The Internet began as the ARPANET on October 29, 1969 at 10:30 pm in room 3420, Boelter Hall UCLA.
Brad Fidler tracks down the spot that changed the world in this cool vid.
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Toshiba, the creators of the HD-DVD format have announced that they are shutting down the manufacturing facilities and pulling the plug on the format, leaving the market wide open for Sony’s Blu-Ray technology.
The move will likely put an end to a battle that has gone on for several years between consortiums led by Toshiba and […]
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Gillesvidal.com have an awesome 360 degree spherical panoramic view of the cockpit of an Airbus A380, the largest passenger plane in the world.
from Wikipedia…
Accordingly, the A380 features an improved glass cockpit, and fly-by-wire flight controls linked to side-sticks. The improved cockpit displays feature eight 15-by-20 cm (6-by-8-inch) liquid crystal displays, all of which are physically […]
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An experimental scramjet engine was successfully tested this week in outback Australia. The scramjet, which is a joint development between Australian and US Defence forces reached speeds of 11,000 km/h or ten times the speed of sound! (Mach 10) during it’s 12 minute flight.
A scramjet requires supersonic airflow through the engine, to achieve this a […]
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Finally an electric motorcycle that still has street cred. It’s based on a Yamaha R1 that has had its insides ripped out and replaced by 28 lithium-ion batteries, it goes from 0-60 in 3 seconds, can do 100 mph and has about a 100 mile range before it needs to be plugged back into the […]
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Researchers at the Internet2 Consortium’s spring meeting last week announced a new speed record for the high speed network. An international team led by the University of Tokyo revealed that on New Years Eve last year they successfully transmitted data on the internet2 network at a staggering 9.08 Gbps. The transmission covered a 32000 km […]
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Here is a vid of a reporter trying out the US military’s new heat ray. We posted about this weapon in January here, basically the beam heats the targets skin to 50C causing pain which only ceases when exposure to the beam ends. It is supposedly non-lethal and an ideal way of dispersing crowds. Personally […]
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I like the one by Asimov the best.
1. “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” - Pablo Picasso.
2. “I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.” - Isaac Asimov.
3. “Maybe computer science should be in the College of Theology.” - R. S. Barton, software engineer.
4. “A hacker does for love […]
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Here is a really cool demonstration of multitouch technology. The iPhone will give us a taste of this but I think in the not so distant future we can kiss our mice goodbye.
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Boeing is developing a tamper-proof remote controlled autopilot system to combat terrorism that could be ready within three years. The system can be activated manually by the pilots or by pressure sensors installed in the cockpit door. Once activated it cannot be turned off and the plane is then guided to a landing spot (such […]
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Intel have put together a test processor that is capable of processing 1.8 trillion instructions per second (1.8 teraflops). The chip consists of 80 cores and about 100 million transistors all in a package about the same size as a current Xeon chip. The first time teraflop performance was achieved was in 1996 by […]
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PC World, Britain’s largest chain of computer superstores, will say goodbye to floppy disks once the current stash is gone.
The retailer said on Wednesday it opted not to reorder any more disks because they do not hold enough data and better alternatives exist.
PC World has about 10,000 disks in stock. With 155 stores across Britain […]
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