The CIA is quietly trying to stop Russia building a series of monitoring stations—devices that form part of Moscow’s version of the Global Positioning System—on US soil. Read more…
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The CIA Is Trying to Stop Russia Building Monitoring Stations in the US
This is a great idea: buy a landscape at a thrift shop and add in a monster. Make sure you use the same kind of materials as the original landscape! Read more…
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Spice up Goodwill paintings by adding monsters
People have been working on video and explorable environments for the Oculus Rift, but Condition One , the immersive videography group, is upping the ante with a complete 20-30 minute movie all in 3D. Read more…
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Zero Point Is the First 3D, 360 Degree Movie for the Oculus Rift
thomst writes “The Washington Post’s Jerry Markon and Alice Crites report that ‘The lead contractor on the dysfunctional Web site for the Affordable Care Act is filled with executives from a company that mishandled at least 20 other government IT projects, including a flawed effort to automate retirement benefits for millions of federal workers, documents and interviews show. CGI Federal, the main Web site developer, entered the U.S. government market a decade ago when its parent company purchased American Management Systems, a Fairfax County contractor that was coming off a series of troubled projects. CGI moved into AMS’s custom-made building off Interstate 66, changed the sign outside and kept the core of employees, who now populate the upper ranks of CGI Federal.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company
Rambo Tribble writes “Reuters is reporting that the FBI has issued a warning to several U.S. Government agencies that the Anonymous collective has hacked their systems. Included in the list of compromised agencies are the U.S. Army, Department of Energy, Department of Health and Human Services, and potentially many more agencies. The avenue of attack: Adobe Cold Fusion.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous
An anonymous reader writes “There’s many improvements due in the Linux 3.13 kernel that just entered development. On the matter of new hardware support, there’s open-source driver support for Intel Broadwell and AMD Radeon R9 290 ‘Hawaii’ graphics. NFTables will eventually replace IPTables; the multi-queue block layer is supposed to make disk access much faster on Linux; HDMI audio has improved; Stereo/3D HDMI support is found for Intel hardware; file-system improvements are on the way, along with support for limiting the power consumption of individual PC components.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Play Music has always sort of been available on iOS through your favorite HTML 5-enabled browser app, but today, the service is available as a native application . Read more…
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The Google Play Music iOS App Is Finally Here
Like a modern Henri Becquerel , Washington State University doctoral student Marianne Tarun’s discovery came quite by accident. Her simple lab error has uncovered a new way to boost electrical conductivity of a crystal by 40, 000 percent, simply by exposing it to light. Read more…
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Student Finds Way to Boost Conductivity 400x Totally by Accident
Google Wallet and iOS’s Passbook have helped reduce the number of loyalty, debit, and credit cards we need to carry around every day. But they haven’t eliminated them altogether. The creators of Coin want to further slim your wallet with a multi-function card designed to emulate and replace the debit and credit cards you still need to carry. Read more…
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This Single Card Wants To Replace Your Entire Wallet Full of Plastic
Using a powerful new software program called the Scientific Exoplanets Renderer (SER), astronomer Abel Mendez Torres has produced a stunning set of new images — including a global map — showing the distant dwarf planet of Pluto in unprecedented detail. Read more…
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