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Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders don’t get grouped, and if there is onlyContinue Reading

Massive space mirrors could be 40 times brighter than the full moon, astronomers warn. ‘It will be worse than big cities like London’

A rendering of the effect of Reflect Orbital’s space mirrors on the night sky in a very dark location. This image depicts a beam of light from one of the company’s mirrors from roughly 3 miles (5 kilometers) away. (Image credit: Gaspar Bakos/Princeton University) Each of the sun-reflecting mirrors proposed by U.S.-based startup Reflect OrbitalContinue Reading