Rocket Lab today unveiled plans for its Neutron rocket, an advanced 8-ton payload class launch vehicle tailored for mega-constellation deployment, interplanetary missions and human spaceflight. Neutron will build on Rocket Lab’s proven experience developing the reliable workhorse Electron launch vehicle, the second most frequently launched U.S. rocket annually since 2019. Where Electron provides dedicated access Read more about Rocket Lab Unveils Plans for New 8-Ton Class Reusable Rocket for Mega-Constellation Deployment. Probably won’t explode as much as SpaceX. Also to become publically traded.[…]

The use of “invisible” tracking tech in emails is now “endemic”, according to a messaging service that analysed its traffic at the BBC’s request.Hey’s review indicated that two-thirds of emails sent to its users’ personal accounts contained a “spy pixel”, even after excluding for spam.Its makers said that many of the largest brands used email Read more about ‘Spy pixels in emails have become endemic’[…]

  62 pages of visual illusions! Source: Akiyoshi’s illusion pages

Perhaps you’ve been hearing strange sounds in your home—ghostly creaks and moans, random Rick Astley tunes, Alexa commands issued in someone else’s voice. If so, you haven’t necessarily lost your mind. Instead, if you own one of a few models of internet-connected speaker and you’ve been careless with your network settings, you might be one Read more about Hackers Can Rickroll Thousands of Sonos and Bose Speakers Over the Internet[…]

When buying a new monitor there are 5 sites you should have open at all times: 1. The site selling monitors (eg plattetv.nl) 2. The comparison site Display specifications which allows you to search for models, add them to comparison lists and then view detailed specifications next to each other 3. A google search for Read more about Buying a new Monitor / TV[…]

http://www.inc.com/betsy-mikel/1-interview-question-that-cuts-through-the-bs-to-reveal-someones-true-character.html Are you a giver or a taker? Ask for the names of 4 people the interviewee has boosted their career. If the positions of the people are lower than the interviewee you have a giver. If higher then the interviewee is a taker – a self serving backstabber…

Amazon Lumberyard is a free AAA game engine deeply integrated with AWS and Twitch – with full source. Source: Amazon Lumberyard – Free AAA Game Engine Build your own games for free!

ReactOS is a free and open source operating system written from scratch. It’s design is based on Windows in the same way Linux is based on Unix, however ReactOS is _not_ linux. ReactOS looks and feels like Windows, is able to your run Windows software and your Windows drivers, and is familiar for Windows users Read more about ReactOS Project: A free OS to run Windows programmes in[…]

TrackMeNot runs in Firefox and Chrome as a low-priority background process that periodically issues randomized search-queries to popular search engines, e.g., AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and Bing. It hides users’ actual search trails in a cloud of ‘ghost’ queries, significantly increasing the difficulty of aggregating such data into accurate or identifying user profiles. TMN serves as Read more about TrackMeNot – run random searches in the background[…]

Science has long dictated that brains don’t fossilize, so when Nicholas Strausfeld co-authored the first ever report of a fossilized brain in a 2012 edition of Nature, it was met with “a lot of flack.” Source: 520-million-year-old arthropod brains turn paleontology on its head

Shop anywhere, choose your forwarder, ship anywhere and save. Worldwide shipping assistance of your buys for less. Source: Parcl Neat idea, if you want that package and the shop doesn’t want to send it to you, you pay a forwarder in the country for their time to order it for you and send it on Read more about Parcl – forwards packages from e-tailers in countries that don’t ship to yours[…]

The map Source: Musical Map: Cities of the World | Spotify Insights

some random wanker called Ramirez woke up in 2010 and decided to patent trollface. now he’sttrolling the patent and making serious money. http://kotaku.com/the-maker-of-the-trollface-meme-is-counting-his-money-1696228810

Epic’s software tries to do more than mine crypto-currencies, we’re told: like the distributed SETI@home and BOINC projects, it spreads workloads over a large number of home computers, and can use their spare processor cycles to analyze genomes, fold proteins, and so on. But it mostly mines Litecoin. via Litecoin-mining code found in BitTorrent app, Read more about utorrent client comes with litecoin mining and other stuff if you just next the install[…]

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has certified another laptop by the UK based supplier The Gnulug. This is the second laptop by the company to get FSF certification. […] They also had to replace Intel’s Management Engine (ME) system and Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) firmware which are proprietary. FSF have previously addresses ME and Read more about FSF certify Libreboot X200 laptop[…]

Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories. You don’t need to write any code to create a simple story with Twine, but you can extend your stories with variables, conditional logic, images, CSS, and JavaScript when you’re ready. Twine publishes directly to HTML, so you can post your work nearly anywhere. Anything Read more about Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories.[…]

Results from a study published on Jan. 2 in Science defy textbook science, showing for the first time that the building blocks of a protein, called amino acids, can be assembled without blueprints – DNA and an intermediate template called messenger RNA (mRNA). A team of researchers has observed a case in which another protein Read more about new role for proteins: assembling amino acids without DNA and RNA[…]