One route into IT is to take your knowledge of a certain sector to an IT firm that specialises in it. This is Katy Cain’s story By Cliff Saran, Managing Editor Published: 19 Feb 2021 12:45 The coronavirus has shone a spotlight on the heroes of the NHS who have worked continuously over the past…
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Amazon has released a full trailer for Robert Kirkman's Invincible, giving us a longer glimpse of the animated show that's hitting Prime Video on March 26th. The trailer shows the origins of Mark Grayson, the teenage son of the world's most powerful superhero, and how he struggled to control his powers. It also shows how…
Twitch is more than a little jittery about copyright, and that's having an effect even for events where you'd think it would be safe. Metal Injection and Variety report that Twitch abruptly cut off and dubbed over Metallica's BlizzCon 2021 performance (not pictured here). As "Enter Sandman" got underway, the streaming service abruptly replaced the…
Astronomers might need to adjust their expectations for black holes. According to the New York Times, an international research team has determined that Cygnus X-1, one of the first discovered black holes, is considerably more massive than once thought. The binary-system based hole was originally pegged at 'just' 15 solar masses, but is now believed…
Animal cloning might just become a valuable tool in preserving species that might otherwise go extinct. BBC News says US Fish and Wildlife Service has successfully cloned a black-footed ferret — the first genetic copy of a North American endangered species. Elizabeth Ann, born on December 10th, was produced from the frozen cells of Willa,…
October 21, 2018 9:53 AM Find the Hard Work You're Willing to Do I like this passage from John Urschel Goes Pro, about the former NFL player who is pursuing a Ph.D. in math: The world thinks mathematicians are people for whom math is easy. That's wrong. Sure, some kids, like Urschel, have little trouble…
[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] List: openbsd-arm Subject: Apple M1 teaser From: Mark Kettenis Date: 2021-02-20 22:46:52 Message-ID: c1bc54ff753ca3df () bloch ! sibelius ! xs4all ! nl [Download RAW message or body] So OpenBSD boots multi-user on the new Apple M1 hardware. This still has some hacks in…
This artist's illustration shows a "sky crane" gently lowering Perseverance to the surface of Mars. NASA NASA successfully landed its most advanced rover ever on the surface of another planet this week. The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is the fifth such rolling robot the space agency has sent to the red planet, and when the mission is…