Monday, July 29, 2013

Portitle Finds and Aggregates All the Movie Info You Could Ever Need

Source: http://lifehacker.com/portitle-finds-and-aggregates-all-the-movie-info-you-co-934742550

Portitle Finds and Aggregates All the Movie Info You Could Ever Need

Windows/Chrome: When you're trying to find a movie to watch, you might want to look it up on IMDB, then read about it on Wikipedia, then try to find a place to watch it. Portitle puts all of this info in one place, and is accessible from your right click menu.

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The Secret Deals That Make YouTube Buffer

Source: http://gizmodo.com/the-secret-deals-that-mean-you-have-to-wait-for-youtube-947766871

The Secret Deals That Make YouTube Buffer

If you ever find yourself having to wait for YouTube to buffer video—buts ads, they load just fine—then don't worry, you're not alone. In fact, it's likely you're on the receiving end of a corporate deal which limits how much you can enjoy online video.

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New York's Bike Sharing Scheme, Visualized

Source: http://gizmodo.com/new-yorks-bike-sharing-scheme-visualized-947772621

New York's Bike Sharing Scheme, Visualized

New York's Citi Bike scheme has been up and running for a couple of months now—which means there's a glut of data available to analyze. This interactive New Yorker viz shows how the bikes were used every 15 minutes between June 8th and July 8th.

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ASUS' RAIDR Express PCI-e SSD is compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/28/asus-raidr-express-pci-express-ssd-bios-duomode/

ASUS' RAIDR Express PCI Expressbased SSD is compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS

These days, it's fairly easy to find a PCI Express-based SSD to transform one's desktop -- Angelbird, Fusion-io, Micron and ASUS will sell you one, just to name a few. That said, the last of those three has just revealed a new entrant that will certainly catch the eye of many, as the RAIDR Express claims to be the first PCI-e SSD to be compatible with both legacy and UEFI BIOS. The so-called DuoMode feature is joined by 240GB of storage space, sequential 830MB/s read and 810MB/s write speeds and a reported 620,000 hours mean time between failure (MTBF).

You'll also find the latest LSI SandForce controller, Toshiba-built 19nm MLC flash, and 100,000 4K read/write input/output operations per second (IOPS). The bundled RAMDisk utility allows users to dedicate up to 80 percent of a computer's available RAM for use as a high-speed virtual drive, and if you needed any further proof that it's fast, look no further than in the video after the break. Curiously, ASUS isn't talking pricing just yet, but it should start shipping in the very near future.

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Via: PC Perspective, Engadget Japanese

Source: ASUS

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UK court sides with Volkswagen on security concerns over key pairing

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/29/uk-court-volkswagen-megamos-crypto/

DNP UK court sides with Volkswagen on security concerns over key pairing

Giovanni Ribisi had better hope he doesn't botch a job anytime soon. Flavio Garcia from the University of Birmingham cracked the security system that pairs an owner's key to their Porsche, Lamborghini or Audi, and Volkswagen's parent company wants that research to remain unpublished. The UK's high court sided with VW's owner and granted an injunction protecting the Megamos Crypto system. Afterward, Garcia was offered to print his findings, but without the all-important decryption codes. He refused, saying that the public has a right to see the holes in the systems it relies on and that this wasn't an attempt to give criminals a hand in boosting cars. While the court's logic is sound -- once revealed, all manner of "if this ever fell into the wrong hands" situations could arise -- it's unsettling to see government bend to corporate request. At least we know Eleanor can sit in the garage for just a little longer now.

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Via: BoingBoing

Source: The Guardian

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