Official support for Windows XP ends April 8th. If you had anything lower than XP Professional, it ended long before that. Anyways, here's a link that can give you a few immediate Linux replacements for that depressing operating system you're currently working on. That being said, if you work for the British or Dutch governments, don't count on an upgrade too soon. Both governments just signed a multi-million euro deal with Microsoft for the tech conglomerate to continue supporting XP, at least for them.
In yet another show of just how ironic Mother Nature enjoys being, La Trobe University researchers have discovered that the tobacco plant holds a key to the fight on cancer. The same molecule that defends the plant from fungal and bacterial invaders also has the ability to identify and destroy cancer cells.
University of California - Irvine chemists seem to have accidentally developed a gold coating that dims glares and prevents grime and moisture from sticking to surfaces. In an attempt to dull the glare of solar panels and hid the glint of military weapons, researchers used the cone-like patterns of moth's eyeballs on several non-stick surfaces, then applying a thin layer of gold. Fortunately for them, gold's cheap and easy to come by.
Sintel, a heartbreaking CGI short film created by the Blender Foundation, follows a young girl on her search for her her dragon, Scales. The fact that you should definitely take the fifteen minutes out of your day to watch it is not why it made it to Nerdom Level: News. Sony has demanded it be removed from youtube on the grounds that it infringes on Sony copyright. But Sony can't own any rights to the movie as the film is a crowdfunded open-sourced, licensed as Creative Commons Attribution 3.0, meaning is free to share with whoever, however. Leave independent creators alone.
252 million years ago, a simple act of sex almost wiped life off of our planet, succeeding in destroying ninety percent of all beings. In a very general sense of the term "intercourse", Methanosarcina microbes released copious amounts of methane into the atmosphere, suffocating most of the life on the planet, scientists believe.
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