NASA’s next exoplanet mission on Sunday morning (Jan. 11), and you can watch the action live. AContinue Reading