By Mark O’Neill Being epileptic, I have had a deep interest in neuroscience for almost twenty years, and one of the most common things we know about the brain is that there’s a lot of things we still DON’T know about it. But thanks to some accident victims who have subsequently suffered severe brain trauma, […]
By Mark O’Neill Digg may get all the relentless fawning but Reddit isn’t that bad either at the end of the day (Mixx is another goodie). I was introduced to Reddit by Kiltak who swears by it. One other Reddit fan has proved that the love is there by creating a mobile version of the […]
By Mark O’Neill Mr William Gates is probably cursing in his Cheerios at the moment. A company called Cemaphore Systems has announced the launch of a new product that will allow Gmail users to completely do away with their Microsoft Exchange servers and run Microsoft Outlook directly from Google servers instead. Called Mailshadow for Google […]
By PatB Contributing Writer, [GAS] I have written here a few times that Comcast was justified in using traffic shaping to protect equal access among all of their customers. Because of the aggressiveness of the bittorrent P2P protocol, neighbors on the shared pipe could have experienced slowdowns. To fix this, Comcast was sending resets on […]
This Tron remake, made almost exclusively with the aid of cardboard, looks like a very accurate, shot-for-shot representation of the entire light cycle battle part of the movie. Enjoy the 2 minutes of pure and awesome cheesiness.
This is one of the pictures that was made to illustrate Fortune Magazine’s special about Steve Jobs. It was originally designed in December 2007 and later adapted to include some of Apple’s newest products, like the MacBook Air. Impressive isn’t it? Click on the picture for a larger version. [Via Flickr]
By Mark O’Neill
Arnold may have moved onto California to “lead, not to read” as Governor but the Terminator story continues nevertheless in the form of the Sarah Connor Chronicles. As fans wait with baited breath to see if a season 2 is about to be commissioned, the debate rages online – is the series a worthy addition to the Terminator series? Or is it nothing more than an embarrassing joke which should be consigned to TV hell?
Intel announced this week they are working on a new Wi-Fi solution with a maximum range of 60 miles. Scheduled for release in the second half of 2008, Intel’s Rural Connectivity Platform (RCP) will allow people living in areas unsupported by high-speed infrastructures to get on the net at a speed of up to 6.5 […]
After seeing the ABB Flexpicker in action, I have no doubt that one day, human workers will be pretty much useless in factories. This robot is apparently the fastest in the world, its arm going from 0 to 280 mph in barely 1 second.