Nvidia shaking up cloud-based gaming

pasmith — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Nvidia claims they can eliminate lag from cloud-based gaming while reducing costs for the game providers.

Occupy to get earful of sound cannon at Chicago NATO protest

KevinFogarty — Wed, 16 May 2012 00:04:19 +0000

Chicago police plan to use a pair of LRAD sound cannon only as communication devices to broadcast instructions to protesters expected to pack downtown Chicago this weekend to protest the NATO summit, not as the painful crowd dispersers as they were designed to be.

You know you’re talking too technically to your business users when...

Eric Bloom — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:57:40 +0000

As much as we love the technologies we use and how they work, most of our business users don’t. Business users are looking for solutions to their problems and not necessarily the behind-the-scenes technologies that make it work.

Google network admins wear blue short pants, according to this video

keithshaw — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:04:39 +0000

It must be hot in the Google data center, everyone's wearing shorts (at least in this animation).

Why even the least geeky are hot for solid-state drives

KevinFogarty — Tue, 15 May 2012 18:46:54 +0000

High cost and a reputation for flakiness limited sales of SSD flash drives as alternatives to hard drives. Cost and flakiness are still a little high, but both are dropping, making SSDs waaaay sexier to consumers than cloud or virtual storage, no matter what geeks think about it.

This is the golden age of Facebook privacy

dantynan — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:19:49 +0000

After Facebook's IPO, the only way the company can boost revenues is by sharing more and more of your data. So enjoy what little privacy you have left before it's gone.

How to make a recurve bow out of slingshot rubber

keithshaw — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:02:37 +0000

Tired of slingshot videos? Try on this bow and arrow (made from slingshots) video for size.

Facebook IPO sucker scheme task list almost complete

Chris Nerney — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:00:56 +0000

Facebook's long campaign to set up suckers for its IPO is nearly complete. Suckers, please report to the starting gate.

Watch some puppets play classic video games

keithshaw — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:46:51 +0000

Relive some classic video game moments with puppet commentary.

Pondering the future of Skype

bproffitt — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:19:32 +0000

Skype for Linux seems poised for movement after many months of stagnation. But with all the competition, is Skype itself about to fade away?

Rdio rolls out its new design to free users

pasmith — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:30:00 +0000

Back at SXSW streaming music service Rdio introduced a redesign to paying customers. Now free users have it, too.

Taking the measure of big data: More is more

Irfan Khan — Tue, 15 May 2012 12:00:00 +0000

Some believe that 99.9% of big data is worthless, but I disagree. What you might discard as worthless today, may be useful to another analyst tomorrow. It depends on the questions you ask the data, how you ask them, and when.

Where did 'cloud' come from?

KevinFogarty — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:30:45 +0000

Empowering users, threatening IT, making technology purchases a no-brainer? Why couldn't it have gotten here sooner? (Or why did it have to come at all, if you're among the naysayers in IT.)

Kaspersky doubles up slam at Apple, Mac OS X

KevinFogarty — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:11:41 +0000

Two Kaspersky Labs top execs publicly and explicitly slammed Apple for poor security in recent weeks as Apple customers go through the pain of growing into malware targets and Kaspersky makes a big push to round up new customers for its cloud security service. Apple users, maybe.

Why people yawn when others yawn

keithshaw — Mon, 14 May 2012 21:03:24 +0000

Why is yawning contagious? It's not just because we're all tired.

How many more Scott Thompsons are out there?

Chris Nerney — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:41:38 +0000

Scott Thompson may be gone from Yahoo, but many of you still are reporting to a phony running your own department or company.

The real limits of cloud computing

bproffitt — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:33:20 +0000

Is Google Drive the functionality that will harbor a new age of personal cloud computing?

Watch 60,000 dominoes fall down almost instantly

keithshaw — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:02:56 +0000

The walls go down much faster than they go up in the world of domino building...

Math Monday: Fun with Infinity

keithshaw — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:00:21 +0000

Time travel and counting to infinity always gives me headaches.

The enemy of SMS is my ... ?

kevinpurdy — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:58:18 +0000

As previously noted in this space, text messaging, or SMS, is a scam and it needs to die. I suggested that Google Voice, Kik Messenger, and Apple’s iMessage could help kill it off. Yet it’s really a fourth, much more obvious service that will be the death of SMS.