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Originally rejected by Apple’s review board, the Commodore 64 application is now available for immediate download via the iTunes App Store, according to the people at TouchArcade. Despite being officially licensed from both rights holders of the Commodore ROMs and the individual games, the emulator was rejected... |
7 September 2009
05:16 GMT |
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It’s been argued that it’s the computer monitor – or at least spending too much time in front of it – that’s hurting our eyes, and that typing can have negative effects on our bones and mobility, but recent figures show that it’s what we can’t see that hurts us the most. Comp... |
11 June 2009
14:41 GMT |
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The world being comprised of a multiple of nations has its advantages but also a lot disadvantages. One of the most important facts is that we do not use the same time measuring system, the same temperature system, not even the metric system. So, something had to be done so that someone from a foreign country knew ho... |
19 May 2009
12:21 GMT |
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Apple has dropped a spot in the latest Rescuecom Computer Reliability Report, which has increased the frequency of releasing its data from once a year to once every quarter (four times a year). Taking the lead was ASUS, which made a surprise leap into the top spot joined by IBM/LENOVO with a score of 348. Apple is ju... |
26 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Last week, in Geneva, the world saw a new brand of computers, one that is entirely operated via gestures and that has no keyboard or mouse attached to it. In addition, it also has a twisting neck, which allows it to follow the motions of its users. Otherwise explained, if you stand on your feet in front of it and mov... |
3 March 2009
04:38 GMT |
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The implications of the latest advances in technology have often been discussed, with pros and cons weighed in the balance, but with seemingly no convenient conclusion or solution on sight. Neuroscientists and psychologists have again rallied to speak against the dangers of leaving children under seven in front of th... |
24 February 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Developer Jonathan Mulcahy has created an iPhone app that includes a single picture of HAL from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and various sound clips of his famous sayings. The app has users pressing the red orb to hear what HAL has to say in that frightening, monotone voice.“Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000... |
11 February 2009
10:39 GMT |
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The Antikythera mechanism, believed to be the world's oldest computer, has finally been replicated by a British museum curator, more than 100 years after it was first discovered. The original design, intricate and precise as a Swiss clock, was used to calculate dates, motions of the planets throughout our solar ... |
23 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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Understanding that handicapped people are at a disadvantage compared to other computer users, scientists at the Macquarie University, in Sydney, Australia, devised two new computer-user interfaces that employ movements and gestures to interpret the requests that a person addresses a computer. Two cameras, gloves and ... |
19 December 2008
08:54 GMT |
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The scientific field of archeology will undergo severe make-up sessions and will be fully revitalized through the means of a new grant offered to a team of experts. The new funding received by a group of archaeologists form Brown University and engineers from the National Science Foundation is aimed to chan... |
8 December 2008
09:20 GMT |
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The most dreaded events in the computer world, besides viruses, are definitely bugs. Even you must be praying for no crashes or freezes every now and then, maybe while reading this article. Perhaps even more so as the intricacy of modern multi-core chips grows and (more) programs perform multiple tasks, sharing data ... |
3 December 2008
07:24 GMT |
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Recently, a large group of experts led by a team from the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego managed to perform peta-scale simulations of the internal structure of the planet, breaking various records and barriers in the process. This is supposed to enable seismology experts to devise seismic models of wa... |
29 November 2008
01:21 GMT |
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Mactracker, a free utility app for Mac OS X that provides detailed information on all Apple products and their respective models has been updated recently to add new stuff to its knowledge base. The update also adds new features like the ability to export or print from the main window, as well as new information on A... |
26 November 2008
08:57 GMT |
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A new project with a bold goal has recently emerged: provide several crucial seconds of warning before an earthquake occurs. Following the example of the SETI@home project, the Quake Catcher Network (QCN) also relies on using a wide network of personal computers in order to do the job. The idea was surprisingly inspi... |
31 October 2008
08:15 GMT |
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MacMiniColo is an Internet hosting company that has shown quite a significant amount interest in Apple's low-end desktop Mac, the mini. It is now suggesting that a new Mac mini is on the way, in a piece called "State of the Mac mini," which also offers some interesting details on the alleged technical specificat... |
24 October 2008
04:48 GMT |
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Uber-fast computers operating 1,000 times the actual speed, 10 times more powerful magnifying microscopes, able to spy on the DNA directly, more efficient solar energy capturing devices, enhanced sensors or invisibility cloaks are only a few of the goals that the new optical science field promises to achieve. If prop... |
21 October 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Today, the attempts of repairing the glitch that has silenced the Hubble Space Telescope about 2 weeks ago have started. The ground technicians aim to revitalize some alternative computer components that have lied in a dormant state for over 18 years, since the $2 billion telescope was launched into space. A vas... |
15 October 2008
08:58 GMT |
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Around 1982, Steve Jobs (currently chief exec at Apple Inc.) was forced out of the Lisa project. While he went on to join the Macintosh project, the Lisa had been released to the public. Contrary to popular belief, the Macintosh is not a direct descendant of Lisa, although the similarities between the two systems wer... |
18 September 2008
09:28 GMT |
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A woman whose Internet connection dropped when she needed to do a month's work in six days apparently took hostage the technical support employee who came to fix the problem. Carol Sinclair, a 53-year-old Canadian actress and playwright, called her Internet provider when she realized that she couldn’t mana... |
5 September 2008
11:22 GMT |
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The market for all-in-one desktop computer systems is certainly growing as a number of new manufacturers are announcing their own all-in-one solutions. Currently, Apple is the undisputed leader, with major names such as HP, Dell, Gateway and Sony following in its footsteps, with their own products. Systems like the i... |
26 August 2008
11:04 GMT |
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You're working late on your computer one night and all of a sudden the power goes off. All your unsaved work goes to waste and you start cursing the electricity company as you have to do everything all over again. Don't you wish you had a UPS? A UPS, or an uninterruptible power source, is an electronic devi... |
11 July 2008
09:09 GMT |
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The next generation of powerful computers is just around the corner, claims a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has recently developed a new technique that would allow semiconductor manufacturers to integrate even more transistors on silicon chips. By using light with a wavelength... |
10 July 2008
09:54 GMT |
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Producing carbon nanotubes is easy - scientists cracked that secret more than a decade ago, albeit making them grow in an orderly fashion is somewhat more complicated. Or at least it was, because two teams of researchers have recently proven new methods through which carbon nanotubes can be sorted and organized so th... |
9 July 2008
10:16 GMT |
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A massive amount of gold and other precious metals is used every year to fabricate electronic consumer devices such as computers, television sets and mobile phones. It might not seem so obvious at first, but the landfill may literally be a gold mine. The real problem with recycling these metals is that the process is... |
8 July 2008
05:00 GMT |
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There goes the neighborhood! Leading chip manufacturer Intel has decided to launch a new website that is meant to provide support to first-time computer users. Simply dubbed PC.com, this website provides general information about how a desktop or a portable computer system is built, works and can be maintained. There... |
18 June 2008
05:46 GMT |
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With the help of one of the most powerful X-ray sources ever created by man, the Advanced Light Source housed at the Berkeley laboratory, researchers from the University of California, Columbia University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have recently been able to reveal more of the properties of the won... |
11 June 2008
10:57 GMT |
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ENIAC versus a modern digital computer - which one is faster? Well, ENIAC weighed about 27 tons and filled several rooms while a modern computer weighs less than ten kilograms and you can fill a single room with several hundreds of them, so if we were to judge the computing power according to size then ENIAC would ce... |
9 June 2008
05:23 GMT |
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Flash memories are solid state electronic devices with random access memory capabilities used for fast digital information storage. They are used in a wide range of applications, such as storing BIOS routines in typical digital computers, as medium capacity hard drives for digital cameras or as memory cards for lapto... |
31 May 2008
05:55 GMT |
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How about replacing silica computer chips with a living organism, such as E. coli? Digital computers today are very fast, however researchers believe that living computers could prove one day a lot faster and powerful than any other silicon supercomputer. And just to prove the concept, they have created such a living... |
31 May 2008
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Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine said in an interview yesterday that, with the help of brainwaves alone, monkeys are able to control robotic arms in order to grab onto and put food in their mouth. The technology behind the experiment could lead to the development of prosthetics powered... |
29 May 2008
09:21 GMT |
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The QWERTY keyboard standard was first introduced in 1874 by the Remington Number 1 typewriter produced by the Remington & Sons manufacturer and is currently used in the vast majority of keyboards on digital personal computers. But why is this, what difference does it make whether or not the keys are disposed in an o... |
28 May 2008
08:51 GMT |
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A huge colony of ants is reportedly chewing its way to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, destroying computer networks and even cars. The invasion may pose a security risk for the space center, which relies on electronics for its research, and the government agency has already called for exterminator suppor... |
16 May 2008
03:07 GMT |
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There are three ways through which a touch screen display can detect whether or not you are actually touching the display surface and the relative position of the object touching it: the resistive, capacitive or surface acoustic wave system.The resistive system operates by using a design involving a glass layer on to... |
12 May 2008
08:45 GMT |
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Remember that piece of news saying IBM was expanding its Mac Pilot Program? It sure looks like more companies are drawn into what the Mac can offer, at least from a security point of view. Salesforce plans to employ 4,000 Macs for its entire staff, a piece on 9to5mac reveals, making it one of the largest enterprise s... |
24 April 2008
18:31 GMT |
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I'm sure most of us, if not all, had or still have a home video game, or went to play arcade games at some point in time. You might have noticed a remote-like device resembling a firearm or a pistol that can be used to shoot objects displayed on a TV screen, generally referred to as a video game light gun. The p... |
21 April 2008
05:54 GMT |
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Have you ever noticed how as soon as you enter a computer shop the seller starts talking in some alien language, mentioning words such as 'L2 cache', '16 megabytes buffer' or 'virtual memory', but never has time to explain what those words really mean? If you have, then you're in th... |
18 April 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Browsing the web I came across this piece entitled "Apple's MacBook Air love affair." Eric Benderoff believes the MacBook Air is perfect as a secondary computing machine, because of its lacking storage space, optical drive and the only USB port available, a topic we've also covered a while ago (a bit negati... |
14 April 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Typical computers today have two main components interacting with each other dynamically in order to process data: the central processing unit and the memory core. The memory core of the computer relies mostly on magnetic components, while the central processing unit uses electrical signals to operate. Nonetheless, U... |
8 April 2008
06:44 GMT |
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Reality: everything that is, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. This pretty much means that the real world could be anything but what we expect or know it to be. Did you know that there is a great probability that we live in a computer simulation rather than that we actually exist in an ultimate reali... |
5 April 2008
07:23 GMT |
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Although computers don't absolutely require hard drives to work properly, almost everyone has at least a hard drive. Mainframes and servers may have several hundreds of such devices on which they store terabytes of information at a time. Before the appearance of hard drives, computers used magnetic tapes to stor... |
5 April 2008
05:39 GMT |
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Your life is made of web chatting, navigation, PC games and the list is endless. Some spend hours and even days without moving from the front of the computer; shower and food are skipped and only physiological needs force them for a few seconds out. But do you think that so much staring at a computer screen does not ... |
19 March 2008
15:51 GMT |
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Men around the world can now start celebrating the creation of the world's smallest diamond ring! Now everybody can afford a diamond ring. Too bad it is only 5 millionths of a meter in diameter and bears five-billionths of a carat of diamond, this meaning it can only be viewed through a microscope. The proud inv... |
15 March 2008
04:52 GMT |
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If you have problems remembering where you lost your 45 million dollar laptop, you should probably consider buying a pair of these weird-looking glasses. The Smart Goggles have the ability to remember where you last saw a particular lost item. This way, you can behave like a borg, have the memory of a borg and look l... |
14 March 2008
11:51 GMT |
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Stop looking for the most powerful computer in the world, you've already found it long ago, but are just not aware of it. We might not have the greatest memory to help us, however when it comes to processing power, our own brain is the ultimate computational machine. No wonder that computer processor designers a... |
11 March 2008
10:30 GMT |
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We have extremely powerful electronic computers these days and it's great, but scientists fear that we might not be so fortunate in the near future, as microchip minimization cannot go forever in order to supply the required computing power. Photonic crystals are just one of the solutions we could imply to creat... |
4 March 2008
06:01 GMT |
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This wonderous material called graphene was discovered in 2004 and quickly became one of the top contenders for the development of future ultrafast computer chips. It has an extremely good electrical conductivity, is a semiconductor and, last but not least, can be fashioned into very thin membranes. Recently, US rese... |
28 February 2008
06:39 GMT |
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MS developers admit using Macs. A certain blog post of a certain Microsoft developer has revealed what some people may consider shocking, upsetting or downright hilarious, or all. Brandon Paddock, who works on Search technology for Windows at Microsoft, says that Microsoft guys use Macs. Ok so...?Does anyone honestly... |
26 February 2008
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After spending millions and even more into software that would protect the computers from vicious attacks with ever new viruses, loggers and whatnot, the simplest method is the one that works best, provided access to the PC is granted. It's simple and everybody can do it, but only somebody more experienced can a... |
25 February 2008
15:46 GMT |
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We've stumbled upon yet another piece of evidence that, instead of turning us into snobs, Macs "bring science down to Earth" for everyone to understand and appreciate. Recent Apple Science news say that when producers at the American Museum of Natural History needed a next-gen environment to create high-definiti... |
21 February 2008
03:28 GMT |
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The computers will become more intelligent than the human beings within the next 20 years, if the computer industry keeps up with the actual progress. Scientific futurologists claim that the next 50 years will bring 32 times more technical progress than the entire 20th century. One of the most important achievements ... |
16 February 2008
05:58 GMT |
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