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Amazon.com Widgets Image via Wikipedia In a step toward a generation of ultrafast computers, physicists have used bursts of radio waves to briefly create 10 billion quantum-entangled pairs of subatomic particles in silicon. The research offers a glimpse of a future computing world in which individual atomic nuclei store and retrieve data and single electrons

CANTON, OH—QT2D-7, an 11-year-old electric assembly-operations robot, was laid off Monday when the Lawn-Boy plant that has employed him relocated its manufacturing headquarters to New Delhi, India. Enlarge Image QT2D-7 in front of its former place of employment. “Query: What am I going to do now?” QT2D-7 said, panning its infrared eye across the empty

Wow, even the rock stars are being replaced ???????? Here is a video of Japan‘s 3D Hologram rock star Hatsune Miku performing in concert. This is probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen in awhile. The 3D hologram looks awesome and the music is fantastic! Read about Hatsune Miku here. Want more? Buy her

HyperDock is a small application that adds a ton of features to your Mac dock with a few simple settings. Currently in public beta, the app is free, but once a final version is released it will be available for download for a small fee. This lightweight app is packed with lots of great features

Google has a their very own computer (Cr-48) in the works whose operating system will be cloud based. “Google thinks the Cr-48, which relies on the Web for all its software applications, can compete with conventional laptop computers.” Very much like next-gen phones, which depend on stores for content and apps, their operating system (Chrome

By Steven Troughton-Smith www.steventroughtonsmith.com In late 2009 a rumor floated that Microsoft were going to start from scratch with their Windows Mobile OS. At the time, I thought about how cool it could be, but it didn’t sound like something Microsoft would ever do. Well they did it; in about 18 months they started from

Forget about stopping by the video store on the way home from work. You can find movies, television shows and viral videos online. Watching these videos from the comfort of your couch used to be difficult, but a new generation of inexpensive media streamers makes it easy. Media streamers are small set-top boxes that connect

Google announced this weekend that it has developed a car that can drive itself. A small fleet of the vehicles has logged more than 1,000 miles of entirely automated driving and 140,000 miles of driving with only occasional human intervention. It’s a development of historic significance: few events have changed the experience of life on

Just in time for the Holidays. Some say its better than the Android. Neat commercials, it so true, a lot of places I go everybody is staring at their phones, doing their thing. Funny thing is, I’m one of them Microsoft has launched its latest effort to stay relevant in the smartphone wars with the

Image via Wikipedia Kinda like what the iPad is doing, no more mouse or keyboard. (kevin @ the labs) Microsoft is looking to extend its surface-computing work into the spatial-computing arena with a new research project known as LightSpace. Andy Wilson, a Microsoft research who was key in bringing the Microsoft Surface tabletop to market,

By Brian Barrett, Sep 23, 2010 05:22 PM Image via Wikipedia The FCC just cleared a path for a new generation of “Super Wi-Fi” technologies. Sounds great! But what the heck is Super Wi-Fi? Super Wi-Fi is still Wi-Fi… It’s not as though Super Wi-Fi is some entirely alien concept. For all intents and purposes,

The Stuxnet malware has infiltrated industrial computer systems worldwide. Now, cyber security sleuths say it’s a search-and-destroy weapon meant to hit a single target. One expert suggests it may be after Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant. The reactor building of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, pictured here on Aug. 20, is located about 750 miles

Image via Wikipedia By matt buchanan, Sep 11, 2010 09:00 AM The Apple internet revolution we needed didn’t happen. We wanted a unified service that would let us store all our media and personal information in the ether. But we didn’t get it. So forget the fruit stand; we’re going rogue. The dream is a

Heading off to college? Here’s my suggestion: buy a used laptop from Craigslist and install Ubuntu onto it. Seriously. You don’t need a new computer for college. If you’re pursuing a liberal arts degree, you really don’t need a brand new computer just to write all the papers you’ll write. If you’re pursuing an engineering

Playstation 3 Hacking – Linux Is Inevitable In the talk “Why Silicon Security is still that hard” by Felix Domke at the 24th Chaos Communication Congress in 2007 (in which he described how he hacked the Xbox 360, and bushing had a cameo at the end explaining how they hacked the Wii), I had a

Yen-Shyang Hwang, Taipei; Joseph Tsai, DIGITIMES [Thursday 9 September 2010] Acer founder Stan Shih, in a talks with reporters on September 8, commented that Apple’s strong popularity is mainly due to its products such as iPad and iPhone, and these products are like mutant viruses, which are difficult to find a cure for in the short-term,

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | 9:40 AM Posted by Robin Schriebman, Software Engineer Gmail voice and video chat makes it easy to stay in touch with friends and family using your computer’s microphone and speakers. But until now, this required both people to be at their computers, signed into Gmail at the same time. Given

Windows 95 launched 15 years ago today, Mary Jo Foley reminds us. Today, after 15 years of additional technology evolution–and after memories of the event have been obliterated by semi-annual blockbuster launches of Apple products–it’s hard to believe that the Windows 95 launch was a big deal. But it WAS. In fact, it was a

I have the older one, love it. Always goes with my laptop. Will have to upgrade when this comes out. Kevin Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse has been finally been unveiled to the world. It is one sexy looking mouse by Microsoft with a design very similar to the last-generation Arc Mouse by Microsoft, except that

The Tragic Death of Practically Everything Microsoft, Firefox, Facebook, the Mac–they live on in our hearts. By Harry McCracken |  Posted at 9:41 am on Wednesday, August 18, 2010 Wired Editor in Chief Chris Anderson is catching flack for the magazine’s current cover story, which declares that the Web is dead. I’m not sure what the

If you are a fan of look and feel of Mac OSX, then you can now get the same style on Windows 7 and Vista using Snow Transformation Pack. This transformation pack is a freeware which automatically replaces the system files in Windows and installs icons, wallpapers, screensavers, sounds and login screens, shutdown dialog box,

Parallax has a really neat 8 core 32 bit CPU called the ‘Propeller’.  It’s been out for a few years but it is gaining popularity.  There is no security with the device as it boots insecurely via a UART or I2C EEPROM.  None the less, we thought it was interesting to see an 8 core

I have the regular Laser Arc Mouse, Love it. Folds up for easy travel. Will have to upgrade when this puppy comes out!! Kevin Microsoft has been teasing a new mystery hardware device over the past week. According to company insiders, the software giant plans to unveil a new Arc Touch Mouse in September. Details

Kinect is more than an Xbox 360 peripheral, it’s the future of Microsoft, or at least a very possible one. It’s the beginning of Microsoft’s plans for natural user interfaces, the step beyond the thing you’re staring at right now. ***Kinect is as much a product of serendipity as anything else. When Microsoft hired Dr.

Motorola and Verizon team up for TV tablet By Kenneth Li and Paul Taylor in New York Published: August 3 2010 20:31 | Last updated: August 3 2010 20:31 Motorola is developing a digital tablet device that will allow users to watch television on it, as the US mobile phone group attempts to chip away

Over the last few years I’ve loved building a team and creating great things for our clients, but I’ve missed building products. A little more than a year ago, we started work on a system that I’ve had in the back of my mind for (quite literally) years. This work has resulted our first commercial

As of tonight, every one of Microsoft Hotmail’s 350 million users now has access to the newest version of the webmail service. And you know what? It looks great. Early adopter snobs have long mocked anyone still using Hotmail, but the service has three times as many people using it as Twitter does (100m+). Why

I’m a little afraid to think about how often I hit the “XX new tweets” area to refresh my Twitter stream on Twitter.com. Hundreds of times a day? Maybe more? It’s almost as if I’m an animal in some feedback experiment hitting a button. I cannot stop. So why don’t I used one of the

Beagle Protocol Analyzer Data Sheet v3.09 USB info. 1.1 USB Background USB History Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a standard interface for connecting peripheral devices to a host computer. The USB system was originally devised by a group of companies including Compaq, Digital Equipment, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, and Northern Telecom to replace the existing mixed

by Devin Coldewey on July 31, 2010 The Magic Trackpad (if I must call it that) has generated some controversy on the TC network. MG thinks it signals the end of the mouse era. I think it’s a great tool but is being lauded by a group of people unfamiliar with decent mice (read: Mac