Looking for the ultimate package deal of the day? Then you won’t want to pass up this sweet offer by seller Murcielago8898 on eBay. Right now if you purchase a 2004 Aracor Eagle, which is an X-ray scanner used in dockyards and seaports to examine the contents of shipping containers, you get a bonus that will [...]

I’m guessing I’m not alone when I admit my love of old computer photos. Anything before the PC era is sure to catch my attention, so I was more than happy to stumble on to these images from IBM. This delightful gallery is from a 1964 marketing booklet that was pushing the company’s System/360 mainframe.

Check out the [...]

Last week, we reported that the Japan Sumo Association had come up with a solution to improve communication by handing out iPads. It seems the problem was the sumo wrestlers were challenged by using their big fingers on small keyboards. Unfortunately, the rest of us can’t simply buy an iPad to improve our accuracy with [...]

NASA is currently working on the next generation of launchers called the Constellation class. The launchers will be capable of 3.6 million pounds of thrust and are descendants of the solid rocket boosters used to launch the space shuttle. As part of the work on the new launchers NASA performed a stationary two-minute, full-scale test [...]

Sony has announced the global launch of a new line of Readers. The announcement comes in the wake of a price war between Amazon and Barnes & Noble over their e-readers and the news that Borders will soon offer a $99 e-reader in its stores. It’s clear though that Sony isn’t interested in making a [...]

Apart from iOS 4.1 that was announced today in a media event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco, Apple also gave us a sneak peek at some of the features that are coming in iOS 4.2. Rather than reveal the full feature set of the software, Steve Jobs, who [...]

As of today, third-parties are only allowed to connect to your Twitter account using the secure OAuth method. As a result, malicious apps cannot suck out your credentials into the cloud and legit clients cannot be compromised because they never store or send this information each time you use them.
Another important benefit to using OAuth [...]

A semi-official confirmation has appeared today concerning an alleged iPhone 4 revision supposed to fix the nasty antenna issue, better known in the headlines as Antennagate. The bomb was dropped by a high-ranked carrier executive who publicly promised his company would have an improved handset on sale by the end of September.
Mexican carrier Telcel announced the arrival [...]

The website Android.com.pl has posted specs, images and video of the yet to be released LG E900 smartphone powered by Windows Phone 7. Some specs posted about the phone reveal that it is powered by Qualcomm’s 1.3 GHz Snapdragon processor (QSD8650). Other specs include:
-          3.7 capacitive TFT LCD display
-          Light sensor
-          [...]

If you can’t beat them, join them – that’s a convenient summary of a Monday announcement by MySpace that it is now possible to sync status updates with a Facebook profile or Page. In addition, you can also share MySpace posts like music, videos, links, and photos with your friends on Facebook. Any status update [...]

What does Penny Arcade, Sam & Max, Team Fortress and Strong Bad have in common? Nothing.

Now that video chatting service Chatroulette has become a verified phenomenon, its owner is hoping to attract advertisers with a revamped version meant to be less about naked people and more about making money.
At least that’s what the site’s founder, a 17-year-old kid from Moscow, is hoping to achieve. The first reactions, however, leave a [...]

If you are looking for a Saturday video break, then you can’t go wrong with Little Big Berlin. It’s a 9 minute look at the German capital, complete with enjoyable music (composed by Franz Liszt) and some amazing visuals. It gives viewers a fun look at the city as well as the lives of its inhabitants.
If [...]

When you think of a typical Apple Store you think of clean artistic lines and a calming atmosphere which accentuates the beauty of Apple’s computers and iPhones. At least, that’s what the marketing material says. It’s an Apple Store’s typical sterile environment which makes pictures of a robbery at one that much more dramatic.

9To5Mac is [...]

Chances are, if you own an 8-core Mac Pro then you really don’t need to consider overclocking it as the system is more than fast enough. But if you’d like a quieter machine with the option of overclocking, then liquid cooling is the way forward.
Asetek have carried out just such an experiment pitting a liquid-cooled [...]

When the iPad first debuted, a lot of people declared e-paper totally dead.
It was a silly position for people to take: while e-paper doesn’t have the colors or vibrancy or refresh rates of an LCD display, it’s easier on the eyes for reading and has clear advantages in power draw. But here’s a larger point: [...]

Target will now be accepting trade-ins of used video games and more, the retail store announced earlier this week.

When it comes to desktop, laptop and server chips, Intel’s pretty much got a lock on the market… but there’s a lot to worry about. Everyone can see the writing on the wall: mobile chips and architectures are the future of computing thanks to the popularity of smartphones, but Intel doesn’t have anything to offer [...]

The iPhone game that sold nearly seven million copies in less than nine months is coming to the PlayStation, UK publisher Chillingo confirmed yesterday. In addition, Angry Birds landed on Palm’s phones on Tuesday.
The latter port supports the Palm Pre and Pre Plus running webOS 1.4.5 and “additional availability” is reportedly coming soon. The PlayStation [...]

Keeping tabs on social feeds and cutting through the noise has become a tad easier as Google gives its once experimental Realtime Search a new home and adds useful new features. From now on, you can access a brand new Realtime Search interface at www.google.com/realtime, Google’s product manager Dylan Casey announced in a blog post [...]

The Telegraph is reporting that the Japan Sumo Association may have come up with a solution around its goal of improving communication. It seems that the most common form of quick communication carried by most folks, the mobile phone, is a bit of a challenge for sumo wrestlers. That’s because the wrestlers have a problem [...]

Mozilla posted the fourth beta of its Firefox 4 browser on Tuesday. The release comes with a brand new interface that takes tab management to the next level. Aptly named Panorama and invoked by clicking a new tile button on the rightmost end of the tab toolbar, it looks like a visual overview of your [...]

Although you can certainly buy louder, richer, better and more expensive, Logitech is still a name to reckon with when it comes to PC speakers thanks to their above-average sound and build quality at incredibly decent prices. The excellent and value of their latest Z623 system, then, shouldn’t take anyone by surprise.
This isn’t a complicated [...]

It’s a standard cartoon trope: a freshly cleaned window, a stupid bird just minding his own business, and then — ka-blammo — fresh, dashed-out bird brains streaking down the pane.
This really does happen. I speak as the owner of a particularly stupid bird, Humbert J. Humbird, who has never met a window he doesn’t [...]