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Der Burda-Verlag entdeckt die Vorteile von Open Source und stellt sein auf Drupal aufbauendes CMS Thunder frei zur Verfügung. Die Online-Angebote von Playboy und Instyle nutzen das CMS bereits. Burda hofft auf eine rege Community-Beteiligung. (Open Source, CMS)
Mit einem einfachen Trick gelingt es, die Verifizierung der Telefonnummer bei neuen Accounts von Uber und ähnlichen Services zu umgehen – und sich etwa Freifahrten zu erschleichen. Beim Uber-Konkurrenten Lyft ist damit sogar die Übernahme bestehender Accounts möglich. (Uber, Server-Applikationen)
They don’t look quite like McFly’s Nike Mags, and they won’t come cheap.
Nike has unveiled its first pair of commercialised self-lacing shoes, the Nike HyperAdapt 1.0. They will go on sale later this year, but pricing hasn't yet been announced (they won't be cheap).
"When you step in, your heel will hit a sensor and the system will automatically tighten,” explained Tiffany Beers, the project’s technical lead. Nike actually refers to the technology as "adaptive lacing" rather than "self lacing" because there are two buttons on the side of the shoe that allow you to tweak how loose or tight the laces are. In the theory, the laces will then be held in that position, preventing your laces from coming undone while running, slam dunking, or otherwise exerting yourself.
Nike originally announced in October 2015 that it would sell some Back to the Future-esque Nike Mags in spring 2016. Sadly, except for a part of the sole that emits a turquoise light, these HyperAdapt shoes don't look much like Marty McFly's Nike Mags.
Das System Maglev ist für die Lastverteilung in der Google-Cloud verantwortlich. Das Unternehmen hat nun Details dazu beschrieben und beeindruckt mit einem kreativen Umgang mit dem Netzwerk-Stack des Linux-Kernels. (Google, Linux-Kernel)
Chip supplier “accelerates” cost cuts, promises to shelter core biz from rejig.
Imagination Technologies has confirmed plans to axe 350 jobs—a 5 percent reduction in its staff headcount—as it "accelerates" its multi-million pound cost-cutting strategy announced in February.
The beleaguered British semiconductor supplier told the City on Thursday morning that it needed to shave another £12.5 million off its cost base in addition to the £15 million operating costs slash that it revealed last month, when Imagination's long-serving CEO Sir Hossein Yassaie stepped down from the firm.
Apple and Samsung are among Imagination's high-profile customers. However, a recent slump in growth in iPhone sales has hurt the firm. In February it noted that the slowdown in the semiconductor sector was failing to show any immediate signs of recovery.
Carbon dioxide could be used to generate useful polymers at a large scale.
(credit: Andrew Hart)
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most common greenhouse gas produced by the US. It enters the atmosphere through the burning of fossil fuels, solid wastes, wood, and certain manufacturing processes. The growing abundance of CO2 in the atmosphere makes it an attractive feedstock for commodity synthesis, which could reduce the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Though scientists have explored this concept before, few have had success due to the difficulty of breaking the carbon-oxygen bond and forming carbon-carbon bonds efficiently. The current approaches require high-energy reagents, which limit the reactions to low volumes, ultimately negating any environmental benefit of drawing down CO2.
A team of scientists at Stanford recently published a successful route to using CO2 to produce a highly desirable bio-based feedstock. This particular feedstock can be used to synthesize a renewable polymer that has the potential to replace a pervasive, fossil-fuel derived polymer, polyethylene terephthalate.
The senior engineer has resigned from United Launch Alliance, effective immediately.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket launches NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale spacecraft in March, 2015, from Florida. (credit: NASA)
The most reliable US rocket company, United Launch Alliance, could not compete with upstart provider SpaceX during a competition in late 2015 for an Air Force payload, a senior engineer with the company said Wednesday. SpaceX was able to offer launch capabilities for as little as one-third the price of what United Launch Alliance could, said Brett Tobey, vice president of engineering for the Colorado-based rocket company.
It does not appear Tobey knew his remarks at a University of Colorado-Boulder seminar were being recorded. But Space News obtained a copy of the audio and posted the revealing, nearly hour-long recording on its website. By Wednesday night Reuters reported that Tobey had resigned from his position at United Launch Alliance, effective immediately.
"The views, positions, and inaccurate statements Mr. Tobey presented at his recent speaking engagement were not aligned with the direction of the company, my views, nor the views I expect from ULA leaders," the company's chief executive, Tory Bruno, said in a statement. Tobey's comments are likely to undermine the efforts of Bruno, who has received kudos within the US spaceflight community for trying to make ULA more competitive and innovative.
Noch ist wenig bekannt darüber, wie sich Feuer an Bord von Raumschiffen entwickeln und wie sie sich wirksam bekämpfen lassen. Mit einem flammenden Experiment im All will die US-Weltraumbehörde Nasa das nun ändern. (Raumfahrt, Technologie)