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NASA launching a planet researching spacecraft to search for worlds beyond our solar system that orbit other stars. The exoplanet survey satellite is called „TESS“. It shall scan nearly the entire sky to discover planets around the closest and brightest stars.

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols

"The recent Meltdown [9] and Spectre [8] attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for automatically synthesizing microarchitecture-specific programs capable of producing any user-specified hardware execution pattern of interest."

IntelliJ IDEA Dart Support: https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/help/dart-support.html

happy thanksgiving :)

watch the livestream of the "google maps: into the future" session which is on right now:

https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/326458345

we’re right in the transition period of switching to higher pixel density devices, until we completely switch over to infinite scalable graphics with small file sizes only it will still take some time, but maybe not too long :) and in the very near future we may focus on hi-res graphics only without the need to worry about standard-resolution images anymore.

yep, also regarding the web, as it goes more in the direction of supporting vector images in the browser by using svg files and icons fonts for example, it will hopefully become easier soon.

that’s an awesome framework, will check it out

for further infos there is also a quora answer regarding why apple called it retina-displays

http://www.quora.com/Retina-Display/Why-are-Retina-Displays-...

Have you made an experience based upon one of the topics mentioned in this article? Do you know some Product Team Anti-Patterns everybody should be aware of? I’d love to hear your opinion.

inspiring post, I see very similar things from the author’s perspective...