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Submission + - How Do You Move a City? (gizmag.com)

Zothecula writes: The town of Kiruna in Lapland, Sweden, is known for its Jukkasjårvi Ice Hotel and for hosting the recent Arctic Council summit. It also sits within the Arctic Circle, on one of the world’s richest deposits of iron ore. Now in danger of collapse due to extensive deep mining, the city center is to be relocated.

Submission + - Canada (quietly) offering sanctuary to data from the U.S. (thestar.com)

davecb writes: The Toronto Star's lead article today is Canada courting U.S. web giants in wake of NSA spy scandal, an effort to convince them their customer data is safer here. This follows related moves like cisco moving R&D to Toronto. Industry Canada will neither confirm nor deny that European and U.S. companies are negotiating to move confidential data away from the U.S. This critically depends on recent blocking legislation to get around cases like U.S. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, where U.S. courts "extradited" Canadian bank records to the U.S. Contrary to Canadian law, you understand ...

Submission + - The True Color of Ancient Sea Creatures (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Looking a bit like a dolphin, but with a long slim snout filled with pointy teeth, one species of ichthyosaur was practically invisible in the murky depths of Jurassic seas, thanks to dark pigmentation that covered its entire body. That’s one conclusion of a new study that provides an unprecedented peek at the coloration of sea creatures alive during or soon after the dinosaur era. The approach involves bombarding fossils with charged particles and then analyzing the particles that are knocked from the surface, which reveals remnants of ancient pigments. Dark pigmentation may have helped ichthyosaurs and other predators camouflage themselves in the murky depths while they hunted prey.

Submission + - Chang'e-3 lunar rover landing tomorrow at 13:40 UTC (planetary.org)

savuporo writes: The Chinese Chang'e-3 probe will be landing on the moon tomorrow, 13:40 UTC. CCTV is likely to carry the event life as they did for initial launch. According to technical overview of the mission scenario and instruments the landing will be fully autonomous with active landing hazard avoidance, which is the first time this has been attempted on any planetary landing. More real-time updates can be found on Twitter with ChangE3 hash tag and NASASpaceFlight forums live event section.

Comment Re:What a bunch of idiots (Score 1) 462

As a conservative, religious man, I find the religious anti-vaccination crowd a bunch of blind ninnies. I have a few at my church like that, and I want to smack them as they put my children who are too young to receive these vaccination at risk of catching a deadly disease.

Yet you still go that church? Might as well stop that, for your childrens' health.

Submission + - Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto (nytimes.com)

wabrandsma writes: Two Israeli computer scientists say they may have uncovered a puzzling financial link between Ross William Ulbricht, the recently arrested operator of the Internet black market known as the Silk Road, and the secretive inventor of bitcoin, the anonymous online currency, used to make Silk Road purchases.

Submission + - Why Do Users Uninstall Apps? (intel.com) 1

jones_supa writes: In mobile app development, one of the more daunting problems facing developers is user engagement; how to get users keep my app installed? Intel has done a little bit of research to find the most common cases. Apps that don’t offer anything helpful or unique tend to be the ones that are uninstalled the most frequently. People cycle through apps incredibly quickly to find the best-fitting. Then a lot of apps have a naturally limited lifecycle; i.e., apps that are centered around a movie release or tracking a pregnancy. Aside that, there seems to be a few common factors that can contribute to uninstallation: lengthy forms, asking for ratings, collecting unnecessary data, user unfriendliness, unnecessary notifications and of course, bugs. Additionally, if people have paid even a small price for the app, they are more committed to keep it installed.

Comment Re:Is it a phone ? (Score 1) 310

No, it's not a phone. It's a pocket-sized computer that can also make phone calls. We call it a smartphone for historical reasons. Do you also complain that we say 'computer' as shorthand for 'electronic computer', when we all know that a computer is a person who prepares logarithm tables?

Yes, yes, so much yes. My smartphone is hardly used in the phone-kind of way (not much of a caller anyway, hardly touch those 'free' minutes) but as an internet-computer/pdf-viewer/musicplayer/calculator/watch SO much more. It doesn't do any of those functions really well, but just good enough and the fact that it's all in one single handheld device makes me happy.

When I ONLY want a good mobile phone I'll get my old trusty Siemens.

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