Authorship is the coin of scholarship — and some researchers are minting a lot. We searched Scopus for authors who had published more than 72 papers (the equivalent of one paper every 5 days) in any one calendar year between … Read more
Darsha Dodge | Rapid City Journal With a twinge of cold in her toes and a tone of concern tinted by exhaustion, Anna Halverson relayed the message: “We’re in a really extreme emergency down here. Winter Storm Diaz blanketed the … Read more
Capt. Rahul Khanna, global head of marine consulting at Allianz, says it’s going to be very difficult to find the exact cause of the fire that sank the Felicity Ace. The problem with EVs, Khanna says, is that lithium-ion batteries … Read more
How many lights are too many lights in a scene? What if they are dynamic? What if we want them all to cast shadows? This question was answered in a recent paper from the University of Google Search and reveals … Read more
Over the past couple of weeks, some people who listen to KUOW in their Mazdas say their car radio is permanently stuck on 94.9 FM. It’s only affecting KUOW, Mazdas from 2016, and we have no idea why. At KUOW, … Read more
Plan to protect payphones in areas with poor mobile signal or high accident rates Also updating rules to support on-street devices with free calls, Wi-Fi and charging If a payphone is no longer needed, communities can reuse landmark red kiosks … Read more
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COSTLY TECH FAILURE: More than 25,000 files for nearly 8,000 students from 81 schools were lost when system administrators updated a server, the Ministry of Education said By Rachel Lin and William Hetherington / Staff reporter, with staff writer The … Read more
The Debian Janitor is an automated system that commits fixes for (minor) issues in Debian packages that can be fixed by software. It gradually started proposing merges in early December. The first set of changes sent out ran lintian-brush on … Read more
As a schoolboy in Soviet Russia in the 1960s, my hands were almost never clean. Don’t get me wrong – I washed them as much as anyone else. But the school rules made us practise our penmanship in ink, which … Read more