Technology | 14 Perspectives

14 Perspectives

Technology, Gaming, Movies, TV & The Internet

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The GitHub Generation

GitHub was intended to be an open software collaboration platform, but it’s become a platform for much, much more than code. It’s now being used by artists, builders, home owners, everyone in between, entire...

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Flying Drone Armed with a Paintball Gun

It’s a little bit of a commentary on the proliferation of drone warfare and a lotta bit of cool DIY skills. Milo Danger designed, built, flew and shot the armed drone to see how...

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How To Build Your Own Tablet For $400

“The Beagle tablet is a portable modular open source handheld computer,” says Justin Huynh, director of product development at Liquidware. “It’s all about customizability and embedded development.” The BeagleBoard is a single board computer...

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Vancouver 2010 Olympics’ IT Department

It’s pretty impressive how calm and quiet the control room behind Alvarsson seems to be, considering all the hardware jam-packed in the room: 6,000 PCs, 800 servers, 800 networking devices and 130 terabytes of...

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Boxee + Windows 7 Media Center Integration

Boxee Integration 1.0 provides an easy way for users to go back and forth between Windows Media Center and Boxee. When clicking on Boxee in Windows 7 Media Center, the software automatically closes Windows...

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Resurrection of a Broken Laptop into an All-in-One Desktop Computer

Resurrection of a Broken Laptop “A frequent point of failure on laptops is the hinges—we’ve seen more than our fair share of wobbly, broken, and glued together ones....

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Web Design Industry Jargon

Industry jargon for web designers and enthusiasts.

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The iPhone Becomes A Web Server

“A new iPhone application which just debuted in Japan’s App Store transforms the hand-held into a full-blown web server.”

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Intel to Shut Four Plants, Lay Off 6,000

Amidst a bevy of bad news in the PC market, Intel Corp. took two corrective steps this week, aggressively slashing prices on chips on Monday and announcing today that it will close four chip...

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Circuit City to Shut Down Remaining 567 Stores

Bankrupt electronics retailer Circuit City Inc. said Friday it will close its remaining 567 U.S. stores and sell all its merchandise. “The company said it has 34,000 employees.”

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Scifi’s Greatest Space Builders – And How We’ll Copy Them

An interesting read about how sci-fi intercepts reality.

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Microsoft Surface Sphere

This is old news but I thought I’d post the link up here for those of you that didn’t catch this a year ago. The practical purposes for such a device are numerous. [Via...

FCC Finally Tells Comcast No

Comcast has been throttling certain types of internet traffic for some time now. This is old news but surprisingly the FCC actually ruled that it was illegal. The type of traffic at the forefront of the debate is peer...

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How-To Restore a Bricked WRT54G v2.02

I’m doing a pretty good job of screwing stuff up lately. Previously I wrote about the great computer crash of ’05. Well, yesterday I crashed (Bricked) my Linksys router. Why do they call it Brick instead of crash? Because...