Monthly Archives: February 2012

The Earth has a roughly 12 percent chance of experiencing an enormous megaflare erupting from the sun in the next decade. This event could potentially cause trillions of dollars’ worth of damage and take up to a decade to recover … Continue reading →

The Air Force’s F-35A Joint Strike Fighter is finally cleared to begin introductory flights at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida — four months late. The belated “Military Flight Release” is a big step forward for the stealthy JSF, which … Continue reading →

It’s not that I doubt that it would take the USPS 5 days to get a package from Albers, IL. to my little town of Crapvill, NJ. But there are a few suspicious things here… One important thing is that … Continue reading →

The Cablevision Systems Corporation posted a 47 percent decline in fourth-quarter income on Tuesday and said its free cash flow would be lower this year because of an increase in capital expenses, results that set off a 10 percent decline … Continue reading →

The food stamp program, part of the Department of Agriculture, is pleased to be distributing the greatest amount of food stamps ever. Meanwhile, the Park Service, also part of the Department of Agriculture, asks us to “Please do not feed … Continue reading →

The Raspberry Pi foundation attempted to launch its $35 Linux computer on Tuesday evening, but the organization’s retail partners couldn’t cope with the massive demand. Two British electronic component distributors that intended to sell the product were unable to do … Continue reading →

Slowing or preventing the development of Alzheimer’s disease, a fatal brain condition expected to hit one in 85 people globally by 2050, may be as simple as ensuring a brain protein’s sugar levels are maintained. That’s the conclusion seven researchers, … Continue reading →

Author: Joyce Mccall My daughter told me about 4g internet when my husband and I moved into this new house and it’s been great. I was never much into media or pop culture and whatnot but now I’m on Gawker … Continue reading →

Just a few days ago, a number of Star Trek 2 images were leaked, including the one below, which depicts Zachary Quinto as Spock and Benedict Cumberbatch in an undisclosed role. We’ve known for some time that Cumberbatch is playing … Continue reading →

Yahoo is threatening to sue Facebook unless the Internet social network agrees to license some of its patents covering a variety of online services. The demand, issued in a late Monday statement, presents Facebook Inc. with a nettlesome headache as … Continue reading →

From The Inquirer: SOFTWARE DEVELOPER Google has thrown down the gauntlet to white-hat hackers by offering up to $60,000 to anyone who can engineer a fully functional exploit that punches a security hole in its Chrome web browser. The search … Continue reading →

One of those really handy, but rarely needed, features of modern smartphones is the ability to locate your device in the event that you’re separated from it. It’s not the kind of feature that most of use every day – … Continue reading →

A growing body of psychology research shows that incompetence deprives people of the ability to recognize their own incompetence. To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense … Continue reading →

FXI is preparing to launch the Cotton Candy, a tiny computer that looks like a USB thumb drive. The device, which can run either Ubuntu or Android 4.0, has a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU, 1GB of RAM, and a … Continue reading →

Space is already full of heavenly bodies, but apparently not enough of the kind to satisfy those at Playboy, which is taking matters into its own hands. The adult magazine company has come up with a concept for a Playboy … Continue reading →