iOS/Android: It happens to the best of us: you forget your phone when you go out, or it runs out of juice. Hotel My Phone lets you use a friend’s phone, but still use your phone number. Read more…
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Hotel My Phone Temporarily Moves Your Number to Another Phone
jones_supa writes Microsoft’s Windows Insider lead, Gabe Aul, has announced that the company has received one million pieces of feedback through the Windows 10 Technical Preview Feedback app. The app opens right from the Start Menu and it has been critical to the operating system’s development allowing testers to send details to Microsoft about what they think of Windows, problems they have been facing, and if there are any improvements they would like to see. The app has been part of both desktop and phone flavors of the OS. Microsoft seems to have made a real effort lately to listen to consumer feedback and has been opening up avenues to discuss new features for some time. Have you sent feedback through the app? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Microsoft Has Received 1 Million Pieces of Feedback For Windows 10
Elon Musk has teased something big coming from Tesla this week – an end to ‘range anxiety.’ The Model S (and every other electric vehicle), Tesla’s current flagship, has been known to inspire so-called range anxiety, wherein a driver spends a lot of time worrying about when they’ll next be able to get a full charge, and consequently don’t often drive… Read More
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Elon Musk Says Tesla Model S ‘Range Anxiety’ Will End With A Software Update
dcblogs writes The number of people working as electrical engineers declined by 29, 000 last year, continuing a long-standing trend, according to government data. But the number of software developers, the largest IT occupational category, increased by nearly 12%, or a gain of 132, 000 jobs. There were 1.235 million people working as software developers last year, and 271, 000 electrical engineers, according U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Electrical Engineering Employment Declines Nearly 10%, But Developers Up 12%
If you still have an old PC, you’re in luck. A new Linux distribution based on Lubuntu will give any old PC a new lease on life, designed for non-technical users and optimized for popular web sites. Read more…
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Xtra-PC Helps Non-Technical People Install LInux on an Old PC
The fallout from Hillary Clinton’s homebrew email setup is getting weird. The Department of State just shut down part of its unclassified email system in an attempt to eradicate malware they just found from Russian hackers. But State’s spokespeople say everything is okay. Probably. Read more…
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Fearing Hackers, U.S. State Dept. Has Shut Off Part of Its Email System
An anonymous reader writes “Video games are among the most computationally intensive applications. The amount of calculation achieved in a few milliseconds can sometimes be mind-blowing. This post about the breakdown of a frame rendering in Deus Ex: Human Revolution takes us through the different steps of the process. It explains in detail the rendering passes involved, the techniques as well as the algorithms processed by a computer — 60 times per second.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Rendering a Frame of Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved Discworld fantasy novels and countless other bestselling books, died earlier today at the age of 66. Read more…
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RIP Sir Terry Pratchett, Author of The Discworld Series
Across the Hudson and over Newark Bay, about 15 miles from Manhattan, a group of investors led by Goldman Sachs is financing the construction of what will become the largest vertical farm in the world inside a former steel mill. Read more…
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The World’s Largest Vertical Farm Is Being Built In an Old Steel Mill
NASA may be endlessly fascinated with microbial life on far-flung moons in our solar system or testing powerful rocket boosters that will propel humanity off its ancestral home, but there’s still tons we don’t know about our own planet—and cosmic dust is one of those mysteries. Read more…
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120,000 Pounds of Cosmic Dust Floats Down From Space Every Day