What It's Really Like To Be A Google Doodler
Why are they spending two or three years on a doodle that shows up on the main page for 24 hours?
Meeting those deadlines has become more challenging as Google's Doodles have evolved from simple drawings to more complex designs over the years, says Leon Hong, an artist on the Google Doodle team. "As an artist, trying to put something on paper within a certain time frame is very difficult," says Hong. "Especially when it's interactive and you have to define all of these things."
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KickassTorrents Launches Its Own Release Group
As if the site wasn't drawing enough attention, KAT is now offering its own releases, in filesizes that seem to suggest it is trying to fill part of the void left by the defunct YIFY.
The latest site to jump on the release group bandwagon is KickassTorrents (KAT). Currently the largest torrent site on the Internet, KAT is certainly not short of visitors but it appears that the site believes it can better serve the public with the provision of a site-branded release group.
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Apple Rumored To Be Developing High-Resolution Audio Formats
I'll believe it when I see it. It's 2015 and the best you can buy on most storefronts are still MP3s.
Apple has long been rumored to be looking to introduce higher-quality audio formats for iTunes Store downloads and perhaps also Apple Music streaming. A year and a half ago, music blogger Robert Hutton claimed Apple was working to roll out high-resolution audio for the iTunes Store, and Mac Otakara made similar claims about an HD Audio format and new hardware being planned for release alongside iOS 8 later that year.
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What We Learned About SSDs In 2015
This guy thinks that SSDs are a poor choice for data centers, but I'm not sure his argument is entirely legit…
…the unpredictable latency of SSD-based arrays - often called all-flash arrays - is gaining mind share. The problem: if there are too many writes for an SSD to keep up with, reads have to wait for writes to complete - which can be many milliseconds. Reads taking as long as writes? That's not the performance customers think they are buying.
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Print Books On The Rise Again In The US
As someone who finds e-books to be soulless imitations, I am loving this bit of news.
Publishers told the Associated Press this week that the rise of coloring books and books authored by YouTube stars this year seems to have contributed to Americans' re-investment in physical books. The release of Harper Lee's much-buzzed-about (albeit bizarre) second novel Go Set A Watchman also may have played a part; Lee's book sold four times as many copies in hardcover as in e-book format, suggesting that most readers wanted to own a physical copy of the historic book, HarperCollins publisher Jonathan Burnham told the AP.
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Your Computer Mouse Knows When You're Angry
my mousing behavior actually stays the same; it's my speech pattern that changes.
The researchers tracked people as they moved their mice while completing tasks on the computer like paying bills or doing research. Some of the experiments were rigged to frustrate participants by showing them slow loading pages during things like timed tests.The researchers found that people who were upset navigated their screens differently. Compared to others, they moved their cursors around more slowly in longer and jerkier lines.
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New Streaming Tech Deal Means Your 4K TV Isn't A Dead Duck
The HEVC Advance group expected everyone to pay up for the H.265 codec (which 4K streaming is largely built on), but they have backed down on their pricing demands.
…sets that support 4K streaming have been equipped with HEVC H.265 decoders to handle the streams of Netflix, Amazon's and others. So if those key video streaming platforms decided to switch their compression systems to a rival format like VP9 in response to the HEVC Advance demands, owners of the current crop of 4K TVs could well find themselves no longer able to play 4K streams from the world's biggest streaming services. Not a pleasant thought given that these streaming services are still pretty much the only source of native 4K content right now.
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US Reviews Possible Back Door In Juniper Networks Code
The company suggests that the vulnerability has not been exploited yet but that customers should, naturally, update their systems and apply the patched releases as soon as possible. Thanks to Rylan for the heads up.
Juniper warned customers on Thursday that it had uncovered "unauthorized code" in the software that runs its firewalls, saying it could be exploited to allow an attacker to unscramble encrypted communications. CNN reported Friday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was probing the matter. An FBI representative declined comment to Reuters. A former Juniper security executive said the flaw appeared to be a "back door", a reference to rogue code secretly inserted into a product to enable attackers to eavesdrop on users.
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Constructing Thorin's Sword "Orcist" From The Hobbit
The Hobbit films bored me to tears, but this didn't.
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A New Cartridge-Based Console Is Coming Out Next Year
If only I had a DataVac electric duster for my NES cartridges back in the day.
The Coleco Chameleon will play cartridge games--no, really. That makes it the first console about two decades to do that. In a statement, Retro Video Game Systems president Mike Kennedy said the console "is a love-letter to all the classic cartridge based gaming systems that came before it."
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SpaceX Aims To Land Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral Tonight
This attempts follows the failure in June—let's hope there are no explosions this time.
If the launch does go off as planned, after the rumble from the rocket's climb subsides, the flight could be punctuated by a sonic boom signaling the Falcon 9 booster's return from space. Observers may then see the orange glow of an engine firing in darkness to slow the booster's descent toward concrete pads at SpaceX's "Landing Complex 1" at Cape Canaveral.
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Ubuntu Won't Be Reaching Its Goal Of 200 Million Users This Year
Shuttleworth had hoped for this particular milestone four years ago, but current estimates suggest that the OS still has a long way to go.
Back when Mark announced the 200 million goal, he likely anticipated Ubuntu on phones and tablets being common place by 2015. There was also the short-lived Ubuntu TV plan and perhaps even on his mind then was Ubuntu for cars. Sadly, those dreams haven't come to fruition. This goal is reminiscent of GNOME's failed 10x10 plan of having 10% of the global desktop market by 2010.
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Winamp Has New Owner, May Relaunch Again
Do any of you even still use Winamp? I feel like there's so many other alternatives, like foobar or MusicBee.
Vivendi Group, which owns or is involved in famous companies such as Dailymotion, Ubisoft, and Deezer, could help relaunch Winamp, although the press release announcing the acquisition offers no suggestion in this regard. The company, however, does mention Winamp and Shoutcast as two of the most important assets that will join its portfolio following the takeover.
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Lamar Odom, Caitlyn Jenner Top Google's Trending Searches In 2015
Looks like it's time to activate the hyperdrive and leave the planet/galaxy.
The Google search box, a window into the country's soul, reflected America's continued interest in popular celebrities, disgraced celebrities, movies, video games and tragic events. Google tracked top-trending searches in the U.S.—those terms with the highest spike in traffic over a single period compared to their overall traffic last year—and sorted them into categories such as music artists, memes and selfies.
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