Collaborate Disseminate
McGruber writes: A month after it suffered a nationwide outage, Comcast announced that a Dunwoody, Georgia resident is the first customer in the nation to get Comcast’s new $80/month uncapped 1-gigabit service. The service will only be available in sel… Continue reading Comcast Provides Uncapped 1 Gb Service To 1 Customer — of 22.4 Million
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers in China and America will soon launch a platform called Hoaxy, designed to identify and analyze what happens when misinformed news goes viral, and the processes which lead to a correction of the misinformation. T… Continue reading Research Establishes 13-Hour Gap Between Viral Misinformation and Correction
itwbennett writes: Cisco Systems has patched high-impact vulnerabilities in several of its cable modem and residential gateway devices that are distributed by some ISPs to their customers, and said in an advisory that customers should contact their ser… Continue reading Cisco Patches Serious Flaws In Cable Modems and Home Gateways
Vigile writes: One of the concerns surrounding the recent debate of the Unified Windows Platform and games being released on it, such as the recent Gears of War Ultimate Edition, was the inability for media and consumers, and even entry level developer… Continue reading New Tool Offers Look At Performance of UWP Games On Windows
MojoKid writes: To look at Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones, on the surface, one might mistake them for only a modest uplift of bells and whistles, and perhaps a light rebuffing of the phone’s design language. However, one of the primary… Continue reading Galaxy S7 vs iPhone 6S: Samsung Has the Upper-Hand, For Now
mdsolar writes: The deep ocean was once assumed to be lifeless and barren. Today we know that even the deepest waters teem with living creatures, some of them thought to be little changed from when life itself first appeared on the planet. The deep oce… Continue reading Cautious Steps Toward Seabed Mining
szczys writes: The RAM we use today is truly amazing in all respects: performance, reliability, price; all have been optimized to the point you can consider memory a solved problem. Equally fascinating is the meandering path that we’ve taken over the l… Continue reading Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old
An anonymous reader writes: Jack McCauley was among Oculus’ founding members and played a seminal role in the development of the Rift DK1 and DK2 VR headsets as the company’s VP of Engineering. After departing from the VR firm sometime around the 2014 … Continue reading Oculus Co-Founder’s New Venture: Long-Range Virtual Reality Tracking System
campuscodi writes: Google has confirmed with Search Engine Land that it is removing PageRank scores from the Google toolbar, which was the last place where someone could check their site’s PageRank status. Many SEO experts are extremely happy at this p… Continue reading No More Public Access To Google PageRank Scores
tedlistens writes: On Wednesday, a solar eclipse gave people across a swath of Indonesia and the South Pacific the chance to see a generous 4 minutes and 9 seconds of totality: the awe-inspiring sight of the moon completely covering the sun, turning da… Continue reading How Astronomers Used the First Concorde Prototype To Chase a Total Eclipse