 Google wins floating data center patent
Posted on April 30, 2009
Google is going to start building it's own Navy one might say. This will make the conspiracy theorists light up with how Google is positioning itself to not only be an inudstry figure head, but also a world power. More… |
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 Mathematical search engine goes live May '09
Posted on April 30, 2009
Wolfram Alpha is the brainchild of British-born physicist Stephen Wolfram. The free program aims to answer mathematical and computational questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine. More… |
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 Industry Readies for Major Game Unveilings and Announcements
Posted on April 29, 2009
The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced that nearly 150 leading-edge computer and video game companies purchased space at this year's E3 Expo. More… |
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 Firefox 3.5 Beta 4 now available for download
Posted on April 28, 2009
Firefox 3.5 (formerly known as Firefox 3.1) Beta 4 is now available for download. This version is a public preview release intended for developer testing and community feedback. More… |
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 500 GB disc developed by GE...
Posted on April 27, 2009
GE's Micro-Holographic Discs will have 20 times the storage capacity of a standard Blu-ray disc and be read with systems similar to today’s Blu-ray and DVD Players. More… |
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 New technology sometimes draws from nature's inspirations...
Posted on April 26, 2009
Festo, an industrial control and automation company based in Germany, is taking lessons from nature to rethink pneumatic processes. More… |
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 Warner announces HD-DVD trade up to Blu-ray
Posted on April 23, 2009
Warner Home Video (WHV) has announced the launch of two new programs, "Warnerblu Buy 5 Get 1 Free," the Studio's first-ever Blu-ray Disc™ customer loyalty program, and an HD-DVD trade up program, "Red2Blu," which offers HD-DVD owners the opportunity to upgrade their Warner Home Video releases on HD-DVD for a Blu-ray Disc of the same movie. More… |
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 The UK has given the all clear for Google's Street View
Posted on April 23, 2009
The United Kingdom's Information Commisioner's Office has given Google's controvertial Street View program an all clear after a heated debate over invasion of privacy. This comes after many have been protesting over Google producing public images of private property. More… (new polling feature inside!) |
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 Ubuntu has released its new OS version
Posted on April 23, 2009
"Ubuntu 9.04 has just been released and is available now for download. For those of you who like their software free of charge, free of virus’s and able to run on older / less powerful hardware; ubuntu 9.04 is worth well a look." ~The Tech News Blog |
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 Wired.com drives the sleek Aptera
Posted on April 22, 2009
"If you're the kind of person who loves to be the center of attention, the Aptera 2e is the car for you. The three-wheel, two-seat electric car draws a crowd everywhere it goes." ~Wired.com More… |
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 Google reshapes the way we organize searching for news.
Posted on April 22, 2009
Google has re-imagined the way we organize and search for news on their new Google News Timeline. Now before we get too carried away this new method of searching is still located within the realm of Google Labs. More… |
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 Apple has released a fresh batch of Mac vs. PC ads
Posted on April 22, 2009
Who can possiblely resist Apple's Mac vs. PC ads? You know the ones, "Hi I'm a Mac...and I'm a PC". More… |
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 Oracle buys Sun Microsystems for $7.4B
Posted on April 20, 2009
Oracle Corp. snapped up computer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. for $7.4 billion Monday, trumping rival IBM Corp.'s attempt to buy one of Silicon Valley's best known — and most troubled — companies.
The deal would end Sun's 27-year history as Silicon Valley's brash independent and shake up the computing industry. It comes after a monthlong drama that entered its final chapter last week. More… |
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 Windows 7 will have a "Lite" version for netbooks
Posted on April 20, 2009
"Microsoft is taking a huge gamble, by shipping a heavily restricted version of Windows 7 on new netbooks. The Windows 7 ’starter’ OS will only allow you to run THREE applications at a time and will have many other features stripped!" ~The Tech News Blog More… |
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 NASA's Kepler Captures First Views of Planet-Hunting Territory
Posted on April 17, 2009
The new "first light" images show the mission's target patch of sky, a vast starry field in the Cygnus-Lyra region of our Milky Way galaxy. One image shows millions of stars in Kepler's full field of view, while two others zoom in on portions of the larger region. More… |
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 Pirate Bay website creators jailed
Posted on April 17, 2009
"The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running and financing the popular site.
The defendants vowed to appeal, setting the stage for a lengthy copyright dispute between music and movie corporations and an online swap shop they say has deprived them of billions of dollars in lost revenue" ~Associated Press More… |
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 Windows 7 is coming, time to beef up the PC hardware again
Posted on April 16, 2009
With the release of Microsoft's new OS getting closer and closer, I thought it may be a good idea to find out what kind of hardware one would need to run it.
If you remember, when Vista was released Apple got a huge boost from people not wanting to upgrade their hardware. This time Microsoft is promising a more efficient system. More… |
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 Soon you'll get to be the cyborg of your dreams.
Posted on April 16, 2009
Honda, as you have probably heard, has been developing robot prototypes for years. But more than just stand alone robots, they also have been developing ways to incorporate robotics in order to work more closely with people.
Specifically "walking assist devices" that we'll strap to our bodies in an effort to make humans more lazy. More… |
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 10,000 Year Clock project takes new shape (4/13/09)
"The (Long Now) Foundation is now looking to scale up the designs with lessons learned from these first two efforts into a monument sized version. We have purchased high desert mountain top property in eastern Nevada as the site for the public 10,000 Year Clock. We are currently designing this experience and the mechanisms that would be used in this large scale version. There is no projected completion date, it is an ongoing program." ~Long Now More… |
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 College student's electronics seized unlawfully...kind of (4/13/09)
A student at Boston College has filed a complaint to have his electronic devices returned to him on grounds of unlawful seizure, even though a warrant for said items was issued. He says there was no probable cause for this invasion of privacy. More… |
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 Solar energy reaches new proving ground...err I mean water (4/13/09)
"A seafaring band of scientists, engineers and yachtsmen with an obsession for Jules Verne and clean energy are building what they call the largest solar boat in the world, a $13 million catamaran they hope will take them around the world next year." ~Wired.com More… |
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 Top 10 computer viruses of all time (4/13/09)
Popular Science Magazine has compiled a list of the Top Ten computer viruses of all time to celebrate the success of the Conficker virus. More…
Here they are for quick reference:
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 My OS can beat up your OS. (4/13/09)
Microsoft's COO, Kevin Turner, has made fresh accusations that the current incarnation (and the soon to be released version "7") of the Windows OS is the most secure operating system on the planet. The COO has stated that Vista "is the safest, most reliable OS we’ve ever built...it’s also the most secure OS on the planet, including Linux and open source and Apple Leopard". More… |
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 Computer Program Re-Discovers Laws of Physics (4/6/09)
A computer program developed by Cornell researchers has re-discovered the laws of physics in less than two days, an accomplishment that took humans centuries. This is obviously a large step in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development. More… |
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 Watching the Watchers...(not about The Watchmen) (4/609)
European Members of Parliament (MPs) have decided to backed a decision to force governments to list and report on any internet monitoring organizations. This is aimed at determining which organization are using excessive means. BBC has written a brief article on this, located here. |
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 A big moment in automated science... (4/4/09)
"For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input." The automated scientific research machine has discovered new genomes within baker's yeast, a popular laboratory species. More… |
