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Submission + - Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin into Firefox and Users Are Pissed (gizmodo.com)

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Friday December 15, 2017 @06:00PM

MarcAuslander writes: Mozilla sneaked a browser plugin that promotes Mr. Robot into Firefox—and managed to piss off a bunch of its privacy-conscious users in the process.
The extension, called Looking Glass, is intended to promote an augmented reality game to “further your immersion into the Mr. Robot universe,” according to Mozilla. It was automatically added to Firefox users’ browsers this week with no explanation except the cryptic message, “MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS,” prompting users to worry on Reddit that they’d been hit with spyware.

Submission + - IBM Scientists Find New Way to Shrink Transistors (nytimes.com)

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Thursday October 01, 2015 @03:26PM

MarcAuslander writes: In the semiconductor business, it is called the “red brick wall” — the limit of the industry’s ability to shrink transistors beyond a certain size.

On Thursday, however, IBM scientists reported that they now believe they see a path around the wall. Writing in the journal Science, a team at the company’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center said it has found a new way to make transistors from parallel rows of carbon nanotubes.

Submission + - Test trial to use computer servers to heat homes (ap.org) 1

Submitted by MarcAuslander on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @11:01AM

MarcAuslander writes: Eneco, a Dutch-based energy company with more than 2 million customers, said Tuesday it is installing "e-Radiators" — computer servers that generate heat while crunching numbers — in five homes across the Netherlands in a trial to see if their warmth could be a commercially viable alternative for traditional radiators.

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