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In the tech world, it’s become an annual rite of fall. Apple CEO Steve Jobs and company have, for the past five years, used September as the time to announce new products and services among the company’s music offerings. Last year, Jobs — making his first public appearance since returning to work after a liver [...]
I have more transistors than neurons. So do you. That’s something worth caring about, because it signals the advance of a weird new world that most of us aren’t prepared for. Yet we’d better get ready, for the world of the Syfy channel is looking startlingly plausible. Remembering how proud I once was to own [...]
How do computers remember things? It’s something most of us never think about. But you may start to take notice if HP Labs is successful in commercializing a new version of computer memory, which would make our electronics dramatically faster and more energy efficient. The technology is called memristor, and it is designed to work [...]
Simon Lui likes to be self-sufficient. He says, “If I need it, I develop it.” The 28-year old computer science instructor needed faster information about the MTR (Hong Kong’s subway) so he simply designed an app for his iPod Touch. The app – called ecMTR – gave him data on each stop, the fares and [...]
Facebook, Google, MySpace, Twitter, Bebo, Habbo, the proliferation of social networking means people are making more information about themselves accessible to strangers than ever before. As attitudes to privacy are starting to change, here is a short list of some ways you can protect your privacy online: 1) personalised search engine optimisation – strange as [...]
You know it will happen someday: Zombies are chasing you down the street, groaning for your blood. You’ve been holed up for a week, and there’s spotty cell service. It sure would be handy to request an emergency ammo drop from the black-helicopter guys.No? OK, maybe there’s a major blizzard. The power in your part [...]
Gmail users who feel swamped by a virtual flood of messages will get some help sorting them out. Priority Inbox, a feature designed to push a user’s most important e-mails to the top of the inbox and leave them there, was scheduled to be rolled out at midnight ET Monday. “We’ve been hearing from a [...]
New feature aims to automatically prioritise important emails to help people manage the deluge of messages they receive every day Google has launched a new ‘priority inbox’ service for its web-based email service, Gmail. The search giant has developed a complex set of algorithms that can analyse a user’s email behaviour, and rank emails depending [...]
In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits were shown to exhibit Facebook activity that was distinctly more self-promotional. These people had “About Me” sections [...]
Gadget Inspector Harry Wallop sees how human waste powers a Volkswagen Beetle. “You might notice it starts to get a little strong up here,” says Mohammed Saddiq. This turns out to be an understatement. As I climb up the metal ladder I am hit by the most pungent, sulphurous smell of raw sewage. It lacks [...]
The term couch potato could soon become obsolete as Britons switch to watching television at their desks and even on the move. Research published today has discovered that a third of television viewers now watch their favourite programmes online, on computers and mobile phones. The joint study by the Radio Times and SeeSaw.com has highlighted [...]
Google on Wednesday moved into direct competition with Skype, the internet telephony service, as it unveiled a feature that will enable its Gmail users to call landlines and mobile phones from their e-mail inbox. The new feature broadens Google’s growing array of communication products and creates a potent rival to Skype, which is preparing for [...]
Apple may be developing a computer that combines the look of a desktop with the touch-screen functions of its tablet-style iPad, according to reports about a patent filed by the company. Patently Apple, a blog that focuses on patents filed by Apple as a way of speculating about future products, unveiled a European patent and [...]
Google on Wednesday moved into direct competition with Skype, the internet telephony service, as it unveiled a feature that will enable its Gmail users to call landlines and mobile phones from their e-mail inbox. The new feature broadens Google’s growing array of communication products and creates a potent rival to Skype, which is preparing for [...]
An infected flash drive put in a US. military laptop in 2008 set off the most significant cyberattack ever against the military and brought a turning point in cyberdefense strategy, a top defense official wrote in an article published Wednesday. Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III, in an article titled “Defending a New Domain” [...]
