Apple today received a patent on a head-mounted laser video display. Now that the three-year old application has finally been approved, Steve Jobs ca…
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David Schwartz, who laid the foundation for MP3 with his undergraduate and PhD work in the eighties, has another big idea: a microphone that uses lasers and smoke to detect the minute variations in air pressure the rest of us call “sound.” His invention appears to be the world’s first laser micropho…
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I don’t know about you, but I much prefer reading long documents in hard-copy form than on-screen. I seem to read faster, and it’s easier to read from a book or magazine in bed than on a laptop.
I’m fortunate…
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coondoggie writes “The airborne military laser which promises to destroy, damage or disable targets with little to no collateral damage has for the first time actually blown something up. Boeing and the US Air Force today said that on Aug. 30, a C-130H aircraft armed with Boeing’s Advanced Tactical …
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With the launch of Windows 7 coming up next month, Microsoft is working hard t…
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Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal’s Nick Wingfield broke a story on Microsoft selling a group of patents to a third party. The end result of this story is good for Linux, even though it doesn’t placat…
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Ubuntu isn’t the only Linux operating system, but it’s where the dream of a usable, completely free desktop is closest to reality. If every Ubuntu developer were assembled at one place, here are five things we’d ask them to accomplish.
Image by Andrew Mason.
Ubuntu’s not a single service or application develope…
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Anyone who owns a Time Capsule can tell you that while Wi-Fi storage isn’t the fastest solution, it’s certainly convenient.
LG’s N2R1, available this fall in 1TB (9) a…
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Microsoft has confirmed reports that it is equipped to train Best Buy employees in the fine art of trashing Linux — or rather, the “important differences between Linux computers and Windows computers.” Less than a week ago news broke that the software giant was “indoctrinating” Best Buy workers in …
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eldavojohn writes “It’s frequent that we hear of a country or city or company switching from Windows to Linux, but it’s rare that we hear of one third of a million employees being told to use Lotus Symphony (IBM’s OO.o variant) over MS Office, and also to use the Open Document Format when saving fil…
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