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And yet the airlines will figure out a way to charge even more for your in-flight service. 
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The Windows Server team just announced a first preview build of Windows Server 2019, the latest version of the server OS to be available in the second half of 2018. So, 2019 won't be the Year of Linux?
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This is the second time an open-source version of webOS has been released, the first coming under the failed tenure of HP back in 2011. But now it's twice as open (source)
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Java SE 10 (JDK 10) is here but that’s not the only reason to celebrate: this is also the first release in Oracle’s new six-month cycle. I know you've been waiting so patiently
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IBM has released its list of predictions covering five technologies that IBM researchers believe will literally transform the world over the next five years. Because if you want to know what's trendy, ask IBM
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Egads, it's bad enough using "transform the world" but to prefix that with "literally" is a figurative step too far.
I predict that in five years people will still be asking; why is IBM still around?
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The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Facebook violated a government privacy agreement by allowing Cambridge Analytica to obtain users’ personal data. "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold"
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When you finally plow through all the articles, you find that the author of that app has stated that the data was useless. (Which may help explain why Amazon's "clever" algorithms simply recommend more of what you just bought or even looked at, which is quite funny when you just went gift shopping for your nine-year-old granddaughter.)
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By allowing traversal of a full 3D representation of the game world, DirectX Raytracing allows current rendering techniques such as SSR to naturally and efficiently fill the gaps left by rasterization, and opens the door to an entirely new class of techniques that have never been achieved in a real-time game. "Eighties, I'm living in the eighties"
Sorry, I'll always think of those old ray traced marbles when the technique is mentioned.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, I'll always think of those old ray traced marbles when the technique is mentioned.
You have a checker(board)ed past, apparently.
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It's all teapots to me...
Utah teapot - Wikipedia
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I remember watching the Pipes screensaver, as they'd occasionally throw that teapot up on the screen. 
TTFN - Kent
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Personally, it blows my mind DirectX is incorporating any Ray Tracing at all. I actually wrote a C++ ray tracer back in 486DX days, and most scenes took over a week to render.
They do say time goes quicker as you get older. Nobody told me I'd be able to accomplish more in that time as well.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: They do say time goes quicker as you get older.
A doco I watched once asserted this to be a two-pronged assault.
0) Generally speaking, the region of people's brain responsible for keeping track of the passing of time works more poorly as they age.
1) The obvious one. 1 day is a far larger portion of a 1 week-old baby's life than that of any of ours.
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Just as the LAMP stack revolutionized servers and web hosting, the SMACK stack has made big data applications viable and easier to develop. "That's a drag with a monkey on your back, Smack Jack"
Sorry, I spent a lot of time with that album back in the day (and so it was the first blurb that came to mind)
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I'm holding out for the pancake stack at ihop.
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It will, I predict, do nothing for productivity getting lots of developers addicted to SMACK.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It defies conventional wisdom about semiconductors. It's baffling that it even works. It eludes physics models that try to explain it. This newly tested class of light-emitting semiconductors is so easy to produce from solution that it could be painted onto surfaces to light up our future in myriad colors shining from affordable lasers, LEDs, and even window glass. Let's paint the baby's room in MOSFET
Besides, didn't you want to read about biexcitons today?
Yet another thing perovskites "may do - someday"
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Quote: An emergent class of semiconductors, which could affordably light up our future with nuanced colors emanating from lasers, lamps, and even window glass
Are they trying to say that the light striking the back of the glass excites the film on the other side to create different light? Or are they really saying that just the glass itself is enough to start the emission process?
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I think it's that light striking these causes them to start doing ... something above my pay grade.
Quote: In semiconductors, millions of excitons are correlated, or choreographed, with each other, which makes for desirable properties, when an energy source like electricity or laser light is applied
TTFN - Kent
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I think they are saying that a light input causes light of (a/any?) different wavelength as an output. So not much different than putting a colored screen in front of a light? (The only difference is that you can control the output wavelength?)
The writing doesn't speak well of the communication abilities of those 'academics.' Unless they really did mean that just placing their substance on a piece of glass, backlit or not, started the emission of light.
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Microsoft worked on the phases of Windows Update to help reduce the “offline time” when Windows 10 is unusable during featured updates to an average of 30 minutes. Something to read while the restarting screen is on your computer
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We built DirectML to provide GPU hardware acceleration for games that use Windows Machine Learning. Now the AI will capture your flag
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It’s hard to explain to people who haven’t worked with machine learning, but we’re still back in the dark ages when it comes to tracking changes and rebuilding models from scratch. Rarely is the question asked: Is our AI learning?
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