Collaborate Disseminate
An anonymous reader writes with this news, which might worry you if you’d like your music (or videos, or books) to be safely stored on your local PC, phone, or offline storage: Music streaming has surpassed digital downloads in terms of revenue, accord… Continue reading Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time
HughPickens.com writes: Bryant Jordan reports at Defense Tech that the Cognitive Science and Applications Team at the US Army’s Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center is creating a computer-generated reality “dome” to immerse warfi… Continue reading US Army Creates Virtual Reality Dome To Assess Soldier Thinking During Combat
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is finally addressing the elephant in the room in terms of security for Office users and has announced a new feature in the Office 2016 suite that will make it harder for attackers to exploit macro malware. Sysadmi… Continue reading After Decades of Abuse, Microsoft Adds an Anti-Macro-Malware Feature To Office
Mickeycaskill writes: Google is to open 12 new data centers in the latest stage of a bitter war with rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. The first two facilities to open will be in Oregon and Tokyo, both of which will open next year. … Continue reading In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers
schwit1 writes: SpaceX has scheduled April 8 for the next Falcon 9 launch, set to carry its first Dragon capsule since the launch failure last year. Though this is the most important news contained by the article, its focus is instead on the various pr… Continue reading SpaceX Sets April 8 For Next Dragon Launch
mmoorebz writes: After three years of development and with over 150 contributors to the code, Apache PDFBox 2.0 has been released. With this release comes enhancements and improvements. The Apache PDFBox library is an open-source Java tool for working … Continue reading Apache PDFBox Hits 2.0
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in Australia have proposed a system to analyse a user’s voice and recognise how they are feeling, long term. The system uses a Deep Neural Network (DNN) to compare the user’s tone of voice to those that he or she… Continue reading Researchers Propose Neural Network To Assess Your State of Mind From Your Voice
An anonymous reader writes: Once seen as the underdog, Sony’s PlayStation VR headset continues to hold its own against PC-based competitors Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The company announced last week that they won’t ship the PSVR headset until October, b… Continue reading PlayStation VR Pre-Orders Sell Out In Minutes At Amazon
An anonymous reader writes: Google today announced plans to kill off the Chrome app launcher for Windows, Mac, and Linux in July. The tool, which lets users launch Chrome apps even if the browser is not running, will continue to live on in Chrome OS. S… Continue reading Google Will Kill Its Chrome App Launcher For Windows, Mac, and Linux In July
An anonymous reader writes: After being desired by NVIDIA Linux users for years, the proprietary GeForce graphics driver natively supports Wayland and Mir as an alternative to an X.Org Server. It’s been a long time coming for the proprietary GPU driver… Continue reading NVIDIA’s Proprietary Linux Driver Adds Support For Wayland, Mir