Do you worry that your friends in cyberspace will quickly forget about you after you've passed on? Well, don't: Facebook will keep your profile as a memorial.
Animals (and, yes, that includes humans) emit millions of tons of methane a year, generally via belching. Read on to find out which species are the worst offenders.
A new system is gaining popularity, whereby many services that a doorman would normally offer are being provided by a person in a "command center" miles away.
In many rural communities, notices about upcoming funeral services are posted in stores that so that friends and neighbors can get the word in time to attend. In big-city Des Moines, though, a different method is needed.
When it comes to the ideal spinning blades for a flying machine, "Nature has worked on this for millions of years and perfected it and it has optimal dynamic properties," says Darryll Pines, dean of the University of Maryland's Clark School of Engineering.
Dear morons everywhere: Did you know that Facebook does not exist on some plane completely removed from the mundane realities of the legal system, and that you can get in trouble for things you do with it, just as you could with any other form of communication?
If you're not afraid of your users, you should be, concludes a study by iYogi. No, wait, that's what I concluded after reading the press release about iYogi's Windows 7 research project.
Actual Mayans (who are still very much alive, thanks) are getting increasingly irritated by the 2012 end-of-the-world hype. Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun says, "I came back from England last year and, man, they had me fed up with this stuff."
Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the World Wide Web, doesn't have a lot of regrets about his creation, but one thing does nag at him: the slashes.
Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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