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Google Play Is Going To Start Highlighting Apps With Widgets(2025-03-03 20:00:12)

Google Play on Android devices is being updated to include a new search filter for widgets, widget badges on app detail pages, and a curated editorial page dedicated to widgets. The Verge reports: With the search filter, users will be able to more easily search for apps with widgets. The badge "elim...
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How the British Broke Their Own Economy(2025-03-03 15:00:04)

Britain, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution, now suffers from its opposite: profound energy shortages and deep affordability crises [non-paywalled link]. A new report titled "Foundations" identifies the root cause -- "it is difficult to build almost anything, anywhere" in the UK. Housing ...
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How Many Episodes Should You Watch Before Quitting a TV Show? A Statistical Analysis(2025-03-03 10:00:11)

Daniel Parris: Some TV shows take a while to "get good." Modern classics like Breaking Bad, The Wire, Community, and Bojack Horseman are notorious for "starting slow" and are often recommended with a disclaimer like "Give it a few episodes; I promise it gets good!" At the same time, some shows nev...
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Can TrapC Fix C and C++ Memory Safety Issues?(2025-03-03 05:00:04)

"TrapC, a fork of the C language, is being developed as a potential solution for memory safety issues that have hindered the C and C++ languages," reports InfoWorld. But also being developed is a compiler named trapc "intended to be implemented as a cybersecurity compiler for C and C++ code, said d...
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Linux's Marketshare Drops in Monthly Steam Survey(2025-03-03 00:00:09)

What's Linux's marketshare on Steam? The Steam Survey numbers tell this story: 11/24: 2.03% 12/24: 2.29% 01/25: 2.06% 02:25: 1.45% "The February numbers show a staggering 0.61% drop to Linux use..." reports Phoronix. But they attribute this to an sampling error: According to the survey, it show...
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