Virtually all of your gadgets tote lithium ion batteries—but while they’re the best you can hope for at the moment, new engineering means that pure lithium batteries are now a possibility , and they could double the life of your phone. Read more…
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A New Pure Lithium Battery Could Double Your Phone’s Life
An anonymous reader writes VolksPC who developed MicroXwin as a lightweight X Window Server has come up with their own Linux distribution. Setting apart VolksPC’s distribution from others is that it’s based on both Debian and Android and has the capability to run Debian/Ubuntu/Android apps together in a native ARM experience. The implementation doesn’t depend on VNC or other similar solutions of the past that have tried to join desktop apps with mobile Android apps. This distribution is also reportedly compatible with all Android applications. The distribution is expected to begin shipping on an ARM mini-PC stick. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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MicroxWin Creates Linux Distribution That Runs Debian/Ubuntu & Android Apps
Interfax , CNN, and other news agencies are reporting that a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 passenger jet flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur has crashed on the eastern border of Ukraine, near the border with Russia. The Ukrainian interior minister says the plane was “shot down, ” but does not say by whom. Read the rest
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Malaysia Airlines passenger jet reported shot down in Ukraine near Russian border
schwit1 (797399) writes “Eugene Goostman, a computer program pretending to be a young Ukrainian boy, successfully duped enough humans to pass the iconic test. The Turing Test which requires that computers are indistinguishable from humans — is considered a landmark in the development of artificial intelligence, but academics have warned that the technology could be used for cybercrime. Computing pioneer Alan Turing said that a computer could be understood to be thinking if it passed the test, which requires that a computer dupes 30 per cent of human interrogators in five-minute text conversations.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Turing Test Passed
Salt mines are special compared to other underground excavation sites: once they are closed for extraction purposes, they can be opened for visitors, or for storage purposes—all because of their unique microclimate with natural air-conditioning and constant temperature and atmospheric pressure all year. Read more…
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These Incredible Salt Mines Are Like Another World Beneath Our Feet
Sonos’ multi-room wireless music system is crazy easy to use, but it’s always had one annoying little drawback: You’ve got to plug at least one Sonos speaker or a Sonos Bridge into your router for it to work. Well the company just announced that it’s overhauled its tech so that you don’t need to be plugged in anymore. Read more…
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Sonos Is About to Get Even Easier By Ditching the Bridge
An anonymous reader writes “In an unprecedented total disruption of a fully operational GNSS constellation, all satellites in the Russian GLONASS broadcast corrupt information for 11 hours, from just past midnight until noon Russian time (UTC+4), on April 2 (or 5 p.m. on April 1 to 4 a.m. April 2, U.S. Eastern time). This rendered the system completely unusable to all worldwide GLONASS receivers.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours
In an internal memo, NASA has stated that it will suspend all interaction with the Russian government, in response to Russia’s violations of Ukraine’s territorial independence. Fortunately for U.S. astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson, both currently orbiting on the International Space Station, the two agencies will still cooperate to transport supplies and personnel to and from the ISS. Read more…
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Report: NASA Cuts All Non-ISS Ties with Russia Over Ukraine
First time accepted submitter djhaskin987 (2147470) writes “The first successful implantation of a 3-D printed skull has taken place in the Netherlands, according to NBC news: ‘Doctors in the Netherlands report that they have for the first time successfully replaced most of a human’s skull with a 3-D printed plastic one — and likely saved a woman’s life in the process. The 23-hour surgery took place three months ago at University Medical Center Utrecht. The hospital announced details of the groundbreaking operation this week and said the patient, a 22-year-old woman, is doing just fine.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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3-D Printed Skull Successfully Implanted In Woman
Don’t panic! Your Twitter account hasn’t been hacked, the password has just been accidentally reset . Read more…
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Twitter Accidentally Reset Its Users’ Passwords