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Submission + - Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released

Submitted by prisoninmate on Friday December 04, 2015 @10:37PM

prisoninmate writes: On the first day of December, Softpedia was the first to announce the availability for download of the Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" operating system, despite the fact that no official announcement was made. A few days later, it turned out that the Linux Mint project had a critical hardware issue with their servers, for which the devs apologized, so most of the website and forums were down for at least two days, but luckily the ISO images of Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" were hosted on various mirrors around the world. On December 4, 2015, the Linux Mint developers managed to restore everything back, as well as to publish official announcements for both the Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" Cinnamon Edition and Linux Mint 17.3 "Rosa" MATE Edition operating systems. Here's what's new!

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Porsche approves its electric Tesla killer - USA TODAY (google.com)

From feed by feedfeeder on Friday December 04, 2015 @07:32PM

USA TODAY

Porsche approves its electric Tesla killer
USA TODAY
Tesla is about to get more of the electric-car competition that CEO Elon Musk says he so badly wants. This time, it's coming from Porsche , which said Friday that it is giving the production green light to a high-performance electric sedan. Or at least ...
Porsche Green Lights an Electric Sports CarFortune
Porsche is going after Tesla with an electric sports car that will get to 100 ... Quartz
Watch out Tesla: This Porsche goes all-electricCBS News
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Comment Death By Millimeters (Score 1) 162

by Wino on Monday May 19, 2014 @01:05PM (#47039873) Attached to: ESA's Cryosat Mission Sees Antarctic Ice Losses Double

As the article notes, the melt is enough to raise global sea levels by 0.43mm. At this rate, in 100 years the oceans will be 43mm higher (1.7 inches). I guess I'll have to watch Waterworld again because that's not the future I remember.

Submission + - Astronomers Identify the Sun's Long-Lost Sister 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 11, 2014 @09:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: A team of researchers led by astronomer Ivan Ramirez of the University of Texas — Austin has identified the first 'sibling' of the sun, a star almost certainly born from the same cloud of gas and dust as our star. 'Astronomers had been observing the star for almost two decades without realizing it's the long-lost sister of the Sun. No doubt we have catalogued other solar siblings whose common heritage has yet to be discovered. Indeed, the UT team, lead by astronomer Ivan Ramirez, is confident that the identification of HD 162826 is just the beginning. “We want to know where we were born,” Ramirez said in a statement. “If we can figure out in what part of the galaxy the Sun formed, we can constrain conditions on the early solar system. That could help us understand why we are here.”'

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