It was a great day for science-loving geeks everywhere. Today’s big haps, in no particular order: Soccer gets a newer, creepier bioengineered makeover Photo: John O’Shea Synthetic soccer balls are so last century. (Replace “soccer balls” with “footballs” if you’re not American.) After making waves at last year’s Abandon Normal Devices festival with his throwback [...]
Imagine a world where learning the language of computers was a fundamental subject in our education alongside mathematics, languages and sciences. If you think about it, that is actually the world we live in today: programming pervades almost every profession out there to some extent or another, and having a basic understanding of how software [...]
The Hugo Awards are an annual awards ceremony honoring the very best in written science fiction and fantasy in different categories. The Hugo is named after Amazing Stories founder Hugo Gernsback The awards are presented each year by the World Science Fiction Society at the World Science Fiction Convention (WorldCon). In more recent years, the [...]
That’s right. A stunningly low proportion of only 16% Americans know what “the cloud” is, according to a national survey conducted by Wakefield Research, commissioned by Citrix. Other stunning statistics to come out of the survey are as follows: 29% of correspondents responded with a reference to an actual cloud, the sky or something related [...]
I’m sure by now you have heard that Neil Armstrong passed away at the age of 82, due to complications in cardiovascular procedures. Described as a “reluctant hero”, the first man to take a step on any other planetary body deserves a head nod, at the very least, from the geek community across the world. Take [...]
A man ordered to pay $675,000 for sharing 30 songs on Kazaa has failed in a bid for a retrial. Joel Tenenbaum will now have to pay the fine, declare bankruptcy, or find one hell of a legal loophole to take the case further. Tenenbaum shared the songs almost a decade ago and received a [...]
The official figure for the proportion of US homes without broadband access has dropped by more than a third in the space of a year. But the Federal Communications Commission notes the apparent drop may be partly due to improved data collection. The official figure for the number of Americans without adequate access is 19 [...]
There are plenty of reports today that Apple is now officially the most valuable company in history. However, there are at least three other claimants to the crown, depending on the methodology. The claims are based on market capitalization, which is the number of shares in a company that could conceivably be bought and sold [...]
I know, it’s strange to think that a geek might not look good in glasses. Unfortunately, there are some out there and in today’s society, that’s ok! You can correct your vision covertly with the wonderful advent of contact lenses. However, it seems that we’ve gotten a little bit lax in this generation with our [...]
I didn’t know they even had spells on eBay. I don’t actually use eBay that much anyway, but this was still a bit of revelation. So apparently it’s been a thing to buy things such as magic spells, curses, hexes – even prayers and blessings! eBay has now declared such a thing stupid and is banning [...]
If there are martians observing Curiosity, determining whether it is friend or foe, they are sure to be up in arms as Curiosity lasered up a rock. Yesterday NASA reported that the Curiosity rover fired its first laser – first laser on Mars (its mamma must be so proud). Rocks on Mars are special and [...]
On The Oatmeal’s latest blog post, he calls out to geeks and geek-supporters everywhere to pitch in to the building of a Tesla Museum at the site of his old laboratory, the Wardenclyffe Tower. Apparently the land has recently gone up for sale and a non-profit is trying to raise money on indiegogo to buy the land [...]