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Submission + - How 3D Printing Could Transform the Heat Exchanger Industry (medium.com)

Submitted by Cuillere
Cuillere writes: Ex-Formula One engineer Michael Fuller left motorsports to start his own company when he realized 3D printing technology was ripe for a new kind of innovation. Now he's using printers to cut the weight of heat exchangers in half and to localize manufacturing, and the effects are trickling into everything from aerospace, to petroleum refinement, to refrigeration.

Submission + - Supercomputing Cluster Immersed in Oil Yields Extreme Efficiency (datacenterfrontier.com)

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes: A new supercomputing cluster immersed in tanks of dielectric fluid has posted extreme efficiency ratings. The Vienna Scientific Cluster 3 combines several efficiency techniques to create a system that is stingy in its use of power, cooling and water. VSC3 recorded a PUE (Power Usage Efficiency) of 1.02, putting it in the realm of data centers run by Google and Facebook. The system avoids the use of chiillers and air handlers, and doesn't require any water to cool the fluid in the cooling tanks. Limiting use of water is a growing priority for data center operators, as cooling towers can use large volumes of water resources. The VSC3 system packs 600 teraflops of computing power into 1,000 square feet of floor space.

Submission + - Pluto probe back to normal, cause of snafu found (planetary.org)

Submitted by Tablizer
Tablizer writes: "Update:...NASA’s New Horizons mission is returning to normal science operations after a July 4 anomaly and remains on track for its July 14 flyby of Pluto. The investigation into the anomaly that caused New Horizons to enter "safe mode" on July 4 has concluded that no hardware or software fault occurred on the spacecraft. The underlying cause of the incident was a hard-to-detect timing flaw in the spacecraft command sequence that occurred during an operation to prepare for the close flyby. No similar operations are planned for the remainder of the Pluto encounter.

Comment Re: Good (Score 1) 1307

by Z00L00K (#50050183) Attached to: Greece Rejects EU Terms

The current party is just a sign of the desperation in Greece, and the cause is a select few rich persons that now have put a large amount of money needed for Greece in bank accounts in Switzerland and other profitable places.

Corruption is one side of the coin, the Euro is another. The Euro is a currency that builds tensions, not eases them. And the ECB leaders have invested a lot of prestige and effort into the Euro so if it starts to crack they will look like fools - which they actually are.

Submission + - Some consumers habitually pick losers

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: If you’re still crying into your pillow at night over the demise of the Zune MP3 player or Crystal Pepsi, take a long, hard look into the mirror: Your shopping habits might have foretold the doom of your favourite, discontinued products. At least, according to a group of researchers pointing the finger at certain early adopters. In a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research, researchers identified particular kinds of consumers whose preferences can predict products that will flop, calling those folks “harbingers of failure.” “Certain customers systematically purchase new products that prove unsuccessful. Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail.”

Submission + - Frank Herbert's Dune, 50 Years On (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: This October will be the 50th anniversary of Frank Herbert's massively popular and influential sci-fi novel Dune. The Guardian has written a piece examining its effects on the world at least, and how the book remains relevant even now. Quoting: "Books read differently as the world reforms itself around them, and the Dune of 2015 has geopolitical echoes that it didn’t in 1965, before the oil crisis and 9/11. ... As Paul’s destiny becomes clear to him, he begins to have visions 'of fanatic legions following the green and black banner of the Atreides, pillaging and burning across the universe in the name of their prophet Muad’Dib.' If Paul accepts this future, he will be responsible for 'the jihad’s bloody swords,' unleashing a nomad war machine that will up-end the corrupt and oppressive rule of the emperor Shaddam IV (good) but will kill untold billions (not so good) in the process. In 2015, the story of a white prophet leading a blue-eyed brown-skinned horde of jihadis against a ruler called Shaddam produces a weird funhouse mirror effect, as if someone has jumbled up recent history and stuck the pieces back together in a different order."

Submission + - Reporter of an e-voting vulnerability raided in Argentina

Submitted by TrixX
TrixX writes: There have just been police raids at the home of an Argentinian security professional who discovered and reported several vulnerabilities in the electronic ballot system to be used next weeks for elections in the city of Buenos Aires. The vulnerabilities (exposed SSL keys and ways to forge ballots with multiple votes) had been reported to the manufacturer of the voting machines, the media, and the public about a week ago.
There have been no arrest but his computers and electronics devices have been impounded. Meanwhile, the information security community in Argentina is trying to get the media to report this notorious attempt to "kill the messenger".

Submission + - How much did your biggest "tech" mistake cost?

Submitted by NotQuiteReal
NotQuiteReal writes: What is the most expensive piece of hardware you broke (I fried a $2500 disk drive once, back when 400MB was $2500) or what software bug did you let slip that caused damage? (No comment on the details — but about $20K cost to a client.)

Did you lose your job over it?

If you worked on the Mars probe that crashed, please try not to be the First Post, that would scare off too many people!

Submission + - Why Microsoft kept 2 browsers in Windows 10 (windows10update.com)

Submitted by Ammalgam
Ammalgam writes: A lot of people have heard about Microsoft’s new browser called Edge that will be included in the Windows 10 Operating System. Microsoft are positioning Edge as their new, fresh, modern browser that will be forward looking and free from Internet Explorer’s baggage. What is less well known is that Internet Explorer is also coming to Windows 10 and will play an integral secondary role in the OS. On Windows10Update.com, Onuora Amobi does the breakdown and answers the question — why does Windows 10 have 2 browsers?

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