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Submission + - Swiftkey coming to IOS from September 18

Submitted by lyricsden
lyricsden writes: Swiftkey has announced that their keyboard will be releasing on to the apple on September 18. Swift key has very intriguing features.
When it launches on the 17th, Swiftkey will support English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. When it launches on the 17th, SwiftKey will support English, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

Submission + - So You Want The Truth About Ukraine? (theangloamerican.com)

Submitted by theangloamerican
theangloamerican writes: This was a government manipulating its citizens with tools straight out of the pages of the Third Reich. “If you are not for us, you are against us” pretty much closes down rational argument.

Now we find US intelligence officers were closed down like the rest of us as the US Government politicised intelligence. But perhaps equally alarming is that this politicisation of intelligence continues today in government under a completely different administration.
http://theangloamerican.com/so...

Submission + - FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters (governmentattic.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The FAA has released a set of cease and desist letters sent in 2012 and 2013 to people operating drone vehicles for a variety of purposes including: tornado research, inspecting gas well stacks, aerial photography, journalism education, and other purposes. Drone cease and desist letters sent during 2014 are available from the FAA upon request.

Feed Google News Sci Tech: Silicon Valley fights order to pay bigger settlement in tech talent hiring case (google.com)

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Silicon Valley fights order to pay bigger settlement in tech talent hiring case
Worcester Telegram
Last month, a federal judge ordered four leading tech companies to come up with more money to settle a class-action lawsuit that accuses them of conspiring against their own employees. But Thursday, the companies challenged the ruling, saying the judge...
Four Technology Companies appeal Judge's Rejection of a $324.5 Million ... Uncover California
Blasting Koh, Defense Asks Ninth Circuit to Restore 'No-Poach' DealThe Recorder
Apple, Google Appeal Hiring Settlement, Accuse Judge Koh of Making MistakeThe Mac Observer
Washington Post-Madame Noire
all 171 news articles

Submission + - Home Security Cameras 1

Submitted by Insipid Trunculance
Insipid Trunculance writes: Having been burgled recently , I have been shocked out of my complacency and going all the way to secure my home. I am happy with the quote for the burglar alarm and going ahead ; I am not satisfied with the camera setup they have proposed , essentially its an old style cctv setup with a very clunky web accessible capability. What I have decided to have is Day/Night capable IP cameras which can email/text me whenever they detect motion. I didn't want to particularly setup a dedicated PC to record the video , so direct recording to a NAS and/or inbuilt storage is a requirement. I have been amazed at the number or solutions and the variability in their quality. What setup do fellow slashdotters have?

Submission + - Twitch Shuts Down Justin.tv, Google Acquisition To Blame?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Twitch today announced that the Justin.tv website, mobile apps, and APIs are no longer in service. A very simple explanation is given for the shutdown: since rebranding the company to Twitch Interactive in February 2014, all resources are now focused on Twitch.tv. The news today will almost certainly further fuel the rumors that Google is acquiring, or has already acquired, Twitch. Purchases are often followed by consolidation, as well as cutting off any excess limbs.

Submission + - Google Play Store Now Allows App Refunds Within 2 Hours Instead of 15 Minutes (techfeasta.com)

Submitted by TechFeasta
TechFeasta writes: Sometimes we mistake the description and purchase the App which doesn’t satisfy us. Has same happens with you?
Google play use to allows app refunds within 15 Minutes, For the convenience of users Google has reportedly but not officially increased the time to 2 Hours. Users can now ask for App refunds within 2 Hours of purchasing a paid app and game

Submission + - Gang Amasses Over a Billion Internet Passwords (nytimes.com)

Submitted by rotorbudd
rotorbudd writes: The New York Times reports that Hold Security has discovered that a Russian crime ring has amassed over a billion unique records.

" A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection of stolen Internet credentials, including 1.2 billion user name and password combinations and more than 500 million email addresses, security researchers say."

Submission + - NASA Successfully Tests The 'Impossible' Microwave Thruster (valuewalk.com) 1

Submitted by Joe_NoOne
Joe_NoOne writes: NASA has achieved a breakthrough in space propulsion technology, albeit at a small experimental level. Researchers at the space agency have successfully tested the microwave thrusters that can work without any propellant. It was considered impossible because the propulsion system violates the law of conservation of momentum.

NASA said the electric propulsion device generated a force that is not attributable to any classical electromagnetic phenomena. The amount of thrust generated was only 30-50 MicroNewtons (mN), even less than the weight of an iPhone. But the fact that the system generated even a small amount of thrust without any onboard source of fuel clearly violates the law of conservation of momentum

Submission + - Why is Sun's Corona 300 times hotter than its surface ? (scienceworldreport.com) 4

Submitted by Taco Cowboy
Taco Cowboy writes: There has been a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists for decades. Sun's Corona has been measured to be 300 times hotter than Sun's surface

"That's a bit of a puzzle," said Jeff Brosius, space scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "Things usually get cooler farther away from a hot source. When you're roasting a marshmallow you move it closer to the fire to cook it, not farther away."

Only recently Scientists have gathered some of the strongest evidence to explain what makes the sun's outer atmosphere so much hotter than its surface.

The new observations come from just six minutes worth of data from one of NASA's least expensive type of missions, a sounding rocket. The EUNIS mission, short for Extreme Ultraviolet Normal Incidence Spectrograph, was launched on April 23, 2013 to gather a new snapshot of data every 1.3 seconds to track the properties of material over a wide range of temperatures in the complex solar atmosphere

The sun's visible surface, called the photosphere, is some 6,000 Kelvins, while the corona regularly reaches temperatures which are 300 times as hot and EUNIS was able to pick up a wavelength of light corresponding to that 10 million degree material

The culprit is known as " Nanoflares " — a constant peppering of impulsive bursts of heating, none of which can be individually detected — provide the mysterious extra heat

"The fact that we were able to resolve this emission line so clearly from its neighbors is what makes spectroscopists like me stay awake at night with excitement," said Brosius. "This weak line observed over such a large fraction of an active region really gives us the strongest evidence yet for the presence of nanoflares"

Submission + - Battery-free Wi-Fi connectivity could fuel 'Internet of Things' (washington.edu)

Submitted by vinces99
vinces99 writes: Imagine a world in which your wristwatch or other wearable device communicates directly with your online profiles, storing information about your daily activities where you can best access it – all without requiring batteries. Or, battery-free sensors embedded around your home that could track minute-by-minute temperature changes and send that information to your thermostat to help conserve energy. This not-so-distant “Internet of Things” reality would extend connectivity to perhaps billions of devices. Sensors could be embedded in everyday objects to help monitor and track everything from the structural safety of bridges to the health of your heart. But having a way to cheaply power and connect these devices to the Internet has kept this from taking off.

Now, University of Washington engineers have designed a new communication system that uses radio frequency signals as a power source and reuses existing Wi-Fi infrastructure to provide Internet connectivity to these devices. Called Wi-Fi backscatter, this technology is the first that can connect battery-free devices to Wi-Fi infrastructure. The researchers will publish their results at the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Data Communication‘s annual conference this month in Chicago. The team also plans to start a company based on the technology.

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