According to reliable leaker @evleaks , the big announcement at T-Mobile’s Un-carrier X event on Nov. 10 could be unlimited video streaming that doesn’t cut into your monthly data. This means Netflix and chill could go mobile. Read more…
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williamyf writes: ArsTechinca, The Register, and other outlets are reporting that today the XEN project patched a vulnerability in the ParaVirtualized VMs that allowed a guest to access the control OS of the hypervisor. Qubes researchers wrote: “On the other hand, it is really shocking that such a bug has been lurking in the core of the hypervisor for so many years. In our opinion the Xen project should rethink their coding guidelines and try to come up with practices and perhaps additional mechanisms that would not let similar flaws to plague the hypervisor ever again”. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Xen Patches 7-Year-Old Bug That Shattered Hypervisor Security
It wasn’t too long ago that we put the major mobile operating systems head to head, but with big updates from both Google and Apple in the meantime, we think it’s worth another look at where they both stand. Is there a clear winner? Or are they barely distinguishable any more? Read more…
Mazda The RX-Vision. Mazda calls this design language KODO. 11 more images in gallery We make no apologies for our love of the concept car at Ars Technica, and this year’s Tokyo auto show has just delivered another fix. Home turf for companies like Mazda, Toyota, and Yamaha means they usually push the boat (or in this case the car) out with something special, and 2015 is no exception. First up is Mazda’s RX-Vision, which announces to the world that the company has not given up on the rotary engine. The RX-Vision is a front-engined, rear-wheel drive sports car that has RX-7 fans salivating at the prospect of a replacement for the iconic car. Although Mazda says it has no plan to put the car into production, we wouldn’t be surprised if a groundswell of popular opinion eventually changed its mind. Read 2 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Lexus, Mazda, and Yamaha wow Tokyo with stunning concept cars
With the future of computing looking increasingly likely to become light-based , it pays to work out how to make the switching of light as efficient as possible. Enter tiny silicon discs, which have now been shown to be the fastest ever optical switches at the nanoscale. Read more…
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A Tiny Silicon Disc Is the World’s Fastest Nanoscale Optical Switch
We’ve shown you a calculator that can help you crack a master combination lock before, but this device will do all the work for you in under 30 seconds. Read more…
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Build a Device That Can Crack Master Combination Locks in Under 30 Seconds
1sockchuck writes: By immersing IT equipment in liquid coolant, a new data center is reaching extreme power densities of 250 kW per enclosure. At 40 megawatts, the data center is also taking immersion cooling to an entirely new scale, building on a much smaller proof-of-concept from a Hong Kong skyscraper. The facility is being built by Bitcoin specialist BitFury and reflects how the harsh economics of industrial mining have prompted cryptocurrency firms to focus on data center design to cut costs and boost power. But this type of radical energy efficiency may soon be key to America’s effort to build an exascale computer and the increasingly extreme data-crunching requirements for cloud and analytics. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Immersion Cooling Drives Server Power Densities To Insane New Heights
The new Xbox One dashboard, as originally shown off in June. The new Xbox One dashboard, which will usher in a bunch of new features including Xbox 360 backwards compatibility, will be released on November 12. Confirmation came via a tweet by Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb very early this morning. Microsoft first showed off the “New Xbox One Experience” (that’s its official name) back at E3 in June. The dashboard interface has been completely overhauled: now, instead of looking like the Windows 8 Start screen, it looks a bit more like a Windows 10 app. The interface is very flat, with a heavy focus on typography. Perhaps most importantly, settings, games, social updates, and all of the good stuff is much more easily accessible with a gamepad. The primary focus of the new dashboard, you’ll be happy to hear, is to make it faster and easier to do things. Read 5 remaining paragraphs | Comments
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Xbox One gets Xbox 360 backwards compatibility with November 12 update
The jaw-dropping new Surface Book arrived with a splash of glitter and surprise . It’s so beautiful, so powerful, so— Oh wait holy shit the screen comes off?! Nobody expected this, and that’s exactly how Microsoft wanted it. Read more…
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How Microsoft Kept the Surface Book’s Coolest Feature a Secret
An anonymous reader writes: Last year, a company called Arx Pax set up a Kickstarter campaign to develop a functioning hoverboard. Now, the company has demonstrated an updated version of the device, which is fully capable of hovering over a surface made out of conductive metal (video on YouTube). CEO Greg Henderson said, “The hover engine creates a primary magnetic field which is then put over a candidate surface like aluminum or copper. The hover engine then creates swirls of electricity and those create a secondary magnetic field, which propels the firsts.” The device is expensive; Arx Pax is delivering a handful of units to Kickstarter backers who contributed $10, 000. It’s out of the reach of typical consumers, but it does seem to work. Plus, the company is sharing their magnetic field technology with teams taking part in the competition to build pods for a prototype of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop vacuum tube transportation system. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Functioning Hoverboard Unveiled