Cody Taylor

Picture the scene: you’re logged into a remote server via SSH, or you’ve installed a new graphics card and you’re left staring at the command line. You need to enter a command, but you can’t remember the zillion options that go along with it. You’re stuck – all you can do is consult the manual pages and pore through pages of waffling technical

Apple has been found guilty of willfully infringing on a “predictive snooping” patent awarded to Opti Inc. in 2002. The company has been ordered to pay just over million in compensation, despite its attempts to have the patent thrown out.

sciencehabit writes “‘Researchers have developed a material that almost instantaneously (30 ms) changes from clear to dark blue when exposed to ultraviolet light, and it just as quickly reverts to clear when the light is turned off. The new material, one of a class called photochromics, could be useful in optical data storage as well as in super-fancy sunglasses.'” A comment to the article notes some of the potential dangers of quick-change sunglasses.

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