Archive for March, 2014


While it should come as no surprise given that Facebook recently hired multiple Btrfs file-system developers, but they will be trying out the Btrfs file-system within real-world deployments at the social networking company.

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This week on The Physics Central Podcast we’re talking about the ancient Chinese game of Go. Researchers in France want to model the game as a complex network.

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The tug boat bridge of the future will be fully customizable and feature augmented reality Photo: VTT

By 2025, the first batch of autonomous vehicles will be driving through your neighborhood. But what about cargo ships? They’ll still have humans at the helm–at least most of the time–and this is the augmented reality bridge they’ll use to traverse the high seas.

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illustration of Chariklo with rings around it

Meet (10199) Chariklo. It’s an asteroid-like object that’s a little more than 90 miles in diameter. It orbits the sun between Jupiter and Neptune. And like its giant gas neighbors, it has rings. Asteroids have rings, too! (Go and brush your shoulders off.)

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If you grew up in the 80’s you will remember people walking around with giant and loud radios on their shoulders known as a boom box.

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Google reportedly testing Android 4.4.3 Kit Kat update.

Google testing Android 4.4.3 Kit Kat update, will reportedly address Nexus 5 camera bug.

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I’ve long been a fan of V-Moda’s headphones. They’re well made, customizable with engraved plates and, most importantly, they sound great.

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This is pretty interesting. Hacker winocm has posted a new video of his iPad triple-booting into multiple versions of iOS. The clip shows his hacked tablet booting up and running in iOS 5.1, and then its ability to quickly switch to iOS 6.1.3 and iOS 7.0.6.

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iOS 7.1 Jailbreak Explained

After the shocking, albeit foreseen, blow to the jailbreak community when Apple issued iOS 7.1 to the public, in turn patching the evasi0n7 UnTethered jailbreak, a vast number of individuals desperately seeking a solution have regrettably fallen for despicable scams that now clutter the web.

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Greetings from Planet Facebook

Q: Why did Facebook buy Oculus VR? A: To own the internet

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