Only a few minutes ago, the entire music industry stood on a stage in a collective display of how rich and out of touch they are. They think you are willing to pay up to double the price of other streaming music services to pay for their streaming music service, because they are crazy. Read more…
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The World’s Most Famous Musicians Just Hosted a Bonkers Press Conference
By the numbers, Gorilla Glass 4 is seriously tough, able to withstand a one-meter drop onto concrete. That’s impressive on its own, but this video seems to show it withstanding something far more impressive. Read more…
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This Drop Test Looks Too Good To Be True
MTorrice writes: A foam composed of a polymer derived from crustacean shells may prevent more soldiers from falling victim to the most prolific killer on the battlefield: blood loss. Pressure is one of the best tools that medics have to fight bleeding, but they can’t use it on severe wounds near organs. Here, compression could do more harm than good. First responders have no way to effectively dam blood flows from these non-compressible injuries, which account for the majority of hemorrhagic deaths. The new foam could help stop bleeding in these types of injuries. It relies on chitosan, a biopolymer that comes from processed crustacean shells. By modifying the chitosan, the developers gave the material the ability to anchor blood cells into gel-like networks, essentially forming blood clots. The researchers dispersed the modified chitosan in water to create a fluid they could spray directly onto noncompressible wounds. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Material Made From Crustaceans Could Combat Battlefield Blood Loss
An anonymous reader writes: Modern game consoles have a “standby” mode, which you can use if you want the console to instantly turn on while not drawing full power the whole time it’s idle. But manufacturers are vague about how much power it takes to keep the consoles in this standby state. After a recent press release claiming $250 million worth of electricity was used to power Xbox Ones in standby mode in the past year, Ars Technica decided to run some tests to figure out exactly how much power is being drawn. Their conclusions: the PS4 draws about 10 Watts, $10-11 in extra electricity charges annually. The Xbox One draws 12.9W, costing users $13-$14 in extra electricity charges annually. The Wii U draws 13.3W, costing users $14-$15 in extra electricity charges annually. These aren’t trivial amounts, but they’re a lot less than simply leaving the console running and shutting off the TV when you aren’t using it: “Leaving your PS4 sitting on the menu like this all year would waste over $142 in electricity costs.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You
Google is working on an exciting new feature for YouTube: videos you can’t watch! Blame your shitty computer and internet connection. Read more…
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YouTube’s Absurd 60FPS, 4K Videos Are Too Awesome for Your Computer
A drum full of radioactive waste exploded at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico last February, sparking serious safety concerns about the U.S.’s only longterm nuclear storage site. A yearlong government investigation has officially fingered the long-suspected culprit: kitty litter. Read more…
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It’s Official, Kitty Litter Caused a Drum of Nuclear Waste to Explode
This beautiful satellite image shows one of the most saddening long-term natural disasters on Earth. The black patch in the upper left corner is the remaining body of the Aral Sea, located on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia—which has lost around 90 percent of its water volume since 1960 because of Soviet-era irrigation schemes. Read more…
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The Dying Aral Sea Is Like an Abstract Depiction of Human Stupidity
The ultimate expression of the lazy smart home is probably turning the lights off from your phone. It’s not necessary, and it probably doesn’t even save any time ; but damn it’s cool. This switch will let you do that, without needing to be an electrical engineer. Read more…
An anonymous reader writes There’s great news coming out of Russia for epic road trip lovers. Russian Railways president Vladimir Yakunin has proposed building a highway that would reach from London to Alaska via Russia, a 13, 000-mile stretch of road. “This is an inter-state, inter-civilization, project, ” the Siberian Times quoted Yakunin. “The project should be turned into a world ‘future zone, ‘ and it must be based on leading, not catching, technologies.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Russian Official Proposes Road That Could Connect London To NYC
Once you’ve learned one programming language or programming tool, it’s pretty easy to get into another similar one. Sometimes, though, the fine differences are hard to remember. Hyperpolyglot is an awesome tool for looking up the differences and similarities between programming languages and tools. Read more…
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Hyperpolyglot Is a Side-by-Side Reference Sheet for Programming