Microsoft announced Friday that CodePlex, the company’s open source project-hosting service, will be closed down. Started in 2006, the service offered an alternative to SourceForge. It was based initially on Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server source control and later added options to use Subversion, Mercurial, and git. At the time, there weren’t a tremendous number of good options for hosting projects. SourceForge was the big one, but it always seemed light on feature development and heavy on advertising. CodePlex on the Web was much more attractive and less cluttered. The use of TFS for source control meant it also had strong integration in Visual Studio. Powered by WPeMatico via Technology Latest News – PC Store Near Me http://ift.tt/2nTUPFD
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Comcast today said it has “no plans” to sell its customers’ individual Web browsing histories, but Comcast can still deliver personalized ads based on its customers’ browsing history. Comcast, the nation’s largest home Internet provider, said it will continue to offer customers a way to opt out of targeted ads. “We do not sell our broadband customers’ individual Web browsing history,” Comcast Chief Privacy Officer Gerard Lewis wrote in a blog post today. “We did not do it before the FCC’s rules were adopted, and we have no plans to do so.” Comcast operates its own advertising network, so it doesn’t need to share individuals’ browsing history with third parties in order to serve targeted ads. Instead, Comcast can use its customers’ browsing history to sell targeted ads. Businesses pay Comcast to have their advertising reach people who are more likely to buy their products, but only Comcast would know exactly who those customers are. Powered by WPeMatico via Technology Latest News – PC Store Near Me http://ift.tt/2oqd17p The producers of this week’s new Ghost in the Shell film must really believe nobody has seen its source material. That’s the only way to enjoy this live-action reboot: oblivious to 1995’s original anime film or its manga comic-book precursor. Scarlett Johansson runs around futuristic, CGI-filled worlds in a skin-tight outfit. She shoots guns, kicks faces, and beats the bad guys. Not bad. But this pedestrian action movie looks nigh unbearable through the lens of the original series. Every bit of social commentary and science-fiction mystique that made the Japanese film and books so stunning has been wrung dry. Respect for the viewer goes into the garbage, replaced by an obnoxious, paint-by-numbers plot of good versus evil. And while I went into my screening ready to laugh off rumors of cast white-washing, I left the theater aghast at how blatantly that issue figured in the final product. Major disappointmentWhen Ghost in the Shell reached theaters in 1995, it was one of the sci-fi film genre’s only iconic combinations of high-action setpieces and “how tech influences our lives” plots. That, of course, changed once The Matrix entered the film lexicon, but Ghost in the Shell really nailed it first—and as an anime, it never quite reached the heights of popularity it deserved. Powered by WPeMatico via Technology Latest News – PC Store Near Me http://ift.tt/2mVwxM7 An enterprising Gizmodo reporter seems to have found the private Twitter account of the head of the FBI, James Comey. In a Thursday afternoon e-mail to Ars, the FBI National Press Office wrote: “We don’t have any comment.” The reporter, Ashley Feinberg, wrote up a detailed narrative as to how she was able to locate him by first finding his son, Brien Comey, on Instagram. When she followed this lead, even though that account is locked, Instagram suggested other accounts that Feinberg may wish to follow. Those included one named @reinholdniebuhr. Powered by WPeMatico via Technology Latest News – PC Store Near Me http://ift.tt/2nRmGWC SpaceX SpaceX has long said it would like to make its entire Falcon 9 rocket reusable. Tonight at 6:27pm ET, the company may take a key step toward that goal by reusing a first stage of the rocket that launched nearly a year ago. But SpaceX may also go for another “first”—by recovering the payload fairing of its rocket. In a Facebook post today, Steve Jurveston, a venture capitalist and SpaceX investor, wrote from Florida, “At the historic Apollo 11 Pad 39A for the first reuse of a SpaceX booster (and first attempt at a fairing recovery).” SpaceX spokesman John Taylor would not immediately confirm the possibility of a payload fairing recovery. Powered by WPeMatico via Technology Latest News – PC Store Near Me http://ift.tt/2onaiMc |
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