Agency for high-risk, high-reward research up and running by 2022

The UK government has announced the launch of a new research agency, which will pursue areas of science and technology with the potential to generate ground-breaking discoveries and transformative technology in the long term. Plans for a research agency dedicated to this type of research were first announced in 2019. The agency is inspired by … Read more

Install Steam on Ubuntu & Linux Mint

How to Install Steam on Ubuntu (Easy) Steam is available to install on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus and later from Ubuntu Software or through the command line apt programme. Click to Install Steam on Ubuntu If you’d rather do all of the above using the command line just run the following commands: sudo add-apt-repository multiverse sudo … Read more

Install Tilix GTK3 tiling terminal emulator

Tilix GTK3 tiling terminal emulator on Ubuntu / Debian The official Tilix packages are available for stretch-backports, buster and sid. I’m doing this installation on both Debian 10. Run the following commands to install Tilix. $ sudo apt install tilix Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done The following additional packages will be installed: libgtkd-3-0 … Read more

Install Foliate ePub Reader on Ubuntu

Install Foliate on Ubuntu via PPA It’s already possible to download and install Foliate on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using an installer from the project’s GitHub page: “Download Foliate for Ubuntu (64-bit .deb)“ The “catch” is that there are no guarantees that a traditional installer will be produced for every future Foliate update and you need to manually go out and check for, … Read more

Install Telegram on Ubuntu Linux

How to Install Telegram on Ubuntu Method 1: Official Telegram Download Click the button below to download the tarball package for Linux distros (including Ubuntu) which contains a standalone Telegram runtime and updater: Download Telegram for Linux (64-bit .tar.xz) Download Telegram for Linux (32-bit .tar.xz) If you like to live on the bleeding edge you … Read more

Install the Latest Lollypop Music Player in Ubuntu

How to Install Lollypop in Ubuntu: 1.) Open terminal from your system application launcher. When it opens, run command to add the PPA: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnumdk/lollypop 2.) After adding the PPA, run command in terminal to install the software package: sudo apt install lollypop  

Install Geary Mail on Ubuntu

Install Geary Mail on Ubuntu Geary is available from Ubuntu software repository. You can use the following command to install it. sudo apt update sudo apt install geary The Ubuntu 16.10 repository contains the latest 0.11.2 version, but Ubuntu 16.04 has version 0.11.0. If you like to get the latest updates as soon as possible, … Read more

Install caffeine in Ubuntu

Install caffeine by entering the following commands in the terminal: sudo apt update sudo apt install caffeine Description: prevent the desktop becoming idle in full-screen mode Caffeine prevents the desktop from becoming idle when an application is running full-screen. A desktop indicator ‘caffeine-indicator’ supplies a manual toggle, and the command ‘caffeinate’ can be used to … Read more

The bigger picture: AI vertical farm, San Francisco

A San Francisco agritech start-up has created a vertical farm that is run by AI and robots.  Plenty’s upright facility grows as much produce as 720 acres of typical farmland, but with a footprint of just two acres. AI monitors water usage, light, and environmental conditions and it learns how to grow crops faster and … Read more