Whether you’re experimenting with Linux or making the switch, you’ll need to get your bearings. This Linux cheat sheet runs you through common and helpful commands you’ll need to know as you get comfortable with the command line. More »
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This Cheat Sheet Makes Learning Your Way Around Linux Easy
coondoggie writes “The Federal Trade Commission today said it has filed eight court cases to stop companies who have sent over 180 million illegal or deceptive text messages to all manner of mobile users in the past year. The messages — of which the FTC said it had received some 20,000 complaints in 2012 — promised consumers free gifts or prizes, including gift cards worth $1,000 to major retailers such as Best Buy, Walmart and Target.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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FTC Goes After Scammers Who Blasted Millions of Text Messages
After analyzing more than 10 million anonymized emails from Yahoo!, a group of computer researchers stumbled upon a fascinating trend: countries with economic and cultural similarities had a tendency to send each other emails far more frequently. More »
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This Fascinating Email Map Shows You Which Countries Are Buddies and Which Aren’t Getting Along
Of course this would happen. According to the New York Post , Apple is lowballing record labels for the rights to use their music in a new music streaming service. More »
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Report: Apple Is Being a Massive Cheapskate with Its Music Streaming Service
And not just a tennis ball from 15 miles away, but a tennis ball 15 miles away and moving at three times the speed of sound . That’s the sort of sensitivity the radar operators on the UK’s HMS Iron Duke will have the chance to work with when it returns to service next year. More »
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This Warship Radar Can Detect a Tennis Ball From 15 Miles
An anonymous reader writes “Canon announced today that it successfully developed a super high-sensitivity full-frame CMOS sensor developed exclusively for video recording. The new Full HD sensor can capture light no other comparable sensor can see and it uses pixels 7.5 larger than the best commercial professional cameras in existence today.” There doesn’t seem to be a gallery of images, but the video demo (direct link to an mpeg4) makes it seem pretty sensitive. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Canon Shows the Most Sensitive Camera Sensor In the World
It’s assumed that just because modern machines use lasers and other electronic technologies, they’re far more precise and accurate than mechanical contraptions from many years ago. But as Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe discovered at a tannery, that’s not always the case. More »
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This Antique Machine Measures Irregular Shapes Better Than a Calculus Professor
Getting too juiced up on caffeine happens. Maybe you made a pot and nobody wanted it but you. Perhaps you got lost in a great conversation. In any case, baristas and amateur nutritionists suggest one possible remedy: eat a banana. Yes, a banana. More »
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Eat a Banana to Remedy Over-Caffeination
Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter is 50 bucks. That’s expensive. Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter hooks up your iOS devices’ Lightning port to HDMI. But it lags and gives artifacts. Apple’s Lightning Digital AV adapter actually hides a tiny computer inside in the cable…wait what? Yes. More »
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Apple’s Lightning Digital AV Adapter Hides a Tiny Computer
Sandia National Laboratories is the nation’s premiere nuclear weapons research facility, and for more than 60 years, its researchers have poked and prodded the interiors of atoms to suss out their secrets—a task that has produced mountains of data that the facility’s copper network struggles to contain. But now, even the most remote building’s on Sandia’s campuses have access to the biggest bandwidth modern technology can muster. More »
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The World’s Biggest Fiber LAN Lives at a Nuclear Weapons Research Lab