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International Space University will bring its executive course to Seattle this October
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What does Clash of Clans maker’s $10-billion sale say about the future of gaming?
Congratluations, guys... you and the rest of the Clash of Clans crew now anchor a $ 10 billion mobile gaming powerhouse.
We've been hearing for years how mobile gaming has been growing at nearly inconceivable rates and will soon become the dominant force in the gaming business. Today's $ 10-billion purchase of Clash of...
Planetary Resources’ asteroid miners go international, starting with Luxembourg
Planetary Resources says it will start ramping up an international asteroid-mining subsidiary in Luxembourg by the end of the year – and will think about expanding...
Linux’s RPM/deb split could be replaced by Flatpak vs. snap
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Linux developers are going to have more than one choice for building secure, cross-distribution applications.
Ubuntu's "snap" applications recently went cross-platform, having been ported to other Linux distros including Debian, Arch, Fedora, and Gentoo. The goal is to simplify packaging of applications. Instead of building a deb package for Ubuntu and an RPM for Fedora, a...
Meet Zeph Gardler, an 11-year-old Docker fan who mines ‘Halo’ stats using container technology
“Docker is an inspiration, an enabler and a learning tool.” So proclaimed Zephaniah (“Zeph”) Gardler, 11, who gave a 15-minute PowerPoint presentation at DockerCon 2016 this afternoon...
Google’s new two-factor authentication system: Tap “yes” to log in
Salesforce launches App Cloud Mobile, aiming to accelerate iOS and Android app development
Salesforce today released App Cloud Mobile, a no-cost addition to its software arsenal that the company says integrates previously separate elements for the first time so that both coders and non-techies can create apps...
Intrinsic ferroelectric switching from first principles
The existence of domain walls, which separate regions of different polarization, can influence the dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric and electronic properties of ferroelectric materials. In particular, domain-wall motion is crucial for polarization switching, which is characterized by the hysteresis loop that is a signature feature of ferroelectric materials. Experimentally, the observed dynamics of polarization switching and domain-wall motion are usually explained as the behaviour of...
A hot Jupiter orbiting a 2-million-year-old solar-mass T Tauri star
Hot Jupiters are giant Jupiter-like exoplanets that orbit their host stars 100 times more closely than Jupiter orbits the Sun. These planets presumably form in the outer part of the primordial disk from which both the central star and surrounding planets are born, then migrate inwards and yet avoid falling into their host star. It is, however, unclear whether this occurs early in the...
Unhappy with Donald Trump, Apple won’t support GOP Convention — but Tim Cook hosting event for Paul Ryan
Donald Trump’s controversial comments throughout the campaign season have unnerved Apple enough to convince the tech company to pull its funding and other support for the Republican National Convention, Politico reported this weekend.
Politico cites...