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Amphipolis site yields lots of new stuff from Alexander the Great's Macedonian Empire.

Car and Driver talks about Apple CarPlay.

Even with all of the "new" scripting languages that have cropped up, BASH is still very relevant on UNIX. BASH still has an important place, especially in the world of UNIX systems administration.

InfoWorld on How the Apple Watch might be used in business.

nixCraft has a nice article on using SSHFS to Mount Remote Filesystems in Linux.

Unity, the cross platform gaming system, is working with Mozilla to get high performance gaming into the web browser.

X11 is very long in the tooth and there has been a lot of talk of replacing it. Google has leapfrogged most of the Linux field and done so with their own X11 replacement named Freon that they are already implementing in ChromeOS! Freon should offer better performance and better battery life than X11.

Welcome to the community!

Don't forget, the US is currently switching into DST. Eastern, Central and Mountain times have already gone and Pacific will soon. We are now entering the window where the US skewed from every other country, anywhere. It's Spring Forward, so we all just lost an hour of sleep.

Welcome!

A year after voting to protect net neutrality, Europe now votes to end net neutrality there allowing service prioritization.

If this isn't random yet completely news-worthy, I just don't know what is...

http://www.wtsp.com/story/news/2015/03/06/world-book-day-boy-sent-home-christian-grey/24490639/

Because it needed the capability in ChromeOS, Google has made it possible to watch Netflix in Chrome and this capability extends to Chrome on Linux, previously detected and blocked by Netflix.

ZDNet writes about the same issue: Companies Really Want Linux Savvy Employees and They Want Them Now.

LinuxGizmos couldn't resist bringing the CubeRox to our attention. A crowd funding seeking fun little Linux device perfect for.... well nothing really. But is looks like a like of fun.

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The NVidia Shield coming late this spring is not a handheld device, like its previous incarnation but is, instead, a television-attached gaming console with 4K output and a remote controller. The platform runs Google's Android TV and features the powerful ARM-based Tegra X1 CPU.

Unlike its expensive predecessor, the new Shield is launching at just $199 and includes the game pad. The Tegra X1 is an octa-core processor with claimed gaming performance "twice that of the XBOX 360."

The Shield has an included GigE port for low latency, high speed, stable streaming performance where available. Wireless 802.11ac WiFi is also included. And at released time is expected to come with an available catalog of fifty games optimized for it. The Shield will also have an available game streaming service.

Beyond the CPU functions, the GPU in the Shield is a Maxwell with 256 cores and supports CUDA.