Yahoo Mail is rolling out a spiffy redesign on all major platforms today, including Android, iOS, Windows 8, and the web, which also includes some previously premium features like POP access and disposable addresses. Read more here . Read more…
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Dawn Kawamoto writes “Alcatel-Lucent is planning to cut 10, 000 workers by 2015. The telecom equipment maker’s newly minted CEO calls this restructuring part of his Shift Plan. Under this plan, Alcatel-Lucent wants to save 1 billion Euros in costs and refocus its operations on next-gen IP networking, cloud and ultra-broadband access and away from legacy technologies like its 2G and 3G wireless. In the meantime, Wall Street thinks it may be cleaning itself up for a sale of some of its assets or its operations to Nokia, which will need to bolster its telecom equipment business after selling its smartphone operations to Microsoft. But a Nokia-Microsoft deal may be too little, too late.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Things are changing at Intel. In the desktop world, the company is used to staggering its efforts with a “tick-tock” product cycle. First it manufacturers an existing chip design at a smaller size of transistor (“tick”) and then, usually a year later, it improves the architecture while sticking to the same transistor size (“tock”). Bay Trail , by contrast, is a mobile class chip that represents both a tick and a tock. It makes major changes on previous Clover Trail design, while also shifting from 32nm to 22nm transistors. A jump like that holds major promise, so we were keen to benchmark Bay Trail at the earliest opportunity. Intel allowed us into a hotel room in central London to do just that, using the highest-spec quad-core Z3770 chip inside a reference tablet, and the results look impressive. Read on for the stats and a quick assessment of what they mean. Filed under: Gaming , Tablets , Mobile , Intel Comments
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The NSA’s Utah Data Center. Swilsonmc A massive data center being built by the National Security Agency to aid its surveillance operations has been hit by “10 meltdowns in the past 13 months” that “destroyed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of machinery and delayed the center’s opening for a year, ” the Wall Street Journal reported last night . The first of four facilities at the Utah Data Center was originally scheduled to become operational in October 2012, according to project documents described by the Journal . But the electrical problems—described as arc fault failures or “a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box”—led to explosions, failed circuits, and melted metal, the report states: The first arc fault failure at the Utah plant was on Aug. 9, 2012, according to project documents. Since then, the center has had nine more failures, most recently on Sept. 25. Each incident caused as much as $100, 000 in damage, according to a project official. It took six months for investigators to determine the causes of two of the failures. In the months that followed, the contractors employed more than 30 independent experts that conducted 160 tests over 50, 000 man-hours, according to project documents. The 1 million square foot data center is slated to cost $1.4 billion to construct. One project official told the Journal that the NSA planned to start turning on some of the computers at the facility this week. “But without a reliable electrical system to run computers and keep them cool, the NSA’s global surveillance data systems can’t function, ” the newspaper wrote. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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linuxwrangler writes “NSA’s new Utah data-center has been sufferering numerous power-surges that have caused as much as $100, 000 damage per event. The root cause is ‘not yet sufficiently understood’ but is suspected to relate to the site’s ‘inability to simultaneously run computers and keep them cool.’ Frustrating the analysis and repair are ‘incomplete information about the design of the electrical system’ and the fact that “regular quality controls in design and construction were bypassed in an effort to fast track the Utah project.”” Ars Technica has a short article, too, as does ITworld. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Very little is known about the next big Star Wars endeavor, Star Wars: Rebels . It’s a totally new animated series, set a decade before Episode IV and inspired by the art of Ralph McQuarrie. We’ve seen a few images — but now, get your first glimpse at some footage. Read more…
Today, nearly half of the world’s total population has potential access to some kind of 3G or 4G network, which is five times the level of mobile coverage we were at just five years ago. Unfortunately, not all mobile broadband is created equal—especially where price is concerned. Read more…
Disney has developed a new technology that allows you to generate energy by simply rubbing or touching a piece of paper. This is something the world needs because, you know, everything will require a level of interactivity in the future—even old-fashioned paper books. Read more…
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Today I found out that the first man to walk in space almost got stuck out there. That lucky individual was Alexei Leonov, who was born in the Soviet Union on May 30, 1934. He was one of the twenty Soviet Air Force Pilots to be chosen for the first cosmonaut group. Read more…
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You might think that this image looks a little bodged together, and you’d be right to. After all, it’s literally a collage of photographs obtained by Voyager I—all the way back in 1979. Read more…
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This Is How NASA Made Composite Images Before Photoshop Existed