Facebook to rip search opt-out from under those who were using it

Here’s the dialog you’ll see if you were opted out of search, when Facebook gets around to opting you back in. Facebook If you checked that box saying you don’t want to appear in Facebook search results, get ready: soon, that choice is going away. Facebook announced in a blog post Thursday that it’s removing the ability to opt out of appearing in search results, both for friends and globally, for those who’ve had it enabled. Facebook actually removed the search opt-out for everyone who didn’t have it enabled early this year, around the time it introduced Graph Search . Now, ten months later, Facebook is giving the boot to anyone who actually cared enough to opt out, referring to the checkbox as an “old search setting.” Facebook claims that less than one percent of users were taking advantage of the feature. In simpler times, Facebook was smaller and easier to navigate, and everyone had a privacy setting asking “Who can look up your timeline by name?” Now that there are so many profiles that users become confused when they know they have a friend or know someone in a group, but try to find them by search and they don’t appear, says Facebook. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments        

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Researchers get slo-mo footage of the collapse of a quantum waveform

Research from UC Berkeley’s Kater Murch and team has allowed fine observation of a quantum waveform collapse. Observing single quantum trajectories of a superconducting quantum bit , published in Nature , describes the experiment, which used indirect observations of microwaves that had passed through a box containing a circuit where a particle was in a state of superposition, allowing the researchers to view the collapse in slow-motion.        

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Scientists Found the Remains of a Water-Covered Earth-Like Planet

A team of astrophysicists have made an exciting however complex discovery a mere 170 light years away. In their own words , it’s “the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body” outside of our own solar system to have evidence of water. It’s the “rocky” bit that makes it Earth-like. Read more…        

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Super Mario fully implemented in HTML5

Full Screen Mario is Josh Goldberg ‘s complete remake of the classic Super Mario Brothers in HTML5. You can play re-creations of the original levels, make your own in an HTML5-based level editor, or play any of an infinite number of randomly generated levels.        

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Can You Tell These Ikea Products and Death Metal Bands Apart?

Ikea furniture names are often full of umlauts and improbable double consonants. I’ve been told that the names are Swedish—and I have no choice but to believe this, because I don’t speak Swedish. Come to think of it, they sort of resemble the names of another fantastical Scandinavian export: Death Metal. Read more…        

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This is what a penny looks like after being on Mars for 411 days

There’s an old penny on Curiosity that it uses to calibrate the Mars Hand Lens Imager at the end of its arm. The rover recently took a hi-res close-up of the coin, and as you can see, it’s getting a little dusty. Read more…        

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Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far

First time accepted submitter Saethan writes “Healthcare.gov, the site to be used by people in 36 states to get insurance as part of the Affordable Care Act, has apparently cost the U.S. Government $634 million. Not only is this more than Facebook spent during its first 6 years in operation, it is also over $500 million above what the original estimate was: $93.7 million. Why, in a country with some of the best web development companies in the world, has this website, which is poor quality at best, cost so much?” That $634 million figure comes from this U.S. government budget-tracking system. Given that this system is national rather than for a single city, maybe everyone should just be grateful the contract didn’t go to TechnoDyne. Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Google Maps Adds Multiple Destinations, Events, and Reservations

Getting to one destination and then having to input your next destination manually? Who has the time? Years of your life have been wasted with this arduous task. But now, finally (or, rather, once again) you can add multiple destinations all at once in Google Maps. Read more…        

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T-Mobile Announces Free, Unlimited Roaming in 100 Countries

Starting October 31st, T-Mobile users will be gain unlimited texts and data in over 100 countries, at no additional cost. That’s right—if you’re on a supported Simple Choice plan, you no longer have to worry about exorbitant roaming charges when you travel. Read more…        

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Microsoft pays $100,000 bounty for discovery of Windows 8.1 exploit

Microsoft said it would pay up to a $100, 000 bounty to researchers who found exploits in Windows 8.1 , and it’s putting its money where its mouth is. The company just paid the full hundred grand to Context Information Security’s James Forshaw for discovering a defense circumvention technique. While Microsoft wants a fix before it details the attack, it says that Forshaw deserved the full amount for being thorough — he’s describing a whole class of security threat, not just one flaw. Us end users may never fully appreciate the finding, but it’s good to know that the new OS will be that much safer. Filed under: Software , Microsoft Comments Via: The Seattle Times , The Verge Source: BlueHat Blog

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