A start-up company has recently come out of stealth-mode and its technology is going to change how companies think about cloud-computing. Numecent announced new technology they’re calling cloudpaging. It allows companies to turn software, any software, into a cloud app and rent the apps out for whatever length of time they want. The first step […]
This past week has seen tragedies throughout the nation and the world. In Florida, George Zimmerman’s defense may rest on the faint cries for help caught on a 911 recording from a nearby home. Zimmerman claims that he was crying for help after being attacked by 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon’s mother has heard the tapes […]
If I were going to describe the perfect contraceptive, it would go something like this: no babies, no latex, no daily pill to remember, no hormones to interfere with mood or sex drive, no negative health effects whatsoever, and 100 percent effectiveness. The funny thing is, something like that currently exists. The procedure called RISUG in […]
It’s an advancement in surveillance technology that most of us knew was coming eventually, and it comes from the video monitoring division of Hitachi Kokusai Electric. This surveillance camera system can search through data on 36 million faces in one second. Developed by Hitachi Kokusai Electric, the system can automatically detect a face from either […]
There are times when my outrage is so great that I lose the ability to adequately express it. Such has been the case this week after news broke that British advertising company BBH labs had the mind-bogglingly offensive idea to use homeless people as WiFi hotspots last weekend during the SXSW festival in Austin, TX. […]
According to the Dow Jones report, Apple has put forth settlement proposals to Motorola Mobility (recently acquired by Google) and Samsung, two of the largest manufacturers of Android devices. The proposed settlement would involve royalty fees of $5 to $15 per device. Meanwhile, Samsung has filed a new patent infringement claim against Apple in South […]
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 […]
Websites everywhere are voicing issues over a new electronic gun designed by Kazutaka Kurihara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology and Koji Tsukada of Ochanomizu University in Japan. The SpeechJammer records the speech of targeted individuals and blasts their own voice back at them with a .2 second delay. This results […]
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 […]
