Now that the tech savvy Barack Obama is about to take his seat at the Oval Office, the public might not see him with his BlackBerry smartphone any more, making the first e-President to take a step back on some of his tech-related hobbies. While security is a very obvious primary reason for regulating [...]
Ever got an email coming from classmates.com carrying the message, “a former classmate of yours is looking for you”? Be careful not to open it because they are full of viruses, aside from the fact that these emails are not true to begin with. Imagine that the exact same thing happens to millions of [...]
GM is finally releasing the long-awaited Chevy Volt. This Electric hybrid is ideal for local driving, as it provides an MPG as low as 2cents per mile when driven in entirely eletric mode. And since it can be charged up by ordinary house current, even fueling the car will be a cleaner than what [...]
Director JJ Abrams, the creator of the “Lost” television series, has announced his newest film will be released in May of 2009, and is the “official” prelude to the Star Trek TV series and original motion pictures. The movie, which will feature a star-studded cast, will bring back all of the original series’ main characters, [...]
Older music lovers that use pacemakers, beware: your headset might just cause your heart beat to go haywire. And it’s as if all those hackers who can wirelessly mess with your heart gadget weren’t enough, now you have to deal with something that is highly common and easily accessible today – headphones. The problem [...]
You may remember that we reported a while back that Dell had met their Carbon reduction goal 5 months ahead of time? Well, they are back in the news again, this time being recognized by the United State Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aas a company that has effectively achieved a zero carbon emissions footprint. [...]
A University of Calgary climate change scientist has developed a machine that can remove CO2 directly from the air we breathe. And it gets better, because since such greenhouse gases blend into the atmosphere, a contracted air scrubbing machine could be built in locations where the consturction and labor costs are cheaper, and still remove the [...]
Many people, including yours truly, consider the Ultima series of video games to be the games that set the standard for single player role playing games. The Ultima games provided a complete series of otherworldly adventures, mostly following the adventures of a heroic figure known as The Avatar, as he battled to save the world [...]
EpiSurveyor, a mobile based application, is helping Kenyan Health Officials better respond to the outbreak of Polio in the country through the pilot organization the Kenyan Health Ministry. EpiSurveyor’s mainly features itself as a real time and more efficient information relay technology that can help circulate more accurate and timely data on the [...]
September 15, 2008, Richard Wright, one of the founding members of the band Pink Floyd, passed away at the age of 65. Perhaps one of the least prolific of the band’s members, Wright was the keyboardist throughout almost the entire history of the band. Although he contributed to a great many of the band’s [...]