With the new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on the way, Alienware tries to make PC gaming a slightly better deal…….
Space, digitisation and storage. Astronomy Legacy Project has it all
Crowdfunding preservation of 220,000 analogue plates……
Billion-dollar babies: Far-out pet projects of the tech elite
From Ellison to Musk to Bezos, technology’s richest can’t seem to stay away from wacky desires to live forever, colonize other planets, and recreate the plot line of “Deep Impact,” minus the apocalypse…….
Google Updates ReCAPTCHA With Easier CAPTCHAs For Humans
An anonymous reader writes “Google today released an update to its reCAPTCHA system that creates different classes of CAPTCHAs for different kinds of users. In short, it makes your life easier if you’re a human, and your work much harder if you’re a bot. Unsurprisingly, Google wouldn’t share too much detail as to how the…
I am a recovering Superwoman wannabee
People don’t overclock well, says Phoummala Schmitt……
Is 3D Printing the Future of Disaster Relief?
Daniel_Stuckey writes “Advocates for the technology say that it’s only a matter of time before we’re shipping raw materials and 3D printers instead of medical supplies to the site of a disaster. 3D printers are already being used in the medical field to create customized tracheal valves, umbilical cord clamps, splints, and even blood vessels….
Design Council: Design vs Styling
Ask an automotive designer what the requirements are for someone in their position and you’ll never hear the word ‘styling’ mentioned in the description. In fact, the word has such negative connotations that it’s probably long been removed from his lexicon, relegated to the doldrums of decades past…….
Hate data fees but love your HD slab? Here’s a better way to pay for bytes
Charging per meg in a gig-per-vid world will bankrupt punters … but there’s a way out……
EU Parliament: Other Countries Spy, But Less Than the UK, US
itwbennett writes “An E.U. Parliament survey of 5 member states found that 4 of the 5 (U.K., France, Germany and Sweden) engage in bulk collection of data. Only the Netherlands doesn’t, but that’s not because it doesn’t want to. In fact, The Netherlands is currently setting up an agency for that purpose. France, which summoned…
Antigua Looks Closer To Legal Piracy of US-Copyrighted Works
Mark Gibbs writes “Shiver me timbers: Antigua and Barbuda’s ‘WTO Remedies Implementation Committee’, is said to be recommending the establishment by the Government of Antigua & Barbuda of a statutory body to own, manage and operate the ultimate platform to be created for the monetisation or other exploitation of the suspension of American intellectual property…
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