PC Magazine Goes Out Of Print — Founded in 1982 and at times so rich with ads its issues reached as many as 600 pages, Ziff Davis’s PC Magazine will issue its last print edition this January, thereafter becoming an online-only publication. Ziff Davis, which recently exited bankruptcy will lay off seven print production [...]
An international team of physicists has applied the ideas of cloaking to the quantum world and worked out how to hide quantum objects such as molecules. In the quantum world, seeing is equivalent to detecting a quantum object. In the case of molecules, that means looking for the terahertz radiation they produce when they vibrate [...]
This Monday Intel is scheduled to release its next generation processor, the Intel Core i7. While we have long since moved away from names like Pentium 4 and such it seems, there seems to be a great deal of excitement for Intel’s new chip.
Early benchmarks show a pretty significant performance improvement over the previous generation. [...]
Cell phone boarding passes coming to an airline near you — The next time you head over to the security line at the airport, you may not have to fish around for your boarding pass in order to get past the TSA agents. Instead, you’ll be able to flash your phone or PDA … [...]
Fully digital living room still a few years away — Futurists and device makers have long imagined a world in which consumers can access movies, music, television programs and other media content from their sofas at the touch of a button.
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NASA says its Phoenix lander on the surface of Mars has gone silent and is almost certainly dead. Engineers have not heard from the craft since Sunday 2 November when it made a brief communication with Earth.
Phoenix, which landed on the planet’s northern plains in May, had been struggling in the increasing cold and [...]
A company that specializes in the customization of Smart Cars unveiled this week a SMART CAR BATMOBILE. The company is smart42parts.com, and the car is called the Batsmart. This golf-cart-like Eurocar is designed to intimidate, complete with bat-wing tail fins, scowling headlights and organ-style exhaust pipes. They unveiled the car at an automotive trade [...]
Amazon’s new Frustration-Free Packaging initiative. Over several years the retailer hopes to convince many of its suppliers to offer consumer-friendlier packaging. It’s starting with just 19 products from Mattel, Fisher-Price, Microsoft, and Transcend. From Amazon’s announcement: “The Frustration-Free Package is recyclable and comes without excess packaging materials such as hard plastic clamshell casings, plastic bindings, [...]
Congratulations to select AT&T broadband consumers in Reno, Nevada. They’re about to be enrolled in a little “usage tier” experiment whether they like it or not.
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A $9,500 LOUNGE CHAIR THAT FLOATS ABOVE THE GROUND VIA MAGNETS — yeah, a maglev chair — is on display at Britain’s gadget show called Stuff Live.
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