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If you get bored and fancy a quick game of something, you can play one in Firefox’s address bar – one you know how. Mozilla’s browser boasts an easter-egg, as spotted by Soeren Hentzschel, that is only triggered when using the address bar’s calculator feature. Normally, the sum of aContinue Reading

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systemd, the init system and service manager that most mainstream Linux distributions use, has merged support for writing its programs in Rust. It landed on the main branch through a pull request of 19 commits. The pull request replaces an earlier proposal and follows rules the maintainers agreed upon atContinue Reading

Could Common Cooking-Oil Fat Be Fueling Psoriasis Itch?

Scientists have identified a receptor on sensory nerves that appears to detect a fatty-acid byproduct found at high levels in psoriasis skin, and blocking it eased itch and skin thickening in mice. The post Could Common Cooking-Oil Fat Be Fueling Psoriasis Itch? appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News…Read MoreContinue Reading

NURTW Chairman Urges FG To Extend CNG Transport Subsidy To Interstate Operators

The chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Bus Long Journey, Kakuri branch, Kaduna, Comrade Yakubu Lawal, has urged the federal government to extend subsidised transportation through Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered and electric vehicles to more commercial transport operators to reduce fares and ease the burden of rising transportation costs on Nigerians…Continue Reading

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Battery-buffered EV chargers are all the rage these days—they enable fleets and other charging providers to deploy high-power charging without grid upgrades, and to avoid utility demand charges. Allye Energy’s new Allye MEV charger features built-in battery storage made from whole repurposed EV packs. MEV can be charged from whateverContinue Reading

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Sponsored by HUBER+SUHNER. Now a focal point of automotive fleets, the next stage of EV evolution is centered around reducing the space and weight of architectures to unlock further driving range as well as improving thermal management to enable faster charging. One area attracting renewed interest to facilitate this isContinue Reading

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This time of the year, clocks spring forward and fall back across the globe, but some places are making permanent changes – and Ubuntu needs to keep pace. Over recent weeks, Canonical has refresh Ubuntu’s system time zone database package tzdata on all supported releases to ensure the system reflectsContinue Reading