Apple made an announcement (something to do with a pad of some sort) yesterday, and while we’re still working on serious coverage, here are two not-so-serious pieces about it. First is from The Onion, which is completely on-point as always: This Article Generating Thousands Of Dollars In Ad Revenue Simply By Mentioning New iPad SAN […]
The smartphone has been ubiquitous for just long enough that a new, mind-bogglingly futuristic piece of gadgetry was due sometime soon, and Google researchers and developers are working quickly to fill the niche. Rumor on the internet says Google is on-track to release Heads-Up Display glasses by the end of year, with a prototype and […]
After the Washington D.C. election board announced a new e-voting system for absentee ballots in 2010, they invited the computer security community and general public to try hacking it, several weeks before using it in a real election. Professor Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan felt “It was too good an opportunity to pass […]
Its always fun to see brilliant tinkerers repurposing old devices. To follow up on Daniella’s Neatdesk Desktop Scanner review earlier today, here’s something a bit unorthodox you can do with a digital scanner: make it sing. Vimeo user PURETONE has shown us just how cool old computer parts can be by attaching an HP Scanjet 3P […]
On Sunday, February 19, Australian and American physicists working at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology that they successfully built a working transistor from a single atom using a reliable and repeatable process. Transistors are the fundamental building blocks of computers and many other modern electronic devices; […]
Podcasts are great. Google is great. Google Listen, the company’s podcast player for Android, is not. Since its lackluster introduction in August 2009, Google has left Listen twisting in the wind with only extremely rare and inconsequential updates. Listen barely does the basic task it’s created for, and it’s far overdue for some TLC. The […]
Are you a complete foodie? Are your friends complaining about your using terms like food porn? Are your three-times-a-day mobile uploads of your plate getting reported as spam by your nearest and dearest? If the answer to these questions is yes, you may enjoy a new social networking site that plugs into Twitter and Facebook, […]
It looks like Fox News reporter Shepard Smith has discovered what most cell phone power users have known for some time now. Namely, that just because your cell plan says it’s unlimited doesn’t mean it actually is. The TV personality’s home WiFi is down, so AT&T went and throttled his data connection. Check out the […]
NASA CIO Linda Cureton recently blogged about NASA decommissioning the last of their mainframe computers this month. Although not the massive, room-sized machine depicted in so many sci-fi movies, NASA’s seven-year-old IBM z9 was still about the size of a large refrigerator. While there are organizations out there that require the capabilities of a mainframe […]
Time for Olde Tyme Techcitement, where we take a look back at technology relics. It’s basically your grampa talking about the good old days, but sooner and totally more reasonable than dumb boring stories about how all this used to be farmland. It’s hard to believe 30 years have passed since Kodak attempted a revolution […]
