iOS ( Jailbroken ): It doesn’t take all that many taps to go in and update your apps on your iPhone or iPad, but if you’d prefer it just happened automatically in the background, Auto App Updater is a jailbreak app that does just that. More »
Today Blizzard launched its first expansion to StarCraft 2, titled Heart of the Swarm. When initially developing StarCraft 2, Blizzard made the decision to split the game into three parts, each with a campaign as long as the original StarCraft. The initial release in 2010, Wings of Liberty, centered on the story of the Terrans. The newly-released Heart of the Swarm is focused on the Zerg. The final release, Legacy of the Void, will dedicate its campaign to the Protoss (and does not have a projected release timeframe yet). In addition to the new campaign, new units have been introduced for multiplayer and new maps have been added, which ought to shake things up in the competitive landscape. Blizzard has also made long-awaited improvements to the social system, including support for groups and clans. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm Released
Whether you’re experimenting with Linux or making the switch, you’ll need to get your bearings. This Linux cheat sheet runs you through common and helpful commands you’ll need to know as you get comfortable with the command line. More »
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This Cheat Sheet Makes Learning Your Way Around Linux Easy
After analyzing more than 10 million anonymized emails from Yahoo!, a group of computer researchers stumbled upon a fascinating trend: countries with economic and cultural similarities had a tendency to send each other emails far more frequently. More »
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This Fascinating Email Map Shows You Which Countries Are Buddies and Which Aren’t Getting Along
It’s assumed that just because modern machines use lasers and other electronic technologies, they’re far more precise and accurate than mechanical contraptions from many years ago. But as Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe discovered at a tannery, that’s not always the case. More »
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This Antique Machine Measures Irregular Shapes Better Than a Calculus Professor
SchrodingerZ writes “A recent review of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state (where the bulk of Cold War nuclear material was created) has found that six of its underground storage tanks are leaking badly. Estimations say each tank is leaking ‘anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year.’ Washington’s governor, Jay Inslee, said in a statement on Friday, ‘Energy officials recently figured out they had been inaccurately measuring the 56 million gallons of waste in Hanford’s tanks.’ The Hanford cleanup project has been one of the most expensive American projects for nuclear cleanup. Plans are in place to create a treatment plant to turn the hazardous material into less hazardous glass (proposed to cost $13.4 billion), but for now officials are trying just to stop the leaking from the corroded tanks. Today the leaks do not have an immediate threat on the environment, but ‘there is [only] 150 to 200 feet of dry soil between the tanks and the groundwater,’ and they are just five miles from the Colombia River.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Six of Hanford’s Nuclear Waste Tanks Leaking Badly
Following the success of David Fincher’s House of Cards , Netflix is going to produce a new series, this time teaming up with Dreamworks Animation SKG. The series will be based in Dreamworks’ upcoming animation movie Turbo , the story of a snail that gains speed superpowers. More »
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Netflix to Produce Exclusive Dreamworks 3D Animation Series
A leaked report from Morgan Stanley seems to suggest that Google will pay Apple a cool $1 billion dollars in 2014 to remain the default search engine in iOS. More »
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Google Reportedly Pays Apple $1 Billion To Be the Default iOS Search Engine
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
angry tapir writes “A change in Internet traffic patterns over the past week suggests that Cuba may have turned on a fiber-optic submarine cable that links it to the global Internet via Venezuela. Routing analyst firm Renesys noticed that the Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica began routing Internet traffic to Cuba’s state telecommunications company, Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba S.A. (ETECSA). The Internet traffic is flowing with significantly lower latencies than before, indicating the connection is not solely using the three satellite providers that Cuba has relied on in the past for connectivity.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Cuba Turns On Submarine Internet Cable