They are home to your favorite stories, your favorite songs, your favorite characters. You know so much about the Disney movies that you grew up with and the Pixar movies you love now but do you know where they’re all located? No worries, this map by artist Eowyn Smith will show you. England sure gets a lot of Disney love. Read more…
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Here’s a map that shows the location of every Disney and Pixar movie
goruka writes with news that a new game engine has been made available to Free Software developers under the permissive MIT license “Godot is a fully featured, open source, MIT licensed, game engine. It focuses on having great tools, and a visual oriented workflow that can deploy to PC, Mobile and Web platforms with no hassle. The editor, language and APIs are feature rich, yet simple to learn. Godot was born as an in-house engine, and was used to publish several work-for-hire commercial titles. With more than half a million lines of code, Godot is one of the most complex Open Source game engines at the moment, and one of the largest commitments to open source software in recent years. It allows developers to make games under Linux (and other unix variants), Windows and OSX.” The source is available via Github, and, according to Phoronix, it’s about as featureful as the Unity engine. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Godot Game Engine Released Under MIT License
At the Myrmecos blog, Alex Wild explains why all the baby ants are saying “YOPO” . (You Only Poop Once)
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Graphics hardware can rapidly drain a laptop’s battery — there’s a good reason why many Ultrabooks ship with nothing more than basic integrated video. If Intel brings a new low-power graphics core to market, though, high-performance visuals and long battery life won’t be mutually exclusive concepts. The experimental design boosts the voltage of those components it needs the most, letting it aggressively reduce the voltage of unused circuits; it can even put the entire core to sleep for brief moments. The result is a GPU that’s 40 percent more efficient than what you’d otherwise get. The company isn’t saying just what it will do with its discovery, but it notes that the part could either extend the longevity of a mobile PC or improve its performance without sapping any more energy. If you can eventually buy an ultra-thin laptop that easily runs Crysis all day long, you’ll know who to thank. Filed under: Laptops , Intel Comments Via: PC World Source: Intel Labs
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If you’ve ever lost access to your PayPal holdings through no fault of your own — say, following a shady money transfer — you may be tempted to enjoy a little schadenfreude today. PayPal president David Marcus reports that someone used a skimming device to clone a credit card while he was in the UK, letting the perpetrator make a “ton” of fraudulent purchases. It’s virtually the embodiment of karmic payback, isn’t it? In fairness, the executive is right when he notes that the incident wouldn’t have happened if the merchant accepted PayPal ; the company would have masked the card number and rendered the skimmer useless. And we sincerely hope that Marcus’ finances are back in order. All the same, the affair shows just why business leaders should be sympathetic to their customers’ problems — one day, they may be stuck in the same boat. My card (with EMV chip) got skimmed while in the UK. Ton of fraudulent txns. Wouldn’t have happened if merchant accepted PayPal… – David Marcus (@davidmarcus) February 10, 2014 Filed under: Internet Comments Via: USA Today Source: David Marcus (Twitter 1) , (2)
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The definition of karma: PayPal president’s credit card gets hacked
There’s been a lot of hype and panic about cars being hacked and terrorist teens on laptops in desert bunkers taking over your Toyota, and up to now it’s been mostly all just fodder for your crazy aunt to email you about. Now, however, a first viable general-use car-hacking tool has been developed that’s also cheap. Read more…
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Hackers Can Take Over Your Car With This Simple $26 Device
You might’ve heard about Under Armour’s crazy new zipper that only requires one hand to zip. Though the futuristic magnetic clasp jigsaws nicely with the company’s high-performance standards, the zipper was originally had more humble origins: helping a sick man lead an easier life. Read more…
The last time Hamburg’s hulking air raid bunker saw use, it was 1945—and locals were taking cover from Allied bombs inside its six-foot-thick concrete walls. That was almost 70 years ago. This year, the bunker is serving a new purpose: Supplying the city with renewable energy. Read more…
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This Abandoned Nazi Bunker Just Reopened As a Clean Energy Plant
An anonymous reader writes “SecureMac.com has discovered a new trojan horse for Mac OS X called OSX/CoinThief.A, which spies on web traffic to steal Bitcoins. This malware has been found in the wild, along with numerous reports of stolen coins. The malware, which comes disguised as an app to send and receive payments on Bitcoin Stealth Addresses, instead covertly monitors all web traffic in order to steal login info for Bitcoin wallets.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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NASA and Houston-based company GRoK Technologies will work on the development of new “breakthrough products, ” noninvasive medical technologies designed to “regenerate bone and muscle tissues.” It really sounds like something out of Star Trek, but “it’s not just sci-fi anymore.” Read more…
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‘Not sci-fi anymore’: NASA is working on Star Trek healing devices