A source of cosmic rays radiating energies 100 times greater than those achieved at the largest terrestrial particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) — has been found in the innermost region of our Milky Way galaxy.

The source was revealed after a detailed analysis of the data collected by the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, which was published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

H.E.S.S. observatory is being run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries and has been mapping the centre of our galaxy in very high energy gamma rays for over the past 10 years. “Somewhere within the central 33 light years of the Milky Way there is an astrophysical source capable of accelerating protons to energies of about one petaelectronvolt, continuously for at least 1,000 years,” said Emmanuel Moulin from the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France.

Being a developer is the kind of career that allows you to work almost anywhere in the world.

But where pays the best? Developer community website Stackoverflow has released figures from a global survey which ranks the best paying countries for developers.

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We just got some insight into what's on the minds of startup founders and executives, and it may not be good news for Wall Street.

Nasdaq Private Market surveyed a group of startup founders, CEOs, and directors at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, last weekend.

The survey found that 42% of folks did not expect their companies to go public in the future — up 62% from last year. Another 34% said "maybe," while only 24% said "definitely."

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Being very busy is not an indicator of being effective or successful. Some people like to tell everyone around them how busy they are so that nobody asks them to take on another task. Also, some people like to seem very busy because only then they can feel important. If you also feel very busy or tell people around you that you are too busy, you probably cannot manage your time properly. Below are some helpful tips on how to be more effective, less busy and get lots done.

According to most definitions, an entrepreneur is one who envisions a new and different business, meaning one that is not a copy of an existing business model. Many entrepreneurs have a passion and an idea, or even invent a new product, but are never able to execute to the point of creating a startup. Even fewer are able to grow the startup into a viable business.

As a mentor and advisor to entrepreneurs and startups, and an Angel investor, my passion is to find and nurture those entrepreneurs with innovative business ideas and acumen, to make them into successful business owners. I fully realize that for some of the best entrepreneurs, success is surviving the journey, and they can’t wait to hand off the new business and start another one.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world,” the late Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa and anti-apartheid revolutionary, once said.

Today, the speed of life is breaking new records every day. This is largely due to new technologies and because people are constantly absorbing enormous amounts of information.

As such, education has become an indispensable tool for keeping up the pace. In this regard, the institution of education plays an important role, as it is one of the main factors shaping young people’s attitudes, skills and culture.

Entrepreneurship is often hailed as a cornerstone of American society. From Mom & Pop stores to Silicon Valley start-ups, it has been held up as the key to self-reliance and social mobility. Unfortunately, as American society has become more stratified and social mobility has stalled, these narratives have taken on an increasingly mythological character.

Dan Chao is an avid cyclist who likes to train on a stationary bike. Lately while training he’s been sporting a pair of trendy-looking headphones that also stimulate his brain. And he says the device has helped him improve his performance on his real bike.

Chao is a cofounder and the CEO of a startup called Halo Neuroscience, which released the neurostimulating headphones, called Halo Sport, last month. The arch of the headphones contains two electrodes that deliver a very small amount of electric current to the wearer’s head, aimed at the neurons in the motor cortex, a brain region that coördinates movement.

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Virginia Tech and Carilion’s plans for a health sciences and technology innovation district in Roanoke represent greater fruition of years of preparing the earth for the sprouting of the 21st-century economy.

The plans also present Roanoke with a new task: how to evolve its economic development efforts to nurture and receive the tech and health sector people the district is supposed to attract and the businesses it’s supposed to create. “This is the future. This is 21st-century economic development,” said Roanoke City Manager Chris Morrill.

Brandon Landis was excited to move from Britain five months ago to take a job with a startup in Stockholm. But he was less impressed to find himself homeless in the city’s Central Station. Luckily, he found a kind stranger’s sofa to sleep on during his months-long search for a place to rent.

Yet some are refusing to pack their bags at all, as the city’s entrenched housing shortage reaches new and frustrating heights, putting its reputation as the world’s second-most-prolific tech hub, according to Atomico, at risk. Munich-based CupoNation, for one, had been planning to move to Stockholm, but recently decided to stay in Deutschland to avoid the hassle of finding staff housing or office space in the Swedish capital.

The Philippines’ Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is urging venture capitalists to invest in local startups as the country continues to improve its position on the global innovation index.

DTI reported that the Philippines climbed to 83rd rank from its 100th position in the 2015 global innovation index of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

“There is no better time for the Philippines than now,” said DTI Industry Promotion Group (IPG) undersecretary Nora Terrado, noting promotional initiatives for startups and innovation in the Philippines continue to add up.

The White House on Friday appointed an executive director of its Cancer Moonshot Task Force: Gregory C. Simon, a leukemia survivor with experience in government, nonprofits, and the corporate world.

About three weeks after President Obama announced a massive "moonshot" effort to spur progress toward cancer cures, Vice President Joe Biden convened an intergovernmental task force to coordinate the public aspects of the program. (Encouraging nonprofit and for-profit parties is also part of the mission.)

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Demo Day is not a launch strategy. You work your butt off to build a product and presentation that doesn’t break on stage, but the reality is that the audience of venture capitalists and tech journalists you present to are not likely your end users. Generally, the press audience for Demo Day isn’t your end user either.

For developer companies, Demo Day and the associated buzz is an awesome opportunity if you’re looking to raise a round. But if not, Demo Day and press launches can just be a distraction from the more immediate work you need to do.

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Matthias Meyer has just published the results of what may be the world’s most wasteful genome-sequencing project. In decoding just 0.1% of the genome of the oldest DNA ever recovered from an ancient human, the molecular biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, threw out enough raw data to map the modern human genome dozens of times over.

Image: The Sima de los Huesos hominins lived approximately 400,000 years ago during the Middle Pleistocene. Javier Trueba, Madrid Scientific Films

In less than two weeks, Oculus will start shipping its first consumer virtual-reality headset, Rift. It’s a big achievement for the company, which became a hit on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter in 2012 and was later snapped up by Facebook for $2 billion in 2014.

While virtual reality is still a small market, it’s growing quickly; 30 games are planned to launch alongside Rift on March 28, and other high-end headsets are coming soon, too. You’ll need a lot of cash to immerse yourself in this kind of virtual reality, though, as the headset costs $599 and you’ll need to pay for a powerful computer to go along with it.

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A source of cosmic rays radiating energies 100 times greater than those achieved at the largest terrestrial particle accelerator — the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) — has been found in the innermost region of our Milky Way galaxy.

The source was revealed after a detailed analysis of the data collected by the H.E.S.S. observatory in Namibia, which was published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

H.E.S.S. observatory is being run by an international collaboration of 42 institutions in 12 countries and has been mapping the centre of our galaxy in very high energy gamma rays for over the past 10 years. “Somewhere within the central 33 light years of the Milky Way there is an astrophysical source capable of accelerating protons to energies of about one petaelectronvolt, continuously for at least 1,000 years,” said Emmanuel Moulin from the Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in France.

The evolution of the office was gradual until the beginning of the 21st Century.  But since 2000, the pace of change has quickened dramatically. The level of progress and rate at which new software and hardware are being introduced into the marketplace is nothing short of astounding.

So what were some of the major innovations in the space of the last several decades?

A new infographic by Jive, titled, “The Odyssey of the Office: Our Workplace Evolving in Time” highlights the technologies that were introduced from the 1970s to 2000 and from 2000 to the present day. But it also looks at what the next five years will bring.

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Most cities are economically weak actors with limited ability to affect the critical forces driving their economies. Furthermore, changes in the structure of the economy often have changed the composition of urban leadership in ways that break the link between personal and community success and create an additional bias in favor of subsidized real estate development as a civic strategy. Less dependent on the local market, this local leadership increasingly identifies with a global community and its concerns in ways that have lowered the civic priority placed on inclusive economic development and entrepreneurship. To change these trends, local leadership should focus on inclusive local economic success first and make policies that reflect that priority and address areas where local government can make an impact. Creating an entrepreneur- and business-friendly local regulatory environment is a key piece of this effort, and the delivery of high-quality basic public services is vital.

A unique new computer model built on highly complex mathematics could make it possible to design safer versions of the ‘fast ships’ widely used in search & rescue, anti-drugs, anti-piracy and many other vital offshore operations. Travelling at up to 23-30 knots, fast ships are especially vulnerable to waves that amplify suddenly due to local weather and sea conditions – extreme funnelling effects, for example, may turn waves a few metres high into dangerous waves tens of metres tall that can destabilise ships, resulting in damage, causing injuries and threatening lives.

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