Whoops, I hope this Microsoft exec still has a job.
On the iPhone Jailbreak community.
January 10, 2001: Let’s Make a Wiki!
Why do you have to pay $200 for your city’s law code again?
Banned Xbox Live players: OVER 1 MILLION!!!!!
Who would’ve thought a cute Blue Hippo is a scammer?
One Yotabyte equals approximately one million million million gigabytes:
Is XKCD pro-DROID?
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Nothing’s sure yet, but a recent Apple patent application details an in-OS advertising system that could conceivably “disable some aspect of [the OS'] operation to prompt the operator to pay attention to the advertisement.” Eeek!
European Parliament says: feel to cut off persistent file-sharers from the Internet, member states!
Good advice: if you no longer need a SIM, destroy it by breaking it in half. Not if you want to “protect” your hot girlfriend from potential suitors.
If you’ve never bothered researching the history of the Internet, this easy-to-digest slide show should help.
I’m a Nokia fan, but I still scratch my head over news that the Finnish maker is suing Apple for reportedly up to $1 Billion over the iPhone.
2020 Projection: A 2.5″ hard disk will be able to store 14TB and cost only $40!
First US open-source election software debuts; I doubt the government will be eager to adopt it, for some reason.
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Today marks the start of a week-long promo from HP. The company has slashed prices of two desktops and two laptops apparently in an effort to move stock, through discounts that last until the 24th of this month:
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Yes, the FBI director has his own commander. Not the president of the US or some senate committee, but his wife who banned him from doing online banking after he nearly fell for a phishing scam.
Iceland is all about being (literally) cool, which is why they want to become the server capital of the world. They offer natural cooling crucial to cutting down data center costs and energy consumption.
Adaptive roof-tiling technology that absorbs heat during the winter and reflects it during the summer. How? Simply by switching between black and white.
A summary of Leo Laporte’s career. For some reason, I find Laporte hotter than Olivia Munn.
Bill Gates (and his own Commander Melissa) recently provided a cost estimate to the FCC: $10 Billion needed to run fiber optic cables to various educational institutions and hospitals in the US.
Apparently, around 40 years ago, the US navy was working on pigeon-guided missile technology.
Rest in peace Stephen Gately. The Boyzone singer’s last tweet is available for everyone to read here.
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AMD Eyefinity: powering six 30″ displays at a time—with a single GPU.
Shock and awe: disgruntled Apple laptop users!
Futurism fail: “I don’t see many sales in the future of iPod“.
Catching up with the rest of the world: AT&T now rolling out MMS for the iPhone.
Yes, I already know construction cranes go up this way.
So, publishing a Blu-Ray requires committing to DRM. Here’s why.
So, there’s a space treadmill named after Stephen Colbert.
If I live in the US, and you know my zip code, gender, and birthday, then you pretty much know who I am.
A Microsoft Windows 95 CD-ROM Setup Boot Disk!
No no, Google doesn’t want to ignore, destroy, nor bypass book copyrights!
Segway inventor pushing own water purification tech.
A claimed Tokyo Twitter heatmap.
See, the robots will even take over space!
Let’s hope that effective electronics-busting electromagnetic pulse weapons are developed by then.
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