Archive for the ‘Techs’ Category
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
9 days ago there was a collision in space that generated tons of space debris that experts claim could circle the globe for up to 10,000 years threatening satellites, space stations and astronauts/cosmonauts. Right now there is an international meeting of smart space type guys in Vienna Austria trying to ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Ever wonder why your Android G1 can't do the amazing zoom and stretch things the Iphone can? According to a Venture Beat story, Google showed Apple a legal version of it's HTC G1 phone before its release. Apple, most likely backed by a horde of lawyers, kindly asked Google not ...
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
Sony has announced a new product doing a lot of things you don't need it to for no damn good reason. The news story follows (NSFW, language):
Don't be surprised to see me in your local Best Buy picking up six of these things.
Subsequently don't be surprised to see me on ...
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Saturday, January 31st, 2009
from: TechCrunch
Today Google started flagging the entire internet as malware posting warning messages to people using its search engine. According to TechCrunch this went on for approximately 15 minutes before the problem was fixed by Google.
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
from Boeing Press Release
Call it the first shot in a the next evolution of weapons. For the first time a system know as 'Avenger' has tracked and successfully shot down an incoming enemy UAV. The mobile system is being developed by Boeing and was tested at White Sands Beach in ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
From: ThunderDog
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
If you're checking the official site looking for the downloads and can't find them here are the links. For some reason MS hasn't updated the site, but is allowing the files to be downloaded.
Windows 7 Beta - 32bit
Windows 7 Beta - 64bit
We'll try to get these up as official ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
...... in approximately 12 hours, when i'll be in a county courtroom for apparently consuming too much alcohol and apparently being too excited about how witty my comebacks to the officer were, Microsoft will open their newest version of Windows up to the public for beta testing.
Now I know many ...
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
simply the best way to type a 45 minute email.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Bombs and bullet won't be much of a problem for soldiers in Humvees in Iraq and Afghanistan, at least not for much longer. Resilient Technologies and the University of Wisconsin's Polymer Engineering center created a honeycomb non-pneumatic (air free) tire that can take gunfire, an IED blast and still drive ...
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