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Submission + - IEEE Says 85% of Daily Tasks will be Games by 2020

Submitted by cagraham
cagraham writes: According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), over 85% of daily tasks will include game elements by 2020. The organization, whose motto is "Advancing Technology for Humanity," looked at the growth of games in fields such as healthcare, education, and enterprise when preparing their report. Member Tom Coughlin summarized the findings, saying that 'by 2020, however many points you have at work will help determine the kind of raise you get or which office you sit in.'

Submission + - Canadian Ice Shelves Halve in Six Years (www.cbc.ca)

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eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: "The CBC is reporting that new research shows that thousand year old ice shelves (much different than sea ice) are breaking up and have been reduced by half in a region of Canada over the last six years. From the article, 'This summer alone saw the Serson ice shelf almost completely disappear and the Ward Hunt shelf split in half. The ice loss equals about three billion tonnes, or about 500 times the mass of the Great Pyramid of Giza.' More detailed pictures can be seen at The Conversation with a quote from Professor Steven Sherwood, Co-Director of the University of NSW's Climate Change Research Centre, saying 'The real significance of this, in my view, is that this ice has reportedly been there for thousands of years. The same is true of glaciers that have recently disappeared in the Andes. These observations should dispel in one fell swoop any notion that recent global warming could be natural.'"
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Submission + - Why chillies are hot and yoghurt put out the fire (australiangeographic.com.au)

Submitted by bazzalunatic
bazzalunatic writes: The hottest chilli in the world was made by Australians earlier this year, but how did they get the chillies so hot? Seems that worm juice is the key to revving up the capsaicin. And milk and yoghurt are best to douse the heat as they have fats that can absorb the capsaicin — which actually hijacks the neurons that detect heat.
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Submission + - Google to Make British Library Archive Available O (wsj.com) 1

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pbahra
pbahra writes: "The British Library today announced its first partnership with Google, under which Google will digitize 250,000 items from the library’s vast collection of work produced between 1700-1870.
The Library, the only British institution that automatically receives a copy of every book and periodical to go on sale in the United Kingdom and Ireland, joins around 40 libraries worldwide in allowing Google to digitize part of its collection and make it freely available and searchable online, at books.google.co.uk and the British Library website, www.bl.uk. As well as published books, the 1700-1870 collection will also contain pamphlets and periodicals from across Europe. This was a period of political and technological turmoil, covering much of the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the introduction of UK income tax and the invention of the telegraph and railway. All of these topics are covered, as are the quirkier matters of the day, such as the account, from 1775, of a stuffed hippopotamus owned by the Prince of Orange."
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How Your Username May Betray You 308

Posted by CmdrTaco from the you-are-a-number-not-a-name dept.
An anonymous reader writes "By creating a distinctive username—and reusing it on multiple websites—you may be giving online marketers and scammers a simple way to track you. Four researchers from the French National Institute of Computer Science (INRIA) studied over 10 million usernames—collected from public Google profiles, eBay accounts, and several other sources. They found that about half of the usernames used on one site could be linked to another online profile, potentially allowing marketers and scammers to build a more complex picture the users."

Comment Re:but best buy is pre doing and forcing you to bu (Score 1) 454

by frieza79 (#33827322) Attached to: Best Buy Unapologetic About Charging For PS3 Firmware Updates
Yes they do. My brother in law doesnt have his PS3 connected to the internet, and gets his updates from the games that require them.
Thanks for the assumption, but I'm sure you've never even had this situation happen, and are just guessing by what you see on your screen when you buy a new game.

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