You might want to be more careful in checking your credit card statements for fraudulent charges. CSO notes that Amex has had to issue three breach notifications this month, due to three separate hacks. Read more…
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Credit Cards Hacked Multiple Times at Hotels, Retailers. Check Yours
Coaster enthusiasts are always on the hunt for their next big thrill, and come 2016 they may be drawn back to Orlando. That’s when the Skyplex complex is set to open, featuring the world’s tallest roller coaster wrapped around its 570-foot tall tower. Read more…
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The World’s Tallest Roller Coaster Will Tower 55 Stories Above the Earth
An anonymous reader writes “Wine 1.6 has been released for running Windows applications on Linux and OS X. Wine 1.6 ships with 10, 000 changes in the past year and has many new user features like a Mac graphics driver, Direct3D improvements, and 64-bit ARM support.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes
There’s a bunch of junk orbiting the Earth right now, a bunch of junk that we put there. But not all of the old satellites that are zooming around the planet are totally useless; plenty still have good stuff in them that could be reused and DARPA wants to start mining them . More »
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This Is How DARPA Will Strip Old Satellites for Parts
Thanks to a (now password protected) page on Redbox’s support site, details on the company’s joint streaming venture with Verizon have finally surfaced. More »
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Leaked Redbox Instant Details Reveal Cheap, Netflix-Killing Prices
Computer graphics have come a long way since a T-Rex ate that lawyer in Jurassic Park . But if these glimpses of what the next generation of CG has in store, we ain’t seen nothing yet. Cloth simulations with hyper-realistic wrinkling, modelling complex human hair using thermal imaging, and new approaches to smoke rendering will make our future blockbusters even more blockbustery. More »
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A Sneak Peek At the Mind-Boggling Future of Computer Graphics