Windows 8 Boots Fast… Really Fast! [Video]

Now here’s the key difference for Windows 8: as in Windows 7, we close the user sessions, but instead of closing the kernel session, we hibernate it. Compared to a full hibernate, which includes a lot of memory pages in use by apps, session 0 hibernation data is much smaller, which takes substantially less time […]


WANT: Inkling by Wacom – Capture Everything you Draw… Digitally [Video]

The inkling sketch pen captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its ballpoint tip on standard paper or sketchbooks. If you use sketching to capture your creative ideas and rough concepts, and you want to have your sketches in digital format for emailing, archiving or further refining on your computer, then […]

The Spandex Awards: The Best and Worst of Summer Superhero Films

The summer film season is over and thankfully, so is the seemingly endless stream of superhero movies. Sure, they weren’t all that bad, but they weren’t all that good, either. (Looking at you, Ryan Reynolds.) NPR’s Glen Weldon has assembled the Spandex Awards to rank this year’s comics-inspired movies into best and worst–but it’s not […]

Newly Described Hominins Prove Difficult to Classify

Three years ago, the nine-year-old son of palaeoanthropologist Lee Berger found an intriguing fossil in a collapsed Malapa cave — the collarbone of a 2 million year-old hominin previously unknown to science. Further searches of the same site revealed 220 more bones of the same species, from infants to adults, with two particularly complete young adults […]