IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 19/08/2015

Rambus going into the RAM business make DDR4 chipsets for servers
No longer content with trying to sell its designs to others, Rambus is going to have them built itself.

“Here there be photons”: Google’s Project Sunroof maps solar panel savings
Google calculates hours of sunlight per year, estimates savings with 3D modeling.

IRS’ estimate of tax records stolen by fraudsters soars to over 300,000
Using data from previous corporate breaches, fraudsters frolicked in IRS transcript data.

“Smoking-gun evidence” of galaxies forming from a cold flow
A spinning disk of gas is linked to dark matter's cosmic web.

Red Bull Global Rallycross: The most exciting thing in racing?
We visited the DC round and even got a ride with young racer Alex Keyes.

Sticky when wet: Understanding the chemistry of strong adhesion
Watching a bacterial protein stick to a wet mica surface.

Android M’s official name is… Marshmallow [Update: Version 6.0]
Google unveils a new Android statue along with the codename Ars predicted.

8chan-hosted content disappears from Google searches [Updated]
Domain-specific searches contain warning about "suspected child abuse content."

Liveblog: Intel’s Developer Forum keynote kicks off Tuesday at 9am PDT
Processors? Cameras and sensors? Diversity initiatives? We're there to find out.

IBM makes push for Linux customers with Ubuntu mainframes
IBM also open sources code for new "Open Mainframe Project."

Steam Machines won’t have a “suspend” function
Valve won't be fixing a longstanding issue with Linux for SteamOS.

Calling 1959 from your Web code: A COBOL bridge for Node.js
Romanian Web developer’s plugin provides a bridge to the mid-20th century.

Convincing LG Nexus image shows fingerprint scanner, laser autofocus
A picture of Google's smaller flagship surfaces.

Black holes hurl stars out of galaxy, after which they explode
Calcium-rich supernovae may occur outside of galaxies.

Magic: The Gathering: Embracing my inner nerd at the Grand Prix London
This weekend, thousands of Magic players descended upon the ExCeL centre in East London.

CEO Bezos says harsh NYT piece “doesn’t describe the Amazon I know”
Urges Amazon employees to report "soulless, dystopian" conditions directly to him.

Two massive Star Wars-themed lands will be built at Disneyland and Disney World
Attractions will let you fly the Millennium Falcon and visit Mos Eisley spaceport.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 19/08/2015

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