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Submission + - Google Rolls Out VP9 Encoding for YouTube (blogspot.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The YouTube engineering blog announced that they've begun encoding videos with Google's open VP9 codec. Their goal is to use the efficiency of VP9 to bring better quality video to people in low-bandwidth areas, and to spur uptake of 4K video in more developed areas. "[I]f your Internet connection used to only play up to 480p without buffering on YouTube, it can now play silky smooth 720p with VP9."
Google

Study Finds Google Is More Trusted Than Traditional Media 155

Posted by samzenpus from the it-must-be-true dept.
According to a study by market research company Zogby International, people trust Google, Apple, and Microsoft more than the traditional media. Social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter scored lowest on the trust scale, but still soundly beat the media. From the article: "The traditional media received little sympathy from the public, with only eight percent of all adults and six percent of young adults saying they trusted them."
Programming

Submission + - "Proof of Concept" for Ajax without JavaScript (jonathanscorner.com)

Submitted by JonathansCorner.com
JonathansCorner.com writes: Even if Ajax was backronymed to "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML", it works with JSON substituted for XML. Here's a proof of concept that JavaScript/VBScript are not strictly necessary either. The technique, besides being used standalone, may be useful to provide a better "graceful degradation" for Ajax applications used by clients with scripting turned off.
The Internet

Submission + - Time Warner Cable to Test Tiered Bandwidth Caps (arstechnica.com)

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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes: "According to a leaked internal memo, Time Warner Cable is testing out tiered bandwidth caps in their Beaumont, TX division as a way to fairly balance the needs of heavy users against the limited amount of shared bandwidth cable can provide. The plan is to offer various service tiers with bandwidth fees for overuse, as well as a bandwidth meter customers can use to help them stay within their allotment. If it works out, they will consider a nation-wide rollout. Interestingly, the memo also claims that 5% of subscribers use over 50% of the total network bandwidth."
Upgrades

Submission + - None more black 2

Submitted by toxcspdrmn
toxcspdrmn writes: Bad news for Spinal Tap fans. The BBC reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have produced the darkest known material by manufacturing "forests" of carbon nanotubes. This forms a surface that absorbs or scatters 99.9% of all incident light.
Operating Systems

Gentoo in Crisis, Robbins Offers Solution 259

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the back-in-the-saddle-again dept.
mrbadbar writes "Gentoo Linux founder Daniel Robbins says Gentoo's leadership is in crisis. 'the Gentoo Foundation's charter has been revoked for several weeks, which means that as of this moment the Gentoo Foundation no longer exists.' Robbins offers a solution: his return as President of the Gentoo Foundation. According to Robbins: 'If I return as President, I will preserve the not-for-profit aspect of Gentoo. Beyond this, you can expect everything to be very, very different than how things are today.'"
Space

Submission + - Huge hydrogen gas cloud will hit Milky Way (bbc.co.uk)

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diewlasing
diewlasing writes: "A giant cloud of hydrogen gas is racing towards a collision with the Milky Way, astronomers have announced. It will reach here within 20-40 million years and is expected to cause a great visual spectacle wherever in the galaxy it collides."
Portables

Submission + - Negroponte slams Intel (bbc.co.uk)

Submitted by Yogi_Stewart_4
Yogi_Stewart_4 writes: More OLPC/Intel love — apparently Intel used 'underhand' tactics to try to block sales contracts of the OLPC, trying to reach the customer directly after an agreement had been reached. "They would go in even after we had signed contracts and try to persuade government officials to scrap their contract and sign a contract with them instead. That's not a partnership." Mr Negroponte cited an example in Peru where Intel sales staff tried to persuade the country's vice-minister of education, Oscar Becerra Tresierra, to buy the Intel Classmate PC.

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