Nexus 6P presentation leak includes more images, confirms
metal body, Gorilla Glass 4, and 3450mAh battery The leaks continue to flow out
of Mountain View. The latest information on Huawei's Nexus 6P, the larger and
presumably more expensive of the two Nexus devices Google is expected to
announce next week, comes from a public image gallery posted to Imgur. It's a
series of slides that appear to be designed for retail employees to use as an information
and promotional tool. Android Police
USB 3.1 have you confused? Here's everything you need to
know about the standard The reliable Universal Serial Bus port standard is
among the most commonly used on the planet. But the USB Implimenters Forum, a
compendium formed between companies like Intel, Microsoft, Apple, and HP to
oversee the standard's development, isn't resting on its laurels. The latest
version of the standard is USB 3.1, and new devices and computer components
that adhere to it are just starting to arrive on the market. Digital Trends
Supermoon lunar eclipse rises tonight: Watch it live in
Slooh webcast In a total lunar eclipse this Sunday (Sept. 27), the surface of
the moon will appear to be a deep crimson color, and people around the world
will be able to watch the celestial spectacle online. The so-called supermoon
lunar eclipse will be visible in most of North America, South America, Europe,
Africa, western Asia and the eastern Pacific Ocean. But wherever you are, you
can watch the eclipse live via awebcast by the Slooh Community Observatory. The
Slooh broadcast begins at 8 p.m. EDT (midnight GMT)... Space.com
Smaller, faster, cheaper, over: The future of computer chips
At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the
campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960, a young
computer engineer named Douglas Engelbart introduced the electronics industry
to the remarkably simple but groundbreaking concept of "scaling." Dr.
Engelbart, who would later help develop the computer mouse and other personal
computing technologies, theorized that as electronic circuits were made
smaller, their components would get faster, require less power and become
cheaper to produce -- all at an accelerating pace. The NY Times
Redesigning the world's most-played PC game The most used
piece of PC software in the world isn't Word, that blank slate on which
countless novels, school projects, hot-takes and clipart collages have been
tapped out across the years. It's not Excel, with its stretching and
compressing cells, into which the world's companies daily deposit their vital
statistics and forecasts. It's not even Steam, the portal that leads to
millions of other virtual universes. It is, according to a Microsoft employee,
Solitaire... Eurogamer (also, Bridge: Judicial review of 'sport or game'
decision begins)
Team links two human brains for question-and-answer
experiment University of Washington researchers used a direct brain-to-brain
connection to allow pairs of participants to play a 20 questions-style game by
transmitting signals from one brain to the other over the Internet. The
experiment is thought to be the first to show that two brains can be directly
linked to allow one person to guess what’s on another person's mind. University
of Washington
How Chromium works Today, I'd like to tell you about how
Chromium works. Not Chrome, the browser, but Chromium, the group of people who
build the browser. Hundreds of engineers work on the Chromium project. Together
we commit about 800 changes to the codebase every single week. We also depend
on many other large and active projects like V8, Skia, and WebKit. Medium
Light-based memory chip is first to permanently store data
Today's electronic computer chips work at blazing speeds. But an alternate
version that stores, manipulates, and moves data with photons of light instead
of electrons would make today's chips look like proverbial horses and buggies.
Now, one team of researchers reports that it has created the first permanent
optical memory on a chip, a critical step in that direction. ScienceMag
Building the ultimate X99 gaming and benchmarking PC There
are all sorts of reasons why you might want to get into PC gaming over or in
addition to a console. There's the huge library of comparatively cheap games on
Steam, the niche indie games that just wouldn't find a home anywhere else, or
maybe even the flexibility to run games on anything from lowly laptops all the
way through to watercooled 4K behemoths. Ars Technica
How World Of Warcraft lets players put a price on their time
In Azeroth, the setting of Blizzard’s World Of Warcraft, goblins are the ugly
face of capitalism. They're willing to take any gambit if it'll make a profit
with little regard for their own survival and about as much consideration of
the environment as a Captain Planet villain. Spend any time interacting with
them at the banks and businesses they run and they’ll happily share their
defining philosophy: "Time is money, friend." A.V. Club (also,
Destiny one year on: Bungie's 12 months at the final frontier of gaming)
The Inside Story Behind MS08-067 Seven years ago a small set
of targeted attacks began. In 2008 an unknown set of attackers had a zero day
vulnerability that would soon have worldwide attention. They were patient and
used it quietly in several countries in Asia. The vulnerability was not just
good -- it was the kind of vulnerability that offensive teams and bug hunters
dream about. It was, as we say in the business, "wormable". That word
sends chills down any defender’s spine. TechNet
Selfies are killing more people than shark attacks More
people have died while trying to taking a 'selfie' than from shark attacks this
year. So far, 12 people have lost their life while trying to take a photo of
themselves. But the number of people who have died as a result of a shark
attack was only eight, according to the Huffington Post. Independent.co.uk
This is NeoKylin OS: China's new Windows XP clone For some
time now, China has made it clear that it would like to transition away from
the governmental use of Microsoft's Windows operating system. Part of the
Chinese government's wish to transition away from Windows was due to Microsoft
dropping support for the fourteen-year-old operating system. Over the years,
we've seen reports of the Chinese government partnering with Linux based
developers and engineers to build its own operating system offering. WinBeta
8 Cities that show you what the future will look like Cities
used to grow by accident. Sure, the location usually made sense -- someplace
defensible, on a hill or an island, or somewhere near an extractable resource
or the confluence of two transport routes. But what happened next was ad hoc.
The people who worked in the fort or the mines or the port or the warehouses
needed places to eat, to sleep, to worship. Infrastructure threaded through the
hustle and bustle -- water, sewage, roads, trolleys, gas, electricity -- in
vast networks of improvisation. Wired
Inside Amazon's cloud computing infrastructure As cloud
computing has emerged as the new paradigm for computing at scale, Amazon has
firmly established itself as the dominant player. After effectively creating
the public cloud market with the launch of Amazon Web Services in 2006, the
retailer has built AWS into a $6 billion a year business. Along the way,
Amazon's infrastructure has become critical to the uptime of more than 1
million customers. Data Center Frontier
Security update disables SafeDisc games in Windows Vista, 7,
and 8 We learned in August that Windows 10 does not support SafeDisc and
SecuROM DRM technology, meaning that games making use of them won't run. That
in itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, given their various problems and
security flaws, but it is potentially an issue for owners of those games, who
will have to either re-purchase them digitally or, ironically, download a
crack. PCGamer
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