Live shows are supposed to be an experience, an experience which needs to be massive and visually arresting, especially when a band is playing an arena show. That’s exactly why Kings of Leon is playing against the backdrop of a newfangled hybrid screen/lighting rig on its Mechanical Bull tour. But it’s not the whole reason. Read more…
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Gaze at the Amazing Adaptable Display Kings of Leon Used on Tour
An anonymous reader writes Parents in China’s Zhejiang province can give their own blood to earn some extra points on their child’s high school entrance exam. Four liters of donated blood will get your child one extra point; 6 liters adds two points; and 8 liters, three. From the article: “The policy burst into the national limelight this week, when a Weibo user posted a photo of a bandaged arm, saying, ‘For my future child, I say one thing: Relax when you take the high school entrance exam. Your dad’s already helped you gain points.’ The post was widely shared. Though the user declined to be interviewed by China Real Time, he also clarified his original post, saying that he had in fact been giving blood since age 18.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Blood For Extra Credit Points Offer Raises Eyebrows In Test-Mad China
Protesters in Hong Kong have started communicating via FireChat, an app that lets people send messages without cell reception . Read more…
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Protesters Are Using FireChat’s Mesh Networks To Organize in Hong Kong
Qatar, the 2022 host of the World Cup, is not a large country, with a population just over 2.1 million. So to prepare for the millions who’ll descend on the country eight years from now, it’s going to great lengths—including building an entire new city from scratch. Read more…
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Qatar’s $45 Billion Plan to Build a Brand New City for the World Cup
Want to pretend you went to the Ivy League? If you have some money and know how to log onto China’s version of eBay, Taobao, it’s not so hard . It is, however, illegal. Read more…
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You Can Buy Fake College Email Accounts For As Little As 16 Cents
Doc Brown himself recently lied to us about the existence of hoverboards. But if you’ve got the cash, an original hoverboard (albeit, still non-hovering) could soon be yours. Read more…
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Original Back to the Future 2 Hoverboard Up For Auction
Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) is targeted toward system administrators, but the How-To Geek explains how you can use it to secure your personal Windows system. Read more…
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Secure Windows Apps With the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit
An anonymous reader writes “A former MIT instructor and students have come up with software that can write an entire essay in less than one second; just feed it up to three keywords.The essays, though grammatically correct and structurally sound, have no coherent meaning and have proved to be graded highly by automated essay-grading software. From The Chronicle of Higher Education article: ‘Critics of automated essay scoring are a small but lively band, and Mr. Perelman is perhaps the most theatrical. He has claimed to be able to guess, from across a room, the scores awarded to SAT essays, judging solely on the basis of length. (It’s a skill he happily demonstrated to a New York Times reporter in 2005.) In presentations, he likes to show how the Gettysburg Address would have scored poorly on the SAT writing test. (That test is graded by human readers, but Mr. Perelman says the rubric is so rigid, and time so short, that they may as well be robots.).'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Grading Software Fooled By Nonsense Essay Generator
Ever wanted a copy of Windows you can take with you wherever you go, to use on any computer you want? It’s possible: here’s how to install a portable version of Windows 8 on a USB hard drive that you can take anywhere. Read more…
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Today a software update is being rolled out to Roku 3 players that adds support for its universal search feature to the iOS and Android apps. This feature allows users to hunt for any actor, TV show, or movie and find it on all of the streaming services that carry it, right from the mobile app. Read more…
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Today a software update is being rolled out to Roku 3 players that adds support for its universal se