A Florida prison says that a computer “glitch” is to blame after all of the doors in the maximum security wing opened without warning. Wired has news for them , though. Sometimes, these kinds of glitches are caused by sneaky characters called hackers. And this situation looks pretty suspect. Read more…
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A "Glitch" Made All the Doors in a Max. Security Prison Open at Once
For a long time, Microsoft Office has been the reigning champ of office suites, but that doesn’t mean the free alternative, LibreOffice, isn’t worth considering. Let’s take a look at how the two compare, and if it’s finally possible to ditch the paid option for the free one. Read more…
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Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared
In a tomb near Siirt in southeast Turkey, archaeologists believe they may have just found the oldest gaming tokens ever after dating them back to a whopping 5, 000 years young. Read more…
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Archaeologists Just Found the Oldest Board Game Tokens Ever
First time accepted submitter jradavenport writes “I’ve been keeping a log of the health of my MacBook Air battery for the past year, taking samples every minute I use the computer (152, 411 readings so far!). This has allowed me to study both my own computing/work habits, but also the fascinating rapid decay of battery capacity. Comparing it to my previous 2009 MacBook Pro, the battery in this 2012 Air is degrading much faster.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year
Coming fresh on the heels of the news that scientists are successfully 3D printing live, working, mini human kidneys, a new report in Nature is giving another burst of hope to the future of organ transplants. For the very first time, a research team has been able to grow human heart tissue that beats totally autonomously in its petri dish home. Read more…
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Scientists Just Grew Human Heart Tissue That Beats With Total Autonomy
This map is covered in dots. In fact, there are 308, 745, 538 of the little things—each one representing a single individual living in the US, and its color indicating ethnicity. Read more…
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The Entire Racial Distribution of the US, Person-By-Person
An anonymous reader writes “In a fascinating post from Kelly Jacklin, the long time Apple software engineer details how he helped create the default text alert sound on the iPhone — a sound otherwise known as ‘Tri-tone.’ The history of the the pleasant text alert sound that we’ve all come to know and love stretches all the way back to 1998, nearly 10 years before the iPhone ever hit store shelves.” Here’s Jacklin’s post. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Behind the Story of the iPhone’s Default Text Tone
Turning off lamps and alarm clocks by your bed in the dark is never easy. If you’re skilled in electronics though, you could do it just by knocking on your nightstand. Read more…
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Turn Off a Lamp By Tapping Your Nightstand with this DIY Power Strip
To be slightly more transparent and/or spew numbers to confuse the common citizen, the Obama administration released two documents to show the scope of the NSA’s data collection program. Those documents reveal that the NSA monitors 1.6% of the world’s Internet traffic and reviews .00004% of all traffic. Read more…
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The NSA Monitors 1.6% of the World’s Internet Traffic
Roku’s updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes. Which is neat. Read more…
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Roku’s updated iOS app now lets you stream video directly from your iPhone to its set-top boxes.