The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3, 000-year-old skeleton . Analysis of the remains , which were found in a tomb in what used to be ancient Nubia , revealed metastatic carcinoma — a form of cancer that spreads to other parts of the body. The discovery shows that the disease is not strictly a modern affliction . Read more…
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The oldest known incidence of cancer in a human has been found in a 3,000-year-old skeleton.
Two-factor authentication is critical for protecting your online accounts, but sadly, not every site supports it (even, shockingly, many banks ). TwoFactorAuth.org is a new site that all the sites that do or do not support two-factor authentication. Read more…
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TwoFactorAuth Lists All the Sites with Two-Factor Authentication
A bulletproof, air-conditioned, diamond-covered, $3.2 million suit? Even James Bond would drool over this. Not that it would matter; it’s also waterproof. Naturally. Read more…
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The $3.2 Million Bulletproof, Diamond-Studded Suit With a Built-In A/C
Texas A&M Supercomputing Transistors keep getting smaller and smaller, enabling computer chip designers to develop faster computer chips. But no matter how fast the chip gets, moving data from one part of the machine to another still takes time. To date, chip designers have addressed this problem by placing small caches of local memory on or near the processor itself. Caches store the most frequently used data for easy access. But the days of a cache serving a single processor (or core) are over, making management of cache a nontrivial challenge. Additionally, cores typically have to share data, so the physical layout of the communication network connecting the cores needs to be considered, too. Researchers at MIT and the University of Connecticut have now developed a set of new “rules” for cache management on multicore chips. Simulation results have shown that the rules significantly improve chip performance while simultaneously reducing the energy consumption. The researcher’s first paper, presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture, reported gains (on average) of 15 percent in execution time and 25 percent energy savings. Read 8 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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New cache design speeds up processing time by 15%
Kyle Orland At a “Driving the Future of Innovation at Sony” panel today, Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida revealed the company’s long-rumored plans to enter a virtual reality headset space that has gained new relevance in the wake of the Oculus Rift’s development . The headset, codenamed Project Morpheus (after the god of dream, not the Matrix character, Sony clarified), is being developed by an international team of Sony engineers. “Virtual Reality is the next innovation from PlayStation that may well change the future of games,” Yoshida said. “Nothing elevates the level of immersion better than VR,” he continued, adding that VR “goes one step further than immersion to deliver presence.” The headset will have its position and orientation tracked 100 times per second in a full 360 degrees of rotation within a three cubic meter “working volume.” Tracking will make use of high-fidelity inertial sensors in the unit itself, tiny tracking markers on the surface of the headset, and the same stereo PlayStation Camera that tracks the DualShock 4 and PlayStation Move. Sony R&D engineer Dr. Richard Marks wryly noted at the panel that the PlayStation Camera “almost seems as if it was designed for VR, actually,” to laughs from the audience. Read 12 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Sony reveals Project Morpheus, its virtual reality headset for PS4
New submitter gadfium writes: “Python 3.4 has been released. It adds new library features, bug fixes, and security improvements. It includes: at standardized implementation of enumeration types, a statistics module, improvements to object finalization, a more secure and interchangeable hash algorithm for strings and binary data, asynchronous I/O support, and an installer for the pip package manager.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Python 3.4 Released
It was only a matter of time. The Oculus Rift has caught so much attention—deservedly so—that of course one of the big dogs was going to start honing in on its virtual reality territory. Tonight, that’s Sony. And its Project Morpheus VR headset sounds fantastic. Read more…
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Project Morpheus: Sony’s Oculus Rift Competitor Looks Incredible
Have an office without a window? Not sure whether to grab your jacket or umbrella on the way out. Sure you could hit the Internet or pop open a weather app on your smartphone, but what fun would that be? Read more…
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Build a DIY Ambient Weather Indicator with an Adafruit Neopixel Ring
darthcamaro writes “Oracle today officially released Java 8, nearly two years after Java 7, and after much delay. The new release includes a number of critical new features, including Lambda expressions and the new Nashorn JavaScript engine. Java 8, however, is still missing at least one critical piece that Java developers have been asking for, for years. ‘It’s a pity that some of the features like Jigsaw were dropped as modularity, runtime dependencies and interoperability are still a huge problem in Java, ‘ James Donelan, vice president of engineering at MuleSoft said. ‘In fact this is the one area where I still think Java has a long way to go.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Java 8 Officially Released
An anonymous reader writes “Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 28 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include VP9 video decoding, Web notifications on OS X, and volume controls for HTML5 video and audio. Firefox 28 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. The full release notes are available. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play (Android release notes).” Mozilla also announced tools to bring the Unity game engine to WebGL and asm.js. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Firefox 28 Arrives With VP9 Video Decoding, HTML5 Volume Controls