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This Guy Fought in WWII WIth a Sword and Bow

Running into battle armed with a broadsword, bow, and quiver of arrows was perfectly acceptable if you were fighting in the Hundred Years’ War or fending off some orcs on Middle Earth. But when it comes to World War II, such medieval weaponry looks like child’s play next to the technology of the time. A sword isn’t the most likely of defences against rifles and tanks. However, for John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, nicknamed “Mad Jack, ” there was nothing he’d rather arm himself with than a trusty sword and bow. Read more…        

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Linux 3.12 Codenamed "Suicidal Squirrel"

First time accepted submitter noahfecks writes “After the Linux 3.11 kernel was codenamed ‘Linux for Workgroups’ in memory of Microsoft Windows for Workgroups 3.11, Linus Torvalds is using ‘Suicidal Squirrel’ as the Linux 3.12 kernel codename.” Seems only fitting. (The list of kernel names should reflect this soon.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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These rare photos of Migaloo the albino humpback whale are astonishing

About a year ago we told you about Migaloo , the only documented white humpback whale in the world. Unfortunately, the only pictures we had were grainy and taken from a low angle. So just wait until you get a load of these new photos. Read more…        

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Scientists Have Found a Huge Underground Water Reserve in Kenya

This is incredible. Scientists have found an underground water reserve in Kenya so large that it could meet the entire country’s water needs for the next 70 years. Using satellite, radar and geological technology, scientists found an aquifer—an underground layer of water-bearing material—that contains 200 billion cubic meters of fresh water. Read more…        

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Intel details Z3000 Bay Trail chips for tablets and hybrids, claims up to 2x CPU and 3x GPU performance

Intel barely existed on the mobile scene two years ago, and yet the company’s Clover Trail chips for low-power tablets and hybrids have already had a huge impact on the Windows PC market — not least by rendering Windows for ARM (aka Windows RT) largely redundant . But Clover Trail’s performance in devices like the Acer Iconia W3 or Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx is far from perfect, especially with Windows 8 desktop applications and anything that involves 3D graphics, and that’s why we’re more than ready for its successor: Bay Trail , which is based on the next-generation 22nm Silvermont architecture . Intel has today detailed three families of Bay Trail chips, the most interesting of which is undoubtedly the Z3000-series for tablet form factors, and you can catch up on these new SoCs right after the break. Filed under: Desktops , Laptops , Tablets , Intel Comments

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Virtual Perfection: Why 8K resolution per eye isn’t enough for perfect VR

So you want me to squeeze two 8K displays into this space? No problem! Give me a decade or so… “Without going into a rant, the term ‘Retina Display’ is garbage, I think.” Palmer Luckey, the founder and creator of the Oculus Rift, is a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to creating the best possible virtual reality experience. So when our recent interview turned toward the ideal future for a head-mounted display—a theoretical “perfect” device that delivers everything he could ever dream of—he did go on a little rant about what we currently consider “indistinguishable” pixels. “There is a point where you can no longer distinguish individual pixels, but that does not mean that you cannot distinguish greater detail, ” he said. “You can still see aliasing on lines on a retina display. You can’t pick out the pixels, but you can still see the aliasing. Let’s say you want to have an image of a piece of hair on the screen. You can’t make it real-size… it would still look jaggy and terrible. There’s a difference between where you can’t see pixels and where you can’t make improvements.” Read 13 remaining paragraphs | Comments        

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Valve Announces Family Sharing On Steam, Can Include Friends

Deathspawner writes “Valve has today announced its next attempt at a console-killer: ‘Family Sharing’ is a feature that will allow you to share your Steam library with family and close friends. This almost seems too good to be true, and while there are caveats, this is going to be huge, and Valve knows it. As Techgage notes, with it you can share nearly your entire Steam library with family or friends, allowing them to earn their own achievements, and have their own saved games. ‘Once a device is authorized, the lender’s library of Steam games becomes available for others on the machine to access, download, and play. Though simultaneous usage of an account’s library is not allowed, the lender may always access and play his games at any time. If he decides to start playing when a friend is borrowing one of his games, the friend will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Jurassic Park IV renamed Jurassic World, and it’s coming in June 2015

As if summer 2015 wasn’t already looking overloaded with huge movies, now there’s one more. The fourth Jurassic Park movie, now titled Jurassic World , is coming out June 12, 2015 . Colin Trevorrow ( Safety Not Guaranteed ) is officially directing from a script he co-wrote with Safety co-writer Derek Connolly. Read more…        

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NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of FISA court judge

As the Snowden leaks about NSA surveillance continue to trickle out, it’s easy to miss the fact that the NSA is now releasing hundreds of pages of damning documents about its activities.        

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NSA reveals that it illegally gathered thousands of phone records, to the appalled astonishment of FISA court judge

This Gaming PC Is Smaller Than a Controller But Still Packs a Punch

There are plenty of gaming PCs designed to replace consoles , but if you’re short on space that normally means accepting something underpowered like the Ouya . But this little guy, called the Gigabyte Brix II, is both powerful and petite. Read more…        

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