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Starlink's Satellite Internet is Cheaper than Leading ISPs in Five African Countries
"In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider," reports Rest of World.
"Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has become the leading satellite internet provider in...
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Will Nvidia Spark a New Generation of Linux PCs?
"I know, I know: 'Year of the Linux desktop ... yadda, yadda'," writes Steven Vaughan-Nichols, a ZDNet senior contributing editor. "You've heard it all before. But now there's a Linux-powered PC that many people will want..."
He's talking about Nvidia's newly-announced Project Digits, describing i...
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'Snowball Earth' Evolution Hypothesis Gains New Momentum
The University of Colorado Boulder's magazine recently wrote:
What happened during the "Snowball Earth" period is perplexing: Just as the planet endured about 100 million years of deep freeze, with a thick layer of ice covering most of Earth and with low levels of atmospheric oxygen, forms of multic...
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Three New Superconductive Materials Were Discovered in 2024
"This year, superconductivity — the flow of electric current with zero resistance — was discovered in three distinct materials," reports Quanta magazine. "Two instances stretch the textbook understanding of the phenomenon. The third shreds it completely...."
After four years of reserch...
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Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Transfer Legacy PHP Code to a Modern Framework?
Slashdot reader rzack writes:
Since 1999, I've written a huge amount of PHP code, for dozens of applications and websites. Most of it has been continually updated, and remains active and in-production, in one form or another.
Here's the thing. It's all hand-written using vi, even to this day.
Is...
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