Artificial insemination isn’t new, but the technique is still breaking new ground — and it might just save one of the world’s better known species. South Africa’s University of Pretoria has successfully used artificial conception with lions for the…
Source: Engadget – Artificial insemination used to breed lions for the first time
Monthly Archives: September 2018
What if you fried chicken in chicken fat?
I have tasted chicken fried in beef tallow. I have tasted chicken fried in duck fat. I have tasted chicken fried in leaf lard. I have tasted chicken fried in non-animal fats. Never have I tasted chicken fried in chicken fat.
Source: LifeHacker – What if you fried chicken in chicken fat?
Cellphone and internet adoption may have peaked in the US
There’s no question that technologies like cellphones and internet access have become ubiquitous, but they now appear to be hitting their peak in the US. Pew Research Center’s latest technology study has shown that key categories technological adopt…
Source: Engadget – Cellphone and internet adoption may have peaked in the US
Google's Chrome OS tablet might support Windows 10
Google’s rumored Chrome OS tablet may have an extra trick up its sleeve: namely, that you might not have to run Chrome OS at all. The 9to5Google team has discovered some code references indicating that Google has been working on Windows 10 support fo…
Source: Engadget – Google’s Chrome OS tablet might support Windows 10
CA governor signs net neutrality bill into law, Justice Department sues
A net neutrality bill that its sponsor Scott Weiner calls “the strongest in the nation” (after being restored to its original form) is now state law in California after being signed by governor Jerry Brown. SB 822 is intended to restore the protectio…
Source: Engadget – CA governor signs net neutrality bill into law, Justice Department sues
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: A Stargate Retrospective: Stargate
Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: A Stargate Retrospective: Stargate (1994) • My Thoughts On My Hero Academia the Movie: Two Heroes • The True Final Fantasy Tactics Starts Here • The Ludonarrative Brilliance of Dark Souls
Source: Kotaku – Today’s selection of articles from Kotaku’s reader-run community: A Stargate Retrospective: Stargate
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin beats key rival to rocket engine deal
Blue Origin is best known for its own rocket programs, but it just scored a deal that could make it an important name in the spaceflight industry. United Launch Alliance has chosen Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine (two of them, to be exact) to power the bo…
Source: Engadget – Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin beats key rival to rocket engine deal
California governor signs net neutrality rules into law
California Governor Jerry Brown today signed net neutrality legislation into law, setting up a legal showdown pitting his state against Internet service providers and the Federal Communications Commission.
The California net neutrality bill, previously approved by the state Assembly and Senate despite protests from AT&T and cable lobbyists, imposes rules similar to those previously enforced by the FCC.
“While the Trump administration does everything in its power to undermine our democracy, we in California will continue to do what’s right for our residents,” California State Senator Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), author of the net neutrality bill, said today.
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Source: Ars Technica – California governor signs net neutrality rules into law
California Net Neutrality Bill Signed Into Law
California Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday signed into law Senate Bill 822, legislation that seeks to reestablish net neutrality as the core principle by which internet service providers treat all data carried over their networks within the state.
Source: Gizmodo – California Net Neutrality Bill Signed Into Law
Memory Week, Amazon, and Seafloor Sludge: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It’s September 30th, 2018, and the theme of the last week was memory. Not just at Gizmodo, where we wrapped up Memory Week, our series on nostalgia, neuroscience, and all that data tightly locked up in our brains. No, you should additionally be trying to remember everything you’ve put into the sprawling Facebook…
Source: Gizmodo – Memory Week, Amazon, and Seafloor Sludge: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
How to Quit Drinking For 'Sober for October'
There was a point in my mid 20s where I had a solid 4-beer-a-day habit. At the time I was dating a brewer and my entire social life just happened to be tied to beer. Going out at night to meet friends for a beer or cracking open a few bottles a pal had brought back from a recent trip (or that my boyfriend had just…
Source: LifeHacker – How to Quit Drinking For ‘Sober for October’
Cloudflare Launches a Low-Cost Domain Registrar, Which Will Also Offer Free Privacy To Customers
Cloudflare, which is celebrating its eighth birthday has announced yet another service: an at-cost domain registrar. From a report: While Cloudflare had already been handling domain registration through the company’s Enterprise Registrar service, that service was intended for some of Cloudflare’s high-end customers who wanted extra levels of security for their domain names. The new domain registrar business — called Cloudflare Registrar — will eventually be open to anyone, and it will charge exactly what it costs for Cloudflare to register a domain. As Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote in a blog post this week, “We promise to never charge you anything more than the wholesale price each TLD charges.” That includes the small fee assessed by ICANN for each registration. Prince said that he was motivated to take the company into the registrar business because of Cloudflare’s own experience with registrars and by the perception that many registrars are in the business mostly to up-sell things that require no additional effort. “All the registrar does is record you as the owner of a particular domain,” Prince said. “That just involves sending some commands to an API. In other words, domain registrars are charging you for being a middle-man and delivering essentially no value to justify their markup.” Charging overhead for that sort of service, Prince said, “seemed as nutty to us as certificate authorities charging to run a bit of math.” (Cloudflare also provides free SSL certificates.)
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Cloudflare Launches a Low-Cost Domain Registrar, Which Will Also Offer Free Privacy To Customers
Telegram desktop app leaked internet addresses when starting calls
Telegram has a reputation for privacy and security (much to the chagrin of some governments), but it’s not immune to gaffes. Security researcher Dhiraj Mishra discovered that Telegram’s desktop app was leaking both public and private IP addresses dur…
Source: Engadget – Telegram desktop app leaked internet addresses when starting calls
Feral's GameMode Gets Patches To Adjust I/O Priority For Games
Feral’s GameMode open-source project for dynamically optimizing a Linux system for gaming with automatically adjusting tunables like the CPU frequency scaling governor and real-time kernel optimizations may soon see another feature added…
Source: Phoronix – Feral’s GameMode Gets Patches To Adjust I/O Priority For Games
Intel Begins Working On A Vulkan Compute Back-End For OpenCV Library
As perhaps a sign of where Intel is heading for their GPU computing strategy with their in-development discrete GPUs, they are developing a Vulkan compute back-end for the widely-used OpenCV library. This Vulkan back-end is for handling GPU-based compute for neural networks with this Open Computer Vision library as an alternative to the CUDA and OpenCL GPU compute support…
Source: Phoronix – Intel Begins Working On A Vulkan Compute Back-End For OpenCV Library
Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images
An anonymous reader shares a report: As mismatches go, it’s a big one. When physicists bring the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein’s general theory of relativity together they get a clear prediction. In the very early universe, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have come into being. Since the one famously annihilates the other, the result should be a universe full of radiation, but without the stars, planets and nebulae that make up galaxies. Yet stars, planets and nebulae do exist. The inference is that matter and antimatter are not quite as equal and opposite as the models predict. This problem has troubled physics for the past half-century, but it may now be approaching resolution. At CERN, a particle-physics laboratory near Geneva, three teams of researchers are applying different methods to answer the same question: does antimatter fall down, or up? Relativity predicts “down”, just like matter. If it falls up, that could hint at a difference between the two that allowed a matter-dominated universe to form.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Source: Slashdot – Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images
New York City's WiFi kiosks have over 5 million users
New York City’s high-speed WiFi kiosks have been around for a while, but just how many people are using them? Quite a few, in fact. The LinkNYC team has revealed that there were over 5 million registered WiFi users as of September 2018, with over a…
Source: Engadget – New York City’s WiFi kiosks have over 5 million users
High-Quality Jurassic Park Stills Are the Ideal Decoration For the Serious Dinosaur Lover
A single frame from a film can often be a work of art. They should be displayed as such.
Source: io9 – High-Quality Jurassic Park Stills Are the Ideal Decoration For the Serious Dinosaur Lover
The Week In Games: Cool Car Assassin
I hope you like the vroom vroom sounds of very cool cars, because Forza Horizon 4 is coming this week. We’re also getting a new Assassin’s Creed and Super Mario Party.
Source: Kotaku – The Week In Games: Cool Car Assassin
Facebook Could Face Up to $1.63 Billion Fine for Latest Hack Under the GDPR
Facebook’s stunning disclosure of a massive hack on Friday in which attackers gained access tokens to at least 50 million accounts—bypassing security measures and potentially giving them full control of both profiles and linked apps—has already stirred threats of a $1.63 billion dollar fine in the European Union, …
Source: Gizmodo – Facebook Could Face Up to .63 Billion Fine for Latest Hack Under the GDPR