Tiny solar cells fix themselves
A mix of chemicals borrowed from plants with tiny tubes of carbon can spontaneously create tiny, self-repairing solar cells.
Craigslist ends adult service ads
Online marketplace Craigslist closes its US adult services listing following pressure from attorneys general and advocacy groups.
Power play
Turning 16 games consoles into a number-crunching supercomputer
On this blog we’ve repeatedly discussed enabling the "Same Markup" for Internet Explorer 9. Part of making "Same Markup" a reality involves supporting the right features in IE9 to make the same HTML, JavaScript, and CSS "just work" the same way they do in other browsers. Part of how IE9 contributes to enabling the "Same Markup" is through support for the <canvas>, <audio>, and <video> elements from HTML5. These were introduced in the third platform preview and continue to be improved with each update.
We often get the question of what to do about a cmdlet that has lots of parameters. Do you break it up into multiple commands or just have a single cmdlet with lots of parameters. Here is the way I think about it:
If you have to enter 100 things to get a job done, it doesn’t really matter whether you enter those 100 things via 1 cmdlet with 100 parameters or 10 cmdlets with 10 parameters each. If anything, there are a number of good reasons to have 1 cmdlet with 100 parameters including the fact that you...
As discussed in previous blog posts, add-ons can have a material impact on browser performance. IE measures the performance of add-ons so that users can make informed decisions about them. It is important to understand how add-ons arrive on a user’s system to begin with because browser performance is so important to site developers and to consumers. The notification and control that users have around the add-on installation process is equally important because add-ons can also have an impact on user privacy and information sharing. This blog post surveys the current installation experience for different kinds of...
I aim to fill this blog with original content as opposed to just aggregating links from other people, and Raymond Chen of all people is hardly in need of links from me, but in the unlikely event that anyone reading this has not seen them already, his recent articles about .NET garbage collection are too good to ignore:
