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Razer: Mine for Os
Skærmbillede: SoftMiner Gaming hardware producenten Razer har lanceret en cryptocurrency minedrift program, der hedder Razer SoftMiner at sætte reservedele grafikkort evne til at arbejde—for dem, ikke for dig. Nogle sammenhæng: Udvindes lad os starte (bitcoin, ether, osv.) fungere ved hjælp af et distribueret netværk af processorer til at kontrollere transaktioner og generere nye mønter ved…
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‘Geni’ Rotter Er Oversvømmelser DC og Tilpasning For Hurtigt at Kontrollere
Billede: Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC, har en alvorlig rotte problem på sine hænder, og det har lidt at gøre med den skyggefulde gåen-on på nogle af de højeste niveauer af regeringen. Nej, vi taler reel, ærlig at gud rotte konger, der skaber kaos på nationens hovedstad. Associated Press rapporterede onsdag, at DC-regionen står over for…
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Man Fandt i Fedtet Restaurant Kanalen Blev Stukket til 2 Dage, Inden de blev Reddet
Billede: Alameda County Sheriff ‘ s Office (Facebook) En mand, som politiet har mistanke om, at man forsøger at røve en charmerende Kinesisk restaurant i San Lorenzo, Californien fandt sig selv i en potentielt fatal situation, efter han blev fanget i en metal-kanal, hvor han efter sigende forblev i to dage, før nogen fandt ham.…
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Scientists Virtually Reconstruct Magnificent Pre-Incan Temple
Virtual reconstruction of the building’s northernmost section.Image: Castro Vocal The 1,500-year-old Pumapunku temple in western Bolivia is considered a crowning achievement of Mesoamerican architecture, yet no one knows what the original structure actually looked like. Until now. Using historical data, 3D-printed pieces, and architectural software, archaeologist Alexei Vranich from UC Berkeley has created a virtual…
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Samsung Kicks Off CES Early With a Competent But Not Terribly Exciting 2-in-1 Laptop
Image: Samsung We’re less than a month away from the biggest tech show of the year(I can feel my heart rate rise just thinking about it), but it seems Samsung couldn’t wait until early January to announce its new Notebook 9 Pen. Available in 13 and 15-inch versions, Samsung’s 360-degree 2-in-1 is aimed at creative…
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Sting Operations Are Yet Another Reason You Shouldn’t Steal People’s Amazon Packages
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) One of the more annoying realities of ordering online is that if your package is left somewhere conspicuous before you’re able to grab it, there’s a good possibility some opportunistic bandit will nab it. This certainly goes for Amazon packages, for which reports of theft are a dime a dozen. And…
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Here’s Who Stands to Lose Most as AI Sweeps the Globe
“There’s definitely a burst of activity in ROS downloads and especially China, but really everywhere,” MIT’s Erik Brynjolfsson, author of the Second Machine Age and one of the researchers behind the AI Index report, told me in an email. Monthly downloads at ROS.org went from virtually no package downloads in 2012 to 15 million downloads…
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Democrats Want Internet Companies Liable for Data Loss Like a Bank
Photo: AP Should we hold companies like Equifax and Facebook responsible for the protection of our personal information in the same way we hold banks and hospitals responsible? Should we expect the same level of control over data we’ve given to Google as we do with information shared with our doctor or lawyer? A new…
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Razer: Mine for Us
Screenshot: SoftMiner Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer has launched a cryptocurrency mining program named Razer SoftMiner to put spare graphics card capacity to work—for them, not for you. Some context: Mined cryptocurrencies (be they bitcoin, ether, etc.) operate by using a distributed network of processors to verify transactions and generate new coins by solving complicated math…
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‘Genius’ Rats Are Flooding DC and Adapting Too Fast to Control
Image: Wikimedia Commons Washington, DC, has a serious rat problem on its hands, and it has little to do with the shady goings-on at some of the highest levels of government. No, we’re talking real, honest to god rat kings who are wreaking havoc on the nation’s capital. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that the…