There’s nothing quite like Psyche anywhere else in our solar system—a small asteroid belt object made entirely of iron-nickel metal. Which is why NASA has decided to send a probe to check out the bizarre beast up close. Read more…
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NASA Is Actually Going to Visit That Insane Metallic World
A pair of warships lost during a historic 1942 naval battle have completely disappeared from their resting places at the bottom of the Java Sea. Large portions of a third ship are also missing. An international investigation has been launched in hopes of solving this bizarre maritime mystery. Read more…
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Two World War II Shipwrecks Mysteriously Vanished From the Bottom of the Ocean
As much as everyone is getting excited about Google’s cute little autonomous cars, self-driving trucks are the most obvious—and probably easiest—beneficiaries of autonomous tech. To prove this, a “platoon” of connected trucks from six brands completed a 1, 300 mile trip across Europe. Read more…
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A Convoy of Autonomous Trucks Just Drove Across Europe
3D TVs may have gone the way of the Dodo, but as the Oculus Rift has proven, a third dimension can make video games far more immersive. That even goes for the 2D Nintendo classics you grew up playing, thanks to a new emulator with a intelligent algorithm that automatically converts those games to 3D. Read more…
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Free Emulator Lets You Play Classic 8-Bit Nintendo Games in 3D
The media scrambled to make sense of this strange, baffling double homicide—the angle that most outlets came up with was “unfriending on Facebook leads to murder!” (Including 20/20 , which devoted an episode to the case.) But as prosecutor Dennis Brooks explains in Too Pretty to Live: The Catfishing Murders of East Tennessee , the situation was a lot more complicated than that. Read more…
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The Bizarre Facebook Hoax That Escalated Into a Real-Life Double Murder
Areas of Southern California saw rare summer thunderstorms this weekend, with rainfall that broke July records all over the state. So much rainfall, in fact, that flash flooding dislodged a bridge and collapsed a section of the 10 Freeway—the major east-west freeway that links Los Angeles and Phoenix. Read more…
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Heavy Rains Destroy Major Freeway Bridge In Southern California
Microsoft normally restricts its Windows updates to a monthly Patch Tuesday. So when the company pushes a critical update on a Monday, it’s a good sign that shit is hitting the fan. Read more…
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Two former federal agents have been charged for stealing money while working on the investigation into the Silk Road, the infamous online drug marketplace that was seized in 2013. Read more…
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Feds Charged With Stealing Money During Silk Road Investigation
The starting point when you open the new Word for Mac looks a lot more like the Windows version than it used to. 14 more images in gallery Office for Mac has often played second fiddle to the flagship Windows version that powers Microsoft’s productivity software empire, but it’s important for plenty of computer users nonetheless. It’s thus good to see Microsoft nearly finished with a long-awaited update that brings the OS X and Windows versions of Office closer together in style, while adding integrations with Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage. A preview version of Office for Mac 2016 was released today , and there’s enough to give Mac users reason to look forward to the final bits and reminders of bugginess that can afflict Microsoft software for the Mac. The preview for OS X Yosemite is free to download and use until its official release in the second half of 2015. It includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote. We’ve already covered the Outlook and OneNote redesigns, so we’ll just focus on Word, Excel, and PowerPoint in this brief hands-on. Read 4 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Office for Mac 2016 hands-on: A vital upgrade, with some kinks to work out
An anonymous reader writes Demonii is the tracker behind the scenes for many BitTorrent sites serving pirated content. This week the tracker broke through the barrier of 30 million connected peers, handling no less than 2 billion connections per day. In other words, the scale of operation has become massive. TorrentFreak interviewed an operator of the site, and it was revealed that the tracker runs smoothly on just three dedicated servers, communicating at 180 Mb/s while serving 4 million torrents. Some people have argued that trackers are obsolete in the first place, as DHT and PEX allow peers to share the same information among each other, but Demonii’s operator reminds that having trackers speeds up the initial peer finding significantly. In any case, Demonii is not going away anytime soon. The tracker is already on its way to another milestone. The 40 million peer milestone will probably come into view later this year, but first there are a trillion more connections to process. Read more of this story at Slashdot.