Scientists Discover Superhenge with Hi-Tech Mapping Techniques
Scientists are several steps closer to discovering the true scope and purpose of Stonehenge. Using modern mapping technology, scientists are beginning to grasp the enormity of the site they now call Superhenge. Scientists now date the original site back to sometime around 3000 BCE.
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LA TV Stations Free Up Airwaves for Wireless Broadband
Let the auction begin! Two L.A. TV stations have agreed to double up on a frequency, freeing up a large chunk of unused spectrum that will go up for auction next year to be 'repackaged' for use in the wireless broadband market.
So this week's agreement is good news for the FCC, especially as it's happening in the second-biggest TV market in the country, after New York City.
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Intel Introduced Its Newest Creation: The Smart Wheelchair
Intel has been working with Dr. Stephen Hawking on an Internet of Things project for the past ten years. The new concept wheelchair is described as 'a custom platform that can transform standard wheelchairs into data driven, connected machines.
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The NSA Has a Plan to Map the Entire Internet
Edward Snowden: The gift that keeps on giving and giving. In the latest revelation from Snowden's exposé of the NSA, we find the NSA and British GCHQ planning to map the entire Internet in a program they have dubbed the Treasure Map. Not so sinister, you say? Read on
Der Spiegel's report details how the Treasure Map program plays a far more aggressive role. The program apparently aids in "Computer Attack/Exploit Planning," offering "a kind of battlefield map for cyber warfare."
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DirecTV Sees Smooth Path to AT&T Merger
Reports from Reuters are confirming that the DirecTV/AT&T merger is definitely on and should be completed somewhere in the 2Q15. The deal has been reported to net DirecTV $48.5 Billion for the acquisition.
This is a unique opportunity that will redefine the video entertainment industry and create a company able to offer new bundles and deliver content to consumers across multiple screens–mobile devices, TVs, laptops, cars, and even airplanes.
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AVG Claims Zero Day Protection
We've all heard it before from other antivirus companies claiming that they have the solution to zero-day type malware, but they never seem to live up to expectations. AVG is the latest to introduce detection of Zero-Day malware before it does harm to your computer without knowing what it is looking for. I've always loved the occult side of computer technology.
AVG has not made any claims of protection from zero day threats in its previous software so it must be fairly confident that this version of screening must do something a little different.
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Tesla's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal with Nevada
If you were wondering exactly why Tesla Motors chose to build its 'Gigafactory' in Nevada over other states that were willing to give even bigger tax breaks, the answer is simple: uncontested direct sales to the public.
Lawmakers in a special session also exempted Tesla from a law requiring new cars to be sold through dealers, and reduced tax breaks for filmmakers and insurance companies to do business in Nevada
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The Sad, Inevitable Oculus Rift Boob-Grabbing Game Is Here
Ah, the inscrutable Japanese and their never ending quest for the ultimate in the strange and the weird (and the downright creepy). We knew specific games centering around sexual themes would be forthcoming on the Oculus Rift (no pun intended) , but never thought it might this soon. Never fear, future pervs, it's a surety that more VR sex games will be making their debut sooner than later.
To be honest, I think it's less messed up to grab a pair of artificial bazongas than it is to practice shooting virtual guns. But don't get me wrong. This is creepy.
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Verizon Could Blow Up TV As We Know It Next Year
Verizon is looking to shake up the Internet entertainment business by jumping in with both feet with a launch planned for the company to have its own digital video service up and running by the middle of 2015.
"I think over-the-top video is right around the corner," McAdam's said according to the Journal. "We've got the assets in place, and I don't feel like we need an awful lot more."
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AMD CEO Lays Out the Company's Two-Year Roadmap
Sometimes the best way to learn what a tech company has planned for its future movements is through third parties and in this case especially so when making a presentation to a banking institution. Rory Read, AMD's CEO, talks frankly to Deutsche Bank this week on AMD's roadmap for future development.
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PC 'FIFA 15' Catches Up With Xbox One and PS 4
PC owners and FIFA 15 aficionados, the FIFA 15 demo awaits your download prior to the September 23rd release date in the US. This will be the first time the Ignite engine has been used on the PC platform.
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T-Mobile US Adds 552K Postpaid Customers in August
T-Mobile is having a good month; a really good month. It looks like everyone suddenly wants a piece of the company. From customers, both prepaid and postpaid, to investors wanting to buy the company outright, T-Mobile is in demand.
For now the thought process for us is that we are in a position of strength. We are a company that has a viable standalone path but a brand and capability that people are interested in.
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Apple Quietly Retires iPod Classic
After thirteen years in production in six different generations, not to mention it was the device that brought Apple roaring back into the spotlight, the iPod has officially been discontinued as of September 9th.
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$2.5 Billion Microsoft/Mojang Deal Announcement on Monday?
To all those of you who were worried that Microsoft buying out Minecraft would ruin the franchise and the deal might actually happen, you may now put that fear into overdrive. According to a Reuters report, Microsoft and Mojang will announce the acquisition for the price of $2.5 Billion dollars on Monday.
As for why, it's speculated that Microsoft might attempt to use Mojang—and Minecraft, specifically—to drum up more interest in the Windows Phone platform.
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