At a time when the value of gold has reached an all-time high, Michigan State University researchers have discovered a bacterium's ability to withstand incredible amounts of toxicity is key to creating 24-karat gold.
An alternate universe Its a Technological writer's point of view who was going to buy AppleCare+ at an Apple Store, but passed the new Microsoft Store built next to it! He went in to try the new Surface tablet, and here's the last para he wrote regarding the experience-
"it’s not for me at all. Not even for testing, experimenting, or curiosity. It feels too much like using a Windows PC, which was exactly Microsoft’s intention, and it will appeal to people who want that. But that’s a world I fled 8 years ago with no intention of returning."
The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages
and web apps, teeming with videos, photos and interactive content. What
the average user doesn't see is the interplay of web technologies and
browsers that makes all this possible. Over time, web technologies have evolved to give web
developers the ability to create new generations of useful and immersive
web experiences. Today's web is a result of the ongoing efforts of an
open web community that helps define these web technologies, like HTML5,
CSS3 and WebGL, and ensure that they're supported in all web browsers. The colour bands in this visualisation represent the
interaction between web technologies and browsers, which brings to life
the many powerful web apps that we use daily. The Evolution of the Web
Well, productivity, you had a good run. But unfortunately for everyone with actual stuff to do today, a fantastic time waster has appeared on the web, and it threatens to turn everyone into mindless page surfers for eternity. It's called The Internet Map, and it just might be the best tool yet for finding sites you've never even heard of.
The map is comprised of the top
350,000 websites from around the world, organized into groups based on
country and genre. The more popular a site is, the larger its dot will
be. As you can imagine, heavyweights like Google, Yahoo, and Facebook
have some mighty large real estate on the map, but the seemingly
endless smaller dots are a treat to explore. You can even search the map
for a specific website, and then browse its virtual neighborhood to
find other sites you may enjoy.
The map uses a pretty advanced
algorithm to determine the placement of each site, and its creator — a
Russian man named Ruslan Enikeev — has been working on the map as a
non-commercial labor of love. You can check out the map, and even donate
some cash to keep the servers up and running, at The Internet Map website.
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A website with a complete reference for the features in the C and C++
standard libraries, i.e. a more convenient version of the C and C++
standards. Unfortunately this means that being a good educational
resource is not among our objectives. It is assumed that the reader has
good knowledge of C and/or C++. As a consequence, a lot of things, e.g.
tutorials, comments about usage cases of one feature or another,
detailed explanations of things that are implicitly clear to an
experienced programmer, etc., are not included and should not be added.
Basically, we try to keep things simple and clear for a programmer
looking for reference of a feature he already knows.