Monthly Archives: September 2011

AT&T plans to raise insurance costs for iPhone users and begin to throttle the top 5 percent of its data users as it prepares for the launch of Apple’s fifth-generation handset. The wireless provider on Friday updated its insurance information … Continue reading →

Since 2006, Boston Dynamics has been solidly plugging away at the concept of an all-terrain pack mule at the behest of DARPA, the US military’s research wing. Then, in 2010, the company was awarded a hefty $32 million grant from … Continue reading →

…we are reasonably sure…that this is the only time you will see a 6-foot-4, 320-pound NFL defender driving a tiny convertible smart car … with the Hello Kitty logo on it. More -oldster-

One of the world’s largest motor manufacturers is working with scientists based in Switzerland to design a car that can read its driver’s mind and predict his or her next move.The collaboration, between Nissan and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de … Continue reading →

Well, this is a little unsettling: it turns out that Wi-Fi signals are slightly affected by people breathing, and with the right tech someone could pinpoint where you are in a room from afar using just Wi-Fi. I hear you … Continue reading →

Do you fear that you’re going to miss out on the latest news when nature calls? Sure you could always use your phone or tablet to stay in touch while you’re sitting on the throne, but that’s kind of icky. … Continue reading →

Brain implants promise a lot of things, from combatting mental degradation caused by age and disease, to boosting the output of some already healthy gray matter. Far fetched as it sounds, researchers and Israel just took a step toward that … Continue reading →

Scientists are developing a “stay sober” pill which allows you to drink as much as you want while limiting the effects of alcohol on their brains. In tests for the drug, mice given the drug did not even display signs … Continue reading →

Since the 1980s, the US government’s Chicago-area Fermilab has been at the forefront of high-energy physics. That’s in large part thanks to the Tevatron, the machine that first reached the energies needed to discover the last quark in the Standard … Continue reading →

A single high dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in so-called “magic mushrooms,” was enough to bring about a measureable personality change lasting at least a year in nearly 60 percent of the 51 participants in a new … Continue reading →

Amazon didn’t just introduce the tablet everyone expected today; the company completely revamped its Kindle line and introduced a new mobile browser that relies on Amazon’s content distribution network and compute clusters in order to speed up mobile browsing. All … Continue reading →

After desperate attempts to prop up the industry’s once-thriving DVD business, studio executives now believe the only hope of turning around a 40% decline in home entertainment revenue lies in rapidly accelerating the delivery of movies over the Internet. In … Continue reading →

From Gizmodo: An All Nippon Airways passenger plane carrying 117 passengers on board experienced a little bit of a scare earlier this month. Why? Because a numb-brained pilot accidentally almost made a Boeing 737-700 fly belly up, as in upside … Continue reading →

Akitio’s pretty new alloy enclosure has a back full of inputs: eSATA, USB 3.0 and two FireWire 800 ports. There’s no way to jack in a Thunderbolt connection, though. The SK-3501 Super-S3 is stackable and fanless, with a perforated front … Continue reading →

From TechEYE.Net Fruity cargo cult Apple has admitted that its patent trolling antics are because the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is better than anything it could come up with. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Apple lawyers told an Aussie … Continue reading →