What do businesses do? Build and innovate from raw and scratch, right? But creation generates its own new raw material, and that in businesses is data. Every step and every stage creates an immense amount of information called data. That data is raw, scattered, and largely unstructured, but it isContinue Reading
Support for Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ officially ends on 15th January 2026 — which for those of you reading in a timely fashion is next week! A short-term support release, Ubuntu 25.04 got 9 months of updates from launch. It was released in April of 2025, making January 2026 itsContinue Reading
Microsoft’s big focus for Windows is AI integration. Meanwhile, Valve has been not-so-quietly pilfering the entire PC gaming ecosystem from Microsoft, turning the Linux-based SteamOS into a real competitor to Windows. In a few years, gaming laptops may run SteamOS instead of Windows. And Microsoft has no one to blameContinue Reading
Full-year electric vehicle sales figures have dropped for 2025, revealing China’s BYD is now officially global top dog…Continue Reading
December 31, 2025 2 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm Space Forge plans to manufacture semiconductors from space—without the need for humans By Jackie Flynn Mogensen edited by Claire Cameron Narumon Bowonkitwanchai via Getty Images Join Our Community of Science Lovers! Space Forge is on a mission to manufacture semiconductors in space—no humansContinue Reading
Ring in the New Year with the “Champagne Cluster,” a distant galaxy cluster featured in a new image that combines data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical telescopes. Astronomers first identified this galaxy cluster on Dec. 31, 2020. That date, along with the cluster’s bubbly look and the superheated gas detected by Chandra (representedContinue Reading
Proposal targets long-standing behavior as ‘an X11ism’ Opinion Ever since Linux got a graphical desktop, you could middle-click to paste – but if GNOME gets its way, that’s going away soon, and from Firefox too.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
Still, the ban has reset expectations and may reduce harm, and that’s kind of enough Australia’s ban on children under 16 holding active social media accounts comes into force on Wednesday. While nobody expects this world-first policy to stop every kid using their favorite online communities, its backers take solaceContinue Reading
In the market for a dumb laptop? Not the low-spec, no-brand kind clog up Amazon with fanciful discounts of pretend RRPs. I mean a laptop that is basically all shell, no brain. Elecrow has launched a new version of its CrowView Note, a portable monitor in the form of aContinue Reading
The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes., Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
With no one left to handle data protection requests, the project is looking for new volunteers., Read More From It’s FOSSContinue Reading
Allegro MicroSystems has introduced the ACS37200, a galvanically isolated current sensor designed to increase efficiency and power density in high-current applications, including hybrid and EVs. Allegro says the ACS37200 addresses a key challenge facing EV and industrial power engineers: the heat and energy loss caused by traditional shunt resistors inContinue Reading
Cabot has announced a multi-year supply agreement with PowerCo SE, a Volkswagen Group battery manufacturing subsidiary. Under the deal, Cabot will supply conductive carbons and conductive dispersions for lithium-ion EV battery electrodes, positioning the agreement as part of Cabot’s growth push in battery materials. Cabot says its conductive carbons andContinue Reading