But the tech industry has a dirty little secret: it has toxic waste of its own. Phones and computers contain dangerous metals like lead, cadmium and mercury, which can contaminate the air and water when those products are dumped.
Officially, this shouldn't be happening. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal was established by the UN in 1989 to control the hazardous garbage flowing from rich countries to…
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“A few emerging technologies aim to make more objects — both in real life and in computers — behave like hyperlinks. An upcoming version of the program Hyperwords, now limited to web browsers, will work with any open window on your computer.”
The program is like hyperlinking on steroids — combined with right-clicking on steroids. For example, highlight "100" and — within the right-click menu — convert that figure from miles to…
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A new study suggests that attitude rather than availability may be the key reason why more Americans don’t have high-speed Internet access.
Pew's telephone study of 2,251 U.S. adults, including 1,553 Internet users, was conducted April 8 to May 11 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. The error margins for subgroups are higher — plus or…
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The launch of the open source Firefox 3 web browser has set the new Guinness World Record for the largest number of software downloads in 24 hours. Mozilla’s mirrors served 8,002,530 complete, individual downloads during the download day event following the official release of Firefox 3 last month.
The download day grassroots marketing campaign was orchestrated by Mozilla's global marketing team. When the idea was first announced to the public in May, Mozilla encouraged enthusiasts to pledge in advance. Over 1.7 million users from…
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A German supermarket is encouraging customers to scan and ring up their shopping using mobile phones, and check out without the help of a cashier. It is one of the number of innovations at the new “Future Store” - as Steve Rosenberg discovered when he went along to do his weekly shopping.
emp_load.getEmpEmbeddedParams(”emp_7476672″); A German supermarket is encouraging customers to scan and ring up their shopping using mobile phones, and check out without the help of a cashier. It is one of the number of…
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Time Magazine takes a look at modern robots in this slideshow.
We don't want to fight addicts; we want to fight addiction.
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Will future humans have computers implanted in their brains? Researchers are developing a neural implant that can think independently?just like the human brain does. Creepy? Yeah. Cool? Definitely. Scientists at the University of Florida arent just creating a neural implant that can translate human brain signals….
Marvel Comics first coined the term symbiote to denote a sentient organism that bonds with other organisms in a co-captain style of control where both organisms think synergistically'although the symbiote always seems to have the upper…
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After just 7 days, Mozilla's Firefox 3 release has already been downloaded more than 20,000,000 times and makes up about 1 in 20 Internet users worldwide.
I tried first to imagine a really large stadium, new Wembly or the L.A. Coliseum for example, (both ~90K seats.). I can picture that in my mind's eye. But I can't quite make a picture of 200 of those
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What would the best geek epitaph be? A question fertile for outrageous humor, witty comments, and downright geeky cheekiness. Here are some beaming examples:
Royal HeHe2-ness is a world where free software is valued, nay sought for!! While proprietary software is banished, degraded and ridiculed till the end of times.
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GREAT ESSAY: “Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology. Forget taxonomy, ontology, and psychology. Who knows why people do what they do? The point is they do it, and we can track and measure it with unprecedented fidelity. With enough data, the numbers speak for themselves.”
But faced with massive data, this approach to science — hypothesize, model, test — is becoming obsolete. Consider physics: Newtonian models were crude approximations of the truth (wrong at the atomic level, but still…
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Steve Sires has been impersonating Bill Gates for a decade now, and following him into retirement might not be any different. Sires, who has a trademark on the name Bogus Bill, is toning down his second career, looking only to cherry-pick assignments that either pay well or bring him to a part of the world he has not seen.
His most dramatic Bill-gig was playing the Microsoft co-founder in a 2002 mockumentary about police misconduct and cover-up in Los Angeles called “Nothing So Strange.” In the graphic opening scene Gates/Sires is fatally shot…
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Manufactured diamonds have become indistinguishable from their natural counterparts.
HEALTHY SMOKES “We asked sports champions,” declared a magazine ad for Camel cigarettes in 1935. Camels, the sports champions responded, not only give you energy, but also “healthy nerves,” as the Olympic…
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Imagine a world where the internet is so fast that personal data storage units are obsolete, and HD films can be downloaded in seconds. With the switching on of the CERN particle accelerator this year, technology has taken one step closer to that reality.
One lucky winner will have the chance to swing like Tiger Woods, dunk like Michael Jordan or tackle like Jonah Lomu. Yes, were giving away NBA Live 08, Rugby 08 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08.
