jfruh writes: Traditional LCD panels are rectangular because the tiny chips that drive each pixel of the display are fitted along the edge of the glass panel on which the screen is made. But in a new breed of screens from Sharp, the chips are embedded between the pixels so that means a lot more freedom in screen shape: only one edge of the screen needs to be a straight line, which could give rise to a host of new applications. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
szczys writes: Intel is upping their bid for a place at the efficient-yet-powerful device table. They’ve launched their Edison board, which features an x86 based SoC running at 100 MHz. The footprint measures 35.5mm x 25.0mm and offers a 70-pin connector to break out 40 pins for add-on hardware. Also at the Intel Developer Forum today, the company demonstrated a PC running on Skylake, a new CPU microarchitecture based on the 14nm process used for Broadwell. Intel is pushing to break into both wearable devices and household devices, as it sees both as huge opportunities for growth. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Intel Releases SD-Card-Sized PC, Unveils Next 14nm Chip
Let’s say you own a BMW and you park it diagonally across four handicap spaces, but can’t remember exactly where you did that. Whatever do you do? Well, if you have an Apple Watch, it can remember for you. Read more…
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The Apple Watch Will Remember Where You Parked Your BMW
An anonymous reader writes “The PHP team has announced the release of PHP 5.6.0. New features include constant scalar expressions, exponentiation using the ** operator, function and constant importing with the use keyword, support for file uploads larger than 2 GB, and phpdbg as an interactive integrated debugger SAPI. The team also notes important changes affecting compatibility. For example: “Array keys won’t be overwritten when defining an array as a property of a class via an array literal, ” json_decode() is now more strict at parsing JSON syntax, and GMP resources are now objects. Here is the migration guide, the full change log, and the downloads page.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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PHP 5.6.0 Released
An anonymous reader writes “Several fake NVIDIA cards — probably GeForce GT 440 — have had their BIOS reflashed to report themselves as GeForce GTX 660. They were sold under the brand “GTX660 4096MB Nvidia Bulk” but only deliver 1/4 of the speed of a real GTX 660. Investigations are ongoing into who did the reflashing, but several hundred of them have already been sold and are now being recalled.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
I’m still holding out hope for light sabers in the future but with our world’s technological limitations and silly allocation of resources, the most beautiful deadly sword-type weapon we can create without lasers might be this mashup of a lightsaber and katana made by Man At Arms: Reforged. Read more…
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A lightsaber katana is the closest we’ll get to Star Wars in real life
Getting a fully-laden cargo ship across an entire ocean requires enormous amounts of energy—usually derived from pollutant-rich diesel fuel. But one environmentally-minded shipping company has bucked that convention and instead begun construction on a pair of hybrid containerships—the first of their kind—that run primarily on cleaner burning liquefied natural gas. Read more…
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The World’s Largest Natural Gas-Powered Ships Are Almost Ready to Sail
A specific number of variables need to be in place so I can shrug off procrastination and get some real work done. Chief among them is setting the right aural mood. Read more…
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Slip Into the Sweet, Ambient Sounds of Science Fiction
Fondant icing is the ingredient cake artists use to create their masterpieces. Grocery stores don’t always carry it, though, and it’s expensive if they do. Use some marshmallows and flavored gelatin instead and make your own. Read more…
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Jell-O and Marshmallows Make a Quick and Tasty Fondant
The next time you update your PC or try to troubleshoot compatibility problems, you’ll may need to know your current BIOS. You could reboot the computer, but it’s much easier to use the Windows command line utility. Read more…
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Find Your Computer’s BIOS Version From the Command Line