Chrome/Firefox: Dropbox is a crowd favorite in the file syncing tool category, with no shortage of uses . The site kind of sucks to navigate, though. Make it a little less bad with Dropbox Plus. Read more…
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Dropbox Plus Adds Folder Trees to Dropbox’s Website
The Kindle’s screensaver is pretty, but useless. If you want to spice it up with relevant information, including weather, time, and more, programmer Pablo Mateo shows you how to do it. Read more…
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Add Weather and Google Calendar Information to Your Kindle
Zothecula writes “New research demonstrates that triggering an out-of-body experience (OBE) could be as simple as getting a person to watch a video of themselves with their heartbeat projected onto it. According to the study, it’s easy to trick the mind into thinking it belongs to an external body and manipulate a person’s self-consciousness by externalizing the body’s internal rhythms. The findings could lead to new treatments for people with perceptual disorders such as anorexia and could also help dieters too.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences
coondoggie writes “Talk about starting a business on shaky ground. The Manhattan District Attorney’s office says former Wall Street traders stole electronic trading source code and data from their then trading firm in an effort to start up their own financial business.” Sending yourself pilfered code through your company email account is probably not the wisest plan. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Wall Street Traders Charged With Copying Code To Start Their Own Company
Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album. Now, up to 50 different “contributors” can each upload up to 200 photos into one, collaborative album—contributors can only edit their own photos while moderators get absolute power. In other words, let the public shaming commence. Read more…
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Facebook has just unveiled a new feature that allows multiple users to share one photo album.
Fossils are three-dimensional objects, but you aren’t really supposed to touch them, and you can’t see their depth and detail very easily over the internet. But a new database of fossils from the British Geological Survey actually has the necessary files for you to 3D print fossils yourself. Read more…
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This Database Lets You 3D Print and Explore Thousands of Fossils
Alexandrite is a gemstone coming into popularity because it is one color by day and another color by night. We’ll tell you how it manages this color transformation. Read more…
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How does a gemstone change color from red to green?
If you haven’t been able to convince publishers your life would make for an awesome comic book, and can’t draw more than a crude stick figure facsimile of yourself, you can thank the imaging researchers at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan. They’ve created a fun system that can automatically generate manga-style comics starring anyone striking a pose in front of its camera. Read more…
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You No Longer Need To Be an Artist To Appear In Your Own Comic Book
An outage of one company’s servers might only affect that company’s customers — but when a major data center for Amazon hits kinks, sites that rely on the AWS cloud services all suffer from the downtime. That’s what happened today, when several major sites or online services (like Instagram and AirBnB) were knocked temporarily offline, evidently because of problems at an Amazon data center in Northern Virginia. From TechCrunch’s coverage of the outage: “The deluge of tweets that accompanied the services’ initial hiccups first started at around 4 p.m. Eastern time, and only increased in intensity as users found they couldn’t share pictures of their food or their meticulously crafted video snippets. Some further poking around on Twitter and beyond revealed that some other services known to rely on AWS — Netflix, IFTTT, Heroku and Airbnb to name a few — have been experiencing similar issues today.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down
An anonymous reader writes “Star Trek veterans such as Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Robert Picardo (the Doctor) and others are busy in pre-production of a professionally produced pilot episode for a suggested new online Star Trek series named Star Trek: Renegades, which will be faithful to the original Star Trek canon. The events of the series are placed a decade after Voyager’s return from Delta Quadrant. When the pilot is complete, they’ll present it to CBS in the hopes that it’ll be picked up. They have also opened an Indiegogo campaign, seeking more funds from Star Trek fans to help make the production even more professional. They’ve already reached their primary funding goal.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production