? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ? runMobileCompatibilityScript(m yExperience1663716589001, anId); brightcove.createExperiences() ; Building a vehicle to compete in the pinnacle of motorsport is no mean feat, and fi...
Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, "reaching another milestone in its ongoing efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software," writes Wired Ent...
Will Microsoft ever live down Clippy? Probably not, especially not now that the intrusive, annoying Microsoft Word "helper" has been resurrected as a JavaScript library.
Sony announced two new dual-core, waterproof smartphones on Wednesday and, unfortunately, one of the new handsets will arrive running an outdated version of Googles Android operating system.
With the announcement of the completion of a new, almost-record-breaking tower in Tokyo, this week Observation Deck is focusing on the appeal of skyscrapers. Sure, super-tall buildings probably have ...
Last winter, Thomas Valenty bought a MakerBot—an inexpensive 3-D printer that lets you quickly create plastic objects. His brother had some Imperial Guards from the tabletop game Warhammer, so ...
Viral video team Rhett and Links latest creation contains the best delivery of the worst advice of all time. Parody music video Rub Some Bacon On It advertises a telephone hotline that offers a singu...
Two Japanese men were arrested this year for circumventing copyright protection on Nintendo video game consoles in violation of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act.
Dork Tower is an online comic created, written and drawn by John Kovalic. It chronicles the lives of a group of geeks living in the fictional town of Mud Bay, Wisconsin.
Yes, Microsoft will soon embrace Linux on its Windows Azure cloud, reaching another milestone in its efforts to reinvent itself as a friend of open source software.
In the previous post we discussed some of the fundamental challenges of securing a public cloud environment, which is analogous to ?your data on my hard drive.? This computing model introduces some t...
In an effort to speed up its website Twitter is ditching some of the trendy web development tools it used to build "new Twitter" in favor of tried and true methods that just work. Turns out d...
What if a deadly epidemic was happening and almost nobody noticed? Its no longer a hypothetical question, according to a new study of Chagas disease, a parasitic infection transmitted by blood-suckin...
*Gosh, if youre a career model, being displaced on the catwalk by the pyjamahideen fashion-blogger brigade must really sting. http://www.digitalstyledigest. com/2012/05/first-nyc-now-sf-f ashion-blogge...
*Yes, thats indeed quite nano. *Something comforting in the idea that mankind cant build anything smaller than this. Its like diving into a deep pool and feeling your foot touch the bottom. http://sp...
*What a perennial fave. One sees this happen time and time again. The Texas 666-paranoiacs must be asleep at their radio microphones. Itd take em all of ten minutes to whip up a populist frenzy over ...
Why should jocks get all the glory? Designers want to compete for the gold, too! Heres a round-up of 10 creative challenges that will test your creative chops.
NEW YORK — Table fighting is exactly what it sounds like: Mechanized furniture fighting to the death or until their batteries run out, whichever comes first. The goal of Table Fight Competition...
Synthetic mimics of marijuana, dissociative drugs and stimulants -- such as the "bath salts" allegedly consumed by Randy Eugene, the Florida man shot after a horrific face-eating assault -- a...
Two British researchers discover the element krypton. It?s real, but it would inspire fantastic fiction.
Cloud-based voice recognition on consumer electronics devices didnt start with Siri. But in the same way that Apple has helped refine other technology interactions that were first to market, Siri now...
Hello Bruce Sterling, Facebook for cavemen, mining for plastic, growing your own sneaker, and faking that all-natural flavor. Welcome to another issue of the Next Nature Newsletter, from the website ...
If you follow the news at all, you?ve probably seen Paul Krugman -- Princeton professor, New York Times columnist, and Nobel Prize-winning economist -- championing the idea that government spending c...
The Navys newest fast-attack submarine is loaded with advanced sonar and radar-blocking tools, a special bay to take SEAL commandos stealthily to their secret missions, and 16 launch tubes for torped...
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lost his Supreme Court extradition appeal on Wednesday, and an order to extradite him to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations was upheld. But his lawyers were also g...
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As a kid, Shawn Smith spent hours playing the Atari game Pitfall, where players tromp though a forested gauntlet of rolling logs, quicksand, rattlesnakes, and fire. "Id never been camping, so I t...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials have lifted a nearly month long blockade of HTCs two newest smartphones, the One X and the Evo 4G LTE. The two new phones are on the way to retailers.
Selling Apple prototypes is tricky business. Theres always the chance that Apple will shut it down and ask for the device back. The seller of the dual-dock iPad prototype knew this when he posted his...
With apologies to Journey, the lights may not go down in the City by the Bay for quite a while. Not if Leo Villareal, an artist known for his illuminated installations in major museums and at Burning...
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