Tax returns are one of those documents you should hold onto . But in case you’ve misplaced some, don’t feel like digging them out of storage, or would just like to have a digital copy, you’re in luck. You can now download your tax transcripts from the new IRS service Get Transcript . Read more…
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Download Your Tax Return Transcripts Straight from the IRS
Dark Horse has just announced that they are losing the Star Wars comics license, as Disney has chosen to give it to their more-or-less in-house publisher Marvel. Damn. Read more…
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Disney is giving the Star Wars comics license to Marvel in 2015
X-rays and advanced photography have uncovered the true complexity of the mysterious Antikythera mechanism, a device so astonishing that its discovery is like finding a functional Buick in medieval Europe. Read more…
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Advanced Imaging Reveals a Computer 1,500 Years Ahead of Its Time
New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust has announced an exciting find: 22 never-before-seen cellulose nitrate negatives discovered inside Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s last expedition base at Cape Evans on Ross Island in Antarctica. Read more…
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100-year-old negatives from the Ross Sea Party found in Antarctica
Lucas123 writes “It may be a movie about a stone age family, but DreamWorks said its latest 3D animated movie The Croods took more compute cycles to create than any other movie they’ve made. The movie required a whopping 80 million compute hours to render, 15 million more hours than DreamWorks’ last record holder, The Rise of the Guardians. The production studio said between 300 and 400 animators worked on The Croods over the past three years. The images they created, from raw sketches to stereoscopic high-definition shots, required about 250TB of data storage capacity. When the movie industry moved from producing 2D to 3D high-definition movies over the past decade, the data required to produce the films increased tremendously. For DreamWorks, the amount of data needed to create a stereoscopic film leaped by 30%.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Animation Sophistication: The Croods Required 80 Million Compute Hours
Microsoft is moving a lot of Surface Pros, considering the high price for the device. [Read more]
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Microsoft Surface Pro sales hit 400K in a hurry
Representative confirms to CNET that the attack is occurring, but can’t say how long the site has been down. [Read more]
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Denial-of-service attack takes down JP Morgan Chase sites
Cook County in Chicago hopes that someone, somewhere might identify some of the bodies in its morgue. The images, though, are tough to take. [Read more]
Microsoft’s mission to connect its consumer and business communications services is running later than many expected, according to the latest Lync road map. [Read more]
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Microsoft to begin connecting Skype and Lync by June 2013
The reclusive country confirmed today that a 5.1-magnitude earthquake was the result of a nuclear test, and apparently this explosion was more powerful than the earlier two. [Read more]
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North Korea confirms third nuclear test