At $35, the Raspberry Pi is a fantastic little computer, but when you add in the cost of a display, mouse, and keyboard, things get a little more expensive. Good thing you don’t really need them. With VNC, you can access your Pi from a laptop or desktop computer using the same mouse, keyboard, and display that you always do, no rewiring required. Read more…
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Enlarge / Back in 2006, EarthLink planned on being a major broadband player. (credit: NIall Kennedy ) Internet provider Windstream today announced that it will buy EarthLink for $673 million in an all-stock transaction. The merger is focused on creating a stronger network operator for business customers, but it also provides a reminder that after all these years, dial-up Internet is still being sold. EarthLink was founded in 1994 to provide dial-up Internet service and had more than 1 million customers by the late 1990s. But while dial-up has long been overtaken by DSL, cable, and fiber network technologies, EarthLink is still offering its original Internet service and boasts , “We’re the dial-up Internet experts. It’s what we’ve been doing best since 1994.” EarthLink dial-up costs $9.95 a month for the first three months and $24.95 a month thereafter (or $14.50 a month if you prepay for a year). For that price, you’ll get “Unlimited 56K dial-up access,” e-mail, and “10MB of webspace for your own website,” the company says. EarthLink also advertises DSL, cable, and satellite service through reseller agreements that allow EarthLink to sell the services without building the networks itself. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Dial-up pioneer EarthLink still exists, and it’s merging with Windstream
Now that Turtle Rock Studios is no longer working on Evolve , it has some time on its hands… and it’s giving veteran gamers a treat. If you have a PC copy of the original Left 4 Dead (one of Turtle Rock’s best-known games), you can now install Dam It , an unfinished but playable free campaign that was meant to connect two of the shipping game’s stories ( Dead Air and Blood Harvest ). You start at an airfield and have to make your way through an apple orchard, a ravine, a covered bridge and a campground before a climactic fight at the campaign’s namesake hydroelectric dam. Unlike most other L4D tales, you’re actually encouraged to split up — you just need to stay close enough to offer support in a pinch. When Turtle Rock says “unfinished, ” it means just that. A panic event doesn’t work as intended, zombies don’t always behave as they should and graphics are rough around the edges. You do get two stand-alone survival maps on top of Dam It , though, and the core experience will no doubt be familiar. It’s not the Left 4 Dead 3 you might be hoping for (seriously, Valve, make it happen), but it’s definitely a taste of what the first title could have been like. Via: Polygon Source: Auger Resources
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If you could print something out aboard the International Space Station, what would it be? That was the question posed to engineers and enthusiasts in the ISS Design Competition, and the winner — a clever and powerful device for launching palm-size satellites — will actually be getting beamed up. Read More
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3D-printed satellite launcher heads to ISS with blessing of Chris Hadfield and Grant Imahara
Mass Effect: Andromeda cinematic trailer. After two years of teases , teases , and more teases , fans of Bioware’s Mass Effect series were hoping for a substantive amount of info on Mass Effect: Andromeda for “N7 Day” this year. Unfortunately, we instead got yet another tease: Bioware released a 1:43 cinematic trailer for the title with a “Spring 2017” release date. We learned in past sneak-peeks that the game takes place in the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy , in a region called the Helios cluster. We already know that the game focuses on the Ryder family, who are part of a massive multi-species exploration/colonization effort called the “Andromeda Initiative.” And, we learned last week that the game is likely set 600 years after the main storyline in the previous Mass Effect games. Today’s trailer gives us a few dribs and drabs of additional plot details—something went wrong during the Andromeda Initiative’s trip, and the “Pathfinder”—the mysterious N7 figure shown in previous trailers , rumored to be the main character’s father—has been killed, incapacitated, or otherwise removed from the picture. This leaves the player as the new “Pathfinder,” which jibes with dialog heard in this year’s 4K tech demo video . Read 6 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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New tease for Mass Effect: Andromeda shows tiny plot details, but that’s all
NASA’s Juno mission is not exactly proceeding according to plan. Last month, an engine burn that would have brought the Jupiter-orbiting spacecraft into a low-altitude orbit was delayed following a malfunction with a pair of helium valves . Now, NASA has confirmed that the next opportunity to enter “science orbit” will also be missed—and that may be the case for the foreseeable future. Read more…
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Enlarge (credit: Tesla) On Monday morning, Tesla announced that new electric vehicles ordered after January 1, 2017 will not have unlimited free access to its network of Supercharger stations. The company began rolling out its network of fast-charging stations four years ago, with free unlimited access for Model S and Model X owners (although at one point it was a $2,500 option for the base Model S EV). Earlier this year we learned that those 400,000+ buyers of the new Model 3 EV would not have unfettered access to the Supercharger network. Now it appears that limit will apply to the more expensive vehicles in its range as well. While the details have not been fully revealed yet, Tesla says that from next year, new vehicles will only get the first 400kWh each year for free—after that point the cost of electricity will be passed on to the owner. Prices per kWh will vary regionally, but Tesla says it does not intend the Supercharger network to ever become a profit center. At the same time, this move isn’t suddenly going to cause owning a Tesla to become as expensive as owning other $100,000 vehicles. Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics ‘ energy prices, at a national average of 14¢ per kWh, we think it unlikely that, even with overheads, a full Supercharge would cost more than $20. Read 4 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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The US Navy’s brand new $4 billion warship is an incredible technological feat. The futuristic DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyer is equipped with two guns that can hit targets from a stunning 80 miles away. The only problem? Rounds for the guns cost over $800, 000 each. And the Navy has now decided that it can’t justify spending that much. Read more…
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The US Navy’s New Warship Gun Costs $800,000 to Fire
YouTube, the second most popular website on the internet, has the ability to effect change and the adoption of new technologies in visual mediums like no other website. In the past it’s used that ability to good use. It was an early adopter of 4K content and continues to possess the largest repository of said content. The same is true of 360 video. Now YouTube is finally embracing HDR , which means newer videos are going to get a lot more realistic looking. Read more…
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The Next Big Thing in Filmmaking Has Come to YouTube
The UK’s Tesco Bank has confirmed that tens of thousands of its customers’ current accounts were compromised over the weekend, leading to fraudulent withdrawals to the tune of several hundreds of pounds, in some instances. Suspicious activity was seen across some 40, 000 accounts, with money taken from around 20, 000 of those, the bank’s chief exec told the BBC . In reaction, Tesco Bank has temporarily frozen all online payment facilities for current accounts, and guaranteed affected customers will receive full refunds as soon as possible. Tesco Bank has said in its latest update that cards can still be used to withdraw cash, as well as make chip and pin transactions. All scheduled direct debits and bill payments are unaffected, too, though customers should’ve been contacted and told all this already. In the immediate aftermath, overwhelmed support phone lines, cancelled cards and the online payments freeze will be a serious inconvenience, not to mention the missing money. But how did this happen in the first place? As yet, we have no real details on the nature of the breach, but of all online services, you expect banking to be unfalteringly secure. Local telco TalkTalk lost 100, 000 customers after last year’s hack exposed personal details — as well as being fined £400, 000 (around $500, 000) just last month. Rebuilding trust after losing customers’ money will be a much taller order, even if only 40, 000 of more than 7 million current accounts were compromised. It could, of course, have been a very sophisticated attack — or lax security, or facilitated by someone on the inside. For now, Tesco Bank will be scrambling to fix the situation, and is working “with the authorities and regulators to address the fraud.” But hopefully it won’t be too long before we understand more about the breach’s origins. Source: Tesco (1) , (2)
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Tesco Bank breached: Money stolen from 20,000 accounts