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| First Android netbook to cost about $250 Posted: 04 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT The first netbook computer running the Google Inc.-backed Android mobile operating system on a low-cost ARM chip could become available to customers within three months, the maker's co-founder said this week.
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 05:20 PM PDT VirtualBSD is a strange Mac OS X look-alike version of FreeBSD trapped in VMware...
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| Democrats drop funds to close Gitmo Posted: 04 May 2009 05:00 PM PDT House Democrats are refusing to pay for President Barack Obama's plan to relocate prisoners from the Guantanamo detention facility where enemy combatants are being held.No lawmaker wants the accused terrorists in their backyard.
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| Revealed: The Face of the First European Posted: 04 May 2009 04:50 PM PDT 235,000-year-old skull fragments found in Romania are made flesh by scientists
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| Bachmann Uses Fake George Washington Prayer To Bash Obama Posted: 04 May 2009 04:40 PM PDT Just a week before her now infamous inaccurate dating of the last swine flu outbreak, Congresswoman Michele Bachmann spit out a few more bits of historical hogwash, including a fake George Washington prayer, to bash the President Obama.
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| Glowing Band Aid to Zap skin Cancer Posted: 04 May 2009 04:20 PM PDT THE humble sticking plaster is getting a high-tech upgrade. As well as simply patching up small cuts and grazes, plasters embedded with light-emitting diodes could be used to treat skin cancer in combination with light-sensitive drugs.
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| 60 Minutes: 623 Year Old Family Winery Business Going Strong Posted: 04 May 2009 04:12 PM PDT A recent survey found only 15 percent of family businesses survive past the second generation. If the whims of the market place don't get you, rivalry or old fashioned greed will. Which makes the Antinori family of Italy all the more remarkable: they've been in the same line of work for six centuries now.
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| RIAA Site Features TorrentFreak’s Latest News Posted: 04 May 2009 03:59 PM PDT Just a couple of days ago we reported that the MPAA's website was vulnerable to an XSS attack, which left it displaying torrents from The Pirate Bay. This time a flaw has been discovered in the RIAA's site, which now allows it to display TorrentFreak's latest articles.
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 03:50 PM PDT *****
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| Space-racism is bad & other lessons learned from Star Trek Posted: 04 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT Everything I know about life, I learned from the Treks.
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| Can a drink really help you concetrate? Posted: 04 May 2009 03:30 PM PDT Loaded with caffeine and taurine to stimulate the central nervous system, energy drinks have become the go-to solution when you need a quick, energizing pick-me-up. But, some beverage manufacturers say they have a better solution. They're touting a new kind of drink that emphasizes focus over ferocity. The key substance is the amino acid L-theanine
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| 12 of the Ugliest and Lamest Cell Phones Ever Made Posted: 04 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT Now to be fair, many cell phone makers fail when they are too ambitious, adding cutting-edge features way before their time or taking a design risk. Without these noble failures, perhaps no iPhone would ever have been possible.The phones in our dirty dozen list all suffer from either design flaws or functionality failures, or both.
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| AMD Spin-Off Global Foundries Unveils NY Fab Plans Posted: 04 May 2009 03:20 PM PDT AMD and the Advanced Technology Investment Company of Abu Dhabi spinoff Global Foundries, a semiconductor manufacturing company, releases its plans for a cutting-edge fab in upstate NY. The new facility will be a 300mm wafer manufacturing plant designed for 32/22nm process technologies. Jobs, anyone?
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| Antivax kills. | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Posted: 04 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT If you think Jenny McCarthy, Jim Carrey, and the rest of the ignorant antiscience antivax people are right, then read this story. I dare you. David McCaffery writes about his daughter, Dana, who was four weeks old when she died. Too young to get vaccinated herself, she contracted whooping cough because vaccination rates in that part of Australia...
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 03:10 PM PDT A portfolio is a showcase of work, the portfolio site itself can also create a blank canvas to allow a designer to do whatever they want with it, and here is over 40 examples of beautifully put together portfolios!
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| Best Tutorials For Cinematic Visual Effects Posted: 04 May 2009 03:00 PM PDT It doesn't matter whether you are a designer, a developer, an artist or an amateur learner – at some point you need to improve the quality of the original picture or video. You may want to retouch and enhance his or her photographs and videos, make it look better, more spectacular and more original. It could be for personal or commercial use.
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| BlackBerry Curve outsells the iPhone 3G Posted: 04 May 2009 02:50 PM PDT The smartphone sales race may be closer than expected.Research In Motion's BlackBerry Curve overtook Apple's iPhone to become the top-selling consumer smartphone in the United States during the first quarter of 2009, according to research published by NPD Group on Monday.
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| The 9 Least Necessary Female Versions of Male Superheroes Posted: 04 May 2009 02:50 PM PDT From most of the many, many Spider-Women to the chick who provided Marvel's most horrifying booty call.
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| Electric Car Infrastructure: More Complicated Than You Think Posted: 04 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT With all of the recent talk about who will become the EV capitol of the US, we would like to point out the obvious: without the necessary charging infrastructure, the cars won't run.
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 02:40 PM PDT Wolfram Alpha, the analytics-based "answering engine" built by Stephen Wolfram on his Mathematica software, is drawing immense hype even before its launch later this month.An invention that could change the Internet forever. Too much? Yes, I think so.
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| Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle Posted: 04 May 2009 02:30 PM PDT The NoScript Firefox extension faced a major backlash last week when users discovered that it was surreptitiously disrupting the operation of AdBlock Plus. The developers behind the two extensions turned the browser into a battleground as their conflict escalated. Mozilla has responded by proposing a new policy that sets boundaries for appropriate
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| Panic Revisited: A History of Five Flu Scares Posted: 04 May 2009 02:30 PM PDT Given the media's penchant for overdramatizing things and the public's eagerness to swallow the hype, it's still unclear how scared we should be about swine flu. Perhaps learning about past flu scares will shed some light on how we should respond to this current one.
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| New Orleans Jazzfest: From Shaky Start to Enduring Tradition Posted: 04 May 2009 02:20 PM PDT This year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival largely stuck to business as usual.
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| Was the Wolverine Movie Faithful to the Comic Book? Posted: 04 May 2009 02:20 PM PDT With this Comics-to-Film feature, we examine where the movie looked for source material and how the various players have evolved in their transition to Hollywood.
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| Ready Your Shift Key: 30 Classic PC Games That Still Rule Posted: 04 May 2009 02:10 PM PDT #6. 'Wolfenstein 3D' The first first person shooter in 3D? Well… Almost. See, it's not quite full 3D, as characters and items are sprite-based and you can't look up or down. Not that there's anything to look at, 'cause the floors and ceilings are uniform and at a consistent height… Still, iD Software got real close to the 3D "Holy Grail" with this.
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| Sapphire Crystal:Store 250 DVDs on One Coin-Sized Surface Posted: 04 May 2009 01:50 PM PDT Sapphire crystals may be the next material to transform the electronics industry, thanks to nanotechnology researchers who have announced a new way of storing data that would fit the contents of 250 DVDs on a coin-sized surface.
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| 8 Tips for Super Internet Searching Posted: 04 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT Plain old Web searching doesn't do the trick anymore: It yields too much random data, or not what you need. Here's how to get what you want when you want it—sometimes before you ask for it. Nobody "surfs" the Web anymore. Some 80 percent of all online sessions now begin with a search. Google proves the point by making over a billion dollars....
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| Protect Your Identity with RENO 911!'s Porn-Only Credit Card Posted: 04 May 2009 01:40 PM PDT Thanks to RENO 911!'s Master Bait credit card, you can buy internet porn with peace of mind.
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| DNA Study: Native Americans Descend from One Ancestral Group Posted: 04 May 2009 01:30 PM PDT After comparing DNA samples from people in dozens of modern-day Native American and Eurasian groups, a team of scientists has confirmed that without exception the new evidence supports the single ancestral population theory. Thus Native Americans emigrated to the New World in one wave rather than successive waves.
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| Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors Posted: 04 May 2009 01:30 PM PDT The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online and blocks millions of web sites including Facebook and Youtube until recently. Now a small software allows Iranians to surf the the uncensored Web. Despite the dangers the Iranians are eagerly grabbing this offering.
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| Oil execs seen rough path for alternative energy Posted: 04 May 2009 01:30 PM PDT Despite millions in new investments and President Barack Obama's push for clean energy technology, many oil and gas executives say mass production of renewable energy is not likely before at least the middle of the next decade, a new survey showed Monday.
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 01:20 PM PDT If our universe really is just one of zillions, what do the rest look like? Welcome to the ultimate mapping expedition.
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| "Anvil" Director Says Anthrax Started as an Anvil Cover Band Posted: 04 May 2009 01:20 PM PDT Thanks to the best documentary of the year, Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the world is learning how influential this never-hit-the-big-time metal band has been in the world of rock. For example, according to director Sacha Gervasi, Anthrax started as an Anvil cover band, which is only one of the surprising revelations about this real-life Spinal Tap.
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| Posted: 04 May 2009 01:10 PM PDT Novice and veteran divers travel the world to explore the undersea world. This photographer chronicles some of what lurks below the surface.
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| Does CIA's Kryptos Hold Key to 'The Da Vinci Code' Sequel? Posted: 04 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT One of the few uncracked codes at the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Langley, Va., is found in Kryptos, a wonder of technology -- a sculpture sitting in a sunny corner of the headquarters courtyard.
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| Sleepy Brown Bear Takes a Nap (PIC) Posted: 04 May 2009 01:00 PM PDT Safely bedded down, a brown bear takes a nap after fishing in the Katmai National Park and Preserve of southern Alaska. (Photo: Joel Sartore)
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| Bob Dylan Tops UK Album Charts...Again Posted: 04 May 2009 12:51 PM PDT Bob Dylan has topped the UK album chart for the seventh time in his career, nearly 40 years since his last number one LP.
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| Most Wanted Games for May 2009 Posted: 04 May 2009 12:30 PM PDT A familiar face returns at the number one spot as the most anticipated game...
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| Chinese ordered to smoke more to boost economy Posted: 04 May 2009 12:20 PM PDT Even local schools have been issued with a smoking quota for teachers, while one village was ordered to purchase 400 cartons of cigarettes a year for its officials, according to the local government's website.
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| Study reveals Government/Banker 'old boys network' Posted: 04 May 2009 12:00 PM PDT Links between Government and the banking sector have been condemned in a new report that has uncovered the extent of the "old boys network" at the top of British public life. The report warns the close relations between business and politics "lead to a conflict of interest at best and a suspension of critical faculties at worst".
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