Day: February 2, 2019

Well Water Likely Available Across Mars

schwit1 quotes Behind the Black: A science paper released today and available for download [pdf] cites evidence from about two dozen deep impact craters located from the equator to 37 degrees north latitude that Mars has a ground ice table at an elevation that also corresponds to other shoreline features. The paper calls this evidence…


Super Bowl 2019: How to watch Patriots vs. Rams online, start time and much more – CNET

Find out how you can livestream the Super Bowl LIII for free. …read more Source:: CNet


Hack Your File Hierarchy with Johnny Decimal System (Dewey’s Older Brother)

Most of us have our fair share of digital debris. After all, with drives measured in one-million-million byte increments it’s tempting to never delete anything. The downside is you may never be able to find anything either. [Johnny Noble] must have gotten pretty fed up with clutter when he decided to formalize and publish his…


Have Terabytes of Enron Data Quietly Gone Missing?

Long-time Slashdot reader v3rgEz quotes MuckRock: Government investigations into California’s electricity shortage, ultimately determined to be caused by intentional market manipulations and capped retail electricity prices by the now infamous Enron Corporation, resulted in terabytes of information being collected by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. This included several extremely large databases, some of which had…


Elon Musk Explains Why He’s Building ‘Starship’ Out of Stainless Steel

Long-time Slashdot reader darkwing_bmf writes: In an exclusive interview with Popular Mechanics, SpaceX founder Elon Musk explains why stainless steel is the best material to build rocket ships, beating carbon fiber in cost, durability and even weight. “As far as we know, this marks the first time the material has been used in spacecraft construction…


Safari engineers look at different approach to fighting intrusive ads

Safari engineers want to limit the amount of JavaScript that a website can load. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Parents Who Don’t Vaccinate Kids Tend To Be Affluent, Better Educated

schwit1 quotes ABC News: Vaccines are universally backed by respected scientists and federal agencies, but that isn’t enough to convince every parent to vaccinate their children. The decision to fly in the face of near universal scientific opinion doesn’t come as a result of a lack of intellect, however, as experts who have studied vaccines…


Never Mind The Sheet Music, Here’s Spreadsheet Music

Nothing says Rockstar Musician Lifestyle like spreadsheet software. Okay, we might have mixed up the word order a bit in that sentence, but there’s always Python to add some truth to it. After all, if we look at the basic concept of MIDI sequencers, we essentially have a row of time-interval steps, and depending on…


Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser ‘Schrodinger’s Cats’

PolygamousRanchKid quotes LiveScience: A laser pulse bounced off a rubidium atom and entered the quantum world — taking on the weird physics of “Schrodinger’s cat.” The laser pulses didn’t grow whiskers or paws. But they became like the famous quantum-physics thought experiment Schrodinger’s cat in an important way: They were large objects that acted like…


AI-Driven Python Code-Completion Tool ‘Kite’ Attracts $17M In Investments

An AI-enhanced tool that suggests code snippets for Python developers in real time just raised $17 million in VC funding to expand its R&D team “with a focus on accelerating developer productivity.” An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: “Our mission is to bring the latest advancements in AI and machine learning (ML) to make writing code…