Verge is reporting that Roku and Time Warner have announced that the cable company’s app—which offers up more than 300 channels of live TV—is coming to the little purple puck. That essentially turns the $50 streaming device into a full-on cable box. More »
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A Time Warner Tie-In Just Turned Your Roku Into a Full-On Cable Box
The composition being performed in this video is entitled “Nasciturus”, and it’s one of the many pieces of contemporary classical music created by Iamus — who just so happens to be a computer cluster housed in Spain’s University of Málaga. More »
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This classical music was created by a supercomputer in less than a second
Last year LaCie showed up to the Thunderbolt party with its 2big RAIDs that promised capacities of up to eight terabytes. A number we all foolishly oohed and awed at not realizing how pitiful it would sound compared to the company’s new 5big RAID that tops out at 20 terabytes and speeds of up to 785MB/s. More »
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LaCie’s 5big Thunderbolt RAID Puts 20 Glorious Terabytes On Your Desk
If you sketchily poked on over to the Pirate Bay to do a little downloading of a legal, quasi-legal, or outright illegal nature recently, you may have noticed you can’t get through. No, your ISP hasn’t started blocking it; it’s down for everyone, everywhere . Proxies too. More »
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The Pirate Bay Is Down Across the Globe
aloniv writes “The reverse-engineered free/libre and open source driver for NVIDIA cards Nouveau has reached another milestone. ‘The Nouveau driver in the current Linux 3.8 development branch has recently acquired everything that’s necessary to support the 3D acceleration features of any GeForce graphics hardware. Together with a current version of libdrm and the Nouveau 3D driver in Mesa 3D 9.0, this allows Linux applications to use 3D acceleration even with the most recent GeForce graphics cards.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Free Software NVIDIA Driver Now Supports 3D Acceleration With All GeForce GPUs
An anonymous reader writes with news that Valve has updated its Hardware & Software Survey for December 2012, which reflects the first month of the platform being available for Linux. Even though the project is still in a beta test, players on Ubuntu already account for 0.8% of Steam usage. The 64-bit clients for Ubuntu 12.10 and 12.04.1 showed about double the share of the 32-bit versions. MacOS use also showed growth, rising to about 3.7%. Windows 7’s usage share dropped by over 2%, but balanced by the growth of Windows 8, which is now at just under 7%. The total share for Windows is still about 95%. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Valve Reveals First Month of Steam Linux Gains
Here’s a rare sight: four out of the ten Nimitz-class aircraft carriers—the largest warships ever built—plus an Enterprise-class carrier docked together. They are resting at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, which coincidentally is the largest naval base in the world. Look at all that engineering and firepower. And it’s only half of the Nimitz fleet! More »
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This Is Why the US Navy Is the Most Formidable Naval Force In the World
A few years ago, the Library of Congress announced its plans to create an archive of every public tweet ever . If you thought that sounded a little bit optimistic, you’d be right; the Library of Congress released a white paper today explaining why they can’t quite pull it off . More »
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The Library of Congress Can’t Quite Handle That Massive Tweet Archive It Was Trying to Build
One of the major problems with traveling through space is the need to carry fuel. Scientists have endlessly sought after sources of perpetual, portable fuel for spacecraft. But maybe that was the wrong approach? More »
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The Woodward Effect allows for endless supplies of starship fuel
Leap Motion’s amazing-looking gesture control debuted last May, and has had developers crawling all over it ever since. Now, Asus has announced that it’s teaming up with the company to produce a range of computers using the tech—and they should be here this year. More »
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Asus Is Putting Sick 3D Gesture Controls in Its PCs This Year