Krishna Researchers are looking at how waste heat can be captured from the steelmaking process and reused or even moved to another location. A team involving scientists from Swansea University and Tata Steel are focusing on a thermochemical heat storage material developed at the University’s SPECIFIC Innovation & Knowledge Centre. Currently, heavy industries can release up … Read more
Neofetch is a cool system information tool that gives you all the information about your system by running “neofetch” command in Terminal. It is cool tool to have because it gives you information about desktop environment, kernel version, bash version and GTK theme you are running. To install Neofetch in Ubuntu, first add the third … Read more
Imagine you are watching something on YouTube or reading a news article and suddenly Ubuntu locks your screen, I know that is very annoying. It happens with many of us, so Caffeine is the tool that will help you block the Ubuntu lock screen or screensaver. Install caffeine by entering the following commands in the … Read more
SimpleScreenRecorder is available in Ubuntu Software Centre in most of the recent Ubuntu releases. But somehow if you don’t find it there you can run following command in Terminal to install this screen video recorder. $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marten-baert/simplescreenrecorder $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install simplescreenrecorder
$sudo apt install software-properties-common $sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gerardpuig/ppa $sudo apt update $sudo apt install ubuntu-cleaner
Franz is your messaging app for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram and many many more. Follow the below steps to install Franz Messenger App in Ubuntu 18.04: root@mangesh:~$ sudo apt-get update root@mangesh:~$ wget https://github.com/meetfranz/franz-app/releases/download/4.0.4/Franz-linux-x64-4.0.4.tgz root@mangesh:~$ mkdir franz root@mangesh:~$ tar -xzvf Franz-linux-x64–4.0.4.tgz -C franz/ root@mangesh:~$ cd franz/ root@mangesh:~/franz$ ls root@mangesh:~/franz$ ./Franz
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has defended the UK from more than 700 cyber attacks in the last year alone, according to figures given in its annual review. The UK has been beset by cyber attacks since the outbreak of Covid-19 in March and the NCSC has been focusing its resources on the pandemic response. The … Read more
Scientists have created a patch made from rubbery electronics that can be placed directly onto the heart to collect data that can help treat heart disease. The flexible patch is capable of measuring electrophysiological activity, temperature, heartbeat and other indicators, all at the same time. The University of Houston team behind the project said their … Read more
Finnish telecommunications giant Nokia has been selected by Nasa to deploy a “space-hardened” 4G network on the surface of the Moon, as part of its plans to establish a sustainable human presence on Earth’s planetary satellite by 2028. Nasa’s ambitious ‘Artemis’ project aims to return humans to the Moon; to set up a long-term human … Read more
The engineering profession needs to do more to explain to the public how its work is related to science and the part played by ‘unknown unknowns’. Risk is in the news more than ever at the moment. Our collective behaviour depends on understanding it, but public debate reveals confusion that I believe needs to be … Read more