Google Cars Drive Themselves, in Traffic
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on the roof. Harder ...
The New Facebook Groups: All You Need To Know
Today Facebook announced a revamped group products as covered during our live coverage. However most people are either still not aware about what this means or unaware of what all the features are. ...
Body organs can send status updates to your cellphone
For cardiac patients such as myself, too much excitement can be a shocking experience. If my heart rate gets too high the implanted defibrillator in my chest can think I'm having a heart attack and g...
Wal-Mart Preparing to Offer iPad [Updated]
Back in May, Wal-Mart announced that it was expecting to begin offering the iPad for sale in its U.S. retail stores “later this year”, and with the holiday shopping season rapidly approaching and riva...
A Double Standard at H.P.
And so it came to pass that on the 55th day — 55 days, that is, after firing its chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, for playing footsie with a consultant and fudging his expense accounts — the board of di...
UK carrier's roadmap points to October 21 release for Windows Phone 7, over 2,000 apps at launch
The whole world and his neighbor's dog may already know when Windows Phone 7 will be announced, but when are the actual phones going to hit actual shelves? If you're in the US …
Feature: Microsoft buying Adobe would fix both companies' Apple problem
The New York Times is reporting that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has recently been at a secret meeting with Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen to discuss topics including the two companies' mutual competitor,...
Some Thoughts on Facebook Groups
Earlier this week Facebook announced the revamp of Facebook Groups. At first I planned to avoid commenting on this release since there is significant overlap between it's functionality and that of Wi...
Reddit hacking for votes and profit
Looks like someone figured out how to game the Reddit system. This probably has been done before, but as far as we know nobody's actually shared the methods in detail. [Esrun] wrote some scripts tha...
Europe must establish a single telecom market, says EU lawmaker
Gunnar Hoekmark is a Swedish representative to the European Parliament and the Vice Chairman of the European People's Party, which describes itself as politically center to center-right and pro-Europe...
EU calls Stuxnet ‘paradigm shift’ as U.S. responds more mildly
While official U.S. response has been comparatively mild, the European Union's cybersecurity agency says Stuxnet represents a “paradigm shift” in critical infrastructure threats and that current defen...