About two months ago, on a solo afternoon where I didn’t feel like being alone, I lured my buddy Ted over for dinner with some lovely, high-end pork chops. Ted loves a good meal and is Homer Simpson-esqe in his appreciation of well-prepared meat. I […]
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Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits
Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits Published on January 04, 2018 at 10:11PM chalsall writes: Persistence pays off. Jonathan Pace, a GIMPS volunteer for over 14 years, discovered the 50th known Mersenne prime, 2^77,232,917 — 1 on December 26, 2017. The […]
US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747
US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 Published on January 04, 2018 at 11:00PM An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Delta Airlines flight 9771 flew from Atlanta to Pinal Airpark in Arizona. It wasn’t a full flight — just […]
Google Blocks Pirate Search Results Prophylactically
Google Blocks Pirate Search Results Prophylactically Published on January 04, 2018 at 11:40PM Google is accepting “prophylactic” takedown requests to keep pirated content out of its search results, an anonymous reader writes, citing a TorrentFreak report. From the article: Over the past year, we’ve noticed […]
Intel says it will patch 90 percent of recent chips by next week
The flaw, which afflicts chips made over the past decade, enables ordinary processes to determine the layout of protected kernel memory. This “software analysis method”, as Intel describes the flaw, allows a pair of exploits, dubbed “Meltdown” and “Spectre,” to swipe data from other apps […]
Can municipal broadband save the open internet?
No challenge around the future of the internet looms larger in the coming year than what to do in the aftermath of the repeal of net neutrality. Open internet proponents were stunned at last month’s vote, which struck at the heart of the belief that […]
Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits
Largest Prime Number Discovered – With More Than 23m Digits Published on January 04, 2018 at 10:11PM chalsall writes: Persistence pays off. Jonathan Pace, a GIMPS volunteer for over 14 years, discovered the 50th known Mersenne prime, 2^77,232,917 — 1 on December 26, 2017. The […]
New story in Business from Time: This Cryptocurrency Inventor Has Suddenly Become One of the World’s Richest Men
Cryptocurrency has a new king. His name is Chris Larsen, and he’s the co-founder and former CEO of Ripple, which created the digital token known as XRP. He’s now one of the world’s richest billionaires, thanks to XRP’s incredible hot streak. XRP, a cryptocurrency intended […]
Indiana Students to Speak with Astronauts on International Space Station
Primary school students in Indianapolis will speak live with astronauts living and working on the International Space Station at 12:15 p.m. EST Thursday, Jan. 11. from NASA http://ift.tt/2qrW81s via IFTTT