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
kxra writes With the latest developments, Pitivi is proving to truly be a promising libre video editor for GNU distributions as well as a serious contender for bringing libre video production up to par with its proprietary counterparts. Since launching a beautifully well-organized crowdfunding campaign (as covered here previously), the team has raised over half of their 35, 000 € goal to pay for full-time development and has entered “beta” status for version 1.0. They’ve released two versions, 0.94 (release notes) being the most recent, which have brought full MPEG-TS/AVCHD support, porting to Python 3, lots of UX improvements, and—of course—lots and lots of bug fixes. The next release (0.95) will run on top of Non Linear Engine, a refined and incredibly more robust backend Pitivi developers have produced to replace GNonLin and bring Pitivi closer to the rock-solid stability needed for the final 1.0 release. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94
Here’s a fun but depressing Saturday afternoon fact: taking and sharing photos of the Eiffel tower at night is a copyright violation that could land you with a hefty fine (not that it’s stopped the selfie-snapping masses, of course). Read more…
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Sharing Night-Time Photos Of The Eiffel Tower Is Illegal
theodp writes: TechCrunch reports that Codecademy has teamed up with online and offline coding schools to create ReskillUSA. “3 months, ” explains ReskillUSA’s website, is “how long it takes a dedicated beginner to learn the skills to qualify for computing and web development jobs.” TechCrunch’s Anthony Ha explains, “By teaming up with other organizations, Codecademy is also hoping to convince employers that completing one of those programs is a meaningful qualification for a job, and that you don’t necessarily need a bachelor’s degree in computer science.” In his Medium post, Codecademy CEO Zach Sims calls on “students learning for the jobs of the future or employers interested in hiring a diverse and skilled workforce – to join us. The future of our economy depends on it.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Codecademy’s ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months
Even the latest generation of nuclear power reactors can only harvest about five percent of the energy stored in their radioactive fuel supplies, and the toxic leftovers must then be buried deep underground to slowly decay over hundreds of thousands of years. But thanks to a new breed of sodium-cooled pool reactor, we may soon be able to draw nearly 100 times more energy from nuclear fuels, while slashing their half-lives by two orders of magnitude. Read more…
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Fast-Acting Nuclear Reactor Will Power Through Piles of Plutonium
An anonymous reader writes Zalman’s parent company Moneual’s CEO Harold Park, and vice presidents Scott Park and Won Duck-yeok, have apparently spent the last five years producing fraudulent documentation relating to the sales performance of Zalman. These documents inflated sales figures and export data for Zalman’s products. The reason? Bank loans. By increasing sales and exports Park and his associates were able to secure bank loans totaling $2.98 billion. Someone has finally realized what has been going on, though, triggering Zalman’s shares to be suspended on the stock market and the company filing for bankruptcy protection. The questions now turn to how this practice was allowed to continue unnoticed for so long and how the banks will go about getting their near $3 billion back. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud
Advocatus Diaboli writes British spies have been granted the authority to secretly eavesdrop on legally privileged attorney-client communications, according to newly released documents. On Thursday, a series of previously classified policies confirmed for the first time that the U.K.’s top surveillance agency Government Communications Headquarters has advised its employees: “You may in principle target the communications of lawyers.” The country’s other major security and intelligence agencies—MI5 and MI6—have adopted similar policies, the documents show. The guidelines also appear to permit surveillance of journalists and others deemed to work in “sensitive professions.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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British Spies Are Free To Target Lawyers and Journalists
An anonymous reader writes: LunarG, on contract with Valve Software, discovered a critical shortcoming with the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver that was handicapping the performance. A special bit wasn’t being set by the Linux driver but was by the Windows driver, which when enabled is increasing the Linux performance in many games by now ~20%+, which should allow for a much more competitive showing between Intel OpenGL performance on Windows vs. Linux. However, the patch setting this bit isn’t public yet as apparently it’s breaking video acceleration in certain cases. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Major Performance Improvement Discovered For Intel’s GPU Linux Driver
Ebook subscription service Scribd updated today to now offer over 30, 000 audiobooks along with their collection of standard ebooks as part of their current $8.99 per month plan. Read more…
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Scribd Adds More Than 30,000 Audiobooks to Its Subscription Service
iOS/Android: Today, Microsoft announced a substantial shift to its Office strategy. The company has now made Word, Excel, and PowerPoint available for the iPhone. It’s also announced a preview of Office for Android. And best of all, all the apps are now free. Read more…
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Microsoft Office Comes to iPhones, Android Preview Available, All Free