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December 20 to 31, 2005
This is a working graphic design of a com
put
er, the first I've seen. Have there been other designs like this, either recently or in the ancient past? I envision a lot of interactive modern art in thi...
The "gallery of com
put
ation" has gotten both larger and more varied over the last year or so. Great stuff...
The RIAA and MPAA are intentionally
put
ting adware into Windows Media files to thwart file sharing...
April 25 to May 1, 2005
Scientists make bacteria behave like com
put
ers...
"U.S. Figures Show Sharp Global Rise In Terrorism - State Dept. Will Not
put
Data in Report"...
The Manual In
put
Sessions explore the connections between image analysis, shadow puppets, and music generation...
March 28 to April 3, 2005
Today's college students are getting used to downloading high-speed movies and music on demand from their com
put
ers...
This brilliant clip shows how the modern shopping environment
put
s people in a cow-like suggestible state...
Jared Tarbell's Gallery of Com
put
ation continues to get more beautiful and eerily biological at the same time...
March 21 to 27, 2005
Another great historical overview from Mobile PC magazine. This time, they examine the evolution of the notebook com
put
er...
March 7 to 13, 2005
New in
put
devices are challenging the status quo! Here's the rollermouse for stressless mousing...
Meanwhile, a group of tech CEOs went to Washington warning that "profound changes in the global economy
put
America's competitiveness at risk" and offered a 10-point plan...
China is fighting the Tibetan exile administration with com
put
er virii...
February 28 to March 6, 2005
From Miami to Oakland, kids are
put
ting 150-decibel train horns on their cars and stunning bystanders...
Uh-oh - 6,200 Wells Fargo ATMs are now running Windows: http://www.com
put
erworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,100165,00.html?source=x1...
This biometric pen verifies your signature: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/in
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/biometric-pen-verifies-your-signature-034786.ph...
The online rerelease of the acclaimed animated short "Balance": http://www.
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file.com/media.php?n=balanc...
Ancient com
put
er ads. 32KB RAM, wow...
February 14 to 20, 2005
The 21-inch Wacom touch-screen flat-planel display: http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/peripherals/in
put
/wacom-cintiq-21ux-touch-screen-flatpanel-033025.ph...
February 7 to 13, 2005
The same developer made this chess program where one can see the lines of strategy that the com
put
er is considering...
January 31 to February 6, 2005
While I'm on a rant, why can't digital camera makers emulate the design of the iPod and allow charging via the USB/firewire cable? I hate having to buy a separate cradle and power brick just fo...
The largest climate prediction experiment ever harnessed 90,000 home com
put
ers around the globe. The result? Global warming will be worse than expected...
At least the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to
put
automatic-off sensors in lights...
January 24 to 30, 2005
How about a wi-fi cafe combined with a print-on-demand bookstore? Now that so many book sales are online, how about
put
ting the bookstore in the cafe instead of the cafe in the bookstore? A suitabl...
Only nine chlorine plants in the U.S.
put
eight tons of mercury into the environment each year, although some say 65 more tons are unaccounted for annually. This is mostly due to the use of obsolet...
January 17 to 23, 2005
I had the pleasure of listening to XM Satellite Radio all week (which was bundled with my Alamo rental car) while working in Mountain View, CA. It sounds great and the music choices are wonderful...
* The bottom is a rubber-like pad that prevents the com
put
er from slipping on surfaces...
January 10 to 16, 2005
The big news in Kev's world this week was the introduction of the Mac mini - it's a small yet powerful box not much wider than a CD that supports pretty much any display, keyboard, and mouse for $500...
Of course, note that you can create installations of hundreds of Mac minis (for com
put
er labs and offices), all remotely (and centrally) upgradable and managed via Apple Remote Desktop...
January 1 to 9, 2005
Fluid flow simulation software is now open source. Implications for cheaper environmental studies and wind/water energy generation prototypes...
December 6 to 12, 2004
I really like the design sense of the architects behind it, but am continually frustrated by the design of architects' Web sites. Architects typically have the least usable sites on the Internet ...
November 29 to December 5, 2004
However, "e-junk" recycling is still in its infancy. Note that old com
put
er monitors make better used TVs than TVs...
November 15 to 21, 2004
The Library of Congress is
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ting 30 million pages of copyright-free newspapers from 1836 through 1922 online...
November 8 to 14, 2004
A good counterproposal to Creationists that want warning stickers on biology textbooks:
put
warning stickers on the Bible...
October 11 to 17, 2004
Advertising is coming to RSS feeds near you. If you're
put
ting ads in RSS, don't overdo it...
October 4 to 10, 2004
Podcasting
put
s audio content you want to hear on your iPod. One day you can podcast Howard Stern from XM Radio...
September 27 to October 3, 2004
Inside the recently upgraded world's third-most-powerful supercom
put
er at Virginia Tech (it's also powered by Mac OSX)...
Com
put
er-assisted streak photography...
September 20 to 26, 2004
The first half of 2004 saw 5,000 new Windows viruses: http://www.com
put
erworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,96116,00.htm...
September 13 to 19, 2004
Does anyone know of space for a gymnastics program that "
put
11 kids on the national team last year"...
Has this startup developed the universal com
put
er emulator...
September 5 to 12, 2004
Has your PC been taken over by a spamming virus? Spammers are selling your "zombie PC" to others: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/com
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ersecurity/2004-09-08-zombieprice_x.ht...
August 30 to September 5, 2004
The world's first detailed view (and reconstruction) of an Egyptian mummy's face, without disturbing the wrappings, thanks to multidetector com
put
ed tomography...
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your DNA signature on a T-shirt...
August 22 to 29, 2004
Five photons have been linked in an milestone experiment that will lead to full-scale quantum com
put
ing...
August 15 to 22, 2004
An update on the MD280 modular dwelling.
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two together, and it's not a bad place for a small family...
August 8 to 14, 2004
Why dynamic languages (still) represent the future of com
put
ing (warning: tech-heavy)...
"Fewer college students choose com
put
er majors...
August 2 to 8, 2004
Although over 80% of the public feels that e-voting is safe (or have no opinion), over 80% of security experts feel that current e-voting systems are much less secure than traditional paper-base...
The Kensington com
put
er cable lock can be opened in 30 seconds with $1 worth of material...
July 26 to August 1, 2004
IBM introduces "chip morphing" technology, which enables self-repairing, evolvable com
put
er chips...
A great idea -
put
ting city maps on traffic control boxes. Let's see these around town...
New U.S. passports out this fall will be embedded with biometric com
put
er chips...
July 19 to 25, 2004
Quantum com
put
ing breakthrough - a single electron's spin is controlled using ordinary transistors...
July 12 to 18, 2004
Com
put
er visionary Alan Kay "decries the state of com
put
ing". He's right...
July 5 to 11, 2004
Steve Winwood's label "has seen a noticeable increase in record sales" thanks to
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ting a free track on file sharing networks...
June 21 to 27, 2004
The first HDTV tuner PC card is here - get HDTV signals for free and watch 'em on your com
put
er...
A teacher fed up with the high cost of (Cisco Academy's com
put
er training) textbooks makes his own equivalent textbooks and
put
s them online for free...
Texas is
put
ting wireless net access into rest stops to encourage breaks - a great idea...
June 14 to 20, 2004
A review of the coolest palmtop com
put
er. Sorry, available in Japan only...
Replace your old flashlight bulbs with brighter, longer-lasting LEDs: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/com
put
ers/article/0,12543,652471,00.htm...
May 24 to 30, 2004
A growing trend - Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)! I first saw this video game in a mall about eight months ago and was mesmerized by the dance moves of the teenager playing it. Basically, you have t...
Com
put
erless single mom gets busted by the RIAA, can't afford to settle...
May 17 to 23, 2004
A "talking toilet" gadget that scolds men if they
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the toilet seat up sells over 1.6 million units...
May 10 to 16, 2004
In 18 months Kaufmann designed six versions of her prefab "Glidehouse", making use of recyclable, energy-efficient materials. It's designed to accommodate solar panels and looks and feels like ...
May 3 to 9, 2004
The Sasser worm, developed by an 18 year-old in Germany who also made the ubiquitous "Netsky" email virus, infected an estimated million com
put
ers last week, 80% of which belonged to home users an...
Your com
put
er's security may be compromised just by listening to it (acoustic cryptanalysis)...
April 26 to May 2, 2004
A very technical overview of the next generation of video game consoles - Soon these devices will feature supercom
put
er-class levels of performance, enabling games with cinematic quality...
"One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and com
put
ers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through....
"Green tea provides a more effective and environmentally-friendly method of preparing com
put
er hard disks, say US scientists." In certain applications it's better than diamond for polishing...
April 19 to 25, 2004
4) Endorse the use of lead-free com
put
er systems, at least by government: The world's first lead-free motherboard (the main component in personal com
put
ers) has been developed...
And Intel plans to cut the lead content of com
put
er chips by 95%...
April 12 to 18, 2004
A study shows that the most dangerous music to play while driving is "Ride of the Valkyries". Also, go light on the techno: http://www.suntimes.com/out
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/news/cst-nws-tunes15.htm...
A new firefighting chemical looks and acts just like water, but it doesn't get things wet...
April 5 to 11, 2004
"Disaster looms if Greenland's ice cap melts" http://www.suntimes.com/out
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/news/cst-nws-ice09.htm...
March 29 to April 5, 2004
Ever wonder why so many business majors think Microsoft invented com
put
ing? A study of eight textbooks reveals total ignorance of the role of Unix in business...
March 22 to 28, 2004
"U.S. students shun com
put
er sciences"...
Banksy, who
put
s the "grr" back into graffiti - here's how to mix revolution with art...
March 15 to 21, 2004
Somebody market this, quick! A professor creates a small cheap noise cancellation unit that decreases com
put
er fan noise. Although this technology is available in many headphones, nobody to date ha...
March 8 to 14, 2004
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) is suing the FCC on "overbroad regulation of next-generation televisions and related devices". Left unchallenged, anything you watch on TV or com
put
ers in th...
Elcodrive's debut album "Somewhere Between Now and Then" was enhanced with HSS technology. One critic says "Elcodrive has not
put
forth any newfangled ideas in their release, which translates int...
There's an interesting architectural trend towards "green roofs" - creating mini-ecologies in unused urban areas, mainly, roofs...
March 1 to 7, 2004
Wireless technology is helping native Americans in California go online and learn com
put
ing skills...
1.8 tons of raw material are used to make your average desktop com
put
er and monitor. Upgrading rather than replacing your com
put
er saves more energy than recycling it...
February 23 to 29, 2004
We don't support that "Ted, and those like him, have only one solution to their customers' problems. Erase everything on the com
put
er's hard drive and start over from scratch." The latest in Salon'...
February 16 to 22, 2004
I always knew that UH grads got a good com
put
er science background. The trick is, how to get them back to HI working at great software tech jobs? I sure can't find any... Hawaii needs experience...
January 26 to February 1, 2004
"The New Face of the Silicon Age - How India became the capital of the com
put
ing revolution...
January 19 to 25, 2004
"Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition com
put
er files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media"...
January 12 to 18, 2004
I used to get about 500 to 1000 spams a day. Now it's down to about 100 now that I
put
tough anti-spam filters in.....
December 15 to 21, 2003
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at Diebold, the maker of those electronic voting machines. One of them is a programmer who was jailed for falsifying com
put
er records.....
December 8 to 14, 2003
This enables desktop-sized supercom
put
ers and cell phones lasting 60 hours...
This is another technology that may help the development of quantum com
put
ers...
A man gets out of a ticket using a cell phone and a friend with a com
put
er...
November 17 to 23, 2003
A working nano-transistor has been self-assembled using biology for the first time. A first step to building self-assembling molecular com
put
ers...
November 10 to 16, 2003
IBM created a (large) "TV-sized" supercom
put
er that's the 73rd most powerful supercom
put
er in the world...
November 3 to 9, 2003
Will noisy, hot com
put
ers be a thing of the past? Electricity leakage is why current microchips (and therefore your com
put
er) runs hot, requires fans, and contributes to the entropy of the universe...
October 27 to November 2, 2003
The first optical processor, which com
put
es at the speed of light.....
October 14, 2003
The main point of this is that now a single com
put
er can replace an entire cellular tower's worth of expensive equipment. This means smaller installations and better coverage to rural areas. Plus i...
October 6, 2003
The death of the laser show: birth of the new psychedelics? The American Museum of Natural History started a new sound and light show using com
put
er graphics called SonicVision. It's a 35-minute movi...
September 15, 2003
Com
put
er visionary Stafford Beer coined the term "shareware". He also invented Cybersyn, an Internet-like socialist com
put
er system created for the revolutionary Chilean government in the earl...
August 25, 2003
Disney is laying off its traditional 2D animators, opting instead to only do 3D (com
put
er generated) animated films from now on. A passing of an era.....
Affected by the recent com
put
er viruses? The solution: 1) Don't use Outlook. 2) Don't use Windows. I just spent a couple hours cleaning up a friend's infected Windows machine this week. In over 1...
By the way: If you are using Apple's Mail application, the virus emails will be automatically marked as junk and sent to your junk mail folder. Apple Mail has the best spam detection/removal of an...
August 12, 2003
Now that everyone has access to professional-class studio software, we are seeing the rise of "Bastard Pop" - songs made of two other songs you'd never would have
put
together. Read the Salon article...