Now here’s the key difference for Windows 8: as in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it. Compared to a full hibernate, which includes a lot of memory pages in use by apps, session 0 hibernation data is much smaller, which takes substantially less time [...]
Please, someone get an iPod for this guy… or a wireless headset. [Via Reddit | CB]
For today’s edition of Deal of the Day, Amazon has X-Men: First Class for just $16.99 on DVD. You can also get the Blu-ray version for $24.99. That’s respetively 43% and 38% off the movie’s retail prices of $29.98 and $39.99. X-Men: First Class is the thrilling, eye-opening chapter you’ve been waiting for…Witness the beginning [...]
Bonus: Daft Punk Sauron: [Via FG | Io9]
The inkling sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on standard paper or sketchbooks. If you use sketching to capture your creative ideas and rough concepts, and you want to have your sketches in digital format for emailing, archiving or further refining on your computer, then [...]
This fully functional puzzle cube comes from the brain of artist Jason Freeny. Good luck on solving that one! [Source: Jason Freeny | Via Buzzfeed]
The only reason I’m posting this is to show you guys how people drink water while in a state of weightlessness. There’s absolutely no other reason apart from my will to educate you, dear readers. Yes, yes, I know… I’m such a good and well-intentioned person, no need to thank me.
Hmmm, I don’t think actor, director, and producer George C. Scott is all that pleased with some of the changes in the new Blu-ray edition of Star Wars. [Via Buzzfeed]
Even though Star Trek’s 45th anniversary was yesterday, you can still celebrate the event by cooking a batch of delicious Star Trek-themed cookies. [Source: Bakingdom]
The summer film season is over and thankfully, so is the seemingly endless stream of superhero movies. Sure, they weren’t all that bad, but they weren’t all that good, either. (Looking at you, Ryan Reynolds.) NPR’s Glen Weldon has assembled the Spandex Awards to rank this year’s comics-inspired movies into best and worst–but it’s not [...]
Three years ago, the nine-year-old son of palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger found an intriguing fossil in a collapsed Malapa cave — the collarbone of a 2 million year-old hominin previously unknown to science. Further searches of the same site revealed 220 more bones of the same species, from infants to adults, with two particularly complete young adults [...]
