Twitter removes Background Images
Twitter surprisingly announced Monday that they have disabled background images all for its users profiles. According to the social network, the move was made to standardize its interface across the board, opting for a simple white colour scheme. Although pages that are available to the public, such as your public profile, will remain the same, the pages that are only accessible through your Twitter account such as your dashboard, settings, etc will now be forced to use the plain white background. Strong backlash against the move from the public has already has already begun, which may prompt Twitter to do an about face.
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Stephen Hawking backs $100M search for Alien Life
Stephen Hawking has announced that he has donated $100 million to The Breakthrough Listen project, earth's latest attempt to contact alien life. The mission will use two of the largest radio telescopes on earth — the Green Bank Observatory and the Parkes Observatory, and will, over the course of thousands of hours, will scan for extraterrestial signals. Hawking says: “It’s time to commit to finding the answer, to search for life beyond Earth. Mankind has a deep need to explore, to learn, to know. We also happen to be sociable creatures. It is important for us to know if we are alone in the dark.” The money for the project is being entirely donated by Russian businessman Yuri Milner.
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Samsung launches new Enterprise SSDs
Samsung, keeping its reputation as a world leader in electronics, as announced the release of its new lineup of high-performance Solid State Drives (SSDs). targeted mainly at small and medium sized businesses. The PM863 is geared mainly for content delivery networks/streaming, while the SM863 more towards online transaction processing/email servers. With higher capacity and speed, both new drives can have as much as 3.8TB of storage, sequential read speeds of (up to) 520MB/s, sequential write speeds of (up to) 485MB/s, and are designed to withstand the heavy demand of data centre usage.
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Robotics Surgery now linked to 144 Deaths over 14 years
A new study of U.S. Food and Drug Administration data reveals that a variety of malfunctions have been linked to 144 deaths during robotic surgery in the last 14 years. Researches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MIT and Rush University Medical Center made the discovery after sifting through FDA data, including reports of equipment arcing or sparking during procedures causing burns, and broken pieces falling onto patients. Although there were 144 reported deaths between 2000 and 2013 that can directly linked to robotic surgery, over 1.7 million procedures have been carried out over that time frame.
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A new study of U.S. Food and Drug Administration data reveals that a variety of malfunctions have been linked to 144 deaths during robotic surgery in the last 14 years. Researches at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MIT and Rush University Medical Center made the discovery after sifting through FDA data, including reports of equipment arcing or sparking during procedures causing burns, and broken pieces falling onto patients. Although there were 144 reported deaths between 2000 and 2013 that can directly linked to robotic surgery, over 1.7 million procedures have been carried out over that time frame.
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