Windows 10 Tech Preview and the error of doom!!!!!

SO......  just in case anyone is getting the error( a critical error has occurred in the shell infrastructure host)  upon login to the Windows 10 Technical Preview, here is how to fix it. At least it worked for me. (my start button would not work, task bar was blank, and notifications were blank all of which would respond. The only way i could get in was to open recycle bin and right click on this pc click properties and then click control panel on the right hand side of the System properties window.) Here is what i read on a windows blog on how to fix this.

1. Disable the two tasks. \Microsoft\Windows\MemoryDiagnostic\ProcessMemoryDiagnosticEvents and \Microsoft\Windows\MemoryDiagnostic\RunFullMemoryDiagnostic.
2. Shutdown and restart. (shutdown is required.)
3. Logon and error should be cleared. 

Now at this point all i knew is it had to do with the scheduled task of the Memory Diagnostic service. I opened the administrator tools in the control panel(view set to small icons)  and then opened computer management, then the task scheduler on the left pane of the window. I then had to extend the data fields in the task already running pane of that window. But yes after you disable the window memory diagnostic everything functions as should.  Build 10130
Although i only found one string and not both while searching and i wish i wrote down which it was.  Sorry for that guys. I want to apologize now as this is so bare and full of mistakes but i am at work and i just wanted to get the info out there maybe i will fix it later maybe i wont, but i digress, hope this works for you as it did me.

For-profit asteroid mining missions to start in 2016

Sci-fi? Mining startups plan to prospect for asteroid belt minerals beginning in 2016, but the big goal is air and water for future space travel, not gold.

LONDON — Mining in space is moving from science fiction to commercial reality but metals magnates on this planet need not fear a mountain of extraterrestrial supply — the aim is to fuel human voyages deeper into the galaxy.
Within three years, two firms plan prospecting missions to passing asteroids. When even a modest space rock might meet demand for metals like platinum or gold for centuries, it is little wonder storytellers have long fantasized that to harness cosmic riches could make, and break, fortunes on Earth.

But with no way to bring much ore or metal down from the heavens, new ventures that have backing from some serious — and seriously rich — business figures, as well as interest from NASA, will focus on using space minerals in interplanetary "gas stations" or to build, support and fuel colonies on Mars.
There may be gold up there, but the draw for now is water for investors willing to get the new industry off the ground.
Governments believe it has a future; NASA has a project that may put astronauts on an asteroid in under a decade and on Mars in the 2030s. And if the costs seem high, grumblers are told that one day the new skills might just save mankind from sharing the fate of the dinosaurs - if we can learn how to stop a massive asteroid smashing into Earth.
"We are dreamers," declares the web site of Deep Space Industries (DSI), next to an image of a wheel-like metal station hooked up to a giant floating rock. But what the U.S.-based start-up firm calls the first small steps in a "long play" to develop the resources of space are about to happen.
A priority is using hydrogen and oxygen, the components of water locked in compounds on asteroids, to refuel rockets.

New at the nursery: Tomato + potato = TomTato

One well-designed plant, meeting all your garden needs.

It’s a tomato plant! It’s a potato plant!
It’s Super—no, wait, it’s a tomato plant grafted onto a potato plant.

Thompson & Morgan

The TomTato™, is shown in a Thompson and Morgan YouTube video.

This summer, the British seed company Thompson and Morgan unveiled a new kind of plant: A TomTato™. It is, literally, a plant that grows both tomatoes and potatoes.

It’s made possible by good ol’ graft: A healthy tomato plant is grafted onto a healthy potato plant, and voila, the two become one. Both tomatoes and potatoes are nightshades, and, even more specifically, part of the genus Solanum. (Common eggplants are in that category, too, but Thomson and Morgan haven’t announced any plans to unleash an EggTato.)
The director of Thompson and Morgan, Paul Hansord, spoke to Modern Farmer today, and described just what it’s like to have a TomTato in your backyard:
You plant in the spring and start getting tomatoes by July. The TomTato produces massive trusses of fruit. Lots of vigor. You’re going to get abundant tomatoes through the summer. And when they finally settle down, the potatoes will be ready to harvest.

Over a decade of farming work went into the TomTato, according to Hansord. Growers started experimenting with grafting the tomato and potato plants together, but producing a robust living thing by that process turned out to be harder than it seemed.
“It’s very important not to have any viruses; both plants are susceptible,” Hansord told ModFarm. “You also need to make sure the tomato and potato stems are the exact same width.”
According to Hansord, the plant has been enormously successful. And it’s little wonder. Tomatoes and potatoes, from the same greenery: At a childlike level, it seems almost like magic. “But tomatoes are red! And potatoes! are! brown!,” some inner, amazed voice wants to shout. Yet here they are, together as one.
The TomTato is a reminder, albeit a very real, flowering, red-brown one, that modern farming—and perhaps, even agriculture itself—transfigures plants into tools, and those tools into food. Those tools, then, become just ordinary human products, subject to trademark protections and all the other frillery we bestow upon brands: Coca-Cola, Harley-Davidson, TomTato.

Last month, when The Atlantic compiled a list of the 50 greatest technologies since the wheel, “the green revolution” ranked 22nd. That specific set of advances—encompassing breakthroughs in synthetic fertilizer to old-fashioned breeding techniques—were made only in the mid-20th century, and possibly saved the lives of more than a billion people.
But unlike many of the products of the green revolution, the TomTato can be yours—if you’re a gardener in Britain. Thompson and Morgan’s website lists the plant as available for £14.99, or, roughly, $25.
Below, a fauxhawked representative of the nursery explains the wonders of the TomTato.

Puerto Rico bioluminescent lagoon goes nearly dark

A Puerto Rican lagoon that attracts tourists who set out to see its waters glow has gone dark for at least eight days.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A glowing lagoon off Puerto Rico's northeast coast has gone nearly dark and biologists on Tuesday were trying to find out why.
Theories range from an increase in construction runoff to inclement weather to people clearing mangroves to allow larger boats into the area.
"We have been compiling data," Carmen Guerrero, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, said in a phone interview as she headed toward Las Cabezas de San Juan Nature Reserve with a team of scientists to investigate the problem. "There are a lot of factors that could be at play."
The bioluminescent lagoon, often referred to as a bay, attracts tourists who set out in kayaks or boats by night from the neighboring city of Fajardo to see waters that glow when microscopic organisms are disturbed. A greenish light swirls off hands and arms as visitors trail them through the water.

But the bioluminescence has dropped so much that tour operators have had to cancel trips and reimburse visitors, Guerrero said.
Fajardo city Mayor Anibal Melendez told reporters that the lagoon has been dark for at least eight days.
"We've never seen anything like that," he said.
Melendez blamed the problem on runoff from the construction of a nearby water and sewer plant, and he has asked that the plant be moved elsewhere, though officials involved with the plant deny it's the cause.
Alberto Lazaro, president of the state Water and Sewer Authority, said the plant is needed because people are discharging sewage into the lagoon and nearby ocean. He said the project, which is to be completed by 2016, had been approved by the territory's Department of Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, which is providing the funding.
"These agencies have certified that it will not adversely impact the environment," he said in a statement.


http://news.msn.com/science-technology/puerto-rico-bioluminescent-lagoon-goes-nearly-dark

15 years of the International Space Station

On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the ISS celebrates the 15th anniversary since its first module was launched. The station was built by the combined effort of five space agencies and is divided into two: the Russian Orbital Segment and the United States Orbital Segment, which is used by many countries. The station is used as a research laboratory conducting experiments in fields such as biology, physics and meteorology.

Xbox One a great game player, and more

Microsoft wants you to think of Xbox One as more than a game machine. Still, if you're considering buying one, you probably have one thing in mind: games.

What is the Xbox One?
If you're a video-game aficionado, you know the answer: It's Microsoft's latest game console, and it arrives in North America and Europe on Friday. To gamers, Xbox means cutting-edge adventures such as "Halo" and "Gears of War," and well as the brand that brought online competition to the masses through Xbox Live.
But Microsoft wants you to think of Xbox One as more than a game machine. You can use it to watch movies on Netflix and Hulu Plus. You can hook it up to your cable box to watch live TV. You can Skype your grandma and share family photos through the SkyDrive storage service. (Discloure: Microsoft publishes MSN News)
Still, if you're considering buying an Xbox One this week, you probably have one thing in mind: games.
The Xbox One is a chunky black box that's a little larger than its predecessor, the Xbox 360. It arrives with a respectable library of 22 titles, all sold separately. By and large, they look just as pretty as their counterparts on Sony's PlayStation 4, which came out last week.
Both the Xbox One and the PS4 are state-of-the-art game machines, and for some, the difference will come down to price. At $500, the Xbox One costs $100 more.
The most significant distinction between the two is the re-engineered Kinect camera that's packaged with every Xbox. Like the one for its Xbox 360 predecessor, it lets you use voice commands and gestures to navigate on-screen menus and some apps, but it's much more precise and responsive than before. On the PS4, a similar camera sells for $60, but Sony's pitching it as an accessory rather than an essential part of the experience.
Setting up the Xbox was easy. You connect the Kinect to the Xbox and the Xbox to the TV. You sign in or create a free Microsoft account, download some software updates and calibrate the Kinect. Despite earlier threats that the console would need to be always connected to the Internet, Microsoft now says constant connection isn't necessary after the initial setup.
On-screen menus are simpler and less cluttered than the Xbox 360's.
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The "Home" section is dominated by a large image of your most recently opened game or app. Smaller icons show the four apps you used before that. To the left is your user profile. To the right are links to available games and Xbox Live recommendations.
The most innovative button on the Home page is called "Snap." It lets you shift one app to the upper right corner of the screen while using another app. For example, I played "Forza Motorsport 5" on the main screen while a live broadcast of a college football game ran in the Snap window. If the gridiron action got interesting, I could quickly switch it to the main display.
The other main sections of the user interface are "Pins," where you can arrange icons for your favorite apps, and "Store," where you can buy new games, movies and music.
The entire interface can be navigated by voice command with the Kinect. To watch live TV, for example, you say, "Xbox, watch TV." To play a game like "Killer Instinct," you say, "Xbox, go to 'Killer Instinct.'"
After a few hours, I got pretty good at getting the machine to follow my orders. As a longtime Xbox user, however, I still found it easier and more intuitive to use the Xbox One's handheld controller, which looks and feels similar to previous Xbox controllers.
You can also navigate the on-screen menus using Xbox SmartGlass, a free app for iOS, Android or Windows 8 devices, including Microsoft's Surface tablet. If you're in the middle of a game, SmartGlass can display additional instructions or the Achievements you've earned. It's far from essential, but it could be interesting to see what developers do with that second screen.
The Xbox One uses custom-designed chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. It cannot play games for the Xbox 360, but Xbox One owners probably will want only state-of-the-art titles anyway. After initially threatening a digital-rights scheme that would have blocked games previously played on other Xbox Ones, Microsoft reversed course and now says you'll be able to buy, sell and trade used games as much as you want.
Microsoft promises eight times the graphical performance of the Xbox 360. The images in the games I tried are on par with the PS4's — as detailed and realistic as anything yet produced by a living-room console.
"Forza Motorsport 5," the latest auto racing simulator from Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios, takes full advantage of the Xbox One's graphic oomph. You can see the attention to detail in every car. From the driver's seat, you can read every instrument on the dashboard. The beauty extends to the gorgeous environments, from the Bernese Alps to the streets of Prague to famous racetracks like the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
"Ryse: Son of Rome," an original adventure from the German studio Crytek, revels in the glory of ancient Athens. But gamers are more likely to be stunned by its copious gore, as centurions hack and slash their way through hordes of barbarian invaders.
"Ryse" tries to incorporate voice commands as well. At times, you're expected to orally order your legions to charge the enemy or block incoming attacks. But you can accomplish the same things by pressing buttons, which I resorted to after the troops ignored my shouts a few times.
And therein lies the test for Microsoft's Kinect-centric strategy. I've been using the Kinect to explore the Xbox One's menus — but when I'm immersed in a game, it feels more like a gimmick.
However you decide to control it, though, the Xbox One is a versatile, powerful machine that should be able to deliver inventive high-definition games for a long time. Between it and the PlayStation 4, the new generation of gaming is off to a roaring start.

Did Samsung Really Pay Apple In Coins?

While the image of Samsung paying Apple in coins seems truly humorous, the question is, did it actually happen? Did Samsung truly seek revenge on Apple for the $1 billion dollar fine by paying them back in nickels?
The answer? No.
While the website The Blade Brown Show has no indicator that it is a parody site, what is written there can barely be taken as factual news. In addition to the "Samsung pays Apple $1 billion in coins" story, The Blade Brown Show also features some other outlandish stories such as one about GTA V having to cease sales because of musical copyright infringement.