The Department of Defense is looking at ways to clean up the hundreds of thousands of training rounds used by the U.S. army. It is putting out the call for the development of biodegradable ammunition loaded with seeds that sprout…
Windows 10 Will Soon Let You Opt-Out of Automatic Driver Updates
An anonymous reader quotes a report from PCWorld: Microsoft is giving users some more control over Windows 10 updates, with a new beta build of its operating system released Monday. The build allows folks with the Windows 10 Professional, Education,…
The End of Yahoo: Marissa Mayer To Resign; Yahoo To Change Its Name To Altaba
maxcelcat writes: Spotted on The Register’s twitter feed: Yahoo! Submission to The SEC. Most of the board is leaving, including CEO Marissa Mayer. The company has been bought by Verizon and is changing its name to Altaba Inc. I’m old…
2016 Was Second Hottest Year For US In More Than 120 Years of Record Keeping
Last year was the second hottest year for the United States in more than 120 years of record keeping, according to the National Climatic Data Center, marking 20 above-average years in a row. While Georgia and Alaska recorded their hottest…
Our Moon May Have Formed From Multiple Small Ones, Says Report
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: A series of cosmic collisions may have spawned multiple moonlets that morphed into the one big moon we know today. Rather than one giant impact that knocked off part of early…