Kids Reaction to Old Computers (video)
If you think Windows 8 is tough, watch these kids trying to figure out how to use a computer from the “olden days” – a thoroughly amusing insight:
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Run iOS Apps in Android? Meet Cider, an operating system compatibility architecture that allows users to run iOS apps on Android devices. The Cider architecture has been developed by computer science students at Columbia University. The project essentially makes iOS apps compatible with Android, regardless
Be A Super Computer! – Folding@home
Fancy a part-share in the second most powerful supercomputer in the world? Think what you could do with it: play Call of Duty or Crysis faster than real-time, crack all your friends’ passwords in a microsecond, finish your accounts spreadsheets before you even started, forecast
Fitbit Flex – My First Wearable
It is no secret that I love gadgets. My first gadget was a Palm Pilot that my husband, Richard, gave to me as part of my 20th anniversary present. At first, I was taken aback, figuring what in the heck was I going to do
Google’s Self Driving Car – Awesome Technology (video)
Google’s self-driving cars, of which there are usually a dozen on the roads of California and Nevada at any given time, have now logged 700,000 miles of accident-free autonomous driving. Google has released a new video to demonstrate some of the impressive software improvements implemented
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Fireworks From The Other Side [Video 2:39]
Fireworks Video Taken From a Different View Most of us see fireworks from the ground. How about seeing them from the viewpoint of a drone? Here goes… DJI PHANTOM FIREWORKS from Gasper C on Vimeo. Just for fun and a new perspective. Enjoy! Richard
Watching Some Egg-citing Nature, Thanks to Webcam
Eagle-mania is occurring in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Two pairs of eagles took up residency in two different Pittsburgh suburbs, Hays and Harmar, last year. Eagles are not native to this area so this is a big deal. Last summer, crowds gathered on a daily basis to
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Superman + GoPro = Awesome Video
What do you get when you combine a remote controlled drone and a GoPro camera with a team of mega-talented video editors? A first person view of a day in the life of Superman, that’s what: Apparently, the video was only put up
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Apple Ends Snow Leopard Support When Apple released its latest updates to OS X operating systems, it failed to release a version for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.x). This is not surprising since Apple tends to support the last three versions of OS X. This
Google Glass – An Invasion of Privacy?
For those who may be unaware; Google Glass is a wearable computer with an optical head mounted display. As the name suggests, worn just like a pair of glasses… Google Glass is still very much in the development stage so has not yet been made
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NASA Solves “Doughnut Rock” Mystery The appearance of a ‘doughnut rock’, named Pinnacle Island, on Mars a few weeks ago caused quite a stir. NASA’s Mars rover, Opportunity, sent photos of the rock which was not there when it had passed that same spot
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Yahoo Mail Users Are Latest Hacking Victims In what has unfortunately become a weekly news item, Yahoo Mail users are the latest victims of hacking. In a tumblr posting, Jay Rossiter, Yahoo’s Senior Vice President of Platforms and Personalization Products, stated that “a coordinated effort to
Would You Survive a Techno Apocalypse?
What would you do? According to some, the definition of apocalypse is: The complete and final destruction of the world, esp. as described in the biblical book of Revelation or an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale. Or, as others
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Google Wants to Get You There While Amazon wants to know what you want before you do, Google just wants to get you to the store when you want to buy something. Google was recently awarded a patent for ads that will offer transportation to