Amazing Pluto Shines in Best Close-Up Views Yet (Photo, Video)
Pluto's exotic and incredibly varied landscapes dazzle in the sharpest views of the dwarf planet released to date. The images, which feature a resolution of about 260 feet (80 meters) per pixel, were captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its epic flyby of Pluto on July 14, 2015. Mission team members have stitched the photos into a high-resolution mosaic and used them to create a stunning new video of Pluto that highlights the dwarf planet's towering water-ice mountains and n..>> view originalPeriscope takes on abusive comments. Will it work?
Periscope founder and CEO Kayvon Beykpour(Photo: Martin E. Klimek, USA TODAY)SAN FRANCISCO — Periscope is rolling out a tool to clamp down on abusive or spam comments during live-streamed video on the app. But will it work?With the new tool, people watching the broadcast can report comments they believe are inappropriate. Then, a small group of randomly selected live viewers will vote on whether they agree. Anyone deemed to be posting offensive comments will be disabled from commenting for 60 se..>> view originalThe Mighty Claw of the Mantis Shrimp Inspires Next-Gen Helmets and Body Armor
The powerful, hammer-like rounded claws of the mantis shrimp are incredibly strong, making them ideal for cracking open the hard shells of clams and crabs (its favored prey), and for warding off predators. Now those claws are also inspiring scientists keen on building super-strong materials to make tougher body armor and football helmets. There are two types of mantis shrimp (a.k.a. stomatopods): “spearers” (that spear the prey) and “smashers” (that smash the prey) A team of researchers from t..>> view originalAMD's Radeon RX 480 brings high-end graphics to the masses for just $200
The next generation graphics card war is officially on—though it’s already shaping up very differently than previous versions. While Nvidia kicked off the new graphics card generation with the overwhelming firepower of the enthusiast-only $600 GeForce GTX 1080 and $380 GTX 1070, AMD’s attacking the mainstream instead. In a livestream from Computex, AMD announced that the Radeon RX 480 will be the first graphics card based on its forthcoming Polaris graphics processors. And get this: The Rade..>> view originalSirin Labs' Solarin is today's most ridiculous $16000 Android phone
Converted into US dollars and with tax added in, the Solarin costs an amusing $16,666. I have to draw amusement from its price as consolation for putting up with the incredibly pretentious presentation about the phone itself. "Our customers are very, very smart people" was a line seemingly extracted from a Donald Trump marketing guide. Sirin Labs' "core customers are international business travellers, entrepreneurs, and partners in financial firms." These people who communicate a lot have very ..>> view originalAMD pins its laptop hopes on the low-power Bristol Ridge and Stoney Bridge APUs
As the notebook PC becomes ever more important to the company’s future, AMD debuted its Bristol Ridge and Stoney Ridge integrated graphics APUs for laptops as the Computex show in Taipei kicked off. Combined, AMD’s new 7th-generation APUs represent a total of nine new products intended for low-end, budget notebooks on up to premium devices. Bristol Ridge and Stony Ridge represent AMD’s first APU refresh in a year, since the company debuted the Carrizo chips last May. AMD’s traditional arg..>> view originalMicrosoft's Xbox One may be replaced with a trio of slimmer, faster devices
Is the current Xbox One on its last legs? If recent rumors are to be believed, Microsoft’s console is set to be replaced by as many as three devices, including a whopping “Project Scorpio” due in 2017. Last week, both Kotaku and Polygon suggested that Microsoft may be working on a far more powerful successor to the Xbox One, due in 2017. Known as “Project Scorpio,” the next Xbox (the Xbox Two?) will be roughly four times as powerful as the current console, with about six megaflops of perform..>> view originalEU hate speech deal shows mounting pressures over internet content blocking
SAN FRANCISCO An agreement on Tuesday by four major U.S. internet companies to block illegal hate speech from their services in Europe within 24 hours shows the tight corner the companies find themselves in as they face mounting pressure to monitor and control content.The new European Union "code of conduct on illegal online hate speech" states that Facebook Inc, Google's YouTube, Twitter Inc and Microsoft will review reports of hate speech in less than 24 hours and remove or disable access to..>> view originalRecently confirmed Myspace hack could be the largest yet
You might not have thought of – much less visited – Myspace in years. (Yes, it’s still around. Time, Inc. acquired it and other properties when it bought Viant earlier this year.) But user data never really dies, unfortunately. For Myspace’s new owner, that’s bad news, as the company confirmed just ahead of the Memorial Day holiday weekend in the U.S., that it has been alerted to a large set of stolen Myspace username and password combinations being made available for sale in an online hacker ..>> view originalBee Pollen is Full of Pesticides Like Mosquito-Repellants
Bees that live next to corn and soybean fields spend only a minority of their time feeding on these crop plants; instead, they mostly seek out pollen from flowering weeds, trees and gardens nearby. In the course of their foraging, they are exposed to a surprisingly wide and concerning range of pesticides, new research shows.In a study published May 30 in the journal Nature Communications, researchers Elizabeth Long and Christian Krupke show that bees next to corn fields collected pollen contai..>> view original
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