Against all odds, Philae has confirmed that the first ever drilling of a comet has happened! ESA has received telemetry data indicating that the drill went down and up. The probe will now analyze whatever material the drill has managed to grab. What is Philae going to find? Perhaps the buildi ng blocks of life? UPDATED 2. Read more…
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First comet drilling ever confirmed: 100% successful mission, says ESA
That shampoo you’re lathering into your hair may claim that it’s packed with “all-natural ingredients, ” but the label tells a different story. DMDM hydantoin? Ammonium lauryl sulphate? What is this stuff anyhow? Read more…
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What the Ingredients On Your Shampoo Bottle Actually Mean
For hundreds of years, x has been the go-to symbol for the unknown quantity in mathematical equations. So who started this practice? Read more…
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Why We Use "X" as the Unknown in Math
rossgneumann writes If everyone always wants to look different than everybody else, everybody starts looking the same. At least, if you use a recently published mathematical model describing the phenomenon. “The hipster effect is this non-concerted emergent collective phenomenon of looking alike trying to look different, ” in the words of Jonathan Touboul, mathematical neuroscientist at the College de France in Paris. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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The Math Behind the Hipster Effect
An anonymous reader writes German newspaper FAZ reports (google translated version) that, after facing false DMCA claims by “FirstCrist, Copyright” and threatened by YouTube with takedown, a youtuber running the German version of Islam-critic Al Hayat TV had to disclose their identity in order to get the channel back online. Later, the channel staff got a mail containing a death threat by “FirstCrist, Copyright”, containing: “thank you for your personal data. take care your house gets police protection!” Employee names are now on Al Qaeda black lists. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber
vinces99 writes University of Washington researchers have successfully replicated a direct brain-to-brain connection between pairs of people as part of a scientific study following the team’s initial demonstration a year ago. In the newly published study, which involved six people, researchers were able to transmit the signals from one person’s brain over the Internet and use these signals to control the hand motions of another person within a split second of sending that signal. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Anyone blessed with a Nexus or Google Play edition device will very soon be able to enjoy Android’s latest software masterpiece, Lollipop. An official blogpost announces that Lollipop will begin its public rollout today though it’s light on specifics. Read more…
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Android 5.0 Lollipop Is Here
Presto Vivace writes H-1B records that are critical to research and take up a small amount of storage are set for deletion. “In a notice posted last week, the U.S. Department of Labor said that records used for labor certification, whether in paper or electronic, ‘are temporary records and subject to destruction’ after five years, under a new policy. There was no explanation for the change, and it is perplexing to researchers. The records under threat are called Labor Condition Applications (LCA), which identify the H-1B employer, worksite, the prevailing wage, and the wage paid to the worker. The cost of storage can’t be an issue for the government’s $80 billion IT budget: A full year’s worth of LCA data is less than 1GB.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records
This is big news: HBO just announced it will launch a web-only service sometime next year. Meaning, you can get HBO with no cable subscription. Yay! Read more…
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Yes! HBO Without a Cable Subscription Is Coming Next Year
Microsoft unveiled its newest version of Windows last week. While the company was more than happy to tell us about a bunch of new features , naturally they left a few out. Here are some of the best things we found while poking around with the new OS. Read more…
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The Coolest Windows 10 Features Microsoft Didn’t Announce