Day: August 22, 2013

Crafty engineer 3D-prints a portable NES

It’s not quite as small as a Game Boy, but this homemade portable Nintendo Entertainment System is something we’d never want to leave home without…….


Piston links with Cloud Foundry, forges CYBORG CLOUD

Pivotal’s PaaS wired into OpenStack IaaS……


How to migrate Time Machine backups to a new drive

If you need to upgrade or replace your Time Machine drive, you can do so without starting your backups over again…….


For Overstated Claims, Gore, Tesla Upbraided By NWS, NHTSA Respectively

barlevg writes “In a recent interview, former Vice President and environmental activist Al Gore made a bold claim, that man-made global warming was causing hurricanes to be formed of such severity that ‘they’re adding a 6’ to the hurricane scale, going on to say that ‘The fingerprint of man-made global warming is all over these…


Lenovo to ship all new PCs with Start Menu replacement

Old-school launcher included because YOU DEMANDED IT……


CipherCloud lands in Oz

Cunning key caper laughs in the face of spooks, sovereignty……


Canada testing $600,000 stealth snowmobile

An ultra-quiet electric-hybrid ride is being designed to help patrol Canada’s Arctic. Is it practical or just a boondoggle?……


Google Now keeps your travel on track

The Siri competitor learns new tricks, Facebook changes log-in rules for apps, and Kapture aims to record the audio around you — all day…….


HotLink rolls VMware virty servers out to the Amazon cloud

Disaster recovery for the cost of backup……


Canonical CEO: Expect an Ubuntu phone in early 2014

Despite the failure of the ambitious and record-breaking Ubuntu Edge crowdfunding campaign, Canonical’s Jane Silber says the future is ripe for innovation…….