When Google Reader finally closed its doors, it shoved thousands of teary-eyed RSS fans into cyberspace, adrift, where we flailed around desperately for a suitable replacement. Many services rose to the challenge , but the incoming wave was a lot to handle. Too much for one of our favorite alternatives—The Old Reader—which is taking a page from Googs and shutting down as well. Read more…
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Even Google Reader Replacements Are Shutting Down
First Instagram , now this: An architecture and planning firm in Hong Kong has reportedly been chosen to turn a military airstrip in North Korea into an international airport. The plans show two donut-shaped terminals that could contribute to what some are describing as a tiny-but-not-imperceptible North Korean economic boom. Read more…
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Kim Jong-un Confirms Design For a $200 Million International Airport
New code inside of the latest iOS 7 beta suggests Apple plans to implement biometric scanning to the home button of its next iPhone. [Read more]
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Thousands of spaceships take part in the largest battle in Eve Online history. Check out these exclusive screenshots from someone who was there. [Read more]
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4,000-plus duke it out in epic Eve Online space showdown
A Bitcoin startup based in Thailand now says that it has suspended all operations because the Bank of Thailand has effectively banned bitcoins in the southeast Asian country. As Bitcoin Co. Ltd. reports: At the conclusion of the meeting, senior members of the Foreign Exchange Administration and Policy Department advised that due to lack of existing applicable laws, capital controls, and the fact that Bitcoin straddles multiple financial facets the following Bitcoin activities are illegal in Thailand: – Buying bitcoins – Selling bitcoins – Buying any goods or services in exchange for bitcoins – Selling any goods or services for bitcoins – Sending bitcoins to anyone located outside of Thailand – Receiving bitcoins from anyone located outside of Thailand This appears to be the first time that any country has outright banned the digital crypto currency . Further, it remains unclear exactly how Thailand would even enforce such a ban. Ars has been unable to confirm the ban with the Bank of Thailand , when this ban goes into effect, and how this decision came about. Bank representatives did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment. Read 1 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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A pair of crooks in Oklahoma made more than $400, 000 with a whisper-thin gas-pump credit-card skimmer that they installed in Wal-Mart gas stations, using rental cars while they were doing the installation.
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First time accepted submitter Consistent1 writes “A paywalled article in the “Nature Materials” journal describes the use of Magnetite to achieve ultra fast electronic switching, albeit, at the moment, only at extremely low temperatures. According to a story on Quartz, the team, led by Dr. Hermann Dürr from the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences hopes ‘to continue the experiment with materials that can operate at room temperature. One possibility is vanadium dioxide.’ Chips utilizing this technology may operate at clock cycles thousands of times faster than the silicon-based chips used today.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New Alternatives To Silicon May Increase Chip Speeds By Orders of Magnitude.
NASA/SDO/IRIS Last month we told you about the launch of NASA’s Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) satellite, which was built to study a poorly understood layer of the Sun’s atmosphere. After its successful launch , the satellite settled into its orbit and NASA took the lens cap off the telescope on July 17. Now, NASA has released the first imagery from the telescope, and it is gorgeous . The image above shows the unprecedented detail of IRIS’s view (on the right) compared to the view from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, a satellite that has been studying the Sun since 2010. (The video below shows these images in motion.) The feathery features you see are the result of differences in density and temperature. It’s the movement of energy through this layer of the solar atmosphere that NASA scientists are trying to understand. It should help them figure out how the Sun’s upper atmosphere gets so hot, as well as how solar flares form. Read on Ars Technica | Comments
First time accepted submitter marshallr writes “Technical Information Release TIR 13-10 becomes effective in Massachusetts on July 31st, 2013. It requires software consultants to collect a 6.25% sales tax from their clients if they perform ‘computer system design services and the modification, integration, enhancement, installation or configuration of standardized software.’ TIR 13-10 was published to mass.gov on July 25th, 2013 to provide the public a few working days to review the release and make comments.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting
During the heyday of optical storage we saw a 400GB Blu-Ray flavor (shown above) and even 1TB discs in the lab, but lately such development has waned. Sony and Panasonic have teamed up to move things along, however, saying there’s a need for reliable long-term storage that only optical disks can provide. The pair will develop a “next-generation standard for professional-use optical discs, ” saying that a 300GB flavor could be ready in two years or so. Though geared towards industries like cloud storage and digital cinema at first, the tech could eventually trickle down to consumers, too. Given rapid developments in on-demand streaming and cloud gaming , however, there might be nothing left for us plebes to archive by then. Filed under: Storage , Sony Comments Via: The Verge Source: Sony
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