In response to worldwide criticism, Japan announces threatened humpbacks will not be killed as planned on the annual whale hunt. Its whale fleet, now in the southern Pacific off Antarctica, will kill some 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales.
Archive for December 21st, 2007
Dec21
U.S. Army Acquires More Macs To Enhance Cybersecurity
The U.S. Army believes that diversifying its computing platforms, in part by integrating more Macs, will make it more secure against cyberattacks like the ones that occurred over the summer to the Pentagon and a number of defense contractors.
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Filed in: Apple/Mac
Dec21
Keep your cool when cleaning a glossy-screen Mac
Many Mac users are viewing the virtual world with a bright, glossy screen vs. the old-fashioned matte-finish screen. However, cleaning the glossy display may take a bit more work.
Filed in: Apple/Mac
Dec21
Playlist: Which Tune Goes Best With Designing Your Wii Mii, Troubleshooting Vista, or Taping Your Glasses Back Together?
Sometimes the songs are all wrong. Like, you’re shopping for genitalia in Second Life when your earbuds remind you that it’s just “Too Little Too Late.” The solution: Pack your iPod with tunes that complement the things you do all day long.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec21
Top 10 Gadgets of the Year
Near-vaporware keyboards, gaming towers, little laptops, terrific tablets and a hacked iProduct are the gadget champs of 2007.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec21
‘Futurama’: The Compleat Gamer Geek’s Guide
The videogame love runs deep in Matt Groening and David X. Cohen’s animated series set in the year 3000. Get an inside peek at the geekiest show on TV.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec21
Single-Chip x86 Chipsets Around the Corner?
An anonymous reader writes “Kontron, a giant among industrial single-board computer vendors, yesterday revealed a credit-card sized board apparently based on a single-chip x86 chipset that clocks to 1.5GHz and supports a gig of RAM. It targets portable devices — not x86’s usual forte. Kontron isn’t saying whether the board uses a Via or an Intel chip(set) — both vendors reportedly have single-chip chipsets in the works, part of their respective missions to drive ‘x86 everywhere.’”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Filed in: Hardware
Dec21
Clinton Would Crack Down on Computer-Generated Cartoon Sex
Two years after stirring up the silly “hot coffee” kafuffle, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is still steamed over the deactivated soft-core minigame hidden in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. She says as president, she’d protect teens from exposure to videogame love scenes.
Filed in: Personal Tech
Dec21
Nokia, InterDigital claim patent case victory (Reuters)
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) and wireless
technology firm InterDigital each declared victory in
a court decision on Friday over patents related to the UMTS
third-generation (3G) mobile phone standard.
Filed in: Cell Phones
Dec21
Apple to Reach 5 Million iPhones Sold by Macworld?
9to5mac claims that Apple will reach approximately 5 million in iPhone sales by Macworld San Francisco in January 2008 which would bring them half way to their goal of 10 million iPhones sold by the end of 2008.
According to 9to5mac’s …
Filed in: Apple/Mac
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