As of today, the Intel Core i7 processor series and X58 chipset based motherboards are "officially" on sale. With that bit of news out of the way, EVGA is officially launching ...
Had you ever wondered how much money you actually spend to run your PC each day? Perhaps you want to know how much money you might save by upgrading power ...
The 45nm Phenom is called the Phenom II, 8 and 12-core server parts are coming in 2011 and the first CPU/GPU fusion parts will also appear around then - all ...
The European Union has launched a public consultation on Internet security and is requesting feedback from the public about how to address network infrastructure security challenges.Read More...
An FCC Commissioner calls for the agency to get serious about an audit of Arbitron's Portable People Meter, an issue that has the attention of the next president.Read More...
Amazon has announced the launch of CloudFront, a new content delivery network service built on top of the company's cloud storage platform.Read More...
The past few years have seen politicians attack science, including climate science, the big bang, stem cells, and research on sexuality, drug use, and HIV/AIDS. A study in PLoS Medicine ...
There's no imminent danger of death, but DSL has a hacking cough and a heart condition. Long term, we're looking at the end of twisted pair copper wire as a ...
The latest major release of personal wiki Voodoopad, version 4.0, has been released. It comes with a slew of nifty features, including WebDAV/MobileMe sync, new palettes, and a variety of ...
The fatalities from the freshly-released Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe title have been uploaded to youtube, saving many gamers a pesky rental. Take a look at what the Teen rating ...
The New Xbox Experience has brought with it a great new feature in Xbox Community Games. Indie devs have a host of software ready for launch today, and we've taken ...
Intego warns about OSX.RSPlug.D, a new variant of the RSPlug trojan that surfaced last November. Though the company is taking the chance to plug its anti-virus software, safe computing practices ...
A Harvard Law School class led by the head of the school's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is pursuing a counterclaim against the RIAA after it targeted a Boston ...
Although only five of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers ran Windows -- the same number as last June -- the fastest among them has finally claimed the #10 spot.
Exactly one year after it re-announced the commercial subscription edition of its anti-malware service for individual Windows users, Microsoft announced it will discontinue Windows Live OneCare, replacing it with a ...
Terence V. (Terry) Milholland started a new job as the Internal Revenue Service's chief technology officer on Monday. No worries; he's already been CTO of organizations handling your money.
Brian Francis Slattery's novel Liberation is a magical, riveting poetic story of a post-economic America where the dollar has vanished and slavery has sprung up in the resulting economic chaos. ...
Michael Holloway from the UK Open Rights Group sez, Today we're proud to release ORG’s annual Review of Activities. It’s been a bumper year for digital rights. From HMRC posting ...
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, we took Google's new iPhone voice search app for a spin, and reflected on the nostalgic smell of old NES cart sleeves, as well as ...
Here's Far Cry 2 technical director Dominic Guay talking about the importance of "procedural content generation" for massive online games -- basically, using software to create worlds that had previously ...
Wagner James Au sez, "Not only are [Obama's FCC Transition Team leaders] Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford great Net Neutrality advocates, they're also into online games/virtual worlds-- Werbach belongs to ...
Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Dell brings up the 80-core chip--During his keynote at a supercomputing conference, Michael Dell keeps 80-core processor in sight. Avoid the tech-support time sink--A botched mail-server upgrade reminds Dennis O'Reilly to always have a workaround, and not to expect tech support to work miracles. Husband blames iPhone for smutty pictures that upset his wife--Apple's Support site was inundated with suggestions as to why a woman's husband might have inadvertently e-mailed filthy pictures from his iPhone. Scottish I-Ball rolls to success--Launchable, wireless projectile camera ...
Although it's not dominant, Microsoft has forced traditional antivirus vendors to make changes. With a free offering due next year, it may do so again.
A report from Jon Peddie Research says the market for PC game hardware is larger than the market for game software. And PC gaming is bigger than console gaming.
It's probably fair to say that no one in Spain had a very good day on Friday when the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic showed up on Nokia.es for €429 (about $550), up from its earlier €279. Well it looks like the zaniness at least kind of has an explanation, though it's not one that's likely to cool any enraged heels. Apparently the base price of the phone was, and is €279, but "each country" can bundle it with whatever they choose, thereby upping the overall price. Sounds fun, right? So, in ...
If short, intense sessions with your iPod are your bag, these new Maxell heaphones might just do the trick. Compatible with your fourth-gen iPod (or your first and second-gen iPod touch) the HP-NC20.IP earbuds offer active noise cancellation from 50-700Hz and noise suppression up to 20dB. Since they rely on the iPod dock for audio and power, you're stuck using the volume control on the headphones themselves, and battery life is significantly reduced -- anywhere from one half to two-thirds. If you're one of those people who never stops rocking, ...
The key to any good pseudo-educational show featuring demonstrations that typically result in explosions (i.e. Mythbusters) is super-duper slow-mo sequences that expand those fleeting instants of incredibly expensive pyrotechnical glory into multiple minutes of time wasted between commercial breaks. If you're looking to record your own similar antics, amateur-style, Casio's time-stretching shooter the EX-FH20 is for you, delivering decent image quality and a bevy of burst and slow-mo modes that will capture 7 megapixel stills at 40 fps and 1000 fps video at 224 x 56. However, if that sounds ...
If there was ever a phone worth cutting down to size with a completely shoddy but not actually completely unattractive fake edition, it's the Motorola Aura. What we have here is the Wingtech D20, which shares the swivel form factor of the Aura, mocks the round LCD with a perfectly boring square one in a round hole, and boasts a surprisingly weak complement of features, even for a "fake" phone. Oh how you suffer for fashion, Motorola.[Thanks, Chris]Filed under: CellphonesKeepin' it real fake, part CLXVIII: Motorola Aura clone is everything ...
Not much to say here, just an Atom N270 1.6Ghz processor, 10.2-inch 1024 x 600 LCD, 1GB of RAM, 160GB HDD and a dash of Windows XP, doing what they always do. There's a nice complement of completely standard interfaces, like three USB 2.0 plugs, 802.11b/g WiFi, Ethernet, mini VGA out and a multicard reader, all stuffed into a slightly frumpy 1.5-inch thick enclosure, but let's not get off message: Epson's new Endeavor Na01 mini is all Microsoft-proscribed netbook and nothing more. The Japan-only computer is available today for the ...
Last week researchers from Google and the Centers for Disease Control unveiled a cool new research result, showing that they could gauge the level of influenza infections in a region of the U.S. by seeing how often people in those regions did Google searches for certain terms related to the flu and flu symptoms. The search-based predictions correlate remarkably well with the medical data on flu rates -- not everyone who searches for "cough medicine" has the flu, but enough do that an increase in flu cases correlates with an ...
Several interesting things are happening in the wild world of digital photography as it's colliding with digital video. Most notably, the new Canon 5D Mark II (roughly $2700) can record 1080p video and the new Nikon D90 (roughly $1000) can record 720p video. At the higher end, Red just announced some cameras that will ship next year that will be able to record full video (as fast as 120 frames per second in some cases) at far greater than HD resolutions (for $12K, you can record video at a staggering ...
Ed recently made a number of predictions about election day ("Election 2008: What Might Go Wrong"). In terms of long lines and voting machine problems, his predictions were pretty spot on. On election day, I was one of a number of volunteers for the Election Protection Coalition at one of 25 call centers around the nation. Kim Zetter describes the OurVoteLive project, involving 100 non-profit organizations, ten thousand volunteers that answered 86,000 calls with a 750 line call-center operation ("U.S. Elections -- It Takes a Village"): The Election Protection Coalition, ...
With Barack Obama's election, we're likely to see a revival of the network neutrality debate. Thus far the popular debate over the issue has produced more heat than light. On one side have been people who scoff at the very idea of network neutrality, arguing either that network neutrality is a myth or that we'd be better off without it. On the other are people who believe the open Internet is hanging on by its fingernails. These advocates believe that unless Congress passes new regulations quickly, major network providers will ...
Over at Ars Technica, the final installment of my series on self-driving cars is up. In this installment I focus on the policy implications of self-driving technologies, asking about regulation, liability, and civil liberties. Regulators will face a difficult trade-off between safety and innovation. One of the most important reasons for the IT industry's impressive record of innovation is that the industry is lightly regulated and the basic inputs are cheap enough that almost anyone can enter the market with new products. The story of the innovative company founded in ...
The Datel Lite Blue Tool looks to be the best option we've got at the moment for hacking the PSP 3000. It's essentially a smart battery that clones Sony lab ...
As the season for joy nears, people are already getting ready for their Xmas lighting decoration. And if you are a store manager at the American Family Association, that means ...
If you'd like to experience the effects of drugs without actually taking any pesky drugs, here's a little experiment that might be right up your alley. These things called Ganzfeld ...
I've always wanted to fry a turkey for Thanksgiving, but the safety aspects concern me (what if the oil spilled, what if the turkey threw me into immediate cardiac arrest). ...
I see this dumbtastic egg-case-style Bajca emoticon keyboard and the only thing I wish is that somebody actually brings it to market, sends it to me to test, and then ...
Claiming to be tired of seeing poor-quality "rip offs" of their ridiculously acclaimed TV series and films, the Monty Python troupe has created an official YouTube channel to post free, high-quality clips from their vaults, with only Amazon merchandise links for advertising. Their official, tongue-in-cheek video proclamation is below. [via]
Mint.com, our readers' favorite personal finance tool, now offers users instant balances on all their registered accounts via SMS. Text "bal" or "balance" to "MyMint" (696468), and you'll get a text detailing your finances the last time Mint took a look. Quicken Online already had a nearly identical service, Quicken Beam, that also adds the five most recent transactions to each account. Still, having a choice in who you give your financial account data to is a good thing, and knowing whether you've got space for plane tickets on your ...
Windows only: Zapr is a new file-sharing application that promises to make remote file sharing extremely simple. Users download the Zapr application, set up a free account, and can immediately begin sharing files with friends. Only the person doing the sharing needs to have the application installed, all others simply need the URL the file sharer gives them. The files are hosted locally, with the Zapr server only providing directions between the file sharer and the people seeking the file. Files can be shared unprotected or with passwords. There is ...
Thanks to some sweet, sweet discount serendipity, $25 gift cards to restaurants around the country from Restaurant.com can be had through tomorrow, for $1.50 using a coupon code and a FatWallet link code. It's pretty much the same offer as we previously posted, just a bit cheaper and, well, back again. The details: Head to Restaurant.com, see what restaurants are participating near your ZIP code (and what caveats a gift card might entail, such as a minimum purchase amount or menu restrictions). Use FatWallet's 25 percent off discount link to ...
iPhone/iPod touch only: With Mocha VNC Lite, iPhone and iPod touch users already have a tool for connecting remotely to their desktops, but what about those who like to get things done over a command line? Free iPhone app TouchTerm provides SSH-encrypted terminal access to any Linux, OS X, or even Windows system running a server, making mobile rebooting or service starting over Wi-Fi or EDGE/3G connections possible. The app supports landscape mode, a must for serious two-thumb typing, can save connections for easy access. The $11.99 pro version adds ...
YouTube was built in no small part by users uploading copyright clips of British comedy group Monty Python. Ok, it was built by users uploading copyright clips of lots of ...
Alisa Leonard-Hansen is a Senior Social Media Analyst within the strategy group at iCrossing. She can also be found blogging at both the iCrossing Great Finds blog and her own ...
StoryTlr, a project that enables you to create a simple event-based timeline of your photos, videos and tweets, has received several significant updates in the past few days, and suddenly ...
Personal finance service Mint has added a new feature for those who simply have to know what their entire net worth is in every imaginable situation. Users can send a ...
Real estate site Trulia and interactive media company 1020 Placecast have partnered up to deliver better targeted ads on Trulia, using location information and a number of other factors. When ...
The successful science and educational organization The National Geographic Society, best known for their long-running magazine, has just made an interesting announcement. Their next venture in their for-profit operations is video games. This month, National Geographic Games, a newly formed division within the company, will launch three gaming products to be soon followed by another in December and three (so far) are planned for next year. The games will be developed for major gaming consoles, handhelds, and mobile platforms, including, yes, the iPhone. Sponsor There are few people out there ...
San Francisco-based blogging startup Six Apart has announced they will be giving away free accounts on their TypePad blogging system for professional bloggers and journalists who recently lost their jobs as well as those who fear the axe is coming. Cleverly dubbed the "Journalist Bailout Program," the service includes one free blog, a place in the Six Apart Media advertising program, promotion on Blogs.com, a as well as other tools and advice on driving traffic to your site, all courtesy of Six Apart. Sponsor The TypePad Journalist Bailout Program The ...
It's no secret that - as the most widely deployed operating system - Microsoft Windows has the ignoble distinction of being the primary target of virus and malware developers everywhere. And when you couple that with the fact that many users of the Windows operating system fail to protect their machines - due to both ignorance of the problem and costs associated with virus protection software - you have the potential for rampant virus outbreaks. We've all seen it, time and time again. Now, Microsoft is proposing to solve that ...
The Web is full of examples where developers have built technology for an express purpose, only to have that technology adopted by users or other developers to deliver unforeseen - and often wildly popular - solutions. Flickr - originally a small subset of functionality in a much larger game - comes to mind. As does YouTube, which had its humble beginnings in the world of online dating. And now, the iPhone may be joining those ranks. It's safe to assume that when the folks at Apple finally released the iPhone, ...
Citysearch, the popular local restaurant and shopping guide, announced a new beta version of its service tonight. The new version provides a better local search experience, with the ability to search specific neighborhoods instead of just metropolitan areas. Citysearch also announced a retooled mobile site, which lets users read and write reviews on their mobile devices, and gives them access to menus from participating restaurants. Citysearch has also implemented Facebook Connect, which allows users to log in to the site with their Facebook accounts, and the company plans to roll ...
David asks: The recent economic downturn has me wondering… Are small ‘Getting Real’ businesses like 37signals more resistant to the declining economy or is it just that any downside is ...
