In addition to the BUS1 presentation, also exciting from the systemd.conf 2016 conference is a thorough walkthrough of a new wireless daemon for Linux being developed by Intel’s Open-Source Technology Center…
Source: Phoronix – A New Wireless Daemon Is In Development To Potentially Replace wpa_supplicant
Monthly Archives: September 2016
The World's First Clear Glass Slide Looks Like a Dream
Our perpetually-dropped smartphones have pushed glass manufacturers to create stronger and more durable materials to survive our clumsiness. But if you’re curious just how advanced glass making techniques have gotten, someone has made a 30-foot working glass slide that’s completely transparent.
Source: Gizmodo – The World’s First Clear Glass Slide Looks Like a Dream
A Video That Finally Expresses My Feelings Towards Football
Now, you might be expecting this to be a rant about how irritating sports and sports fans can be. Maybe one about how team loyalties are based solely on regional pride even though many teams’ players aren’t from that city or state. How fans argue constantly with one another about the most irrelevant minutia and whole conversational dick-measuring contests exist to prove whose mental arsenal of said minutia is better stocked. How those same shrieking fools pack themselves into otherwise quiet bars when some of us just want a quiet drink.
Source: Gizmodo – A Video That Finally Expresses My Feelings Towards Football
The Sill Delivers On Demand Succulents to Your Door
Whether you want to schedule an office consultation or just need a few low light plants to put in your bathroom, The Sill has you covered.
Source: LifeHacker – The Sill Delivers On Demand Succulents to Your Door
The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China
Jamie Fullerton, reporting for Motherboard:Daan Roosegaarde reached into the pocket of his suit jacket, pulled out a plastic bag filled with black powder, and waved it around. “This is Beijing smog,” Roosegaarde said, before gesturing to the seven-metre tall, gently humming metal tower we are stood next to in the Chinese capital’s art district, 798. “We collected it from the tower yesterday. Incredibly disgusting.” Dutch designer Roosegaarde’s smog souvenir may be disgusting, but it’s the byproduct of an invention that he has touted as a potential alleviator of China’s pollution problems. His “smog-free tower” sucks air, filters it with ion technology, with Roosegaarde having explained: “By charging the Smog Free Tower with a small positive current, an electrode will send positive ions into the air. These ions will attach themselves to fine dust particles. A negatively charged surface — the counter electrode — will then draw the positive ions in, together with the fine dust particles. The fine dust “is collected together with the ions and stored inside of the tower.” With the dust collected, the tower then spews out cleaner air through vents, creating a “bubble” in the area surrounding it that contains, according to Roosegaarde, up to 70 percent fewer pollution particles than the pre-cleaned air.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China
The United Nations is turning VR into a tool for social change
Virtual reality is lauded as an empathy generator. The ability to transport viewers to a setting that would otherwise be inaccessible, or even unfathomable, lends a sense of poignancy to the medium. Over the last two years, journalistic stories and c…
Source: Engadget – The United Nations is turning VR into a tool for social change
Avatar: The Last Airbender Is One Of The Greatest TV Shows Of All Time
When people talk about the current golden age of TV, they’re usually referring to big, serious dramas like Breaking Bad or The Wire. I am here today to tell you that Avatar: The Last Airbender, an animated show about a group of magical kids who ride around on a flying buffalo, deserves to be counted among them.
Source: Kotaku – Avatar: The Last Airbender Is One Of The Greatest TV Shows Of All Time
Man Beautifully Arranges His Substantial Gaming Dice Collection
Note: Larger, even more satisfying version HERE.
This is a shot of Redditor dr_lugh’s gaming dice collection. As you can see, he has a lot of them. And a lot of matched sets. Clearly somebody takes their dice very seriously. Me? I don’t take my dice seriously at all and more often than not have a couple of them tucked away in my cheeks like a squirrel. My friends hate it when I do that because then they don’t want to touch or roll them afterwards. Come on, it’s not like they were in my butt like all the other game pieces.
Thanks to SD, who bought weighted dice mistakenly thinking they were for gaming and exercising simultaneously.
Source: Geekologie – Man Beautifully Arranges His Substantial Gaming Dice Collection
BUS1, The Successor To KDBUS, Formally Unveiled — Aiming For Mainline Linux Kernel
BUS1 has been in development as an in-kernel IPC mechanism building off the failed KDBUS project. An “RFC” will soon be sent out to Linux kernel developers about BUS1 and the subject will be discussed at next month’s Kernel Summit…
Source: Phoronix – BUS1, The Successor To KDBUS, Formally Unveiled — Aiming For Mainline Linux Kernel
Almost Everyone Who's Ever Worked on Star Trek Is Begging You Not to Vote for Trump
In one of the least surprising turn of events in history, the people who worked on Star Trek—a show which envisions a future Earth without sexism, racism, religion, and even money—find the thought of a Trump presidency abhorrent. More surprisingly, they all want to be clear that a vote for a third party is a vote for Trump.
Source: io9 – Almost Everyone Who’s Ever Worked on Star Trek Is Begging You Not to Vote for Trump
Oculus App Update Is Murdering Battery Life on Samsung Phones
The Samsung Gear VR is one of the easiest ways to experience virtual reality, but some users are learning that convenience comes with its costs. Owners of Samsung phones such as the S6, S6 Edge, S7, and S7 Edge are reporting that Oculus app is destroying their phone’s battery life.
Source: Gizmodo – Oculus App Update Is Murdering Battery Life on Samsung Phones
Room Temperature Ingredients, Not Humidity, Are the Real Enemies of Pie Dough
You may have heard that a humid kitchen can adversely affect your pie dough, making it wet and sticky, but it’s actually the temperature of your ingredients and equipment that are to blame.
Source: LifeHacker – Room Temperature Ingredients, Not Humidity, Are the Real Enemies of Pie Dough
London to ban trucks with lousy driver visibility
It is a fixable design problem and unlike in North America, they are doing something about it.
Source: TreeHugger – London to ban trucks with lousy driver visibility
We all love baking soda, but where does it come from?
The provenance of baking soda is rarely discussed, which leads to the question, ‘Is this miracle substance really as eco-friendly as we think?’
Source: TreeHugger – We all love baking soda, but where does it come from?
'Cause if You Liked it Then You Should Have Put a Tile On It
Tile and the newer Tile Slim continue to be the coolest way to find your lost stuff.
Source: LifeHacker – ‘Cause if You Liked it Then You Should Have Put a Tile On It
Fighting Game Has Useless DLC That Players Buy To Support Devs
Honey Rose: Underdog Extraordinaire is newly released Steam game that fuses fighting games and visual novels. It’s a game about choice, something that even extends to its pricing model.
Source: Kotaku – Fighting Game Has Useless DLC That Players Buy To Support Devs
iPhone 7 Camera Battle: Still the Best Smartphone For Photos
The camera on the iPhone has developed such a reputation for excellence that it’s one of the device’s central selling points. It’s worth upgrading to a new phone just to get the latest and greatest camera. After a week of rigorous shooting, one thing is totally clear: the iPhone 7 has a damn fine phone camera that’s the best you can buy right now.
Source: Gizmodo – iPhone 7 Camera Battle: Still the Best Smartphone For Photos
Facebook tests feature similar to Snapchat Stories for Messenger
Facebook has been keen on borrowing features from Snapchat as of late and it’s testing yet another one in Poland. The so-called “Messenger Day” tool allows Facebook Messenger users to share a collection of photos and videos with friends that will dis…
Source: Engadget – Facebook tests feature similar to Snapchat Stories for Messenger
More Drone's-Eye Footage Of Apple's Spaceship Campus
There is more drone’s-eye footage of Apple’s spaceship campus…and it’s glowing now. All in all, the contruction seems to be coming along nicely. And, just in case you are wondering, this is not the same guy we showed you before that uses a drone to record construction progress.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – More Drone’s-Eye Footage Of Apple’s Spaceship Campus
X-Ray Images of Bird Feathers Hold the Secret to Dinosaur Colors
Textbook illustrations and museum dioramas could soon be even more accurate in their depiction of the rich colors of long-extinct animals like dinosaurs. An international team of scientists used advanced X-ray imaging techniques to map out elements related to pigmentation in modern birds of prey, which they will use to reconstruct the likely color patterns of fossil specimens.
Source: Gizmodo – X-Ray Images of Bird Feathers Hold the Secret to Dinosaur Colors