After drilling down through almost half a mile in solid ice on a glacial shelf in Antarctica, scientists found something surprising. There was something alive swimming in the just over 30 feet of water: this strange, clear fish. Read more…
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This Is The Fish Researchers Found Living Underneath 2,400 Feet Of Ice
Tesla’s earliest adopters were promised an update to the Roadster before the end of the year and Elon Musk is delivering with less than a week to spare. Read more…
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The First Tesla With Nearly A 400-Mile Range Is The Old Roadster
An anonymous reader sends word that Rackspace has recovered from a severe distributed denial of service attack. “Over on the company’s Google+ page Rackspace warned of ‘intermittent periods of latency, packet loss, or connectivity failures when attempting to reach rackspace.com or subdomains within rackspace.com.’ The company’s status report later confirmed it had ‘… identified a UDP DDoS attack targeting the DNS servers in our IAD, ORD, and LON data centers [North Virigina, Chicago and London]. As a result of this issue, authoritative DNS resolution for any new request to the DNS servers began to fail in the affected data centers. In order to stabilize the issue, our teams placed the impacted DNS infrastructure behind mitigation services. This service is designed to protect our infrastructure, however, due to the nature of the event, a portion of legitimate traffic to our DNS infrastructure may be inadvertently blocked. Our teams are actively working to mitigate the attack and provide service stability.'” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Rackspace Restored After DDOS Takes Out DNS
An anonymous reader writes Linux 3.18 was recently released, thus making Linux 3.19 the version under development as the year comes to a close. Linux 3.19 as the first big kernel update of 2015 is bringing in the new year with many new features: among them are AMDKFD HSA kernel driver, Intel “Skylake” graphics support, Radeon and NVIDIA driver improvements, RAID5/6 improvements for Btrfs, LZ4 compression for SquashFS, better multi-touch support, new input drivers, x86 laptop improvements, etc. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features
The holidays are one of the best times to meander down memory lane. After all, many of us are probably even sleeping in our old childhood bedrooms while visiting our parents this Christmas. And because so many of you enjoyed Dinosaur Dracula’s look at a 1985 JCPenney Christmas catalog yesterday, we wanted to point you towards this even better follow-up they posted of the best toys in Sears’ 1982 Wish Book . Read more…
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The 1982 Sears Wish Book Featured Some of the Best Toys From the ’80s
Amazon’s celebrating Christmas Eve by giving away 40 premium Android apps via the Amazon App Store. The full list is below, and a lot of them are actually really popular apps, including Terraria , djay 2 , and Plex . Read more…
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Amazon’s Giving Away 40 Premium Android Apps and Games for Christmas
If you’ve just had a really big meal, there’s a lot of things going on in your body . Between the stomach stretching and the chemical reactions taking place, here’s an explanation of what’s going on in there. Read more…
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This Video Explains What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Too Much
This Samsung 28″ 4K is the most popular monitor we’ve ever listed. It was an amazing deal when it debuted at a $700 MSRP. It’s $400 right now , with no tax for most and free shipping. Read more…
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The Best Deal In 4K Monitors Gets Way Better
New York ‘s cover story this week proclaims, “Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji.” But are you? Do you understand the difference between the tongue-out emoji and the winking tongue-out emoji? Today’s children communicate almost exclusively in these little smileys , and soon the weak emoji-illiterates in our society will be left behind. Read more…
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12 Emoji That You’re Probably Using Wrong
iOS 8.1.1 is here, and while it’s a pretty minor update, Apple says it should increase performance for the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, two of the oldest devices that make the leap to iOS 8. Go grab it now, especially if you have some more elderly devices. Read more…
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iOS 8.1.1 is here, and while it’s a pretty minor update, Apple says it should increase performance f