@gruber: If you think of it as a miracle that wireless networking works at all, AT&T is doing just fine. Gawd, this made me lol. No, really. All my iPhone-loving buds curse AT&T while they simultaneously stroke their phones. Me included. If they think it’s painful now, wait until enough of the new iPhone [...]
Parking on Campus a Snap With Carleton Professor’s App Ottawa Citizen (06/16/10) Pilieci, Vito Carleton University professor Dwight Deugo has developed iParked.ca, a system that enables users to pay for parking at campus lots with a text message. The system reads the text messages from drivers and catalogs the payment and license plate information. The [...]
May 25: intexticated Describes people who drive while sending text messages on their phones. “Dude, what was THAT?!” “Probably just some intexticated highschooler.” “How did she get in a car accident?” “She was intexticated.”
Yale Scientists Explain Why Computers Crash But We Don’t Yale University (05/03/10) Hathaway, Bill Yale University researchers have described why computers tend to malfunction more than living organisms by analyzing the control networks in both an E-coli bacterium and the Linux operating system. Both systems are arranged in hierarchies, but with some key differences in [...]
HTML 5 Could Challenge Flash Technology Review (03/23/10) Naone, Erica The Adobe Flash plugin has maintained its status as one of the most common ways for developers to create complex interactive Web features irrespective of the browser or operating system used, but experts point to new browser technologies such as the HTML 5 open Web [...]
Tech Industry Searching for Girls Gone Geek MSNBC (02/21/10) Tahmincioglu, Eve The flagging attraction of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professions to young women is partly attributed to the geek factor, or the perception of such careers as uncool, socially isolating, and primarily geared toward males. The National Center for Women & Information Technology [...]
Tomorrow’s Forecast: Clear With a Chance of Tremors University of Texas at Austin (02/10/10) Dubrow, Aaron The goal of the Southern California Earthquake Center’s (SCEC’s) CyberShake project is to accurately predict earthquake activity for the next 50 years. The CyberShake predictions, called seismic hazard maps, have the potential to preserve lives and save billions of [...]
Network World (02/22/10) Marsan, Carolyn Duffy Leading universities are reporting that enrollment in computer science and engineering is up significantly this year as students discover computer-related degrees offer better job prospects and earnings potential. “The government has made it clear that computer science is a growth field, and I think that message is getting back [...]
Join TV geek Adam Savage, and a cast of EFF legends and luminaries at EFF’s 20th birthday party! Our birthday fundraiser on February 10th will celebrate two decades of digital freedom-fighting in San Francisco’s world-famous DNA Lounge. Adam will present a unique look back and forward to the founding and the future of digital rights. [...]
I just got tickets for Avatar at the IMAX. WooHoo! I’ve been dying to see it in 3D, this is even better! I love SciFi. More than anything. Genre-wise, anyway. ———— How ‘Avatar’ May Predict the Future of Virtual Worlds CNet (01/24/10) Terdiman, Daniel The technology James Cameron and his team developed for the film [...]
