PC gamers had a rather unhappy Christmas this year, as gaming hub Steam was affected by some extreme account vulnerability errors. Almost a week later, Steam operator Valve has explained what happened.
By: Matt Kamen,
Continue reading...Thursday, December 31, 2015
Transcend announces ‘SuperMLC’ as an SLC NAND alternative
Transcend is prepping a new type of MLC NAND it's dubbed "SuperMLC." The company wants to combine the high reliability and performance of single-level cell NAND memory with the low cost and economies of scale that exist around traditional multi-level cell flash.
Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: January 2016
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The new year is an occasion to start things fresh, to rethink current practices and habits. So why not start small? Clean up your desktop and give it an inspiring new background. We might have something for you: desktop wallpapers created by artists and designers from across the globe as a part of our monthly desktop wallpapers challenge.
This post features their artwork for January 2016. Each wallpaper is available with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. Thanks to everyone who contributed their designs! And a happy 2016 to all!
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Oculus Rift comes with an unlikely free game
Virtual reality platform Oculus Rift still doesn't have a set release date, but we now know something that everyone will be playing on it whenever it does arrive -- Lucky's Tale. A 3D platformer suitable for all ages, the game will be included with every headset, for free.
By: Matt Kamen,
Continue reading...Fighting games will be reborn in 2016
While all eyes are turned to (or perhaps rather, encased in) virtual reality as being the next breakout gaming trend, there's a smaller, quieter, but arguably equally exciting shift brewing. As the release calendar currently stands, 2016 is poised to be the year when fighting games make a strident resurgence -- and that could be a very good thing for gaming as a whole.
By: Matt Kamen,
Continue reading...This photographer wants to be the first artist in space
"Space travel has been a lifelong fascination," says German photographer Michael Najjar. "Now fiction has become reality".
By: Oliver Franklin-Wallis,
Continue reading...This factory is leading London's vinyl revival
WIRED's series on tools for trades comes to a factory at the forefront of the vinyl revival.
By: Rowland Manthorpe,
Continue reading...This company is making haptic controllers a reality
Ultrahaptics' palpable sonic sensations could bring about new ways to control a car or play computer games
By: Gian Volpicelli,
Continue reading...Twitter changes its rules to ban 'hateful conduct'
Twitter has updated its rules in an attempt to crackdown on abuse being dished-out online.
By: Matt Burgess,
Continue reading...Disney's robot car uses propellers to climb walls
The aptly named VertiGo is a small wall-climbing robotic car that uses a pair of propellers to keep it on vertical surfaces and drive along like gravity is no obstacle.
By: Matt Burgess,
Continue reading...WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for 30 December
Your WIRED.co.uk daily briefing. Today, Twitter has updated its anti-harassment policies, Spotify is being sued for unlawful music distribution, the disruptive weather patterns of this year's strong El Niño could cause an international humanitarian crisis and more.
By: WIRED.co.uk,
Continue reading...Revisiting Firefox’s DevTools
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If you do any kind of development for the web, then you know how important tools are, and you like finding tools that make your life easier. Developing and testing new browser features, however, takes time. Between the time a useful tool first appears in an experimental nightly build and the time it’s available for everyone to use in Firefox, a while has passed.
That’s one of the reasons Mozilla released Firefox Developer Edition in November 2014 as the recommended Firefox browser for developers. It gets new feature updates more quickly so that you can use the latest tools.
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AVG Antivirus broke Chrome’s security, and Google’s furious about it
AVG's Web TuneUp extension for Google Chrome fundamentally compromised the browser's security and broke SSL. Google, needless to say, is not pleased.
NASA under orders to build a deep-space habitat by 2018
Congress has instructed NASA to step up the development of a “habitation module” that can take astronauts on deep space missions.
The Force is with this amazing Star Destroyer PC chassis
Ever wanted an enormous PC chassis with liquid cooling, fiber-optic lighting, and turbo laser batteries? Now's your chance.
Google plans to remove Oracle’s Java APIs from Android N
After a long legal battle, Google is moving to a completely open implementation of Java in Android N.
No, Microsoft isn’t uploading your cryptographic keys so it can hand them to the FBI
Worried about Microsoft's full disk encryption? You probably don't need to be -- and there are ways to stop the program from uploading your recovery key to the cloud.
ET deals: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 14-inch Ultrabook for $929
If you're looking for a lightweight laptop with all-day battery life, you need to check out the ThinkPad X1 Carbon from Lenovo. It weighs less than three pounds, measures just seven-tenths of an inch thick, and holds nearly 11 hours of battery life on a single charge. And today, we found a coupon that will help you save hundreds of dollars off the list price.
Robots can now learn household tasks by watching YouTube videos
The RoboWatch project is teaching computers to learn complex house hold tasks using instructional videos posted on YouTube, and could potentially lead to robotic butlers and caregivers.
Big Data and computational medicine: Who guards the data?
At the end of Moore's Law, with security breaches and the exposure of personally identifying data on the increase, what can computing do for medicine that it hasn't already done?
New malware sets up anonymous proxies on infected PCs
ProxyBack stealthily uses your bandwidth to route traffic from a shady Russian proxy seller.
Updated Google Glass pops up on FCC’s website
Google is prepping a new version of Google Glass, but will the device find success this time around?
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Classic Pokémon trading cards are making a comeback
Prepare for playground wars to erupt once more -- the original Pokémon trading cards are getting reissued, as part of the 20th anniversary of the franchise.
By: Matt Kamen,
Continue reading...Design Principles To Evaluate Your Product
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A company proves that it has a strong creative process by developing successful products repeatedly. We see this in companies like Apple, BMW and Google. Founders such as Steve Jobs formed a corporate culture with an intense focus on creativity and design. This culture highlights two core elements in the creative process: the ideas and the team.
The creative process can be described in one sentence: Ideas begin with a small team of creative people at the heart of the company who communicate easily with each other.
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ET deals: Dell Optiplex 9020 Micro desktop PC for $782
Desktop PCs are a powerful and affordable computing solution for the office and at home, but the bulk and weight associated with traditional towers can be a real hassle. Whether you're cramped in a cubicle, or looking for more space on your desk, you should definitely take a look at this quad-core OptiPlex 9020 Micro from Dell. It's small, lightweight, and shockingly powerful.
Monday, December 28, 2015
Game of Thrones tops 2015's piracy charts
In what is fast becoming an annual tradition, Game of Thrones has once again won the extremely dubious award of being the most pirated television show for the year.
By: Matt Kamen,
Continue reading...For VR to succeed, it needs evangelists. Will it get them?
Countless developers are dedicating thousands of man-hours to make brand new titles for these shiny new platforms. This isn't just a fun novelty anymore -- it's big business. And what it needs are evangelists.
Generating SVG With React
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React is one of today’s most popular ways to create a component-based UI. It helps to organize an application into small, human-digestible chunks. With its “re-render the whole world” approach, you can avoid any complex internal interactions between small components, while your application continues to be blazingly fast due to the DOM-diffing that React does under the hood (i.e. updating only the parts of the DOM that need to be updated).
But can we apply the same techniques to web graphics — SVG in particular? Yes! I don’t know about you, but for me SVG code becomes messy pretty fast. Trying to grasp what’s wrong with a graph or visualization just by looking at SVG generator templates (or the SVG source itself) is often overwhelming, and attempts to maintain internal structure or separation of concerns are often complex and tedious.
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Saturday, December 26, 2015
2016 predictions: the emoji edition
2016 is going to be an amazing year. And what better way to express what's to come than in emoji?
By: James Temperton,
Continue reading...Thursday, December 24, 2015
Responsive Images Now Landed In WordPress Core
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While the growing adoption of responsive images cannot be ignored, it can be very difficult to employ the functionality under the constraints of a large CMS like WordPress. Although it is entirely possible to write the feature into your theme on your own, doing so is a challenging and time-consuming endeavour.
Thankfully, with the launch of WordPress 4.4, theme developers and maintainers will find it much easier to introduce responsive image functionality into their themes. In this recent launch, the RICG Responsive Images plugin has been merged into WordPress core, which means that responsive image support now comes as a default part of WordPress. Let's take a look at how the feature works, and how you can use it to get the best support for your WordPress site.
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