Exoplanet NGTS-4b — also known as ‘The Forbidden Planet’ Credit: University of Warwick/Mark Garlick

An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered in the Neptunian Desert, by an international collaboration of astronomers, with the University of Warwick taking a leading role. The Neptunian Desert is the region close to stars where no Neptune-sized planets are found. Usually only dips of 1% and more are picked up by ground-based searches, but the NGTS telescopes can pick up a dip of just 0.2%

Researchers believe the planet may have moved into the Neptunian Desert recently, in the last one million years, or it was very big and the atmosphere is still evaporating.

Examining 14 trials from India to Alaska, the report found that although UBI trials provided valuable insights into the nature of work and welfare there is little evidence to suggest that UBI is the best tool to address the core challenges of our time: inequality, wealth redistribution, precarious work, and digitisation. But government spending is inevitably about choices –and compared to funding better universal quality public services, UBI doesn’t stack up. Whilst many in the UBI movement point to administrative savings and preventative measures generated from UBI, there is little evidence these will be enough to fund the UBI considering the large amounts of funding that will still be required to finance public health, education and infrastructure.

We hear from customers every day about how fintech is transforming people’s financial lives, making it easier to pay bills, easier to save for retirement, and easier to manage a budget. Over the past few months, we’ve introduced products that allow people to use fintech apps regardless of where they keep their money, whether it’s in a traditional bank or community credit union, or a neobank. The UK fintech community is thriving.

A way to do atomic writes

Finding a way for applications to do atomic writes to files, so that either the old or new data is present after a crash and not a combination of the two, was the topic of a session led by Christoph Hellwig at the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM). Either they use “weird user-space locking schemes”, as databases typically do, or they write an entirely new file, then do an “atomic rename trick” to ensure the data is in place. Toward the end of the session, Ts’o said that he believes ext4 will get the atomic write feature as well, though it will be more limited in terms of how much of the file can be updated prior to a commit.

But from now on, officials said, such worst-case scenario projections will not automatically be included in the National Climate Assessment or in some other scientific reports produced by the government. “What we have here is a pretty blatant attempt to politicize the science — to push the science in a direction that’s consistent with their politics,” said Philip B. Duffy, the president of the Woods Hole Research Center, who served on a National Academy of Sciences panel that reviewed the government’s most recent National Climate Assessment. However, the goal of political appointees in the Trump administration is not just to change the climate assessment’s methodology, which has broad scientific consensus, but also to question its conclusions by creating a new climate review panel.

Because nuclear power is an abundant, low-carbon source of base-load power, it could make a large contribution to mitigation of global climate change and air pollution. Using historical production data, we calculate that global nuclear power has prevented an average of 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes of CO -equivalent (GtCO -eq) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that would have resulted from fossil fuel burning. On the basis of global projection data that take into account the effects of the Fukushima accident, we find that nuclear power could additionally prevent an average of 420,000-7.04 million deaths and 80-240 GtCO -eq emissions due to fossil fuels by midcentury, depending on which fuel it replaces.

Uber riders have always had ratings, but they were never really at risk of deactivation — until now. Starting today, riders in the U.S. and Canada are now at risk of deactivation if their rating falls significantly below a city’s average. Uber, however, is not disclosing the average rider rating, but says “any rider at risk of losing access will receive several notifications and opportunities to improve his or her rating,” an Uber spokesperson told TechCrunch.

“Today, the App Store is more vibrant and innovative than ever, offering equal opportunities to developers to deliver their apps and services across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch,” reads a new page at Apple’s website titled “App Store — Principles and Practices.” Apple says it has paid out $120 billion to App Store developers worldwide since the platform launched, and the company again touts the quick approval process and efficient work of its app review team, which now “represents 81 languages across three time zones.” Image: Apple

But here, again, Apple ignores a major gripe that developers have been raising for years: if an app doesn’t use Apple’s in-app purchase system, its developers are forbidden from telling their customers where and how they can pay outside of the App Store or providing a convenient link.

PugSQL is a simple Python interface for using parameterized SQL, in files, with any SQLAlchemy-supported database. Install PugSQL today! PugSQL was inspired by the amazing HugSQL library for the Clojure programming language.

Say you want to generate an RSA key, so you Google it, and find a couple of official-looking pages, and Every OpenSSL command has two documentation pages, one under “docs” and one on their wiki. , yet they fail to give the blindly, blisteringly obvious answer to their question: all the keys are weak because weak keys are the default in OpenSSL, and you’d never know otherwise from any output or documentation. When you use a file in the deprecated SSLeay format, the tool could tell you, “Note: you’re using a private key in the SSLeay format; you should convert it to PKCS#8 with: ”.