Last month, the biggest sunspot in 22 years traversed across the Sun. Labelled AR 2192, it was big enough to see without the need for a telescope. This awesome timelapse animation can show you what you missed. Read more…
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This Ultra-HD timelapse shows the biggest sunspot in 22 years
Live in a Microsoft bubble? Then you might be able to make good use of its new Work & Play Bundle, which wraps up all its subscription services in one place for $200 a year. Read more…
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All of Microsoft’s Best Subscription Services Are Now in a $200 Bundle
Glenn Fleishman reports on a hack in the wild that may trick users into installing malicious apps. But don’t panic! Though potent, the malware has significant real-world limitations. Read the rest
For hundreds of years, x has been the go-to symbol for the unknown quantity in mathematical equations. So who started this practice? Read more…
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Why We Use "X" as the Unknown in Math
In a world where any show with “The” and “Dead” in the title is a runaway success comes, er, another one. That’s because Starz has teamed up with Sam Raimi to produce a new TV series that’ll follow cult movie trilogy The Evil Dead . The 10-part show will chronicle the later life of square-jawed hero Ash (Bruce Campbell) who will once again be called upon to battle the forces of Deadites. Given that the press release mentions Ash’s role as a “stock boy, ” it’s easy to presume that the character will be still working at the S-Mart where he was left at the end of Army of Darkness – rather than the post-apocalyptic future we saw in the director’s cut of the same movie. The series will begin next year, so be prepared for Twitter to be nothing more than an endless stream of people saying Groovy #Groovy. Filed under: Misc , HD Comments Source: Starz
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Following a police shooting in northern Brazil, people started getting messages . On WhatsApp, they were warned to stay indoors that night. Some of the WhatsApp messages were texts, though the most popular was an audio file with a dire warning: “Don’t go to Guama, Canudos or Terra Firme tonight. It concerns your security, ” it said, according to the BBC . “One of our policemen was killed and we will be cleaning the area.” Read more…
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Brazilian Vigilantes Used WhatsApp to Warn People of a Coming Massacre
Amazon Studios just announced its next slate of television pilots, which will debut sometime in early 2015. Once they’re released, feedback will help decide whether Amazon will order them to series, the same as previous pilot rounds . Read more…
Even when the elderly are being tended to by a caregiver, it’s almost impossible to keep an eye on them 100 percent of the time. So a Japanese company has developed a pair of LED light bulbs featuring built-in laser-based radar to track the movements of someone in its vicinity, and automatically send alerts when they have fallen or suddenly stopped moving. Read more…
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Radar-Enabled Light Bulbs Automatically Detect When the Elderly Fall
Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow. Read more…
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Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here
tlhIngan writes When moving from an iPhone to something else, if you were an avid user of iMessage, you may find your messages missing, especially from iOS-using friends. Indeed, it has been such a problem that there are even lawsuits about it. While Apple has maintained that users can always switch off iMessage, that only works if you still have your iOS device. Unless one also has other iOS devices or a Mac, they may not even realize their friends have been sending messages that are queued up on Apple’s services via iMessage. Well, that problem has been resolved with Apple creating a deregistration utility to remove your phone number from the iMessage servers so friends will no longer send you texts via iMessage that you can no longer receive. It’s a two-step process involving proof of number ownership (via regular SMS) before deregistration takes place. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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