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After six decades, Russia will build its final Proton rocket this year

Enlarge / A Russian 3-stage Proton rocket blasts into the sky in 2000. (credit: NASA) Russia’s main space corporation, Roscosmos, said it is in the process of building four more Proton rockets before it shuts down production of the venerable booster. In a news release , Roscosmos stated the four rockets are on an assembly […]

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Valve’s upcoming Steam Deck will be based on Arch Linux—not Debian

Enlarge / SteamOS is rebasing from Debian to Arch Linux for the Steam Deck. As long as Valve puts in plenty of ongoing maintenance work, we think it’s a smart move. (credit: Valve / Arch Linux / Jim Salter) As Ars Technica confirmed in May, two months ahead of its official reveal, Valve is about […]

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Nvidia and Valve are bringing DLSS to Linux gaming… sort of

Enlarge / Tux looks a lot more comfortable sitting on that logo than he probably should—Nvidia’s drivers are still proprietary, and DLSS support isn’t available for native Linux apps—only Windows apps running under Proton. (credit: Aurich Lawson / Jim Salter / Larry Ewing / Nvidia) Linux gamers, rejoice—we’re getting Nvidia’s Deep Learning Super Sampling on […]

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Physics is Slightly less Busted up, but still not Really Correct

Expand / / One approach to gauge the cost radius of a proton would be to bounce it off (proton-sized clamp is just accessible via apology ). (charge: Jefferson Lab) How large is that a proton? This does not sound like an extremely complex issue, but it is one which turned out to possess the […]