Monthly Archives: April 2007

Energizer is hopping on the USB bandwagon with a new USB powered recharger called the Energizer Duo that can charge two of the companies AAA batteries in two hours and about five hours for a pair of AA batteries. More … Continue reading →

The advent of the Internet has brought a completely new dimension to globalization, but the system isn’t perfect. Last December, an undersea earthquake off the coast of Taiwan disrupted Internet cables, causing communications to be down for several days. A … Continue reading →

Gigabyte United is set to introduce its next generation Ultra Durable 2 series motherboards in early June. The new motherboards features ferrite core choke coils, low RDS MOSFETs and all-solid capacitors for increased reliability and longevity. Gigabyte United claims the … Continue reading →

Xerox Corporation scientists are developing a new technology to make adjusting colors in a document as easy as simply describing the color. Users can type “make the sky a deeper blue” or give a voice command “make the background carnation … Continue reading →

IBM’s BlueGene L supercomputer has helped researchers in the United States simulate a mouse-like brain. Researchers utilized BlueGene while they ran a “cortical simulator” that reportedly was “as big and as complex as half of a mouse brain.” Scientists believe … Continue reading →

In a decision issued today, the US Supreme Court reinvigorated the “obviousness test” used to determine whether a patent should be issued. Ruling in the case of KSR v. Teleflex, the Court found that the US Court of Appeals for … Continue reading →

The PX-AV200U is rebuilt from the ground up to deliver a host of new benefits to users. The plastic enclosure case has been replaced by a dongle with connectors for USB 2.0, S-Video In, Video In, and Audio In. It … Continue reading →

In more than a third of women with epilepsy, seizures fluctuate across the menstrual cycle, due in part to continually fluctuating effects of estrogen on the neural circuitry in the hippocampus, a region of the brain involved in learning and … Continue reading →

Internet radio broadcasts, jeopardized by a royalty payment ruling earlier this year, would get a reprieve under bipartisan legislation introduced in Congress. The Internet Radio Equality Act would roll back dramatic rate increases handed down earlier this year by the … Continue reading →

Online harassment is stifling discussions and pushing women out of the blogosphere, according to a story in this morning’s Washington Post. Some of the anecdotes in the story: A female freelance writer who blogged about the pornography industry was threatened … Continue reading →

Security researchers have found a “highly critical” flaw in the portable-network graphics plug-in for the latest version of Adobe Systems’ Photoshop Creative Suite, as well as for other versions of the software that run on Windows. The portable-network graphics, or … Continue reading →

Another week, another laptop maker announces bad battery news. Apple says batteries in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks may have performance problems. The good news, the batteries do not pose a safety risk. The notebooks in question were sold … Continue reading →

A convincing twin of Darth Vader stalks the beige cubicles of a Silicon Valley office, complete with ominous black mask, cape and light saber. But this is no chintzy Halloween costume. It’s a prototype, years in the making, of a … Continue reading →

The accuracy of weather forecasts is generally limited by a lack of good quality weather data, which is lacking for vast areas of the planet like deserts, the polar regions and the oceans. Aircraft manufacturer Boeing thinks it can fix … Continue reading →

Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake. Scientists from Nasa say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the … Continue reading →