The ruins of the Temple of Santiago are not an easy destination to visit, or even have a look at. The walls of the once sacred building are usually hiding under water, but now drought lowered the river the temple has been hiding in, revealing a rather awesome sight. Read more…
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Drought Brings a 16th-Century Mexican Temple to the Surface Again
It’s taken 6, 000 pissed-off customers, a Change.org petition , and an entire website named Staingate , but Apple has finally agreed that yes, a coating peeling off Retina Macbook displays is not good. Read more…
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Apple Admits That Delaminating Screens Might Actually Be a Problem
As well as promising the entire world in a FedEx box, Amazon also trades on the quality of its reviews. So it’s actually not that surprising that the company is taking 1, 114 unknown reviewers to court. Read more…
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Amazon is Suing 1,000 Fake Five-Star Reviewers
schwit1 writes: You’ve heard of the Paleo diet, but the next big thing in health may well be the Paleo sleep schedule. A UCLA researcher studied three hunter-gatherer and hunter-farmer groups — the Hadza in Tanzania, San in Namibia, and Tsimane in Bolivia, “who live roughly the same lifestyle humans did in the Paleolithic, ” as NPR reports — and determined our ancient ancestors may not have slept nearly as much we thought, and may have actually slept less than modern Westerners. “People like to complain that modern life is ruining sleep, but they’re just saying: Kids today!” Jerome Siegel tells the Atlantic . “It’s a perennial complaint but you need data to know if it’s true.” Siegel found that members of the three aforementioned groups sleep between 5.7 hours and 7.1 hours per night. That’s less than is recommended for our health, yet the groups seemed very healthy indeed. (And if you’re feeling insomniac, some earlier Slashdot stories about sleep are also pretty thought-provoking.) Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Maybe You Don’t Need 8 Hours of Sleep After All
An anonymous reader writes: The Graphics and Media Lab Video Group of Moscow State University has released its tenth video codecs comparison. This latest comparison focuses on HEVC codecs and includes some non-HEVC codecs such as x264 and VP9. The report concludes that Intel’s MSS HEVC Software codec leads the pack in the “fast transcoding” use case whereas x265 takes the lead in the “ripping” use case. VP9 compares favorably to the HEVC codecs in the fixed quality and the speed versus quality test cases. See the PDF version of the report for more details. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Moscow State University Releases 10th HEVC Video Codec Comparison
The “scaly-foot gastropod” is a type of snail that thrives in the hydrothermal vents found deep in the Indian Ocean. And it has a unique property: a magnetic outer shell. Read more…
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You Can Pick Up These Snails With a Magnet
In a post on Wednesday, researchers Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger presented compelling research suggesting that the NSA has developed the capability to decrypt a large number of HTTPS, SSH, and VPN connections using an attack on common implementations of the Diffie-Hellman key exchange algorithm with 1024-bit primes. Earlier in the year, they were part of a research group that published a study of the Logjam attack, which leveraged overlooked and outdated code to enforce “export-grade” (downgraded, 512-bit) parameters for Diffie-Hellman. By performing a cost analysis of the algorithm with stronger 1024-bit parameters and comparing that with what we know of the NSA “ black budget ” (and reading between the lines of several leaked documents about NSA interception capabilities) they concluded that it’s likely NSA has been breaking 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman for some time now. Read more…
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How to Protect Yourself from the NSA If You Use 1024-bit DH Encryption
Lucas123 writes: Seven of the world’s top 10 smartphone vendors hail from China as does PC giant Lenovo, which is driving up the amount of NAND flash and DRAM the country consumes. This year alone, China is expected to purchase nearly 30% of the world’s NAND flash and 21% of its DRAM, according to a report from TrendForce. Additionally, state-backed companies are trying to break into Western markets with SSDs. For example, Sage Microelectronics (SageMicro), a four-year-old company based in Hangzhou, China, plans to release an 8TB SSD next month that will be based on eMMC flash, and it said it will release a 10TB drive next year. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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China’s Flash Consumption Grows To 30%; 8TB SSDs Are Coming
Cutting-edge prosthesis are amazing, but they lack one very important feature: a sense of touch. Now a research team from Stanford University has developed artificial skin that can sense force exerted by objects—and then transmit those sensory signals to brain cells. Read more…
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We’re One Step Closer To Creating Artificial Skin With a Sense of Touch
Not every piece of audio on the internet is a podcast, but if you’re interested in making your podcasts feeds from any audio files you want, JustCause does the job. Read more…
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JustCast Turns a Dropbox Folder Into a Podcast RSS Feed