Raspberry sugar spotted in interstellar space, a sweet discovery that could reveal clues about life’s origins

The Milky Way’s galactic center, as captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared. One new study has found sugar in interstellar space near the center of our galaxy. (Image credit: NASA/Caltech/Susan Stolovy (SSC, Caltech)) Is space … sweet? As it turns out, interstellar space has sugar — and it’s the same type of sugarContinue Reading

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Mozilla is changing Firefox’s release schedule from September, with new stable versions planned every two weeks instead of once a month. The faster release cadence will, Mozilla says, make the schedule more predictable and allow features and improvements which are ready to ship to do so sooner. Fancy testing? OMG!Continue Reading

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Weston 16.0 released with major advances in HDR, color management, and Wayland protocol support. After about five months of development, the Weston project has officially released Weston 16.0, the reference Wayland compositor. This version brings important improvements that will help desktop environments like GNOME, KDE, and Enlightenment achieve better andContinue Reading

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Munich Electrification, a maker of battery management systems for electric vehicles and stationary storage, has secured fresh capital to widen its product line. Private investment firm Ardian is acquiring a majority stake in the Munich-based developer, and Ardian’s Expansion team is providing additional capital to fund the company’s development pipelineContinue Reading

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Mozilla is changing Firefox’s release schedule from September, with new stable versions planned every two weeks instead of once a month. The faster release cadence will, Mozilla says, make its schedule more predictable and give “work that is ready to ship more frequent opportunities to reach users”. In a messageContinue Reading