In the not so distant future, if you have been drinking, you may have to fool your own car, rather that the police to let you go. QinetiQ North America, a Waltham, Mass. R&D facility previewed a prototype automobile system that might stop you right dead in your drunk tracks. LaHood disputed that the technology would interfere with moderate social drinking, and said the threshold in cars would never be set below the legal limit. Comments
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Zuckerberg May Crash SNL
Well, this could be fun. It is a distinct possibility Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may just show up on the set of Saturday Night Live tonight. If he does show, it will be the fulfillment of an April Fool's Day joke and a big surprise to the host of SNL tonight, Jesse Eisenberg, who pulled off portraying Zuckerberg in the movie. Zuckerberg--who was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 2010--"has indicated he's interested...to show he has a sense of humor." Comments
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Kindle Books Outselling Paperbacks
Ever since Kindle e-readers made the scene, it was predicted that one day electronic books would overtake printed media in sales. Not even the hardiest of Amazon e-book supporters could have predicted it would come to pass this quickly. What's this mean? Well, it's not good news for brick-and-mortar bookstores. Comments
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Android Honeycomb Press Event Feb 2nd
The long awaited Honeycomb 3.0 tablet operating system is getting its official in-depth debut next Wednesday. Google will be hosting the four hour event at its Mountain View headquarters with stage presentations and hands-on demonstrations. Comments
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Google Testing Gmail Display Ads
Search Engine Land reports Google has been testing image ads in Gmail. The ads have been running on Gmail intermittently for the past week. "We're always trying out new ad formats and placements in Gmail, and we recently started experimenting with image ads on messages with heavy image content." Comments
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Lenovo, NEC Announce PC Joint Venture
In a move to capture a larger share of the Japanese computer market, NEC has partnered with Lenovo, the fourth largest computer manufacturer in the world. The joint venture is expected to be completed by June 30th. The advantage of the joint venture will be in combining NEC's product development capabilities with Lenovo's procurement resources, the companies said. Comments
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Windows 7 Hits 300 Million Mark
Microsoft has had many trips to the plate, so it was only a matter of time before they hit one out of the park. Windows 7 is proving itself to be the most popular operating system ever. "As of today, over 20 per cent of Internet-connected PCs worldwide are running Windows 7 according to Net Applications." Comments
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It's A Trap!
[H] reader Paul M. sent me a link to this comic and I just had to pass it on to you guys. Comments
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The World Now Has 2 Billion Internet Users
Is it crowded in here or is just me? "At the beginning of the year 2000 there were only 500 million mobile subscriptions globally and 250 million Internet users," he said. "By the beginning of this year 2011 those numbers have mushroomed to over five billion mobile users and two billion subscribers to the Internet," Toure added. Comments
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BMW Security Vehicle Training
Even though most of the techniques in this video might apply, I think the only thing these guys didn't cover in the video was a zombie outbreak. And, before you ask, this is a real video made by BMW. Comments
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How to Foil a Nationwide Internet Shutdown
LifeHacker has advice on getting around the nationwide internet shutdown in Egypt by using dial-up. I am a bit confused as to how people with no internet access are going to read a "how-to" article on the internet but here is an "A" for effort. Unless the Egyptian government kills all of the phone lines as well, you might remember one means of getting online that broadband has since relegated to obsolescence: dial-up. Comments
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PC Perspective Podcast #139
For those of you that like a little hardware news on the go (iTunes or downloadable MP3) or you are just too damn lazy to read, I recommend you try out PC Perspective's weekly podcast. This week the fellas discuss the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti, Catalyst 11.1a driver debates and more. This week we talk about the new GeForce GTX 560 Ti, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Catalyst 11.1a driver debates, Tegra 2 and beyond for NVIDIA's ARM architecture plus a lot more!
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Remembering the Challenger Disaster
Where were you when you heard about the Challenger disaster? The mainstream media has the historic reminiscences covered, so I thought I'd offer my version of what so many are discussing today in their homes and workplaces: where they were shortly before noon on Jan. 28, 1986, the day America lost seven astronauts to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Comments
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GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 Motherboard Review
The P67A-UD4 one of the newest releases from GIGABYTE supporting the socket LGA1155 Sandy Bridge processors. What the board does not have in features, it more than makes up for in style and raw performance.
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