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The forecast is looking Qt 1 for fans of open-source weather app Typhoon , the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt 6 one. What’s interesting about this change in Typhoon 1.7.x is that it doesn’t impact the UI in any noticeable way. TheContinue Reading

5 Health Problems Astronauts Have To Worry About In Space

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DC Studio/Shutterstock Space travel is one of the most hazardous things a human being can endure, and not just for the obvious reason of launching into an airless vacuum at 25,000 mph. The human body is an extremely complicated machine, one that is expressly built to survive on the surface of Earth. Just being beyondContinue Reading

Webb Maps Uranus’ Upper Atmosphere

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Monika Luabeya Feb 24, 2026 NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope provided the first vertical view of Uranus’s ionosphere in this image released on Feb. 19, 2026, revealing auroras shaped by its tilted magnetic field. Getting a look at the structure of the region where the atmosphere interacts strongly with the planet’s magnetic field is givingContinue Reading

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When a winter storm sweeps across the US Midwest, or a heavy Siberian front dumps feet of powder onto Hokkaido’s New Chitose Airport, the primary concern for most travelers is the de-icing of wings and the clearing of runways. However, a more technical question often lingers in the minds ofContinue Reading

The big new Linux release isn’t a big deal

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The next major iteration of Linux, Linux 7.0, is now available for you to try…and once again it’s not as significant as its name implies. That’s not unusual. Linus Torvalds, the lead developer of the Linux kernel, acknowledged in announcing the new Linux 7.0-rc1 release candidate that it got itContinue Reading