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Their use to be a running joke from the days gone by that electronic components ran on smoke and that if the smoke was let out it would be the end of the equipment (of course DELL reaffirmed this idea a few years back with the Taco Dell models of their laptops) This innovative company has come...

The last 10 years of the gaming and software industry have demonstrated a trend of forcing users into software as a service licenses. Example all versions of windows XP give the user NO COPYRIGHT usership only liccense to use the software at the companies discretion, this has caused some...

make life miserable for the rest of the whole world, in there latest patent weirdness. You would think after the 'root kit' thing (in which they gave everyone the middle finger anyhow) they would have learned. Nope they truely have earned their right to collapse into nothing. Well when Sony...

MIPS released a new archetecture recently. Now if you aren't familiar with what's going on and why that's significant then here are a few articles Ceva Bid ARM and Imagination plans MIPS up for sale Cyb - have fun

Or huge feet.. hmmm anyhow The Book of General Ignorance I got this for me my brothers (father too) ... and I :D The Second Book of General Ignorance (ditto) Although it is a lot of 'technicalities' they play on it's mostly a 'TECHI' Coffee table kind of book Great to just read snicker...

I don't know how many of you people actually get into this stuff (LOL) anyhow TI has several new processor offerings (in the ARM realm) and 'rumor' has it they will be support the lig bittle err big little CPU soon as well. The least of them (no DSP) starts here. 1 single core and 1 quad core...

The apple iPad4 is dissected here. Big woop (really) The mini iPad (mini me?) here. I think the iPad mini is intended to compete with the samsung Galaxy series IE big iPhone I believe it has a hell phone option (heh pun intended). Cyb

As you know progress goes ever forward, the use of materials changes the systems we use change. Well here is likely a fairly accurate set of 'future' of computing lists. Cyb - I belong to the department of redundancy and repitition.

Or at least disassemble it, so its not just showing the surface but the guts! The surface tear down has an interesting battery pack obviously it's not the standard laptop 18650 pack based design but a lithium polymer battery (thin). That tiny camera is 1280x720p (seriously). What was kind of...

Ok the much anticipated iPhone5 dismantling has been done (even IC scans woo hoo) quite sexy (If you get into that sort of thing I guess ... heh). EEtimes version UBM insites version There has been a great deal of speculation on the iPhone5's processor (one of many speculations). A lot of...

Ok maybe not but here is a real tear down of it. Unsurprisingly it's half battery and half display. I think there are some other things in it but ... seriously how important is that main control board anyhow? :D Cyb

They are predicting flash storage as the next big thing for business usage apparently. I am uncertain how they are overcoming the issue of wear on flash storage especially since it's life AND it's write count have both decreased. (IE from 40 to 10 years and 100000 to 3000 writes). Cyb

For those who care (and if you don't please move along the corpse isn't twitching any more). Curiosity dreams on Mars for a sol day. Curiosity also had it's seven minutes of terror (of which things turned out less scary in the end). It should be noted that it was launched using a Atlas V...

Is it just me or is the new versioning for Firefox completely senseless? It's gone from v 3/4 to 14 in only what 8/9 months? I tried to figure out what they were thinking, and it looks as if they were thinking that 'changing the versioning faster would show faster developement'. Anyone else do...

I found this article today and it brought into perspective how ungrateful many people are and also ignorant of the hard work it requires to make good software. Many people make light of the hard work that goes into making software by ignoring just how much software is in use. Even a battery...

MIT has introduced a new language for use of multicore processing platforms called Halide. It seems to use C++ as it's general structure and form but separates the program into 2 portions. The first is a scheduler and the second is the actual process to do work. It does hold promise for...

Thought some people here might find this recent Vid by Akari from Qhimm's forums of interest Especially people who have played F77 will find it interesting. Of course the Japanese idol part was a bit over the top LOL. Cyb

Yes I watch some stuff on you tub ... this vid was Way too funny not to share. Cyb PS Yes CLOUD's hair defies gravity!

Ok now I read down this list and ... I laughed a lot when I saw this " At 12:53:20 UTC on May 14 2012, the Unix time number reached 1337000000. Leet" (!) All I can say is 'why would I care about a leet moment? I didn't even NOTICE it happened. In fact at that time I had just finished eating...

This has steadily become a new thing, Open Hardware. An example Open Pandora another example is The Beagle Board A while back in the earlier days of Linux someone made an Open MIPS system (circa 1993-1994). There are some problems with Open hardware (that is what this post is about). Time...