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Submission + - Unicode Consortium announces Unicode 8.0.0 (codel10n.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Newest version of Unicode Standard adds 7,716 new characters to existing 21,499 – that’s more than 35% growth! Most of them are Chinese, Japan and Korean ideographs, but among those changes Unicode adds support for new languages like Ik used in Uganda.

Submission + - Sunday Times issues DMCA takedown notice to the Intercept over Snowden article (documentcloud.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Sunday the newspaper the Sunday Times published an article citing anonymous UK government sources that Edward Snowden was in the hands of the Russians and Chinese. Shortly thereafter, Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept published a scathing criticism of the article. In this article, Glenn published a photograph of the paper's front page on which the story occurred. Yesterday, the Intercept received a DMCA take down notice from News Corp on account of the photograph.
The Intercept is refusing to comply with the take down notice.

Submission + - SpaceX begins planning a 4,000 satellite internet constellation

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: SpaceX has filed papers with the FCC to begin testing the design and construction and launch of a constellation of 4,000 satellites for providing global internet access.

Musk's FCC filing proposes tests starting next year. If all goes well, the service could be up and running in about five years. The satellites would be deployed from one of SpaceX's rockets, the Falcon 9. Once in orbit, the satellites would connect to ground stations at three West Coast facilities. The purpose of the tests is to see whether the antenna technology used on the satellites will be able to deliver high-speed Internet to the ground without hiccups.

It appears to me that Musk's constellation will be made up of cubesats, small and cheap to build, and easy to launch in large numbers as secondary payloads on every Falcon 9 launch. In other words, as long as SpaceX can get customers to pay for launches of large satellites on its Falcon 9, Musk will be able to launch and maintain his constellation of cubesats for free.

Submission + - All 11 master files (96k/24b) of the Open Well-Tempered Clavier now CC0 (kickstarter.com) 1

Submitted by rDouglass
rDouglass writes: The Open Well-Tempered Clavier project, a crowd funded recording of J.S. Bach's 24 Preludes and Fugues (book 1), has released the 11 master tracks used to make the recording in 96k/24b audio, and they're Creative Commons Zero licensed. The pianist is Kimiko Ishizaka, and there is a very positive review about the recording in this month's Gramophone magazine. A photo of the mic positions and the microphones used is also provided. The recording engineers on this project were Anne-Marie Sylvestre, and Tobias Lehmann. The studio is the Teldex Studio, Berlin.

Go ahead, download these 3.2GB of files and have fun mixing and mastering them yourselves! This is open source music at its finest.

Submission + - 5G is coming...in five years...and maybe not from U.S. (computerworld.com)

Submitted by CarlottaHapsburg
CarlottaHapsburg writes: Ericson and Nokia are leading the pack but there are aspects to 5G we can't imagine. Flexible architecture, functioning key standards, the US's lethargy in expanding mmWave and even the definition of what 5G is and can do are at stake. The FCC's Tom Wheeler says 5G is different for every manufacturer, like a Picasso painting. It should be an exciting five years of further developments and definitions — and, hopefully, American preparedness.

Submission + - Batteriser extendes akaline battery life with voltage booster (pcworld.com)

Submitted by ttsai
ttsai writes: Batteroo is a Silicon Valley company preparing to release its Batteriser product in September. The Batteriser is a small sleeve that fits around alkaline batteries to boost the voltage to 1.5V. This means that batteries that would otherwise be thrown into the trash when the voltage dips to 1.3V or 1.4V could be used until the unboosted voltage reaches 0.6V, extending the useful life of a battery 8x, according to the company. This product has the potential to reduce the number of batteries in landfills as well as increasing the time between replacing batteries. The expected price of the sleeve is $10 for a pack of 4 sleeves.

Submission + - The new neural network behind Google Photos (medium.com)

Submitted by Cuillere
Cuillere writes: What happens when Google Image Search and photo storage work together? Google Photos. The app is using a new kind of technology to help users navigate their own photo archives, something called "Inception"— a layered neural structure that grows smarter with every search.

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