An automatic scribbling machine sounds less than useful, admittedly, but it’s really just the style of line created by this motorized drawing machine. It’s reminiscent of ASCII art, in which heavier characters are used to create darker tones; in this case, the more jiggle added to the drawing platform, the more ink is put...
As widely expected, Amazon will indeed be launching an Android-based tablet device before the end of this year. Rather than a launching a new product line, the company is simply updating its existing Kindle product to be a full color, multi-touch, 7″ tablet that will sell for $250. Several details about the device, which...
The first petaflop supercomputer, IBM’s Roadrunner. The quest to develop next-generation systems in high-performance computing has inspired technologies such as InfiniBand and parallel processing that have made their ways into data centers, but as the drive for exascale computing continues, it seems ingenuity is coming to an end. The government sees power consumption as...
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. No one denies any more the fact that Salesforce.com has become a platform....
The San Francisco PD is now saying that Apple investigators were accompanied by three or four plain clothed officers, reports SF Weekly. The SFPD had previously told the publication that they were uninvolved in the investigation. This led the publication to draw the conclusion that Apple’s investigators may have impersonated police in order to...
Baidu, the Chinese search giant, became the latest company to jump into the mobile operating system game this morning when it previewed Baidu Yi. The Android-based OS will offer much of the core functionality of Google’s mobile OS, but replaces Google’s apps with Baidu’s own equivalents. The previously-rumored OS was officially announced this morning...
The world’s largest game franchises have become businesses unto themselves. World of Warcraft supports a huge halo industry of gold farming and grey markets. Farmville and its ilk have turned microtransactions into millions. The teams developing individual games like Assassin’s Creed or Gears of War are larger than many entire companies. So it’s not...
Siemens was instrumental in bringing the Nazis to power and keeping them there as they murdered millions of Jews, along with Gypsies, trade unionists, leftists, homosexuals and others. Serving as one of its engines of genocide, Siemens provided the German Reich with, among other things, slave labor factories located next to concentration camps. Apparently,...
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There have been plenty of obituaries written for the newspaper business, most of which have a kernel of truth to them — but is journalism as we know it at risk as well? Dave Winer, a programming guru and visiting scholar at the New York University school of journalism, says it is. In a...