Is ubiquitous encryption technology on the horizon?
(networkworld.com) - Will ubiquitous encryption of important network traffic ever happen? A group of researchers presenting at next month's Usenix Security Symposium will talk about a technology they say could make end-to-end encryption of TCP traffic the default, not the exception.
jQuery Deconstructed
(keyframesandcode.com) - Navigate the physical jQuery code to see what, where, and how the magic happens
Samsung shows unbreakable AMOLED display
(electronista.com) - Samsung Mobile Display (SMD) is developing an AMOLED display that is crush-proof and can be bent while showing video without ill effects. The prototype display is sized at 2.8 inches and has a resolution of 166ppi. It weighs just 0.29g and is 20 micrometers thin. Samsung believes it can bring More...
Announcing Google TV: TV meets web. Web meets TV.
(googleblog.blogspot.com) - If there’s one entertainment device that people know and love, it’s the television. In fact, 4 billion people across the world watch TV and the average American spends five hours per day in front of one*. Recently, however, an increasing amount of our entertainment experience is coming More...
Display Myths Shattered: How Monitor & HDTV Companies Cook Their Specs
(maximumpc.com) - Take everything you think you know about displays and throw it out the window. It's time for a clinic on what display specs really mean—brace yourself for the alarming truth
Simply put, this is the review that display companies don't want you to read.
Lucid dream: Ars reviews Ubuntu 10.04
(arstechnica.com) - The new version of Ubuntu is codenamed Lucid Lynx, and is a long-term support (LTS) release, which means that package updates will be available for an extended duration. Typical Ubuntu versions get 18 months of updates, but LTS releases are supported for three years on desktop More...
FSF responds to Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash"
(fsf.org) - Watching two proprietary software companies deeply opposed to computer user freedom lob accusations back and forth about who is more opposed to freedom has been surreal, to say the least. But what's been crystal clear is that the freedom these companies are arguing about is their own, not that More...
A Letter: Apple Wants Its Secret iPhone Back
(gizmodo.com) - Well, how can I explain this? I got some interesting calls today. It was Apple. And they wanted their phone back.
Gizmodo: This is Apple's Next iPhone
(gizmodo.com) - You are looking at Apple's next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled it. It's the real thing, and here are all the details.
Google boosts open video by funding ARM Theora codec
(arstechnica.com) - In a move that will boost support for open video on the mobile Web,
Google has provided funding to TheorARM—a project that produces an
ARM-optimized implementation of the Ogg Theora video codec. Google's
support for the project could be a signal that the search giant is
significantly warming up to open video.
Official Google Blog: A different kind of company name
(googleblog.blogspot.com) - Early last month the mayor of Topeka, Kansas stunned the world by announcing that his city was changing its name to Google. We’ve been wondering ever since how best to honor that moving gesture. Today we are pleased to announce that as of 1AM (Central More...
How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords
(lifehacker.com) - Internet standards expert, CEO of web company iFusion Labs, and blogger John Pozadzides knows a thing
or two about password security—and he knows exactly how
he'd hack the weak passwords you use all over the internet.
What is your most productive shortcut with Vim? Answered.
(stackoverflow.com) - THIS is why I use vi(m).
Engadget test drives the Chevy Volt
(engadget.com) - The Volt is, of course, a little more special -- a car with both
electric and internal-combustion engines on-board. That's not a
particularly rare thing in this age of the Prius, but Chevrolet is being
very clear: the Volt is an electric car, not a hybrid, and More...
Build A Motorized Window Blinds Controller For About $15.00
(instructables.com) - I enjoy having potted plants and watching them grow, but making sure they get enough light can be a challenge. I have a bookcase in front of the window in my bedroom with several plants on the top shelf. The window faces north-east and opens onto a small patio so More...
TiVo Premiere - Full Review
(pcmag.com) - So is TiVo Premiere worth it? That depends. If
you're already a TiVo aficionado, the new DVR is an improved version of
what you already have. If you're a new user, however, it's a bit less
compelling.
The state of 4G: it's all about congestion, not speed
(arstechnica.com) - Most of the talk about future fourth-generation (4G) mobile broadband
networks appears to focus on speed. These networks will be far, far
faster than current 3G networks. But speed isn't actually the main
reason why every carrier in the developed world is trying to extend the
life More...
Official Google Blog: Next steps for our experimental fiber network
(googleblog.blogspot.com) - Since we
announced our plans to build experimental, ultra high-speed
broadband networks, the response from communities and individuals has
been tremendous and creative. With just a few hours left before our
submission deadline, we've received more than 600 community responses to
our request for
More...
PE Firm Plans Open LTE Network to Challenge AT&T and Verizon
(gigaom.com) - A New York private equity firm plans to build a multibillion-dollar 4G
wireless network that will cover most of the country by 2015. The
ambitious plan by Harbinger Capital Partners relies on deploying a Long
Term Evolution network over spectrum owned by a few satellite companies —
More...
Memory Fox :: Add-ons for Firefox
(addons.mozilla.org) - Firefox addon to help reduce memory consumption.
GoDaddy to stop registering domains in China
(news.cnet.com) - During a congressional hearing later today to discuss Internet freedom
and China, GoDaddy executives plan to announce that they will stop
registering domain names in China in response to a new government policy
that requires extensive information about registrants, according
to The Washington Post. Starting last More...
Cisco's New Router: Trouble for Hollywood
(time.com) - Cisco's CRS-3 router made a bit of a splash when it was announced on March 9, but the power of this new device hasn't yet sunk in. Consider: The CRS-3, a network routing system, is able to stream every film ever made, from Hollywood to Bombay, in under More...
IE9 'crazy fast', but rivals still have the speed edge
(techradar.com) - Internet Explorer 9 is 'crazy fast' according to Microsoft, but the Sunspider JavaScript results published by the company show that the latest browser from Redmond still lags behind many of its rivals.
The Sunspider results have become a familiar metric in how fast browsers are judged to More...
It's Time For One Data Plan to Rule All Our Gadgets
(gizmodo.com) - Imagine a model in which people buy total access to a wireless network, whether it be on a contract or month-by-month basis. Once you've paid for your "unlimited" data connection—a word which wireless providers are already comfortable throwing around in relation to single devices—you can connect More...
Obama Using 'Bounty Hunters' to Root Out Fraud
(nytimes.com) - President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the system.
A Computer That Processes Faster Than The Speed of Light
(popsci.com) - This quantum non-local phenomenon cannot transmit information faster than the speed of light, but according to Volkmar Putz and Karl Svozil at the Vienna University of Technology there's no reason we can't process information at superluminal speeds as long as doing so doesn't create any time travel paradoxes.
Internet Explorer 9 To Be HTML5 Compatible - Microsoft Joining The Anti-Flash Movement?
(thenextweb.com) - Rumors are flying that the forthcoming version of Internet Explorer, the ninth incarnation, will include strong support of HTML5.
TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL usher in a brand new interface
(engadget.com) - Over three years after the original Series3 launched, TiVo's back with Series4 -- say hello to the new TiVo Premiere and Premiere XL, which will arrive in early April. The new slimmer hardware is nice, but the big news is the totally revamped HD interface built on Flash -- yes, More...
A Reactor That Burns Depleted Fuel Emerges as a Potential 'Game Changer'
(nytimes.com) - This reactor (pdf) works something like a cigarette. A chain reaction is launched in one end of a closed cylinder of spent uranium fuel, creating a slow-moving "deflagration," a wave of nuclear fission reactions that keeps breeding neutrons as it makes way through the container, keeping the self-sustaining reaction going.
Robot Bartenders Sling Cocktails for Carbon-Based Drinkers
(wired.com) - The secret to a great cocktail, most connoisseurs would agree, has something to do with the ice, the liquor, the glass — and the bartender.
But what if the bartender is not a warm-blooded human with a sympathetic ear, but rather a cold, soulless machine made of pistons, valves and servos?
Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]
(mashable.com) - Facebook () was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. In fact, Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network
the Parrot AR.Drone
(tuaw.com) - OK, let's face it. It is the coolest iPhone accessory since, uhhhhhh, the iPad?
MeeGo: A New Linux OS to Fight iPhone, iPad and More
(readwriteweb.com) - Nokia and Intel have just announced the creation of MeeGo, a new Linux-based operating system designed for portable devices including netbooks and smartphones as well as other non-desktop platforms like connected TVs and vehicles. The new OS is a combination of Nokia's Maemo and Intel's Moblin, both Linux-based computing environments. More...
Nokia and Intel Unite to Create New Mobile OS - MeeGo
(mashable.com) - Unlikely partners Intel and Nokia have joined forces in an attempt to fend off increasing mobile competition from Google, Apple, and Microsoft. The two companies have merged their mobile OSes into one entity: MeeGo. You can expect the first mobile devices running on MeeGo later this year.
How to Make New Stuff From Your Piles of Obsolete Tech
(networkworld.com) - If you're like us, you have an attic, closet, or garage stuffed with unused, outdated tech junk. Oh, you think you'll recycle it--but you don't, do you? Wouldn't you like to do something useful with them?
7 amazing examples of biomimicry
(mnn.com) - Biomimicry looks to nature and natural systems for inspiration. After millions of years of tinkering, Mother Nature has worked out some effective processes. In nature, there is no such thing as waste — anything left over from one animal or plant is food for another species. Inefficiency doesn't last long More...
Focusing 192 lasers on one little target
(articles.sfgate.com) - In experiments at the lab's National Ignition Facility, the scientists successfully fired an array of 192 laser beams at a helium-filled target no larger than a BB shot and instantly heated it to 6 million degrees Fahrenheit. The gas vanished in a tiny explosion.
The scientists said that result marked the More...
Meet the Wikipedia of the mapping world`
(guardian.co.uk) - It is the Wikipedia of the mapping world, and is used by millions of people. Started a little over five years ago in London by Steve Coast, it has steadily built up its database to the point where most of the world has now been mapped by a formidable team More...
Google v. China: the Chinese government reacts
(arstechnica.com) - The Google/China story has enough legs to qualify as a "centipede" at this point. After saying that it would no longer censor Chinese search results and that it was ready to pull out of China, Google also admitted to being the victim of a sophisticated cyberattack that went after more More...
Detroit 2010: 1,000 Tesla Roadsters have been built, Model S still over two years away
(green.autoblog.com) - Tesla's press conference at the Detroit Auto Show yesterday was refreshingly short and consisted of nothing more than CEO Elon Musk talking in front of the red Model S. He said that his company has now built 1,000 Roadsters (a year ago, it was just 150), negotiated a lease for More...
Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable
(theoatmeal.com) - Printers unlike other technologies are remarkable in the fact that they're just as crappy and unreliable as they were in 1995.
epic-fail-airport-security-fail.jpg
(failblog.files.wordpress.com) - And we wonder why things go wrong...
Smart balls reveal skills of better bowlers
(newscientist.com) - If your tenpin bowling is a bit off-target a smart training ball might one day keep your shots out of the gutter.
Coolest "Toy" EVER...Wifi controlled drone
(parrot.com) - Yes, every "kid" will want one of these...
How 12 Hours, 2 Guys, 6 Cups of Coffee = 1 iPhone App
(gizmodo.com) - David Quinlan is a normal guy with day job and just a bit of coding experience. But he and a friend lived the dream and cranked out a simple iPhone app in a weekend. Here's how they did it:
Google's Nexus One smartphone: Will mobile ads offset cost?
(computerworld.com) - Conceivably, Google could offer its phone at a price comparable to a subsidized phone from a carrier -- as long as customers agree to receive mobile ads on the devices. Since advertising is central to Google's revenue model, that approach might make some sense, analysts said.
Why Men Shouldn't Write Advice Columns
(img222.imageshack.us) - I fail to see what is wrong with the advice. Seems fine to me.
Pay No Attention to the Creepy Man Behind the Clock Face
(gizmodo.com) - This may be the coolest clock ever.
BlackBerry Messenger 5 now available, we go hands-on
(engadgetmobile.com) - BlackBerry Messenger: it's the holy grail of the BlackBerry platform, and, for many, the only real reason why they don't make the jump to another smartphone. Well, RIM has finally gone ahead and released the latest and greatest version upon the world (in an official capacity at least), and we're More...
iPhone MMS Penis Pictures Crash Servers
(hollywoodphony.wordpress.com) - “Within the first few minutes, our network was flooded with nearly 3.4 million MMS messages and the early data shows that almost 98% of those were pictures of our male customers’ penises,” stated Ronald MacArthur, head of data traffic for the company.
Apple Buys Their Very Own Maps Company (See Ya, Google Maps) - placebase
(gizmodo.com) - The Apple/Google divorce continues to come into focus: Apple quietly bought Placebase, a mapping service company, back in July. Apple doesn't buy companies it's not going to use. Meaning, Apple's getting into making their own maps. Peace out, Google.
Stabilizing the electric grid with megawatt-scale storage
(arstechnica.com) - Even if we weren't going to be increasingly reliant on renewable power, which is prone to fluctuations, it would make a lot of sense to add energy storage to the electric grid. That was the message provided by Imre Gyuk, who heads the US Department of Energy's program for energy More...
Thorkil Sonne: Recruit Autistics
(wired.com) - Most occupations require people skills. But for some, a preternatural capacity for concentration and near-total recall matter more. Those jobs, entrepreneur Thorkil Sonne says, could use a little autism.
Sonne reached this conclusion six years ago, after his youngest son was diagnosed with the mysterious developmental disorder. "At first I was More...
It's Official: Water Found on the Moon
(space.com) - Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.
Ubuntu 9.10 boot optimizations: 5 second startup with an SSD
(arstechnica.com) - The latest Ubuntu 9.10 alpha release includes significant improvements to boot performance. Tests show that the popular Linux distribution can now boot in mere seconds on a computer with a solid state drive.
Teenager invents £23 solar panel that could be solution to developing world's energy needs..made from human hair
(dailymail.co.uk) - A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor.
Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a village in rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world's energy needs.
The young inventor says hair is easy to More...
How Wired.com Built Beer Robot, Our DIY Kegerator
(wired.com) - This is the story of Beer Robot, an ugly old fridge that grew into a super geeky kegerator.
It started out innocently enough. After work one day at the local brewpub, three Wired.com staffers had a revelation: “What our office really needs is a kegerator!”
Official Gmail Blog: More on today's Gmail issue
(gmailblog.blogspot.com) - Google responds to gMail outage.
Why AT&T can't keep up with iPhone data demand
(blogs.chron.com) - Now, BusinessWeek has an article that attempts to explain why, after more than two years, AT&T has been seemingly unable to keep up with the demand for bandwidth generated by the phone.
Six Degrees of Nolan Ryan: Network Science Ranks Baseball Greats
(wired.com) - Arguing over who’s the better player is as much a pastime as baseball itself.
Pedro Martinez or Sandy Koufax? Barry Bonds or Mickey Mantle? Of course it’s impossible to say. You can’t compare players from different eras. Heck, it’s hard enough to compare them between teams, in the same season.
But that More...
The Microsoft Yahoo merger [comic]
(denverpost.com) - Any info on how this microsoft yahoo merger will affect search engine habits?
Palm webOS 1.1 now available, fixes iTunes 8.2.1 syncing
(engadget.com) - Time to update your Pre, Palm's just released webOS 1.1.0. Quite a bit of changes here, but most importantly, the patch notes say that it "resolves an issue preventing media sync from working with latest version of iTunes (8.2.1)" -- that issue, of course, being a blockade put in place More...
Ion engine could one day power 39-day trips to Mars
(newscientist.com) - There's a growing chorus of calls to send astronauts to Mars rather than the moon, but critics point out that such trips would be long and gruelling, taking about six months to reach the Red Planet. But now, researchers are testing a powerful new ion engine that could one day shorten the journey to just 39 days.
100 Things Your Kids May Never Know About
(wired.com) - There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the Moon landing for one, but Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster, and better Widgets and Thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with More...
Brain Surgery Without the Mess
(fastcompany.com) - Brain surgery might be the oldest surgery in the world: We've been cutting people's heads open for tens of thousands of years. And now, we can do brain surgery withogut cutting.
Open-Source Arduino Robot Beer Brewery
(wired.com) - You may have noticed that I’m something of a skeptic about small-scale urban agriculture interventions. But this one? This is different. ‘Cause it’s beer! Small-scale stills and illicit breweries have a history that is literally as long as the invention of alcohol, tobacco and firearms laws! A revenuer-unfriendly gizmo like More...
Microsoft stuns Linux world, submits source code for kernel
(networkworld.com) - In an historic move, Microsoft Monday submitted driver source code for inclusion in the Linux kernel under a GPLv2 license.
The code consists of four drivers that are part of a technology called Linux Device Driver for Virtualization. The drivers, once added to the Linux kernel, will provide More...
AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
(techcrunch.com) - Since I switched to AT&T from Verizon just over 2 years ago to get the iPhone (which, of course, AT&T has exclusively in the U.S.), there have been no shortage of shortcomings by AT&T. But as of late, I’ve been noticing things getting much, much worse. And I’m hardly the More...
'Sneakey' software can duplicate keys from images, even crummy ones
(dvice.com) - Computer programmers at UC San Diego have whipped up software that poses a serious threat. Called "Sneakey," it can use an image of a key from almost any angle to create an exact replica. It doesn't have to be a good image, either. Cellphone pictures work and, in a chilling More...
Bill Gates of Microsoft envisions fighting hurricanes by manipulating the sea - NOLA.com
(nola.com) - What if the hurricane were named "Hurricane Ditka"?
New wonder material, one-atom thick, has scientists abuzz
(physorg.com) - Imagine a carbon sheet that's only one atom thick but is stronger than diamond and conducts electricity 100 times faster than the silicon in computer chips. That's graphene, the latest wonder material coming out of science laboratories around the world. It's creating tremendous buzz among physicists, chemists and electronic engineers.
Apple's 9.7-inch 'netbook' to debut in October for $800?
(engadget.com) - It's back. The Quanta assembled Apple netbook rumor that kicked off in March with a Commercial Times report calling for a Wintek-supplied touchscreen has returned... with a fever. China Times has now stepped in with a claim of a 9.7-inch touchscreen netbook to debut in October. CT claims that Wintek, More...
RIM Working On Enhanced Gmail Plugin for BlackBerry
(berryreview.com) - I have been waiting to hear this for a long time. Josep let me know about a thread on BlackBerryForum(de) where detailed leaked about an upcoming Enhanced Gmail Plugin. This plugin is rumored to add Gmail specific functions on your BlackBerry including:
See your Gmail based emails in Conversation View for More...
Tech Is Too Cheap to Meter: It's Time to Manage for Abundance, Not Scarcity
(wired.com) - This is the power of waste. When scarce resources become abundant, smart people treat them differently, exploiting them rather than conserving them. It feels wrong, but done right it can change the world.
Prototype Nokia phone recharges without wires
(ca.tech.yahoo.com) - Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them More...
T-Mobile's Second Android Phone Expected Soon
(blogs.wsj.com) - T-Mobile USA is expected to announce details around a new phone powered by Google’s Android operating system next week, say people familiar with the matter.
The new Android-based phone is slated to be called myTouch 3G, those people say. Like its predecessor, known as the G1, the follow-on device uses Android More...
New Air Force Drones in Pakistan - Suburb Warrior and Sniper UAVs
(esquire.com) - Now, the Air Force is planning to build a more selective breed of military drones, with swarms of bird-size bots shadowing targets and new unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) capable of launching mini-missiles at multiple targets at once. The mechanized assassin, it seems, is about to become a lot more professional.
Google Mucks Up Outlook
(reuters.com) - Last week, when Google (GOOG) launched a plug-in that allowed business customers to switch to Google Apps while retaining the Microsoft Outlook interface, industry watchers regarded it as Google's most aggressive effort yet to challenge Microsoft (MSFT) in the enterprise market. After all, Google Apps is cheaper and easier to More...
The secret to Palm Pre dev mode lies in the Konami code
(engadget.com) - We couldn't believe it either, but as it turns out, from the launcher screen of your Pre, simply type in the phrase "upupdowndownleftrightleftrightbastart" -- which if you parse with spacing might be more easily recognizable as the infamous Contra / Konami code (look it up) -- and up comes a hidden app called "Developer Mode Enabler."
French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access
(physorg.com) - French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.
Air Force Looks for ‘Core Algorithms’ of Human Thought
(wired.com) - The Defense Department is continuing its push to reduce human thought and human action to a few lines of code. The latest effort comes from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, which is looking to build “mathematical or computational models of human attention, memory, categorization, reasoning, problem solving, learning More...
Palm Pre: The Definitive Guide and FAQ
(gizmodo.com) - Simply put, the Palm Pre is the most hyped phone since the original iPhone. It's coming out in two weeks, on June 6. Here's everything we know—we'll update this as more info comes in.
Forgotten Market Online: Older Women
(online.wsj.com) - StyleCaster is among a new generation of Web sites that are trying to solve a stubborn problem: how to make fashion-shopping Web sites more than simply online catalogs. Using video and social-networking techniques, Stylecaster, ShopFlick, SmashingDarling and other sites aim to connect us with new indie designers, stylists and each other, all the while presenting items we can buy.
what is the meaning of life - Wolfram|Alpha
(www98.wolframalpha.com) - I've tinkered with Wolfram|Alpha for a couple of days. I didn't expect this answer to my question, but I am pleasantly surprised.
Intel to detail 8-core server chip
(news.cnet.com) - Intel is expected to announce details about an 8-core server chip that will start shipping in late 2009 or early 2010.
Apple to buy Twitter?
(techradar.com) - Apple and Twitter are reportedly in serious negotiations over a possible $700 million sale of the social networking site, with the deal set to be announced in June if successful.
An Affordable Fix for Modernizing Medical Records
(online.wsj.com) - In the push to digitize America's hospitals, Midland Memorial faced an all-too-common dilemma: a crying need for information technology to replace archaic paper records, but a shortage of funds to pay for it. Midland Chief Executive Russell Meyers found an unexpected freebie of sorts: the software used to power the electronic medical-record system of the Veterans Health Administration.
4 Things Our Grandkids Will Never Understand
(stickycomics.com) - Maybe just a little sad but true for some of them.
Needle in a haystack: efficient storage of billions of photos
(facebook.com) - The Photos application is one of Facebook’s most popular features. Up to date, users have uploaded over 15 billion photos which makes Facebook the biggest photo sharing website. For each uploaded photo, Facebook generates and stores four images of different sizes, which translates to a total of 60 billion images More...
Ubuntu 9.04 officially released, available for free download
(geek.com) - Canonical’s latest free Ubuntu Linux operating system version is officially released today. Ubuntu 9.04 for desktop, server and “netbook remix” is available for immediate download, CD purchase or you can request a free CD.
Oracle Buys Sun
(in.sys-con.com) - Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Oracle will acquire Sun common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.4 billion, or $5.6 billion net of Sun's cash and debt. "We More...
Google People With Two Keystrokes
(readwriteweb.com) - There's a lot of information about many of us spread around the web and though privacy is important to discuss - there's also another side of that coin. It can be very useful to tie together info from disparate sources about a particular individual. Today I saw a tool for finding those various profile pages that really impressed me.
How slow can Linux go?
(blogs.computerworld.com) - If it has a CPU, you can run Linux on it. Xboxes or iPhones, cars or calculators, Linux can live quite happily on any of these devices. But, when it comes to the desktop or laptop, how much processing power do you need to run a modern Linux desktop?
The short More...
Automakers agree on common "plug"
(physorg.com) - Leading automotive and energy companies have reached agreement on a common "plug" to recharge electric cars, a spokeswoman for German energy company RWE said Sunday.
The three-point, 400-volt plug, which will allow electric cars to be recharged anywhere in a matter of minutes, is set to be unveiled Monday More...
Kyocera Unveils Kinetic Flexible OLED Cell Phone
(inhabitat.com) - Charting the future of cell phone technology, Kyocera recently unveiled a kinetic energy-powered phone that is capable of folding up like a wallet. Designed by industrial designer Susan McKinney, the EOS phone consists of a soft, semi-rigid polymer skin surrounding a flexible low-energy OLED display. Shape memory allows the phone’s More...
A Brief History of CPUs: 31 Awesome Years of x86
(maximumpc.com) - Believe it or not, your terrifically fast Core i7 fresh off Intel's assembly line contains DNA that dates back over three decades. The same is true if you roll with AMD's latest silicon, the Phenom II X4. We're of course referring to the longstanding x86 microprocessor architecture that has dominated More...
Bluetooth 3.0 prepped for launch on April 21
(arstechnica.com) - The Bluetooth 3.0 spec is ready to hit the streets, with the Bluetooth SIG preparing for an official release later this month. The updated specification will enable the transfer of larger files thanks to the incorporation of 802.11n.
Sites can block the DiggBar, but is it worth it?
(news.cnet.com) - John Gruber of the blog Daring Fireball doesn't like what Digg's doing with its DiggBar, and has come up with a relatively simple way to block it on his own site. By making a small change to his site's PHP files, any shortened DiggURL created for one of his pages More...
New gMail Feature - Inserting (inline) images
(gmailblog.blogspot.com) - Well, it's about time. You no longer have to use workarounds to put images into your messages or attach images when you really want to inline them. Just turn on "Inserting images" from the Labs tab under Settings, and you'll see a new toolbar icon like this:
New processor technology promises big boost to consumer-grade SSDs
(computerworld.com) - SandForce said its new SSD controller will offer 250MB/sec. sustained reads and writes
New Way To Split Water Into Hydrogen And Oxygen Developed
(sciencedaily.com) - The design of efficient systems for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, driven by sunlight is among the most important challenges facing science today, underpinning the long term potential of hydrogen as a clean, sustainable fuel. But man-made systems that exist today are very inefficient and often require additional use More...
Nine Inch Nails iPhone App Extends Reznor's Innovative Run
(blog.wired.com) - The free Nine Inch Nails app, scheduled for release as soon as it gets final approval from Apple, is a mobile window on all things NIN: music, photos, videos, message boards, even — thanks to a GPS-enabled feature called Nearby — the fans themselves.
Build Your Own Multitouch Surface Computer
(maximumpc.com) - There is, it turns out, a whole community of very smart folks out there on the internet perfecting the art of building DIY multi-touch surfaces. The process isn’t exactly simple, but the results we saw were stunning: multitouch surfaces with responsiveness rivaling Microsoft’s $12,000 offering, built in a garage on More...
Wireless Carriers Are Wrong to Cripple Skype for iPhone
(pcworld.com) - Everybody loves the idea of cheap VoIP calls on cell phones. Everybody, that is, except for wireless carriers who charge usurious fees for voice and data plans. Cellular providers around the globe are placing restrictions on Skype for iPhone and other Internet phone services, and that’s bad news for consumers.
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun
(nytimes.com) - I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks.
Nokia N97 hits FCC with glorious photography
(engadget.com) - Glorious photography is a bet of a stretch... However, I am in love with this phone.
Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter (Updated)
(techcrunch.com) - Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.
Tesla: More than 500 takers for Model S
(news.cnet.com) - More than 520 reservations for the Tesla Model S have been made since the all-electric car's debut on March 26, Tesla Motors announced Wednesday.
China Vies to Be World’s Leader in Electric Cars
(nytimes.com) - Chinese leaders have adopted a plan aimed at turning the country into one of the leading producers of hybrid and all-electric vehicles within three years, and making it the world leader in electric cars and buses after that.
One giant step closer to the Google Linux desktop
(blogs.computerworld.com) - Google still isn't saying publicly that they're going to deploy Android as a desktop Linux, but HP, ASUS, and other major computer makers are apparently in talks with the company about deploying Android on netbooks.
10 skills developers will need in the next five years
(blogs.techrepublic.com.com) - With the recent changes in the economy, a lot of developers are focused on their short-term job prospects. At the same time, it’s important to make sure that you get the most bang for your buck when it comes to taking the time and energy to learn new skills. Here More...
Verizon, AT&T May Tell U.S. to Keep $7.2 Billion Stimulus Money
(bloomberg.com) - Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. may have this response to the U.S. government’s offer of $7.2 billion for high-speed Internet projects: Keep it.
"Billion Dollar Charlie" takes on the RIAA
(arstechnica.com) - Ars sits down with "Billion Dollar Charlie" Nesson, the Harvard Law professor who's taking on the RIAA in federal court. Winning his case would be great, but Nesson's thinking even bigger. He wants nothing less than a national, Internet-enabled conversation about copyright and damages in the digital age.
Intel unleashes Nehalem-EP server CPUs
(tgdaily.com) - The first server version of the Nehalem processor is officially out of the gate. Intel says it is the most important server processor it has launched in 14 years and claims that it now dominates every 2-socket server performance benchmark and even some 4-socket benchmarks with a 2-socket Nehalem system. More...
Stem cells to grow bigger breasts
(timesonline.co.uk) - A stem cell therapy offering “natural” breast enlargement is to be made available to British women for the first time.
The treatment could boost cup size while reducing stomach fat. It involves extracting stem cells from spare fat on the stomach or thighs and growing them in a woman’s breasts. More...
How does forensic handwriting identification work?
(slate.com) - Twenty-one distinguishing characteristics. According to one standard textbook, that's the number of handwriting elements that may reliably help distinguish a person's writing. These include the dimensions and proportions of the letters, the spacing both between and within words, and the way in which words and letters are connected. (In the More...
Luxim Plasma Light Bulb Kicks Some Serious LED Butt
(treehugger.com) - At 140 lumens/watt, these pill-sized plasma light bulbs by Luxim are a pretty awesome contender for "light of the future". They are almost 10 times more efficient than traditional incandescent light bulbs, twice as efficient as current high-end LEDs, and they also beat CFLs, most of which are around 50-80 More...
Take your Google Contacts with you
(googlesocialweb.blogspot.com) - Lots of websites ask you to invite your friends when you sign up, and for good reason; the web is more fun when you can share your experiences with other people. However, too many of these sites access your list of friends by asking for your username and password so More...
iPhone to get Skype
(pcworld.com) - Skype is set to launch its iPhone application Tuesday, bringing its much-anticipated Net-based phone service to Apple's mobile platform. With the Skype iPhone app, users will be able to make free calls using Wi-Fi to other Skype users as well as use their Skype accounts to make reduced price calls More...
Three-minute pizza machine
(timesonline.co.uk) - Claudio Torghele, who has invented the "Let's Pizza" machine, claims that it can make a pizza by beating flour and water into a dough, stretching the dough into the classic round shape and then adding tomato sauce and toppings to choice - cheese and tomato, vegetables, ham or bacon - More...
Mozilla gives 3D web another shot
(tgdaily.com) - 3D on the Internet is about as old as 3D graphics acceleration itself. But all those ideas often disappeared quickly after their release, because they always required a special browser plug-in. Now there is a new idea to enable 3D web graphics that do not need a plug-in, but are More...
Daimler Unveils Mercedes-Benz F-CELL Roadster With Hybrid Drive
(emercedesbenz.com) - Daimler today has unveiled the F-CELL Roadster, the latest in their line of "F-Series" concept vehicles (past Mercedes research models can be seen here), and as you'll see, it draws its inspiration from a diverse variety of automotive eras. From a functional standpoint, it's a roadster fitted with a More...
New material could lead to faster chips - MIT News Office
(web.mit.edu) - New research findings at MIT could lead to microchips that operate at much higher speeds than is possible with today's standard silicon chips, leading to cell phones and other communications systems that can transmit data much faster.
Pinch and Spread: The Battle Over Multitouch Tech Is On
(wired.com) - Since the birth of the PC, companies sought a way to ditch the keyboard, a Moore's-law-ignoring, design-constraining anachronism tethered to increasingly powerful machines. But early attempts at touch were buggy and clumsy (forcing users to, say, learn Palm's Graffiti handwriting language or cope with input-challenged tablet PCs). So we stuck More...
Fat-Blasting Device - A non-invasive procedure designed to freeze-out cellulite
(elle.com) - Faddish cryotherapy spas—reverse saunas in which below-zero temperatures allegedly tighten skin—may not have arrived stateside yet (they’re already hot in Europe), but the FDA is on the verge of approving an innovative fat-blasting device that could give new meaning to the phrase “freezing your ass off.” Cryolipolysis is a noninvasive More...
Tesla Model S will cost under $50,000 after tax breaks
(autobloggreen.com) - When Tesla formally announced the Model S Sedan last June, the MSRP bandied was about $60,000 for the all-electric sedan. In its newsletter today, Tesla has confirmed that the "anticipated base price" for the Model S will be $57,400. With a federal tax credit of $7,500 available, however, the Model More...
Cisco Pushes Into Server Computer Market
(nytimes.com) - With the release of a footrest-size product, Cisco Systems has disrupted the political ties among the world’s largest technology companies and thrust itself into a new, hostile market.
Terrafugia's flying car makes maiden voyage | Cutting Edge - CNET News
(news.cnet.com) - Terrafugia describes its Transition vehicle as a "roadable aircraft" and is pitching it in part as giving private pilots an easy travel alternative when bad weather makes flying a bad idea, or simply to avoid having to take a separate car to the airport. Also, in the eyes of the More...
Terrafugia Achieves Maiden Flight of the first "roadable airplane" or in other words...we now have flying cars!!!
(xconomy.com) - Well, true to Dietrich’s word, Terrafugia conducted its first flight in secrecy, at 7:40 a.m. on March 5. But it’s only revealing that fact to the world today, in a dramatic press conference taking place at this hour at the Boston Museum of Science, where a prototype of the Transition More...
New life for twisted-pair? 500Mbps over copper wiring
(arstechnica.com) - Equipment maker Ericsson says it can use copper wiring to transmit data at more than 500Mbps in the lab—but it requires channel bonding and short line lengths. While fiber is the future, DSL and copper wiring may have some life left in them yet.
2G iPod touch to have Bluetooth capability unlocked by iPhone OS 3.0
(engadget.com) - Looks like that Bluetooth chip in the iPod touch 2G we've always thought was for Nike+ suddenly got a lot more useful: Apple's Greg Joswiak said that Bluetooth can be "unlocked" on the device during the iPhone OS 3.0 Q&A session. That's two years of rumors put to rest, right More...
GM Aims to "Wow" Customers With Seamless and Intuitive Chevy Volt Driving Experience
(gm-volt.com) - People who follow the Volt development closely know that GM has about 35 mules clad in Chevy Cruze bodies. These have been undergoing extensive continuous daily testing for months. By the summer we will see the arrival of the first full Volt interior and exterior prototypes, and likely begin to see public test drives.
NASA - NASA Tests Engine Technology for Landing Astronauts on the Moon
(nasa.gov) - How can a rocket engine that generates 5,000 degree steam and 13,800 pounds of thrust form icicles at the rim of its nozzle? It's cryogenic. The Common Extensible Cryogenic Engine, CECE for short, has completed its third round of intensive testing. This technology development engine is fueled by a mixture More...
Scientists aim to replicate the sun
(upi.com) - Scientists in California say they're trying to replicate the power of the sun by firing laser beams at a tiny pellet of hydrogen.
Physicists at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore say the nuclear fusion experiments may offer the world a clean source of energy, The Times of London reported Sunday.
The More...
A Polymer Coating That Can Heal Itself Thanks to UV Light
(nytimes.com) - Skin is spectacular stuff. Nick it with a razor or scrape it on the sidewalk, and it heals itself quickly. Synthetic materials are another story, although it’s not for lack of effort on the part of scientists.
Scientists Use Lasers To Kill Mosquitoes
(telegraph.co.uk) - The laser works by detecting the audio frequency created by the beating of mosquito wings. A computer triggers the laser beam which burns the wings off the mosquito and kills it.
'Supermodel' satellite set to fly
(news.bbc.co.uk) - Not the kind of "supermodel" you're thinking about, but interesting nonetheless.
Really Cool, New Sixth-Sense Technology Video
(break.com) - Destination: Minority Report. Tom Cruise, here we come!
Analyst: ARM to surpass Atom, in 55% of netbooks by 2012
(arstechnica.com) - Most analysts these days aren't willing to make forecasts for the next three months, much less the next three years, but both The Information Network and IDC have cast their own bones over the future of the netbook industry. The two groups see distinctly different futures for computing's hottest (and More...
Is Canvas the End of Flash?
(stairwellblog.com) - There’s no mistaking it, we love flash around here. However, it’s of my opinion that flash is going out. When you look back at why Flash was created and why it exists today its because designers and developers pushed the boundaries of HTML/CSS/Javascript too far and needed something more. Those More...
Linux, Microsoft and Sun to discuss the future of operating systems, but where's Apple?
(tgdaily.com) - At the Hotel Kabuki in San Francisco on April 8-10, 2009, a meeting of the great OS minds will take place. There, sponsored by Intel, will be assembled together the Linux Foundation, Sun Microsystems and Microsoft representatives. For the first time ever, the three-way group will sit down at a More...
Introducing Redis: a fast key-value database
(antoniocangiano.com) - Redis (REmote DIctionary Server) is a key-value database written in C. It can be used like memcached, in front of a traditional database, or on its own thanks to the fact that the in-memory datasets are not volatile but instead persisted on disk. As such it’s also very similar to More...
Why we've reached the end of the camera megapixel race
(arstechnica.com) - Olympus Imaging's Akira Watanabe says 12 megapixels is enough for most users. Ars thinks he's on to something.
Scientists closer to making invisibility cloak a reality
(physorg.com) - A paper published in the March 2009 issue of SIAM Review, "Cloaking Devices, Electromagnetic Wormholes, and Transformation Optics," presents an overview of the theoretical developments in cloaking from a mathematical perspective
Bionic eye gives blind man sight
(news.bbc.co.uk) - A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye.
He says he can now follow white lines on the road, and even sort socks, using the bionic eye, known as Argus II.
Asus fits its Lamborghini laptop with 1TB SSD
(computerworld.com) - Asustek Computer Inc. unveiled a new laptop at the CeBIT show in Hannover, Germany, today that comes equipped with a 1TB solid-state disk (SSD) drive, a 16-in. high-definition display, a Blu-ray drive and leather-covered panel rests.
The Asus Lamborghini VX5 laptop comes with an LCD cover designed to remind users of More...
Introducing the Touch Book
(alwaysinnovating.com) - $300-$400 for 10-15 hours, touchscreen with a removable keyboard, 1024x600 screen? Is it a scam because if not this has a lot of potential.
Solar Panels Get Cheap, But Will the Trend Last? - Research says Silicon Solar Panels like First Solar Uses May Not Hold Up to Scale
(popularmechanics.com) - A solar power milestone was reached on Tuesday when First Solar Inc brought its manufacturing costs for solar panels down to $1 per watt. But a study from the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs suggests that this might be the bottom for a price-point—if solar power is More...
Researchers make stem cell breakthrough
(physorg.com) - In a study to be released on March 1, 2009, Mount Sinai Hospital's Dr. Andras Nagy discovered a new method of creating stem cells that could lead to possible cures for devastating diseases including spinal cord injury, macular degeneration, diabetes and Parkinson's disease. The study, to be published by Nature More...
On call street lamps let you light up the town with your cellphone
(dvice.com) - A few towns in Germany may have come up with a solution. They have modified their lighting grids using a system called Dial4Light, so that local residents can use their cellphones to selectively turn on the lights street by street. After 15 minutes, a timer plunges the street back into More...
25 Innovators in Technology
(portfolio.com) - They’re changing the way we do business (and not always for the better). Don't miss features on Twitter CEO Evan Williams, Google's gambit with the power grid, and an essay about CEO Steve Jobs' leave of absence from Apple.
ARM Launches Its Smallest, Lowest Power, Most Energy Efficient Processor
(businesswire.com) - The exceptional low power, small gate count and code footprint of the processor enables MCU developers to achieve 32-bit performance at an 8-bit price point. The ultra low gate count also enables it to be deployed in analog and mixed signal devices as well as MCU applications, and promises substantial More...
Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines in 0.2 seconds
(labnol.org) - Google is normally quite secretive about their search infrastructure but, in a break from tradition, they have revealed that a single search query on Google can consume the processing power of 1000 machines.
Why the White House's Embrace of Drupal Matters
(techpresident.com) - Drupal developers are abuzz with the realization that the White House's new Recovery.gov site was built using the free and open-source content management platform Drupal. Pre-Recovery.gov, the perhaps highest-profile use of Drupal had been the Onion website. But that's not the only reason that Drupal fans are excited. I asked More...
How Many Linux Users Are There (Really)?
(linuxplanet.com) - As Jim Zemlin, the executive director of The Linux Foundation, points out, "I am not joking or trying to be trite, but the answer to this question is: every single person in the modern world every day. Everyone who searches Google, picks up a phone and uses telecommunication infrastructure, watches More...
Anonymous Caller? New Service Says, Not Any More
(blog.wired.com) - A new service set for launch Tuesday allows cellphone users to unmask the Caller ID on blocked incoming calls, obtaining the phone number, and in some cases the name and address, of the no-longer-anonymous caller.
The service, called TrapCall, is offered by New Jersey's TelTech systems, the company behind the More...
DNA sample may be enough to build an image of your face
(irishtimes.com) - Forensic Science is about to take a startling new turn – reconstructing facial features and skin tone simply by reading your DNA. This goes far beyond doing an identity-proving genetic fingerprint, it means the person’s actual face will emerge after analysing a collection of genes, according to a scientist from Pennsylvania State University.
How to permanently delete your facebook account.
(facebook.com) - Ever tried to leave Facebook and found out they only allow you to "deactivate" your account? All your personal data, including photos, interests, friends etc will still be saved indefinitely! You don’t have to be a conspiracist to find this quite fishy (or simply annoying)!
Orange is First to Launch LG Touch Watch Phone in Europe
(news.prnewswire.com) - Orange today announces it will be the first operator to offer the world's first Touch Watch phone (LG G910) in Europe, bringing customers the latest in breakthrough mobile technology in this tiny, wearable device from LG Electronics. This market-first innovation, available from flagship stores across Orange's European footprint later this More...
ARM debuts Sparrow - A Multicore Chips Aimed for Netbooks
(pcmag.com) - The Cortex-A9 can deliver around 1500 DMIPS of processing capability per core, with up to four cores, according to an ARM presentation. (DMIPS are a measure of processor performance based on repeated integer calculations.) That's at least triple the computing power of the ARM11 processors found in the iPhone and T-Mobile G1.
Michelin strikes key 'e-wheel' deal
(reghardware.co.uk) - One of the key parts of the plan will be the further development of Michelin's Active Wheel Technology, a wizard idea that puts two electric wheels inside a wheel hub: one to provide motive power, the other to provide active suspension. Between them they negate the need for gearboxes, drive More...
Debian 5.0 released
(debian.org) - The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed "Lenny") after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also More...
What Programming Language Should I Learn?
(regulargeek.com) - As I do my professional and personal work, I am always looking for the best tool for the job. In software development, there are several programming languages that can be used for a wide variety of reasons. I am often asked by people new to software development what is the More...
The cost of force protection
(s5.tinypic.com) - The cost to outfit a soldier broken down by conflict as well as future projections.
Hoverit Floating Chair
(news.cnet.com) - Hoverit describes lounging in its patent-pending chair as floating on a cloud.
They also describe the price tag at $8,350.
Why HTTP?
(timothyfitz.wordpress.com) - The world doesn’t need another arbitrary binary protocol. Just use HTTP. Your life will be simpler. Originally this came up when scaling a gaggle of MySQL machines. I would have killed for a reliable proxy. It’s with this in mind that I’ve come up with my list of things that More...
Gmail eases duplicate contacts problem
(news.cnet.com) - One of my beefs with Gmail, a service I otherwise like, is its propensity to create duplicate contact entries for the same person without any action on my part.
Page Cache, the Affair Between Memory and Files
(duartes.org) - Two serious problems must be solved by the OS when it comes to files. The first one is the mind-blowing slowness of hard drives, and disk seeks in particular, relative to memory. The second is the need to load file contents in physical memory once and share the contents among More...
Sirius XM Prepares for Possible Bankruptcy
(nytimes.com) - He was planning to cut costs and expand a business that was already a fixture in the lives of millions of Americans. “Forty-three cents a day — it’s not even vending machine coffee,” he said at the time, parrying a question about whether the softening economy might hurt subscriptions.
But now More...
Bose Energy Efficient Series Sound System to debut in Chevy Volt
(businesswire.com) - Bose has announced it will debut its Energy Efficient Series sound system in the 2011 Chevy Volt. Using a proprietary design, the new Bose system is 30% smaller, 40% lighter, and uses 50% less energy than conventional Bose sound systems, while delivering premium, high-quality audio.
Calendar and contact syncing for iPhone and Windows Mobile devices
(googleblog.blogspot.com) - One advantage of storing information online is being able to access it from anywhere, on any device. Last year we released a tool for Blackberry devices to sync Google Calendar and Gmail contacts with the pre-installed calendar and contacts applications. Today, we're offering more people easy access to their information More...
Engadget's Kindle 2 first hands-on! (updated with video and impressions)
(engadget.com) - The Kindle 2 is here folks -- it should look pretty familiar at this point! Feast your eyes on the photos. We're building out with more photos and video, so stay tuned. We played for the unit for the briefest of moments, but it really does feel great in hand. More...
Will We Clone a Dinosaur?
(time.com) - If you use DNA taken from its myriad wing descendants, the idea is not as farfetched as it first appears
Unsatisfied with direction, MySQL creator leaves Sun
(arstechnica.com) - Michael Widenius, the original creator of the MySQL database system, has left Sun and is starting his own company that will work on an experimental storage engine. He also intends to open a restaurant that will use database technology to improve the customer experience.
Auto-Tune: Why Pop Music Sounds Perfect
(time.com) - The force behind both trends is an ingenious plug-in called Auto-Tune, a downloadable studio trick that can take a vocal and instantly nudge it onto the proper note or move it to the correct pitch. It's like Photoshop for the human voice.
Revolutionary microchip uses 30 times less power
(rice.edu) - In the first real-world test of a revolutionary type of computing that thrives on random errors, scientists have created a microchip that uses 30 times less electricity while running seven times faster than today's best technology. The U.S.-Singapore team developing the technology, dubbed PCMOS [pronounced "pee-cee-moss"], revealed the results here More...
Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes on Crowd
(foxnews.com) - Microsoft founder turned philanthropist Bill Gates released a glass full of mosquitoes at an elite technology conference to make a point about the deadly disease malaria.
"I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."
Automotive X-Prize Draws 25 Teams So Far
(blog.wired.com) - The race to build the world's first mass-production car capable of triple-digit fuel economy is rolling right along, with 25 teams betting they can win the $10 million prize for building a super-efficient, super-clean car people would actually buy.
LaserPup
(laserpup.com) - Combine three awesome things in an unexpected way, and get an unexpectedly awesome result. Dogs + internet + lasers = a link you don't want to miss.
This Car Runs on Code
(spectrum.ieee.org) - It takes dozens of microprocessors running 100 million lines of code to get a premium car out of the driveway, and this software is only going to get more complex.
New .tel domain names will create world's largest phonebook
(telegraph.co.uk) - The public will get the chance to be part of the world's largest phone book when millions of new internet addresses go up for sale today.
Tokyoflash Heko - The worlds most confusing watch
(tokyoflash.com) - Actually, its not that confusing and I want one.
Aptera design team unveils solar-powered boat
(autobloggreen.com) - Using the same high efficiency and "user first" philosophy they applied to the Aptera 2e, Jason Hill of Eleven and Nathan Armstrong of Motive Industries have done the impossible and re-made the pontoon boat into a thing of environmentally-sound beauty. On behalf of the Tamarack Lake Electric Boat Company, the More...
Dell's rumored smartphone: Look out RIM
(news.cnet.com) - OK, so Dell and Apple have been locked in a marketing war for years. Dell has long been considered the default PC for enterprise, while Apple has positioned itself as the most influential consumer computer brand in the world. But Apple has branched out from computing with the iPod and, of course, the iPhone.
IBM develop 'most realistic' computerised voice IBM develop 'most realistic' computerised voice
(telegraph.co.uk) - It is so sophisticated that the devices will be able to pause for effect or cough to attract the users' attention, spelling an end to the irritating monotone voices that have become a part of everyday modern life.
Firefox Mobile Headed for Windows Mobile as Early as Next Week
(i.gizmodo.com) - The Touch Pro is an interesting choice for the first release; the decision, I'd wager, stemmed from the ease of porting—resizing interface elements and managing the GUI is much easier when you got the Pro's 480x640 display to work with, and dealing with performance issues, which were evident in the More...
Cheap, super-efficient LED lights on the horizon
(newscientist.com) - Although the ultimate dominance of LED lights has long been predicted, the expense of the super-efficient technology has made the timescale uncertain. The researchers now say LED bulbs based on their new process could be commercially available within five years.
Engadget uncovers the "top-secret" Zumba Phone
(engadget.com) - "the world's first fully accurate voice recognition system for mobile phones."
The device relies upon a "100% secure" connection to an "Internet portal" (apparently called Zumba Lumba) that holds all your contacts. If the phone is lost or stolen "it is instantly useless to anyone else." A lot of hype to More...
James Dyson on Creating a Vacuum that Actually, Well, Sucks
(rd.com) - It took James Dyson 5,127 prototypes, 14 years of debt, and multiple lawsuits to create the top-selling upright vacuum cleaner in the United States.
Google Joins Fight Against BitTorrent Throttling ISPs
(torrentfreak.com) - Hundreds of ISPs all over the world limit and restrict BitTorrent traffic on their networks. Unfortunately, most companies are not very open about their network management solutions. With a newly launched website, Google is now helping out by supporting applications that distinguish the good ISPs from the bad.
Don't Fear the Penguin: A Newbie's Guide to Linux
(networkworld.com) - Getting started with Linux can be an intimidating task, particularly for people who have never tried any operating system besides Windows. In truth, however, very little about Linux is actually difficult to use. It's simply a different OS, with its own approach to doing things. Once you learn your way More...
Apple vs. Palm: the in-depth analysis
(engadget.com) - Apple and Palm kicked a lot of dirt at each other last week -- acting Apple CEO Tim Cook flatly told analysts that "We will not stand for people ripping off our IP" when asked specifically about competition like the Palm Pre, and Palm responded with a similarly-explicit "We have More...
House fails to pass DTV delay bill
(tech.yahoo.com) - The House of Representatives on Wednesday failed to pass a bill to delay the nationwide switch to digital television signals by about four months.
Interestingly, it was expected to easily pass with support from both sides.
Russian prime minister tells Dell CEO: 'We don't need help. We are not invalids.'
(money.cnn.com) - Ever since Vladimir Putin rose to power in 2000, his political opponents and entire countries have learned to their cost that he has a tough, demeaning streak. Wednesday it was Michael Dell's turn.
Cigarratte Lighter Video Camera
(ajoka.com) - You don't have to worry about the battery as it can run for a minimum 6 hours with a full Charge and micro SD card can record up to 8 hours Very High quality of audio video on 8GB Micro SD Card.
Coming soon: Full-disk encryption for all computer drives
(computerworld.com) - The world's six largest computer drive makers today published the final specifications for a single, full-disk encryption standard that can be used across all hard disk drives, solid state drives and encryption key management applications. Once enabled, any disk that uses the specification will be locked without a password -- More...
Golf Caddies beware, OnPar is set to render you obsolete
(prnewswire.com) - OnPar, a revolutionary new hand-held, full color touch screen GPS rangefinder, debuts at PGA Merchandise Show. Designed with the golfer in mind, OnPar incorporates traditional golf information, the latest GPS technology, rich graphics, and a number of unique features that truly help golfers manage their game. It's like having a professional caddy at your fingertips.
Shelby releases Aero EV - 0 to 60 in 2.5 seconds, 10 minute recharge
(shelbysupercars.com) - The Ultimate Aero EV utilizes a twin motor AESP producing an astounding 1,000 HP and 800 lb-ft of torque enabling it to rocket to 60 mph in a mere 2.5 seconds and reach a top speed of 208 mph. Not only does the Ultimate Aero EV have a range of More...
WD 2TB Caviar Green Monster Drive Preview
(hothardware.com) - Today marks the day that standard rotational media breaks the 2TB barrier. Let's spell that out a bit more clearly again here; T-W-O full Terabytes of SATA-based storage on a single, standard 3.5" hard drive.
Boeing: We zapped a UAV with a laser
(news.cnet.com) - The defense industry giant on Monday said tests of its Laser Avenger system in December marked "the first time a combat vehicle has used a laser to shoot down a UAV," or unmanned aerial vehicle. In the testing, the Humvee-mounted Laser Avenger located and tracked three small UAVs in flight More...
Hacking programmable road signs
(news.cnet.com) - We see them everywhere these days, digital signs by the side of the road telling us about road conditions or that we should prepare to stop or that our local bridge might be closed next Tuesday from noon to midnight. And if you're like me, you've always just assumed that More...
Teenager's new i-LIMB prosthetic hand is awesome [Video]
(pogpog.com) - Evan Reynolds, 19, got his hand and part of his arm ripped off in a car accident and has since been fitted with an i-LIMB, a robotic hand developed by an Apple/Star Wars fanboy.
The i-Limb was developed by a Scottish company, Touch Bionics, and has won awards for its innovative More...
New chip claims multi-gigabit transfers over 60GHz RF
(electronista.com) - The single-chip component integrates a low-power radio with an embedded antenna, while drawing only 100 milliwatts of power. GEDC researchers have experimented with a variety of configurations, reaching speeds up to 15 Gbps at one meter, 10 Gbps at two meters, and 5 Gbps at five meters. Tests also successfully streamed uncompressed 720p or 1080i video.
The Car of the Future - Available in October
(blog.wired.com) - The car of the future is almost here.
Aptera Motors has rolled out the first pre-production model of the 2e, an all-electric three-wheeled two-seater that gets the equivalent of 200 mpg and goes 100 miles on a charge. It's a significant milestone for the Southern California startup, which plans to put More...
Teleportation Milestone Achieved
(livescience.com) - Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around, but for the first time, information has been teleported between two separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.
Why You Should Always Log Out
(collegehumor.com) - I can't tell you how many times I've gone to the library or a computer lab and found someone still logged into their user account. It used to make me angry. It used to make me wonder what was wrong with people. I don't know if they just forget or More...
A Real Cloaking Device
(popsci.com) - Fiction inches closer to fact as an invisibility generator passes preliminary tests.
DIY Home Power Usage Meter
(picobay.com) - This post details a real-time web based household power usage chart. The end result is a live chart in a web page that updates every 10 seconds with the instantaneous power usage for my entire house.
Google Knol six months later: Wikipedia need not worry
(arstechnica.com) - What happened to Knol? Announced by Google in late 2007 and launched in July 2008, the site was meant to bring more credible (read: not written by anonymous Wikipedians) "knowledge units" to the web, and it would allow the authors to cash in on their work. But it's 2009, and Knol appears to be notable largely for its non-notability.
President Obama Wears Bullet-Resistant Suit at Inaugural
(blog.wired.com) - Barack Obama had more than the Presidential 'beast' limo taking care of his safety yesterday.
According to some reports, he wore a suit made by a clothier specializing in bullet-resistant clothing during the inauguration ceremonies.
Obama Inauguration shines on Linux too with Moonlight
(arstechnica.com) - We learned on Monday that incoming president Barack Obama's Presidential Inaugural Committee (PIC) selected Microsoft's Silverlight framework for the official Internet video stream of the inauguration ceremony. This choice has generated some controversy among Linux enthusiasts, because it requires Silverlight 2.0, which is not yet supported on the open source More...
Throw your hard drive away, Google's Gdrive arriving in 2009
(tgdaily.com) - Google Drive, or Gdrive as it is better known, has to be the most anticipated Google product so far. When it arrives, Gdrive will likely cause a major paradigm shift in how we use computers and bring Google one step closer to dethroning Windows on your desktop.
iPod Touch mounted on M110 Sniper Rifle
(thefirearmblog.com) - We have seen some cool iPhone applications come out for shooting sports. But nothing comes close to the sheer awesomeness of the Knights Armaments M110 iPod Touch mount and accompanying ballistics software.
What your computer's drive will look like in 5 years
(computerworld.com) - As solid-state disk (SSD) technology closes in on hard disk drive (HDD) capacity and price, experts say it may not be long before spinning disks are a thing of the past and a computer's storage resides in flash memory on the motherboard.
How to create your own Firefox theme
(techradar.com) - With a seemingly endless collection of add-ons, extensions and extras, Firefox is one of the most customisable browsers. But you can take your customisations even further by changing the graphics and adding your own add-ons and extensions.
Flash Drive Band
(tinyliving.com) - You'll never leave your files behind if you wear your usb drive...
Laser-Hard Drives in the Making - 1Tbits/s in 5 years
(thefutureofthings.com) - Recent advancements might finally open the door to a new storage technology that will merge optical and magnetic technologies, leading to high capacity storage devices reaching speeds thousands of times that of existing storage technologies, while boasting improved reliability.
One day sale - $299 Peek email for life
(getpeek.com) - Today only - Save thousands of dollars. Most people pay more than $300 for texting and data - per year. Buy Peek for just $299.95 and we'll give you unlimited email and texting - forever! *
* Unlimited texting and email for as long as you use this device
Yahoo Shares Fall on C.E.O.’s Comments
(bits.blogs.nytimes.com) - Wall Street didn’t take kindly to comments by Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s new chief executive, made at a companywide meeting Wednesday. After reports that Ms. Bartz wasn’t sold on the idea of selling Yahoo’s search business to Microsoft, investors sent Yahoo shares plunging 6.5 percent on Thursday.
Super fast Ext4 filesystem arrives in Ubuntu 9.04
(arstechnica.com) - Ext4, the next generation of Linux's Ext3 filesystem, is now available in the latest Ubuntu 9.04 installer images. Ext4 was officially declared stable in version 2.6.28 of the Linux kernel, which was released last month.
Ext4 is designed to provide better performance and increase reliability. It also increases the maximum filesystem More...
A new HTTP header - X-Torrent
(clubtroppo.com.au) - The thinking behind the X-Torrent header is that whenever a web server returns any headers over HTTP, it includes an X-Torrent header pointing to a torrent tracker for that document. When a website becomes heavily loaded, browsers would use the BitTorrent protocol to obtain the requested document or resource from More...
Open source trading platform could be a win for Wall Street
(arstechnica.com) - Linux and open source software are a key component in the underlying infrastructure of the finance industry, but the higher layers of the stack are still dominated by a multitude of proprietary, in-house solutions. A software startup called Marketcetera aims to change that with a new, open source platform for building automated trading systems.
Palm Pre: everything you ever wanted to know
(engadget.com) - Very in depth review of the Palm Pre by engadget.
IBM Research Creates Microscope With 100 Million Times Finer Resolution Than Current MRI
(www-03.ibm.com) - This result, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), signals a significant step forward in tools for molecular biology and nanotechnology by offering the ability to study complex 3D structures at the nanoscale.
By extending MRI to such fine resolution, the scientists have created a microscope More...
OpenCalais - Web Service for Semantic Data
(opencalais.com) - We want to make all the world's content more accessible, interoperable and valuable. Some call it Web 2.0, Web 3.0, the Semantic Web or the Giant Global Graph - we call our piece of it Calais.
Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art More...
Engadget totally screws up...
(engadget.com) - Engadget just labeled an awesome remote controlled cooler as a "crapgadget". What a bunch of loosers, haha.
HTML 5 canvas - The basics
(dev.opera.com) - Canvas is one of the most interesting HTML 5 features, and it's ready to be used within most modern Web browsers. It provides all you need to create games, user interface enhancements, and other things besides. The 2D context API includes a wealth of functionality in addition to that discussed More...
Beautifully Documented Code
(toolness.com) - a single-page JavaScript application that can be served from static files, which takes in raw JavaScript files and dynamically renders the documentation alongside the code in the reader’s browser.
Debian 5 release approaches...
(arstechnica.com) - The developers behind the Debian Linux distribution are preparing for the upcoming release of Debian 5, which is codenamed Lenny. The decision to move forward with the release follows a contentious vote over whether to permit the inclusion of binary blobs in the new version of the distribution. Consensus coalesced More...
Seagate unveils highest-density hard drive
(tgdaily.com) - A solid state disk (SSD) drive may be the sexiest mass storage device for notebooks and high-end PCs, but if it is about cheap storage the good old hard drive is still the way to go – and hard drive technology still has room to grow: Seagate today announced a More...
Look out Fisker and Tesla! Lotus to jump into EV game!
(autoblog.com) - Lotus is looking to challenge one of (its) clients by building an electric sports car of its own. CEO Michael Kimberly told the Financial Times that the sports car maker and engineering powerhouse will soon launch extended-range battery-powered vehicle. The high performance model could appear as a concept as soon More...
Wikipedia's new plea for donations stirs skepticism
(arstechnica.com) - Regular visitors of Wikipedia have become so familiar with the standard fundraising banner at the top of the page that they've practically become blind to it, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has mixed things up by replacing it recently with a personal plea for donations. Wales' appeal has triggered renewed More...
What's Next After Web 2.0
(readwriteweb.com) - So we can expect to see a welcome return to web innovation in 2008/09, along the lines of what Flickr and 37Signals created back in the early days of Web 2.0. However, web entrepreneurs will need to make adjustments due to the economic climate. Many people have already noted that More...
How To Create A Disposable Webpage
(makeuseof.com) - Disposable services are also good for cases where you just need something to exist for a limited amount of time and not reside in cyberspace forever, for example files you want to share with your friend, or in this case – a webpage which expires after a certain timeframe.
The Blu-Ray Fireplace Experience
(hdscape.com) - Whether it's winter and you hope to escape the frosty cold outside or you want to spend a cozy evening with your family, Fireplace is the next best thing to a real fire. Its visual appeal in High Definition gives your home a welcoming atmosphere. It's also a great way More...
Chilean anti-piracy law drafted on pirated software
(theregister.co.uk) - Chilean lawyer Guillermo Frêne is having a bit of a bad hair day after it was revealed that draft legislation aimed at cutting the internet connections of illegal downloading ne'er-do-wells was presented in .doc format written on pirated software.
Everything old is new again: resurrecting classic games
(arstechnica.com) - When it comes to both hardware and software, video games have always been out there on the cutting edge of technology. The quality of the graphics, sounds, artificial intelligence, and other gameplay elements are constantly improving, with the result that, when comparing a much older title to one of today's More...
Obama's Cyber Czar - Private, Government, or Military?
(forbes.com) - For weeks, blogs have been buzzing about which Silicon Valley luminary will be tapped as President-elect Barack Obama's chief technology officer, the most innovation-focused position in what has been touted as a hyper-innovative regime.
eSATA flash drive provides blazing speed
(computerworld.com) - Last month, Kanguru Solutions announced the first USB flash drive that also offers External Serial ATA (eSATA) connectivity. This month, OCZ Technology Inc. also announced an eSATA-enabled flash drive with up to 32GB capacity, as did Advanced Media Inc.'s Ridata-brand.
So it seems this is a trend. The question is, why? More...
42 essential tips for your new games console
(techradar.com) - So if you got an Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Wii this year, Christmas dinner might come as a bit of an unwelcome intrusion into your afternoon.
To help you get started with your new favourite toy, we've put together a mini bible of our most popular tips and tricks More...
Mozilla's mobile browser gets closer to prime time
(news.cnet.com) - Years ago, Mozilla introduced its mobile equivalent of Firefox, then-called Minimo. Minimo unfortunately largely died of boredom within Mozilla. In early 2008, however, Mozilla resurrected Minimo as Fennec, and the heavens rejoiced (though even the heavens couldn't get it installed on [Name your mobile device of choice]).
As recently announced by More...
First Look at the linux kernel 2.6.26
(arstechnica.com) - Lead kernel developer Linus Torvalds announced the official release of Linux 2.6.28 on Wednesday. The new version introduces some noteworthy changes that will put the kernel in a strong position for growth and advancement in the coming year. This latest release follows a few months after version 2.6.27, which was released in October.
Quantum Computer Could Solve Problems In A Few Months That Would Take Conventional Computers Millions Of Years
(sciencedaily.com) - How to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics is the aim of a project by computer scientists Fred Chong of the University of California, Davis, Isaac Chuang at MIT and John Kubiatowicz at UC Berkeley. The five-year project is supported by a grant of $3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
SSD advancements the final nail in HDD's coffin?
(techradar.com) - Unfortunately, the jig is up. The future is coming on quick and the venerable hard drive may not be able to stand against it. Over the last year, solid state storage has quietly established itself as a reliable mainstay in both netbooks like the Eee PC and in high-end laptops. More...
See through touch screen
(newscientist.com) - It is often assumed that touch-screen device can be made smaller, because they do away with the need for buttons. But paradoxically, they are often larger than the push button gadgets they replace, according to Patrick Baudisch at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, and Microsoft Research in Redmond, More...
Researchers Plan to Simulate Movements of 300 Million Americans
(physorg.com) - Researchers from Virginia Tech are developing a computer simulation that matches the movements of all 300 million people in towns across the US. The team hopes that the model will help them understand the spread of contagious diseases, fads, and traffic flows.
Music Industry to Abandon Mass Suits
(online.wsj.com) - After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.
The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal More...
Has Internet Explorer ever been safe?
(blogs.zdnet.com) - This morning, I put forward the claim that Internet Explorer, in recent times (this decade) has not been secure, and shouldn’t be used unless absolutely necessary.
FireTorrent Brings BitTorrent to Firefox
(torrentfreak.com) - Firefox is the web browser of choice for many people, but unlike Opera, it can’t download .torrent files natively. With FireTorrent you can now add BitTorrent support to Firefox. The add-on makes it possible to download .torrent files in the browser, and integrates BitTorrent downloads into the existing download manager.
What Gmail does better than its competitors
(news.cnet.com) - As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time wading through e-mails, finding the best e-mail service is paramount in my life.
Realizing that, I've done my fair share of shuffling from one e-mail program to the next--trying to find the best service that not only offers speed and stability, but More...
World's first flying car will be hitting the roads (or not) next year
(dailymail.co.uk) - It's been a pipe dream for 30 years but now the world's first fully available flying car is set to hit the roads next year.
Robots to perform ‘Phantom of the Opera’
(chinapost.com.tw) - A Taiwan university announced yesterday the creation of what could be the world’s first robot theater, which will make its debut on Dec. 27 by performing the musical “The Phantom of the Opera.”
Thanko MP4 Watch with 1.8in display and Video Camera
(akihabaranews.com) - Definitely not the most gorgeous watch out there, but then again how many watches can play videos much less be able to record VGA quality video.
iPhone 3G unlocked by Dev-Team
(blog.iphone-dev.org) - We have been working hard on a few other things. The main one being the 3G unlock codenamed “yellowsn0w”. This is now completed and is currently being packaged into a user-friendly application with the simplicity that you see in QuickPwn or BootNeuter.
Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld, Steve Jobs won't deliver keynote
(apple.com) - Apple is reaching more people in more ways than ever before, so like many companies, trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers. The increasing popularity of Apple's Retail Stores, which more than 3.5 million people visit every week, and the Apple.com website enable More...
Electricity can turn plonk into vintage wine in minutes, claim scientists - Telegraph
(telegraph.co.uk) - Researchers - and some vineyards - are developing electrical equipment that accelerates the aging process, turning young wine from an undrinkable bitter grape juice into a quaffable beverage fit for any table.
The system being developed in China - which has a burgeoning wine industry - works by speeding up the More...
Toshiba Launches Industry's First 512GB SSD
(news.prnewswire.com) - Toshiba Corp. (Toshiba) and Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)*, its subsidiary in the Americas, today announced the expansion of their line up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the industry's first 2.5-inch 512-gigabyte (GB)(1) SSD and a broad family of fast read/write SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) More...
ASUS Eee Top ET1602 touchscreen all-in-one gets reviewed
(slashgear.com) - At first glance, ASUS’ Eee Top ET1602 is the epitome of a niche product. Packing nettop-spec hardware in an all-in-one form factor, with a touchscreen and general design that seem to have stopped by HP’s TouchSmart and the Apple iMac along the way, it’s certainly tough to pin down. More...
Wearable Toy Piano
(instructables.com) - A Toy Piano embedded on a T-shirt. It has 8 keys from Do to Do (1 octave). You can play simple music by wearing the shirt and pushing the fabric button on the shirt. All the components from the toy piano (batteries, speaker, circuit board) are placed on the shirt More...
Nokia Spy Phones?
(spycatcheronline.co.uk) - Select any of the phones from the list below and give it to your target to use as a normal phone and to them it does operate as it was originally designed. However, totally unbeknown to them the phone will do all of the following:
Alert you when the phone More...
Gyroscopic Golf Club
(sklzstore.com) - Here are the details: The Gyro Swing has a gyroscope inside, which from the picture looks fairly hefty. The disk spins at 20,000 rpm and is supposed to ingrain the "feel" of a proper shot into the arms of the player. It is also claimed that the club resists extraneous More...
Hawking Predicts Discovery of Alien Life
(dailygalaxy.com) - On the 50th anniversary of NASA, Stephen Hawking, Newton's heir as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, answered the question, “Are we alone?”
His answer was short and simple; probably not!
Invention: Low-error golf balls
(newscientist.com) - The dimples on a golf ball are more than a pretty pattern - they help a struck ball fly further. But a new patent application says that replacing them with grooves will make for fewer missed putts.
Data Visualization: Modern Approaches
(smashingmagazine.com) - Data presentation can be beautiful, elegant and descriptive. There is a variety of conventional ways to visualize data - tables, histograms, pie charts and bar graphs are being used every day, in every project and on every possible occasion. However, to convey a message to your readers effectively, sometimes you More...
Microsoft: Big Security Hole in All IE Versions
(voices.washingtonpost.com) - On Wednesday, Security Fix warned readers about a newly-discovered security hole in Internet Explorer 7. I'm posting this again because Microsoft now says the flaw affects all supported versions of IE, and because security experts are warning that a large number of sites are being compromised in an effort to exploit this vulnerability and install malware on vulnerable systems.
Google slips from list of top companies on privacy
(news.cnet.com) - The Internet search giant was ranked No. 10 last year, but slipped off into the ether this year as the 6,500 people surveyed by the Ponemon Institute may have associated Google with "big company syndrome," the Chronicle story reported. TRUSTe co-sponsored the survey. The company aims to serve as the More...
Wikipedia Officially Launches Mobile Version
(lifehacker.com) - Popular user-edited online encyclopedia Wikipedia has finally released a mobile-friendly version of the web site at mobile.wikipedia.org.
The site offers a trimmed down version of Wikipedia proper, supports 14 languages, and even has a mysterious Spoken Wikipedia setting that—though currently not enabled, may presumably one day read Wikipedia articles to you.
Dubai Plans to Cool Sizzling Sandy Beach
(physorg.com) - Dubai's out this world's Palazzo Versace located in the Culture Village has hired Hyder Consulting to use their innovative engineering talents to cool off the hotel/condominium resort's sizzling hot sandy beaches. Hyder Consulting has a long-term presence in the Middle East and offers engineering services, including environmentally sustainable buildings, infrastructure More...
Five Strangest Programming Languages
(computersight.com) - Most programming languages were designed so that the code is easy to write and understand. These were designed for the opposite reason.
What a Microcontroller Bootloader Is and How It Works?
(dev.emcelettronica.com) - Generally, when you want to program a microcontroller, you need a programmer for that particular microcontroller. Apart from being expensive, it might have other disadvantages, like long programming times or too many interconnections between the micro and the programmer itself; some programmers are not capable of programming in circuit. Sometimes More...
6 Ways to Get Much More Out of GIMP
(ostatic.com) - GIMP, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a long-standing and hugely respected open source graphics program, and many readers probably already use it. Originally created at U.C. Berkeley its interface and feature set run neck-and-neck with expensive proprietary alternatives such as Photoshop, and it has a thriving community of developers More...
10 Ways to Cut Down Web Development Time
(sixrevisions.com) - But getting things done rapidly doesn’t mean working harder - just working smarter. In this article, you’ll find 10 general, time-saving tips to cut down on your development time.
Precocious Baby Starts Twittering from the Womb
(mashable.com) - Expectant father Corey Menscher wanted to “create a device that would give me a chance to be aware of our baby’s movements”. He created a waistband for his wife which sends a Tweet everytime the baby kicks, naming the project “Kickbee”. Corey writes:
The Kickbee is a More...
Browser CPU usage
(inessential.com) - One thing that bugs me — some pages use an abnormal amount of the CPU even when they’re not apparently doing anything.
Good advice for all the web devs out there.
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money
(nytimes.com) - Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living.
One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figure More...
Some New Tools for Investing Nerds
(blogs.wsj.com) - People are starting to think more about saving–and investing–than spending, which is perhaps the sole upside to the market turmoil. Being an investing geek has become much more socially acceptable, and companies are taking notice.
In the last few weeks, several start-ups and familiar names have added, changed or completely revamped More...
Scientists extract images directly from brain
(pinktentacle.com) - Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people’s dreams while they sleep.
The Entrepreneurial Generation
(blog.inc.com) - I’ve been interviewing young entrepreneurs for almost two years now and one of the re-emerging themes in the businesses they start is dissatisfaction with the status quo. Sure, that’s pretty much true for all entrepreneurs, but this generation of upstarts has its own way of looking at existing products and More...
Smart Speed Bump Flattens When You're Driving Slow
(gizmodo.com) - They make a speed bump that’s based on retractors that open if the impact with them is small enough. These speed bumps can be configured so that if a car is going below 30km/h, the speed bump flattens; over 30km/h, the force causes the retractor to stay closed, keeping the More...
Top 10 Ways to Put Your Remote Server to Good Use
(lifehacker.com) - An always-on server can come in all kinds of handy for running automated tasks, syncing your data, remote controlling downloads and acting as a proxy. Lot of us have access to a remote computer—if not a hand-rolled home server, most Lifehacker readers said they couldn't live without their hosted web More...
How to make sexy buttons with CSS
(oscaralexander.com) - This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day.
gMail can now send SMS
(gmailblog.blogspot.com) - How often do you try to chat with somebody and they don't respond because they just walked away from their computer? Or maybe you're in the middle of chatting with them just as they need to leave. But you still need to tell them something -- something really important like More...
7 Reasons why MySQL Quality will never be the same
(mysqlperformanceblog.com) - As if I needed any more reasons to use postgres, here's 7.
Intel ready to begin 32 nm production
(tgdaily.com) - Intel is set to announce a completed development phase of its 32 nm chip manufacturing process, which is expected to deliver first commercial processors in late 2009. 32 nm chips will now move into the production phase, while a 22 nm technology, due in 2013, comes out of research and More...
Nokia N97 - Nokia's New Flagship Phone
(crunchgear.com) - Introducing the Nokia N97, the next generation high-end mobile phone from Nokia. Described by Nokia folks as a “handheld computer” this device is a pretty comfortable high-end phone. It has a tilting (resistive) touch-screen display, and is the first N-series phone with a QWERTY keyboard. It has 32 gigabytes of More...
