Friday, August 26, 2016

Thursday, August 25, 2016

Meet Dragonfly 44, the galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter







The galaxy is roughly the same mass as the Milky Way, but our galaxy has a hundred times more stars



By: Sarah Griffiths

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Saatchi and the CCGSD tackle homophobia in sports reporting

The campaign follows two similar initiatives about gender equality in sports

Kindle ebook readers are crashing Windows 10 PCs post-Anniversary Update

Windows10-BSOD
Microsoft's new Anniversary Update has mostly rolled out without problems, but Kindle owners are reporting significant issues with the Paperwhite and Voyage. Plugging these devices into Windows 10 AU systems can BSOD the OS.

Meet Dragonfly 44, the galaxy made of 99.9% dark matter







The galaxy is roughly the same mass as the Milky Way, but our galaxy has a hundred times more stars



By: Sarah Griffiths

Continue reading...

Upgrading CSS Animation With Motion Curves













 



 




There is UI animation, and then there is good UI animation. Good animation makes you go “Wow!” - it's smooth, beautiful and, most of all, natural, not blocky, rigid or robotic. If you frequent Dribbble or UpLabs, you'll know what I am talking about.



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With so many amazing designers creating such beautiful animations, any developer would naturally want to recreate them in their own projects. Now, CSS does provide some presets for transition-timing-function, such as ease-in, ease-out and ease-in-out, which add some level of smoothness and realism, but they are very generic, aren't they? How boring would it be if every animation on the web followed the same three timing functions?



The post Upgrading CSS Animation With Motion Curves appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Astronomers discover Earth-like planet orbiting nearest star Proxima Centauri

eso exoplanet
Proxima b is the closest exoplanet ever discovered, and it may even have the potential to harbor life.