Posted on December 28th, 2007 by BRiT
MADISON, Wis. — Electronics might be the hot item on all gift lists this holiday, but it’s also on the list of some lawmakers.
A proposed bill in Wisconsin would add an extra sales tax to electronics.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, said the money raised from the tax isn’t to dissuade gamers, but to [...]
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Filed under: Dumbass, Gaming, Internet, Other, Software, Technology, Television, Toys, Video
Posted on June 16th, 2007 by reflex
PALATINE, Illinois (AP) — An elementary school science teacher in this Chicago suburb doesn’t have to turn on the news for an update on NASA’s space mission. She just turns on her video baby monitor.
Since Sunday, one of the two channels on Natalie Meilinger’s baby monitor has been picking up black-and-white video from inside the [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Internet, Paranormal / UFO, Science, Technology
Posted on April 1st, 2007 by BRiT
SAN FRANCISCO — The tech industry largely avoided a daylight-saving time disaster this month, but a few new glitches might pop up this weekend.
Daylight-saving time began three weeks early this year, causing a problem for thousands of older PCs, cellphones and other electronic devices. They were programmed to automatically switch the time on the traditional [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2007 by reflex
Google is working on a basic mobile phone to extend its dominance in internet advertising to handheld devices, according to analysts.
Richard Windsor, of Nomura, the broker, said that Google representatives had talked about a device at an industry event in Germany. The report followed remarks by a Google executive in Spain, who admitted the company [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Technology
Posted on March 15th, 2007 by Jason
After years anguishing as a ghost of gaming year’s gone-by, Commodore is looking to get back into the market with it’s line of high-end custom gaming PC’s, going head-to-head against the likes of Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Voodoo PC.
Bala Keilman, CEO for Commodore Gaming, commented “The all new Commodore range of PC’s will allow gamers [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Technology
Posted on March 6th, 2007 by Jason
At the upcoming CeBit electronics show in Germany on March 15, a company called Commodore Gaming is scheduled to release a new line of gaming PCs for the European market.
“25 years ago, Commodore launched the best selling personal computer of the late 20th Century, the C64, and defined the early computer games experience for millions [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Technology
Posted on February 27th, 2007 by Jason
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Scientists in eastern China say they have succeeded in controlling the flight of pigeons with micro electrodes planted in their brains, state media reported on Tuesday.
Scientists at the Robot Engineering Technology Research Centre at Shandong University of Science and Technology said their electrodes could command them to fly right or left [...]
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Filed under: Bizarre, Science, Technology
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by BRiT
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The European version of PlayStation 3 will play fewer PlayStation 2 video games when it launches on March 23 compared with models launched earlier in Japan and America, Sony Corp said on Friday.
“The backwards compatibility is not going to be as good as the U.S. and Japan models,” a Sony spokesman said.
PlayStation [...]
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Filed under: Gaming, Internet, Software, Technology, Television, Toys
Posted on February 21st, 2007 by Jason
SAN FRANCISCO - Someday you could be taking orders from a robot … but in a nice way.
For example, imagine a body suit with sensors that can guide you through a golf swing like Tiger Woods’. Or a robo-birdwatcher that can tell you where to look for that rare ivory-billed woodpecker. Or an android gardener [...]
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Filed under: Science, Technology
Posted on February 19th, 2007 by BrainwashedMonkey
SAN FRANCISCO: As media companies struggle to reclaim control over their movies, television shows and music in a world of online file-sharing software, they have found an ally in software of another kind.The new technological weapon is content-recognition software, which makes it possible to identify copyrighted material, even, for example, from blurry video clips.
The technology [...]
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Filed under: Internet, Technology
