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- Just how do you identify an alt online? January 20, 2013Alts (AKA alternate accounts) exist in pretty much every online and offline service, from Second Life to Social Security. Usually, identifying an online alt is just a little bit easier than identifying an offline alt. Read more ...Full post: Just how do you identify an alt online?Tateru Nino
- Linden Lab explains removal of Amazon special offer January 8, 2013Linden Lab pulled down the Starter Vehicle Pack that was a part of its Friday launch of Second Life on Amazon within just minutes or within a couple of hours of the announcement of its availability, depending on whom you ask. The pack included a hoverboard vehicle and L$1000 (a little under four US dollars [...]Full post: Linden Lab explains removal of Amazo […]Tateru Nino
- That’s just plain embarrassing January 5, 2013A short time ago, Linden Lab announced that Second Life was available through Amazon, along with a number of content bundles. I have to confess that I find this development plain embarrassing for a couple of reasons. Read more ...Full post: That’s just plain embarrassingTateru Nino
- The new management line-up at Linden Lab November 9, 2012For a very long time now, Linden Lab’s corporate information only listed three people. Rod Humble, CEO; Jeff Petersen, VP of Engineering; and, Lisa Berry (General Counsel). There’s been an update, and the management team’s line-up looks far more comprehensive now. Read more ...Full post: The new management line-up at Linden LabTateru Nino
- Amaretto vs Ozimals: Wow, what a doozy! November 8, 2012I must confess that, while I was still keen on the progress of the lawsuit between Amaretto Ranch Breedables and Ozimals (et al), very limited access to court documents and the relatively slow progress of the case had sent my attention largely elsewhere. On the fifth of November, however, this little beauty turns up. Judge [...]Full post: Amaretto vs Ozimals […]Tateru Nino
- Linden Lab shuts down viewing of Second Life bug reports September 7, 2012Okay, I’m a bit taken by surprise on this one, but let’s quickly take this from the top. Firstly, Linden Lab has added a simplified reporting form for Second Life JIRA issues. That part is pretty okay (and some might say that it is many years overdue) being that it is the sort of bug-reporting [...]Full post: Linden Lab shuts down viewing of Second Life bug […]Tateru Nino
- Bob Komin leaves Linden Lab August 1, 2012Bob Komin, Linden Lab’s CFO and COO has departed Linden Lab after a more than two-and-a-half year stint through some pretty tough times at the company. Komin turned the company around from Q2 2010 to Q1 2011, reversing the company’s high cash burn-rate and guiding it to record profitability as the head of the Global [...]Full post: Bob Komin leaves Linden La […]Tateru Nino
- Your router could be screwing up your connection to Second Life July 19, 2012Yes, your home router could indeed be letting your Second Life experience down, and a couple quite common series of routers are among the most culpable. I’ll start by pointing out that the IEEE 802.11 networking standards aren’t the easiest set of networking protocols to implement correctly in device firmware. It’s all too easy to [...]Full post: Your router […]Tateru Nino
- Second Life age-verification “tweaked” July 10, 2012One year and one week ago, Second Life’s age-verification was changed to asking you your date-of-birth. This week, there’s been a tiny tweak. It only asks you once, instead of twice. Technically, it isn’t “age-verification” anymore, either, and that terminology seems to be on the way out. Read more ...Full post: Second Life age-verification “tweaked” […]Tateru Nino
- Review: The Microsoft Touch Mouse July 9, 2012The time came yesterday for a new mouse. The cordless mouse that I’ve been using, while faithful for some time, has been getting increasingly dicky. The rubber tyre on the mouse-wheel had stretched and scrolling and middle-clicking often yielded unexpected results and directions. I eyeballed the digital rodentia at the local JB-HiFi store without [...]Full […]Tateru Nino
- Just how do you identify an alt online? January 20, 2013
- Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence News
- Growing new brains with infrared light [exclusive] May 24, 2013University of Texas Arlington scientists have discovered a way to control the growth or repair of neurons and neuron circuits, using a non-invasive “neuronal beacon” (near-IR laser beam) — essentially rewiring brains, or even creating new ones. This major discovery, just published today in Optics Letters, promises to enable several new applications, UT Arlin […]
- Baby’s life saved with 3D printed device to restore breathing May 24, 2013A bioresorbable splint used for first time, successfully stopped life-threatening tracheobronchomalacia, a case featured in New England Journal of Medicine. Every day, a baby, Kaiba, stopped breathing, his collapsed bronchus blocking the crucial flow of air to his lungs. Parents April and Bryan Gionfriddo watched helplessly. They found hope at the University […]
- Worm ‘EEG’ tests neural effects of drugs May 24, 2013Scientists from the University of Southampton have developed a microfluidic electrophysiological device called a NeuroChip that records the neural activity in the microscopic worm Caenorhadbitis elegans (C. elegans) — the worm equivalent of an EEG —.to help test the effects of drugs. How to record a worm’s ‘EEG’ With the NeuroChip, you feed the worm [...] […]
- Growing new brains with infrared light [exclusive] May 24, 2013
