“Scientists are hoping to unlock some of the universe’s mysteries through 50-year-old moon rocks,” reports the New York Daily News — specifically, three samples that spent that half century sealed in airtight canisters. One Apollo 18 sample from 1972 contains 1.8 pounds of a vacuum-sealed lunar core that is a stratified layer of rock that…

Or is it red? …read more Source:: CNet

Most blocked before reaching the web, Facebook says. …read more Source:: CNet

An anonymous reader quotes Engadget: Researchers from Stanford University’s School of Medicine presented results from a giant study sponsored by Apple Inc. that showed the Apple Watch can sometimes spot patients with undiagnosed heart-rhythm problems, without producing large numbers of false alarms. The Apple-sponsored trial enrolled 419,297 people and was one of the largest heart-screening…

Long-time Slashdot reader skdffff quotes ZDnet: F5 Networks on Monday announced that it will acquire NGINX, which provides popular open-source software of the same name, for $670 million. The deal advances F5’s aim of capitalizing on the trend toward multi-cloud deployments. F5 plans to enhance NGINX’s current offerings with F5 security solutions and will integrate…

Classix Philly One Oh Seven Nine is your home for Philly soul right at the top of the dial, and now you know why this writer isn’t allowed on the Hackaday podcast. That phrase, ‘top of the dial’ doesn’t mean much these days because we all have radios with a digital display and seek buttons….

Stephen O’Grady, co-founder of the industry analyst firm RedMonk, asks whether open source vendors are marching towards an inevitable and damaging war with big cloud providers: In the last twelve to eighteen months…a switch has been flipped. Companies have gone from regarding cloud providers like Amazon, Google or Microsoft as not even worth mentioning as…

The future of health tech might be blood pressure. But Omron’s solution won’t be for everyone. …read more Source:: CNet

The director of HBO’s The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley, plus the producer and the whistleblower who brought the wrongdoings to light, talk about the woman at the center of it all. …read more Source:: CNet

The Democrats leading the Save the Internet Act are pushing for a vote in April, with or without Republicans. …read more Source:: CNet