Hitachi Global Storage Technologies—aka HGST, aka a subsidiary of Western Digital—was recently showing off its gigantic new 10TB hard drive at the Linux Foundation Vault tradeshow in Boston. But unfortunately you won’t be packing 10, 000 gigabytes into your laptop anytime soon because the drive is designed for use in servers, and mostly because it requires special software to work. Read more…
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Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop
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
DNA testing startup 23andMe has been doing brisk business collecting genetic samples from over 800, 000 customers. But the company just announced a new plan that’ll launch it into the big pharma world: 23andMe is going to invent its own pharmaceutical drugs using the data it collects from customer DNA. Read more…
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23AndMe Is Going to Mine Its DNA Data to Invent New Drugs
New details have emerged about exactly how Hillary Clinton secured the homebrew private email servers she used as Secretary of State. The punchline? Clinton didn’t encrypt her emails or use a certificate for her first three months running the State Department. Read more…
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Hillary Clinton Didn’t Encrypt Her Secretary of State Emails For Months
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
Apple just released a public beta for iOS 8.3 and anyone can sign up to check it out. Here’s how to do it. Read more…
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Apple Releases iOS 8.3 Public Beta, Here’s How to Get It
The changing color of a chameleon’s body is an impressive sight—but how it happens has long been a significant scientific question without a compelling answer. Now, researchers have finally identified a thin layer of deformable nanocyrstals in their skin which gives rise the phenomenon. Read more…
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Scientists Have Worked Out How Chameleons Change Color
Pocket Casts has long been one of our favorite cross-platform podcasting tools , and there’s a new Android version out today with a Material Design overhaul and even more ways to cut down the amount of time it takes to burn through your podcast queue. You can also get statistics on the amount of listening time you’ve saved overall. Read more…
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Burn Through Your Podcasts Faster Than Ever With the New Pocket Casts
An anonymous reader writes The Verge has an interesting editorial about the USB Type C connector on the new Macbook, and what this might mean for Apple’s Lightning and Thunderbolt connectors. The former is functionally identical to USB Type C, and the latter has yet to prove popular in the external media and “docking” applications for which it was originally intended. Will Apple phase out these ports in favour of a single, widely-accepted, but novel standard? Or do we face a dystopian future where Apple sells cords with USB Type C on one end, and Lightning on the other? Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple’s Proprietary Connectors?