The Next Web Is Just Around The Corner
The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam is quickly approaching, and it’s promising to be a good show again this year even if it won’t be Erick Schonfeld moderating the event this time. TechCrunch Europe’s...
View Article3D Laser Scanners Capture and Translate the Alhambra Fortress’s
10,000 Arabic Inscriptions The Alhambra in Granada is so vast and covered with carved Arabic writing that nobody has ever had the ability to catalog it all. Finally, using modern technology, it’s...
View ArticlenVidia Says Core i7 a Waste of Money
nVidia is throwing the smack talk around, this time it is nVidia’s technical marketing director Tom Petersen who claims that Core i7 is a waste of money for gamers. He goes on to say that for gaming...
View ArticleGoogle Earth Helps Solve A Plane Crash Mystery
The idea behind Google Earth has always been a powerful one: It allows users to explore places that they either can’t or won’t go. But with its vast amount of maps and topographical data, it also is a...
View ArticleMan Sues After Vicious Robot Attack,Wins Paltry $3,000
Judgment in favor of a man who sued after being attacked by a robot is clearly a commentary on the inexcusability of machine-on-man violence, I think it’s a good case for robot insurance,no this is not...
View ArticleUse Google Maps To Follow The Swine Flu Pandemic In Real Time
The current Swine Flu pandemic headlines read like those flashing through the intro sequence of a post-apocalyptical movie. Now you can see the cases spreading in real time—as the WHO declares them—in...
View ArticleSpace Based Solar Panels May Be Used As A Weapon
A Californian power company is looking at launching giant, reflective solar panels into space to beam clean energy back to us on Earth. But the tech was originally designed for Bond-villain-like...
View ArticleWhy Bluetooth 3.0 Is Better
Why Is Bluetooth Blue? Let’s start at the beginning: As you probably already know, Bluetooth is a wireless protocol maintained by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. What you might not know is that...
View ArticleSpace Is a Freaki’n Freak Show
In October, NASA discovered the universe was sliding inexplicably toward, well, something massive. They called the phenomenon “dark flow,” and it’s but one example of the creepy, unexplained...
View ArticleNASA Detects Mystery Booming Sound In Deep Space
Call Dr Arroway, because NASA has detected a deep space sound that defies belief or any explanation. They don’t have a single clue about its origin, according to Alan Kogut from the Goddard Space...
View ArticleTuvalu Is Sinking,Don’t Buy TV Domains GoDaddy Advice
According to GoDaddy, you should maybe stop buying .tv domains because Tuvalu, who owns all such domain names, is currently sinking underwater. Once Tuvalu no longer exists as a nation, the domains...
View ArticleWindows Marketplace for Mobile Now Open to Developers
Not much has been left to mystery with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile app store—we even know what it’ll look like. Now it has officially opened its doors to developers, and published all the rules....
View Article10 Largest Diamonds In The World
10. The Millennium Star Weight: 203.04 carats The Millennium Star is internally and externally flawless pear-shaped diamond (total of 54 facets). With the weight of 203.04 carats it is the 10th largest...
View ArticleRussian Billionaire Floats Above Economy In $350 Million Mega Yacht
Ironically, even in this economy, the title of world’s largest yacht lasted less than a month, as Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich finally launched his record-setting 557-ft. megayacht “Eclipse” in...
View ArticleLarge Hadron Collider To Run At Half-Power Until End Of 2010
After a series of setbacks, delays, and potential world-ending mishaps, it seems that the scientists at CERN have decided to take it easy with the Large Hadron Collider, and have announced that they...
View ArticleBlu-Ray Support Coming With iTunes 9?
Take this rumor with a fairly large grain of salt and please hold your “bag of hurt” comments until the end. Boy Genius claims he’s got it on word from a “pretty reliable source” that the next big...
View ArticlePCI Express 3.0 Specification Formally Delayed Until 2011
We’ve been enjoying (or just dealing with, depending on perspective) PCI Express 2.0 since early 2007, and it now looks as if we may still be utilizing said protocol come early 2011. Way back in June...
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