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We’ve heard of people suing fast food restaurants for making them fat. Now it’s the lawsuit from the man in Nashville against Apple the company for not putting porn filters on their products to protect people from watching porn. Collectively now… wtf? Seriously, Chris Sevier is a lawyer who...
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Because they some how think we need this… Designers for Crave in San Francisco have created a USB stick drive that doubles as a vibrator for women. Now you can store your PowerPoint presentation on the thing that gives you pleasure. It’s a waterproof, 16GB device that’s sleek and...
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In 2006, professor Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, proposed the theory that we all might live in a simulation. Arguments for this theory proposed that, just like in a computer simulation, there would be a finite number of particles, as well as a...
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As consumers continue to flock towards portable computers under the form of smartphones and tablets, the thought occurs, is the mighty computer mouse, as we’ve known and loved it, for the last 30 years or so, ready go the way of the Dodo Bird and disappear? Strictly speaking the...
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Yes, you’ve read that right. Commodore USA are re-launching the C-64 and though there’s no release date yet, they are taking pre-orders. Sadly though, if I’m to be honest at all, I doubt they will have much success. As much as I loved learning about computers, and delaying the...
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Not these two peeps… Sook Shin and Ralf Jankecht are cancer researchers at the Oklahoma University. Sadly for cancer patients everywhere (both present and future), the laptop they hadn’t backed up, and that contained the only copy of a possible cure for prostate cancer, was stolen when someone snatched...
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So how do you think a couple of sharp human minds would stack up against IBM’s Watson in a game of Jeopardy? Former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter find out when they taste bitter defeat in this rather one-sided three-minute practice session. To be fair, Ken scores...
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A previously unknown Chinese computer maniac -I hate the word NERD, possibly for being one myself- Hu Chuang has died, so his family decided to honor his memory (pun), by having a granite computer made and by using it as a tombstone. I think I speak for everyone here...
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I’m sure that I am not alone in thinking that these retro icons, as woven by artist Micah Schippa in his tools-at-hand collection, would make really cool cushion covers. A nice, but not overtly geeky, way to pay homage to our technological roots. You can check out Schippa’s work...
We’ve heard of people suing fast food restaurants for making them fat. Now it’s the lawsuit from the man in Nashville against Apple the company for not putting porn filters on their products to protect people from watching porn. Collectively now… wtf? Seriously, Chris Sevier is a lawyer who...
Because they some how think we need this… Designers for Crave in San Francisco have created a USB stick drive that doubles as a vibrator for women. Now you can store your PowerPoint presentation on the thing that gives you pleasure. It’s a waterproof, 16GB device that’s sleek and...
In 2006, professor Nick Bostrom, director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford, proposed the theory that we all might live in a simulation. Arguments for this theory proposed that, just like in a computer simulation, there would be a finite number of particles, as well as a...
As consumers continue to flock towards portable computers under the form of smartphones and tablets, the thought occurs, is the mighty computer mouse, as we’ve known and loved it, for the last 30 years or so, ready go the way of the Dodo Bird and disappear? Strictly speaking the...
Yes, you’ve read that right. Commodore USA are re-launching the C-64 and though there’s no release date yet, they are taking pre-orders. Sadly though, if I’m to be honest at all, I doubt they will have much success. As much as I loved learning about computers, and delaying the...
So how do you think a couple of sharp human minds would stack up against IBM’s Watson in a game of Jeopardy? Former Jeopardy champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter find out when they taste bitter defeat in this rather one-sided three-minute practice session. To be fair, Ken scores...
A previously unknown Chinese computer maniac -I hate the word NERD, possibly for being one myself- Hu Chuang has died, so his family decided to honor his memory (pun), by having a granite computer made and by using it as a tombstone. I think I speak for everyone here...