Flight Attendants Want to Reinstate Gadget Ban
As was predicted when the ban was lifted, the rules change allowing passengers to use electronic devices during takeoffs and landings has been challenged by the Association of Flight Attendants in the US Court of Appeals.
The flight attendants said the FAA violated the rule-making process when it lifted restrictions that prevented passengers from using electronic devices on takeoffs and landings.
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Polish Town Builds a Statue in Honor of Wikipedia
I like Wikipedia as well as the next guy, but nowhere to the extent of Professor Krzysztof Wojciechowski of the Colegium Polonicum in the small Polish town of Slubice. He has spearheaded the drive to raise the approximate $15K that was needed to build a statue in the town honoring Wikipedia.
The monument — a tribute to an entire community working selflessly for the benefit of others — we found interesting and worthy of being in Slubice.
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Telltale's Game of Thrones Game Receives Ironwood Teaser
If you are a big fan of the HBO series Game of Thrones and can't wait for the game to be released, Telltale Games has just sent out another teaser via Twitter, but no real info on the game as of yet.
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Dell Pushes Alienware 18's CPU to a Face-Meltingly Fast 4.4GHz
On Thursday, Dell announced its fastest-ever laptop, the Alienware 18, sporting an overclocked i7 running at 4.4GHz. A little on the go performance gaming, perhaps?
Alienware engineers really got creative and developed a new thermal solution to ensure reliable and cool operation in such a small system.
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'CoD: Advanced Warfare' Offering Free Digital New-Gen Upgrades
Activision is sweetening the pot when it comes to bridging the generation gap between Xbox 360/One and PS3/4. Activision is counting on boosting holiday season sales of CoD: Advanced Warfare by making it a 'buy once' experience for gamers upgrading to next-gen consoles.
The promotion applies to all games purchased before March 31st, 2015, leaving a lengthy window of time if players take a while to finally pick up a new-gen system.
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Blue LEDs Given Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the three scientists who perfected the blue LED which led to the lighting revolution that we are presently experiencing. The LED in theory, has been around for over a hundred years, but with improvements and materials being refined, the LED has only recently come into its own.
This year's prize stands in sharp contrast to last year's award in physics, which went to the development of the theory that suggested the existence of the Higgs boson.
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Microsoft Promises Its Surface Project Is Here To Stay
Fighting off rumors on the Internet that Microsoft is about to abandon the Surface device line of tablets, Microsoft's CEO countered by announcing on Thursday that the company fully supports the Surface line and will continue to do so into the future.
So, Microsoft has made a public pact that the Surface project is here to stay, and that the Pro line has more or less gelled in its form factor.
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Dairy Queen Says Customer Data Hacked in 46 States
This comes down to a simple question: Is nothing sacred anymore? It's bad when hackers install malicious software to steal customer information at banks, department stores and home improvement places, but Dairy Queen? Really? These hackers really have a mean streak in them even ice cream couldn't cure.
Computers at Dairy Queen locations, and one Orange Julius smoothie stores, were infected by the malicious software, Backoff, which has been targeting retailers since it first surfaced a year ago, International Dairy Queen said late on Thursday.
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Holograms and 3D Porn: Expert Predictions for a Gigabit Internet
A new survey by the Pew Research Center concerning the future of a gigabit Internet environment brought some interesting insight to what the 1400 Internet experts that were interviewed were thinking. The short answer is holograms, immersive gaming and 3D pornography. I like where this is going.
Games, films, shopping for cars and vacations, and (of course) porn will all become immersive 3D experiences. So will the 2025 version of that primitive tool that we call Skype today.
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Mojang Reassures Minecraft Fans About Microsoft Deal
Mojang is responding to its fanbase worries over the Microsoft takeover of the company, reassuring its many users that it will continue to be business as usual. The company will continue to rely and depend on its gamers for feedback and comments for new gaming development.
Maintaining that original culture is really difficult. It's a culture which respects the community and allows that community to do what they want with the game and make it theirs.
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Symantec's Board Votes to Split the Company in Two
It looks like HP may have started a mini-trend of sorts: Symantec has followed the lead of HP and voted to split the company into separate Security and Information Management companies.
The separate companies will have more flexibility and be able to focus better on their respective areas.
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NFL Fines 49ers Quarterback $10K for Wearing Beats Headphones
We told you last week that the NFL banned the wearing of Beats headphones anywhere in camera range due to an exclusivity clause with Bose. The first test of this new rule fell to no other than Colin Kaepernick of the 49ers.
Today's development comes less than one week after the NFL confirmed to Re/code that players and coaches are not allowed to wear headphone products during interviews other than those made by Bose.
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Sprint to Turn Off WiMAX 4G in Nov. 2015
This week Sprint finally threw in the towel on its once revolutionary WiMAX 4G network. As of November 2015, the WiMax network will shut down and revert the remaining last-gen handsets to 3G according to a leaked newsletter revealed to Android Central.
But things were very different a half-decade ago. At that time WiMAX looked as if it could be poised to dominate the U.S. cellular market as the fourth generation cellular network standard of choice.
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Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working
After 15 hours of downtime and many frustrated users, Belkin claimed victory over the issues that shut down its routers and prevented them from connecting with the Internet. The official company statement sounds like Orc mischief to me.
Even with this explanation, it's a scary thought that a local networking device can be disabled or even controlled from a remote server.
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New $50/Year Chromebooks for Work Subscription Option
This week Google initiated a new payment option for its business customers subscribing to Chromebooks for Work. The plan now can be renewed on an annual basis, bringing with it several new perks and features not available with the one-time payment plan.
With this, Google now gives businesses the option to either pay a one-time fee of $150 for access to the management console and support, or to subscribe to this new $50/year/device plan.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Overclocking Video Card Review
The new NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 makes overclocking GPUs a ton of fun again. Its extremely high clock rates achieved when you turn the right dials and sliders result in real world gaming advantages. We will compare it to a GeForce GTX 780 Ti and Radeon R9 290X; all overclocked head-to-head.
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LEPA LV12 CPU Air Cooler for Intel and AMD Processors
LEPA is moving into CPU air cooling and we have its first cooler for review today, the LV12. LEPA claims that its new louvered fin designed gives it an advantage and surely we will test that. It also claims that the it supplies "Silence with High Performance." Let's see if LEPA can give us our money's worth.
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Seasonic PLATINUM-1050 Power Supply Review
Seasonic is one of our long-time favorites when it comes to truly high-end power supplies. The new PLATINUM-1050 PSU claims to deliver excellent power efficiency and does so with a fully modular design. Seasonic is often known designing products with excellent sound profiles. Does the PLATINUM-1050 fit the profile?
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MSI X99S XPower AC LGA 2011-v3 Motherboard Review
MSI's X99S XPower AC has a bundle heavy enough to crush woodland creatures and about as many features as you could possibly want and then some. MSI's XPower series represents the pinnacle of what MSI offers and as a result we have high expectations for the X99S XPower AC.
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