Part of the beauty of Spotify is the ability to share and create playlists—we do it all the time ! Who doesn’t love a good mix compilation? Spotify recently tipped us off to its most popular playlists, so we’ve linked them up for your pleasure. They are as follows: Read more…
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These Are the 25 Most Popular Spotify Playlists
The cesspool that is the Windows Store available in Windows 8 is finally getting a clean up. Microsoft is getting rid of 1, 500 fake apps from the Store and will refund your money if you fell for a scam. Read more…
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Microsoft Purges 1,500 Fake Apps From the Windows Store
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.
If you’re a Time Warner Cable customer who’s been lacking internet overnight: don’t worry, you weren’t alone. Read more…
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Time Warner Cable’s Internet Has Broken Nationwide
Cloud storage bigwig Dropbox just slashed the price of its plans, offering 1TB of storage for $10 per month. And it’s not alone. Over the last year, most of the major players have been cutting prices and upping sizes. So what’s the best option today? Read more…
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Cloud Storage Showdown: Google Drive, Dropbox, iCloud and More Compared
DNA sequencing is crucial for identifying and tracking nasty viruses like E. coli and the flu. But current tabletop-size DNA sequencing machines aren’t readily portable. Researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand have a solution in a brick-sized DNA sequencer that connects wirelessly to a smartphone or laptop. Read more…
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The World’s First Handheld DNA Sequencer Is a Genetics Lab In a Box
kdataman writes U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Ben Eberle, who lost an arm and both legs in Afghanistan, had his Ipod Touch stolen on Friday. This particular Ipod Touch has an app on it that controls his $75, 000 prosthetic arm. The robbery bricked his prosthesis: “That is because Eberle’s prosthetic hand is programmed to only work with the stolen iPod, and vice versa. Now that the iPod is gone, he said he has to get a new hand and get it reprogrammed with his prosthesis.” I see three possibilities: 1) The article is wrong, possibly to guilt the thief into returning the Ipod. 2) This is an incredibly bad design by Touch Bionics. Why would you make a $70, 000 piece of equipment permanently dependent on a specific Ipod Touch? Ipods do fail or go missing. 3) This is an intentionally bad design to generate revenue. Maybe GM should do this with car keys? “Oops, lost the keys to the corvette. Better buy a new one.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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$75K Prosthetic Arm Is Bricked When Paired iPod Is Stolen
We’ve been able to grow organs in labs for some time now. But what if you could grow them directly inside a living body just by injecting a few cells? It looks like now we can, at least in a limited way. Read more…
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Scientists Just Grew a Whole Organ Inside an Animal For the First Time
The FBI just switched over to Next-Generation Identification, a new digital system for keeping track of the 83 million fingerprint cards the bureau maintains. That means dismantling thousands of filing cabinets that were once hand-searched by Bureau employees, twenty-four hours a day. Here’s how they did it. Read more…
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The Ultra-Laborious Way the FBI Matched Fingerprints to Paper Files
MikeChino writes A new paper by a group of researchers from Montana State University confirms that life can survive under antarctic ice. Researchers led by John Priscu drilled down into the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and pulled up organisms called Archaea. These organisms survive by converting methane into energy, enabling them to survive where there is no wind or sunlight, buried deep under the ice. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Scientists Confirm Life Under Antarctic Ice