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Submission + - Starbucks offers workers 2 years of free college (cnn.com)

Submitted by mpicpp on Monday June 16, 2014 @03:20PM

mpicpp writes: Starbucks baristas working through college are about to get an extra boost from their employer.
The company announced it will offer both full- and part-time employees a generous tuition reimbursement benefit that covers two full years of classes.

The benefit is through a partnership with Arizona State University's online studies program. Employees can choose any of more than 40 undergraduate degrees, and aren't limited to only business classes.

Comment Seriously (Score 1) 87

by saryshagan on Monday June 16, 2014 @01:16PM (#47247279) Attached to: Expedia To Accept Bitcoin

I don't know why, but I have a felling that Bitcoin is nothing more than a piramid scheme...

Submission + - Interviews: Ask "The King of Kong" Billy Mitchell About Classic Video Games

Submitted by samzenpus on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:34AM

samzenpus writes: Billy Mitchell owns the Rickey's World Famous Restaurant chain, sells his own line of hot sauces, and was called, "probably the greatest arcade-video-game player of all time". His was the first to achieve a perfect score in Pac-Man, and held many record scores in other arcade games. He is probably most famous for the 2007 documentary,"The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters". The film follows a challenger on his quest to surpass Billy's high score in Donkey Kong, which Mitchell had set in 1982. Since the film was made, the Kong crown has been held by a number people including twice by Mitchell. Billy has agreed to put down the quarters and answer any questions you might have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

Submission + - EU, S. Korea Collaborate On Superfast 5G Standards (itworld.com)

Submitted by jfruh on Monday June 16, 2014 @09:30AM

jfruh writes: The European Commission and the South Korean government announced that they will be harmonizing their radio spectrum policy in an attempt to help bring 5G wireless tech to market by 2020. While the technology is still in an embryonic state, but one South Korean researcher predicts it could be over a thousand times faster than current 4G networks.

Comment Re:Ugh (Score 1) 3

by saryshagan on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @12:40PM (#44040687) Attached to: Proposal for a New Periodic Table of the Elements

I disagree with you. I think this table is good enough to be used in practice. I think this could be the best conformation for a periodic table. I also would like to see an interactive version of this proposal.

Submission + - Proposal for a New Periodic Table of the Elements (codecommunity.org) 3

Submitted by ramorim on Monday June 17, 2013 @08:33PM

ramorim writes: In honor of the Chemist Day, celebrated in Brazil on this day June 18, 2013, I publish a proposal for a new Periodic Table of Elements in a modular spiral-hexagonal model, with continuity and connectivity for all constituent units of the matter. This proposal indeed permits to extrapolate the hypothetical elements of the G-block and H-block in the same model.

Submission + - "Electric Earth" Could Explain Planet's Rotation (sciencemag.org) 1

Submitted by sciencehabit on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:19PM

sciencehabit writes: When it comes to Earth's rotation, you might think geophysicists have pretty much everything figured out. Not quite. In order to explain some variations in the way our planet spins, Earth's mantle—the layer of hot, softened rock that lies between the crust and core—must conduct electricity, an ability that the mantle as we know it shouldn't have. Now, a new study finds that iron monoxide, which makes up 9% of the mantle, actually does conduct electricity just like a metal, but only at temperatures and pressures found far beneath the surface.

Submission + - Faster-than-Fast Fourier transform

Submitted by CanEHdian on Thursday January 19, 2012 @03:06PM

CanEHdian writes: MIT news reports on research done resulting in a Faster-than-fast Fourier Transform algorithm, the Nearly Optimal Sparse Fourier Transform, which also has practical applications:

At the Association for Computing Machinery's Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA) this week, a group of MIT researchers will present a new algorithm that, in a large range of practically important cases, improves on the fast Fourier transform. Under some circumstances, the improvement can be dramatic — a tenfold increase in speed. The new algorithm could be particularly useful for image compression, enabling, say, smartphones to wirelessly transmit large video files without draining their batteries or consuming their monthly bandwidth allotments.

Paper will be available on arXiv.

Submission + - Pentagon to crowdsource weapons software testing (nextgov.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19, 2012 @02:14PM

An anonymous reader writes: The Pentagon plans to fork over $32 million to develop "fun to play" computer games that can refine the way weapons systems are tested to ensure they are free from software errors and security bugs, according to a Defense Department solicitation. The goal is to create puzzles that are "intuitively understandable by ordinary people" and could be solved on laptops, smartphones, tablets and consoles. The games' solutions will be collected into a database and used to improve methods for analyzing software, according to the draft request for proposals put out by the military's venture capital and research arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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