“Reddit has been actively luring advertisers as it attempts to take advantage of its vast audience to build its business,” reports CNBC, adding that Reddit “has indicated it wants to increase advertising across the site, including more display and mobile ads and sponsored opportunities.” An anonymous reader quotes their report: The 13-year-old company is now…

Facebook’s soaring stock price isn’t the only reason 34-year-old Mark Zuckerberg is now richer than 87-year-old Warren Buffett. An anonymous reader quotes Inc: There’s another, more important reason that Zuckerberg is now worth more: Buffett has been doing a great job of giving his money away, something that he, Zuckerberg, Gates, and most of the…

[Curt White] is working on a smart pill whose copper-zinc battery will use his own stomach acid as the electrolyte. It’s not that unusual of an idea, MIT tested a similar approach in a pig. It’s also better than using lithium ion batteries, something we covered in this PSA. Smartpill circuit diagram His starting point…

Digital Trends reports: Tesla’s largest-ever Powerpack installation may be coming to Northern California. Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) applied to the California Public Utilities Commission for approval for a utility-owned 182.5 MW energy storage farm using Tesla Powerpacks at the company’s energy storage site in Moss Landing… The Tesla project, however, would have an…

Knock knock. Who’s there? It’s football, and fans remain convinced it’s coming home, as the Three Lions win again. …read more Source:: CNet

NetBScanner is a NetBIOS network scanner tool that scans all computers in the IP addresses range you choose, using the NetBIOS protocol. For every computer located by this NetBIOS scanner, the following information is displayed: IP Address Computer Name Workgroup or Domain MAC Address Network adapter manufacturer (from MAC address). NetBScanner also shows whether a…

Police officers have just begun testing facial recognition software in London. Slashdot reader Bruce66423 reports: After all the concern about the [first] trial, it appears to have been a bust. “Police have admitted that no one was arrested during a trial of controversial facial recognition technology, which sparked privacy and human rights concerns,” reports the…

This week NASA’s Dawn space probe swooped within 22 miles of the surface of Ceres, the dwarf planet that’s the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. NASA’s JPL reports: In more than three years of orbiting Ceres, Dawn’s lowest altitude before this month was 240 miles (385 kilometers), so the data…

The Audeze LCD2C is the muscle car equivalent of headphones — it’s got the power to move you! …read more Source:: CNet

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