Sepsis is an nasty and surprisingly common way to die. The illness is triggered by blood infections but, ultimately, it’s your own immune reaction—not the bacteria or virus—that poisons you to death. Filtering those pathogens out of blood right away, though, could be a promising treatment. Enter a new device made of m agnetic nanobeads coated in sticky proteins that attract bacteria, viruses, and fungi. Read more…
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Magnetic Nanobeads Can Snatch Bacteria and Virus Out of Blood
If you’re hoping for a new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus and haven’t nailed yours down yet, you’re effectively screwed for the time being. But if you were one of the lucky 4 million buyers, there’s a decent-ish chance your shiny new toy is in the photo above, where it just flew across the Pacific, boarded up with more than 195, 000 of its brethren. That is one hell of a cargo. Read more…
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This Is How You Fly 200,000 iPhones from China to the US
After 6 years and over one billion dollars in development, the FBI has just announced that its sinister new biometric facial recognition software system is finally complete. Meaning that, starting soon, photos of your face along with tens of millions of others’ will be uploaded to the national system on a daily basis . Read more…
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The FBI Just Finished Its Insane New Facial Recognition System
In the next few weeks, YouTube users in India will be able to save videos offline and watch them anywhere, any time, without a data connection. Read more…
A CalTech scientist and her team just announced the development of one of the strongest and lightest materials ever created. It’s light enough to float like a feather, and so uniquely strong, it can be crushed and completely recover its shape. And—get this—it’s made of ceramic. Read more…
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New Ultralight Ceramic Cubes Can Be Squished and Recover Like a Sponge
As expected, would-be iPhone 6 owners are currently wading through a torrent of trade-in and upgrade offers. It’s all very, very confusing. But AT&T is being clear about one thing: If you trade in an iPhone 4, 4S, 5, or 5C, you will get at least $200 credit towards a new device. Read more…
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AT&T Will Give You $200 Minimum for Your Old iPhone 4
If you thought 8 TB was plenty , think again. Western Digital just announced that it has added a 10 TB hard drive to its HelioSeal product line. Read more…
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The World’s Biggest Hard Drive Is Now Ten TB, Not Eight
First time accepted submitter catparty (3600549) writes An examination of what we can know about Facebook’s new machine learning News Feed algorithm. From the article: “Facebook’s current News Feed algorithm might be smarter, but some of its core considerations don’t stray too far from the groundwork laid by EdgeRank, though thanks to machine learning, Facebook’s current algorithm has a better ear for ‘signals from you.’ Facebook confirmed to us that the new News Feed ranking algorithm does indeed take 100, 000 weighted variables into account to determine what we see. These factors help Facebook display an average 300 posts culled from roughly 1, 500 possible posts per day, per user.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Inside the Facebook Algorithm Most Users Don’t Even Know Exists
Apple just released the latest build of OS X Yosemite, including a brand new iTunes. It’s only a little bit anti-climactic. Version 12.0 does indeed look a lot like Version 11.3, the version that’s probably on your computer. But it’s got some neat little treats nevertheless. Read more…
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Everything That’s Changed in the New iTunes 12.0
Facebook appears to be offline, internationally. The social network isn’t working on web or mobile, and even its developer platform is down. Facebook is yet to offer an explanation on its own site or via Twitter. Read more…
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Facebook Is Down (Updated: It’s Fixed!)