How you’d really die in space: What sci-fi gets right (and wrong) about extra-terrestrial expirations

(Image credit: Getty Images/SCIEPRO/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY) You’ve seen it in a thousand sci-fi movies : an astronaut is ejected into space and freezes instantly, then shatters like an ice cube. A hairline crack appears in a helmet, and a character asphyxiates in seconds, desperately pawing at their spacesuit as they sink to their knees, andContinue Reading

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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is preparing major constitutional changes, including an amendment requiring that artificial intelligence serve human society. Conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined the proposed revisions on Thursday, casting them as necessary to safeguard future generations given global concerns about AI’s risks to democratic governance and humanityContinue Reading

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Only last week, we were talking about how LVFS, the firmware update service for Linux, had turned up the heat on vendors who didn’t contribute their fair share. To tackle that, the project has been going through a phased restrictions rollout that includes things like introducing fair-use download utilization graphsContinue Reading

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Are you interested in leveraging Markdown for online content without any website setup or build process? How about seamlessly embedding constraint-free Markdown or HTML into multiple platforms (such as a content management system or learning management system)? The open source project Docsify-This, built with Docsify.js, provides an easy way toContinue Reading

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Your open source project’s documentation is essential to your customers. Your target audience must understand the purpose of your project and how to use it, and documentation is what bridges that gap. A project is rarely ever truly done, so it’s equally important for resources to be maintained and updatedContinue Reading