Music scholars are recreating ancient Greek songs that haven’t been heard for thousands of years. The results aren’t very inspiring, but we’re finally getting a sense of what the ancients were listening to. Read more…
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Listen to 2,500-year-old music brought back to life
NASA has smashed its record for transmitting data to and from the moon. Now, it boasts a frankly amazing 622Mbps transfer speed to the rock that circles our little planet. Read more…
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NASA Has a 622 Mbps Data Connection—to the Moon
JG0LD writes “The Firefox web browser will, henceforth, require users to manually activate Java objects on sites that they visit, Mozilla has confirmed. This even affects up-to-date versions of Java, which you can see on the block list. The change is aimed at improving security and moving away from a dependence on proprietary plug-ins, but critics say it will cause untold headaches for developers, admins and less-technical end-users. ” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Firefox’s Blocked-By-Default Java Isn’t Going Down Well
Google is adding handwriting input to Gmail and Docs. Starting today, you can use your trackpad or mouse to hand-draw characters in a variety of languages. [ Gmail Blog via 9to5Google ] Read more…
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There are more than 450 artificial caves excavated from sandstone beneath the streets and buildings of Nottingham, England—including, legendarily, the old dungeon that once held Robin Hood. Not all of these caves are known even today, let alone mapped or studied. Read more…
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Laser-Scanning Hundreds of Artificial Caves Beneath Nottingham
Adblock Plus has updated with a new set of features to hide a bunch of Facebook’s biggest annoyances, including cleaning up your news feed and sidebar. Read more…
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Adblock Plus Now Blocks Facebook’s Biggest Annoyances
Observe, citizens, as this delightfully talented and probably unhinged gentleman recreates the iOS 7 from scratch using only the tools in Microsoft Word. There is no good explanation for this, but I still can’t tear my eyes away from it. Read more…
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Watch This Madman Recreate the iOS 7 Homescreen in Microsoft Word
You know those gadgets that you can buy at drugstores? Back in the early 2000s it was all portable CD players and PC speakers. Now it’s MP3 players with 2GB of storage and wimpy tablets. And if you’ve ever done last minute Christmas shopping at a Walgreens you know that the brands start to become recognizable for their no-name-ness. Coby was a staple in that lineup until recently. Now a titan of cheap, sometimes questionable electronics has fallen . Read more…
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It’s Better That You Don’t Remember Coby Because It Just Went Under
If/When you download a torrent full of juicy copyrighted content (shame on you!), you’re not paying anyone; that’s part of the appeal. But there’s money to be made off sharing stuff for free, otherwise why would anyone do it? Torrentfreak sat down with a professional pirate to hear his story . It’s fascinating. Read more…
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How an Illegal Streaming Kingpin Makes a Living Off Piracy
Hey remember Twitter Music ? Hadn’t thought about it in a while? Well apparently that’s a common problem, and according to a report by AllThingsD, Twitter is very seriously considering putting the service out of its misery . Read more…