All the Savings You’ll Ever Need
Boy, it has just come to my attention that, while every other student worker like me probably plays Flash-based games online, I’m usually scrounging the Internet for the next gadget steal I can make. Whether it be NewEgg’s horrible pun “Shell Shocker“, something random at Woot!, or even what’s shaking over at Buy.com, the Internet [...]
Washer-Dryers, Fridges to Communicate with your Power Company
In spite of falling gas prices, energy is still a hot button topic in this election season, and General Electric has some new ideas about how to approach the issue. In a press release on Wednesday, GE announced a growing partnership with energy utilities and new line of appliances which will work in tandem to [...]
Codeweavers Giving Away Software Today!
Apple or Linux fans, rejoice! CodeWeavers, as part of a semi-promotional stunt, semi-political gaffe, is making their catalog of CrossOver software available to everyone with a valid email address for October 28th, only! If you don’t know what CodeWeavers, with the CrossOver software, is out to do: Their mission is to make the Linux and [...]
Paper With A Backlight
Poor ole’ Organic Light-Emitting-Diodes (OLEDs) have led a troubled life: they’re fighting with their cousins, the LED, for the efficiency crown; it’s fighting with LCD technology for use in electronic devices, like an OLED-based television; and the manufacturing processes behind OLEDs have, up until recently, been expensive and difficult to expand upon. Of course, if [...]
Nintendo Announces New, Improved Hardware
When it comes to technology, its hard to beat our Japanese brethren in things like the video game, cell phone, and handheld device markets, and it’s the fault of companies like Samsung, Sony, and Nintendo. Nintendo had a massive developer expo and showcase earlier today, and a few of the guys from “Wired” were on [...]
Spore DRM Leads To Firestorm, Class Action Lawsuit
Reminiscent of the old Sony BMG ‘rootkit’ problems which plagued users back in 2005, Electronic Arts is facing a serious firestorm over their recently published PC game “Spore“. In particular, the issues lie with the Digital Rights Management (DRM) software that EA included with Spore. This particular iteration of DRM software, made by SecuROM, limits [...]
A Better Way to Find Faces
If you’ve ever watched the “Jason Bourne” series of movies, he constantly has the CIA, INTERPOL, and other organizations following his every move. One of the ways they did this was through face-recognition software which took video feed, processed it, and compared faces which appeared in the video feed against an archived database. While, in [...]
You Used That Tesla Coil To Do What?!
Nikola Tesla was a genius and a cool dude; being responsible for important things like AC power, RADAR, and the Tesla Coil while scaring the pants off 19th century citizens with your electrical finesse have a tendency of doing that to you. However, some smart people have figured out how to build on his genius, [...]
Web 2.0 Meets Software Engineering
This one goes out to all you programmers out there. Whether it be Ruby, C#, ASP.NET, Perl, Python, or any of a number of programming languages, the varying syntaxes, compilers, and platforms can be a headache sometimes. Unless you’re an expert, there’s always a question to be answered; and often, you have to trust a programming [...]
Google Chrome LAUNCHED!
This past weekend, Google stunned many tech observers with a surprise unveiling of Google’s latest product: Chrome. A beta version of Google Chrome, a new internet browser, was launched earlier today to the public, boasting some pretty significant changes to the way Firefox and IE does things. Touting a browser-based “task manager”, and “Incognito” mode [...]
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