The decision, made at the General Conference on Weights and Measures in Versailles, France, which is organised by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), means that all SI units will now be defined in terms of constants that describe the natural world. This will assure the future stability of the SI and open the opportunity for the use of new technologies, including quantum technologies, to implement the definitions.
The changes, which will come into force on 20 May 2019, will bring an end to the use of physical objects to define measurement units.
sr.ht, the hacker’s forge, now open for public alpha — This is good.
Blizzard is releasing a remaster of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, the company announced during the opening ceremony for this year’s BlizzCon. The game is called Warcraft 3: Reforged, as revealed with both cinematic and gameplay trailers shown during the event.
The rumored remaster of Warcarft 3 last year was true. I’m excited!
What we haven’t learned, because it hasn’t been directly measured in experiments, is whether antimatter falls down at the same rate as ordinary matter or if it might behave differently. Two new experiments at CERN, ALPHA-g and GBAR, have now started their journey towards answering this question