Day: July 6, 2019

Labyrinths of light and mirrors: Exploring Tokyo’s TeamLab Planets and Borderless – CNET

Two digital art museums in Tokyo offer incredible otherworldly experiences by playing with all your senses. Here’s what they’re like. …read more Source:: CNet


Infinite worlds: TeamLab Planets and Borderless will blow your mind – CNET

The digital art museums of TeamLab Planets and Borderless use mirrors, LEDs, projectors, and more to create unique and stunning experiences. Have a look. …read more Source:: CNet


Bladder Cancer ‘Attacked and Killed By Common Cold Virus’

A new study from the University of Surrey suggests that a strain of the common cold virus can infect and kill bladder cancer cells. “All signs of the disease disappeared in one patient, and in 14 others there was evidence that cancer cells had died,” reports the BBC. From the report: In this study, 15…


DoH! Secure DNS doesn’t make us a villain Mozilla tells UK ISP’s

Retort follows nomination fior internet villain for helping people bypass UK web filters Mozilla says its baffled by the UK Internet Services Providers’ Association following the trade group’s decision to nominate of the public benefit browser maker as the internet’s 2019 villain of the year.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


How much does 1.5TB of RAM cost?

While most of us get away with having a few gigabytes of RAM, there are modern motherboards designed for workstations that can take enormous amounts of RAM. But lots of RAM is expensive. Very expensive. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Safely Measuring Single And Three-Phase Power

There are many reasons why one would want to measure voltage and current in a project, some applications requiring one to measure mains and even three-phase voltage to analyze the characteristics of a device under test, or in a production environment. This led [Michael Klopfer] at the University of California, Irvine along with a group…


Google Chrome to get a video Play/Pause button on the toolbar

Chrome users will soon have a quicker way to pause auto-playing sound in their browser. …read more Source:: ZDNet


Amazon Seeks Permission To Launch 3,236 Internet Satellites

Amazon is asking the FCC for permission to launch 3,236 satellites that would be used to establish a globe-spanning internet network. Seeking Alpha reported that Amazon expects “to offer service to tens of millions of underserved customers around the world” via the network, which the company is developing under the codename Project Kuiper. Tom’s Hardware…


Netflix Could Lose Almost a Quarter of Its Subscribers If It Started Running Ads, Study Shows

According to a recent Hub Entertainment Research survey, twenty-three percent of respondents said they would definitely or probably drop their Netflix subscription if it began running ads at its current price point or a dollar cheaper. “That percentage would represent a loss of nearly 14 million subscribers from Netflix’s 60 million paid subscribers in the…


An Arduino Sickbay Display Worthy Of The Enterprise

The various displays and interfaces in Star Trek, especially The Original Series, were intentionally designed to be obtuse and overly complex so they would appear futuristic to the audience. If you can figure out how Sulu was able to fly the Enterprise with an array of unlabeled buttons and rocker switches, we’d love to hear…