Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×

Submission + - Tracking the weather on an exoplanet

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Scientists have begun gathering increasingly detailed information about the atmosphere and weather on the exoplanet HD189733B, 63 light years away with an orbit that produces a transit every 2.2 days.

It appears that the temperature rises with increasing altitude, reaching 3,000 degrees at the top of the atmosphere. There are also strong winds blowing from the cold to the hot side of the planet.

Submission + - What I Learned When Twitter Censored My Tweet

Submitted by blottsie
blottsie writes: Just two weeks ago, Turkey endured a tragedy. The leftist group DHKP/C took a public prosecutor hostage and posted photos of him with a gun to his head to social media sites. Neither the prosecutor nor the gunmen survived, and Turkey’s Internet censorship machine quickly took hold. A court ordered a ban on 166 URLs related to the incident. Twitter was among the biggest recipients of that ban, which named 54 specific tweets and 10 entire users accounts, all of which were blocked on April 3.

Three days later, I unwittingly joined them.

Submission + - Acetaminophen reduces both pain and pleasure, study finds (scienceblog.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Researchers studying the commonly used pain reliever acetaminophen found it has a previously unknown side effect: It blunts positive emotions. Acetaminophen, the main ingredient in the over-the-counter pain reliever Tylenol, has been in use for more than 70 years in the United States, but this is the first time that this side effect has been documented.

Submission + - DARPA Wants to Make Software Obsolescence Obsolete (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: One unfortunate fact of modern life is that functional new software becomes non-functional old software with depressing regularity. For most people, this means predictable episodes of frustration, but for the US military, it's a more serious problem. DARPA's new Building Resource Adaptive Software Systems (BRASS) project aims to take a major shot at avoiding this obsolescence by developing software systems that can still operate properly a hundred years from now.

Submission + - What's the point in Sharp's 5.5 inch 4K 806ppi screen? (betanews.com)

Submitted by Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson writes: It is a given that whatever technology you see if front of you will be bettered if not next week, then next month or next year. Processors will get faster, hard drives bigger, laptops thinner and... well, you get the idea. In the realm of mobile devices there was a time when size meant everything. Mobile phone screens grew larger and larger, but then focus started to switch.

Size, it turned out, was not everything after all; it’s the number of pixels that matters. We started to see ppi figures quoted everywhere, Apple even came up with its own label for the pixel density at which pixels became indistinguishable — Retina Display. This was just the start of the battle of the pixels, though, and now things are starting to get a bit silly. Sharp has announced a 5.5 inch 4K screen which boasts a pixel density of 806ppi. Say, what?

Submission + - Trials using man-made DNA begin in battle against cancer, ebola, flu and HIV (dailymail.co.uk)

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Pioneering new treatments for flu, Ebola and cancer are being developed by scientists using man-made DNA.

Experts have worked out how to create strands of artificial DNA, each mimicking a different killer disease, and inject them into patients.

The idea is that the patients' immune systems will then be able to recognize the threats and eliminate them.

Submission + - The brightest galaxy beyond our local group is really unusual

Submitted by StartsWithABang
StartsWithABang writes: Of course the closest galaxies to us are going to be the brightest, with Andromeda, the Magellanic Clouds and the Triangulum Galaxy all visible to the naked eye. But beyond our local group? The next brightest galaxy is an oddity: 29 million light-years away, half the diameter of our Milky Way, and containing properties of both spiral and elliptical galaxies. In unparalleled views, come take a look at the sombrero galaxy, and learn what makes it so phenomenal.

Comment Re:Missing Option... (Score 1) 190

by Flavianoep (#49428957) Attached to: How do you contribute to open source projects?

I evangelize!

That's what I do! Usually I astonish my colleagues at faculty doing things with my computers that they can't or don't know. Today, by example, I's submitting my homework on Phonetics in typed form, while all my colleagues will have done the exercises by hand for it would be a PITA to insert each and every IPA symbol needed. BTW, they will be surprised I edited a PDF.

Submission + - [Poll] Which kind of religion do you follow? 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: * Abrahamic (Judaism, Christianity, Islam...)
* Traditional Polytheistic (Hinduism...)
* Eastern Philosophy (Buddhism...)
* New religious movements, serious (Scientology, Wicca...)
* New religious movements, satirical (Discordianism, FSM, Subgenius...)
* None
* Other

Submission + - Samsung allegedly hired 500 'fans' for Galaxy S6 launch in China (theinquirer.net)

Submitted by mpicpp
mpicpp writes: KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung reportedly hired 500 'fans' to attend the launch of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in China.
That's according to Chinese website The Paper, which reports that Samsung paid around 500 people to attend the event, most of whom were iPhone users.
A person specialising in recruiting the 'fans' told The Paper that he brought over 100 people to the event, each of whom were paid ¥20 (£2.15) for hanging around at the Galaxy S6 launch for more than an hour.
One woman, hired by Samsung directly, told the Chinese news outlet that she was paid ¥50 (£5.40) for spending more than 15 minutes at the event.
Other 'fan' recruiters, including Samsung, paid another 400 people to wag their tongues in front of the Galaxy S6. The 'fans' accounted for around half of the 1,000 people at the event.
The Paper reports that attendees were told to inform any inquiring reporters that they were interested in Samsung's new phones, and to post their photo, name and phone number on popular messaging platform WeChat and to 'like' the Samsung Galaxy page on Chinese social network Baidu.

Submission + - Iodine Transforms the Bindi Into a "Life-Saving Dot" (gizmag.com)

Submitted by Zothecula
Zothecula writes: In an effort to increase awareness of nutritional requirements, and to bring simple tech into complex customs, a medical foundation in India has joined forces with a Singaporean ad agency. The plan is to combat iodine deficiencies using bindis, the decorative forehead dots worn by most Indian women and girls.

Slashdot Top Deals

To do nothing is to be nothing.

Close