Klassische Suchmaschinen bilden einen guten Ausgangspunkt für die Informationssuche im Internet, konkrete Antworten können sie aber nicht liefern. Wissenschaftler weltweit tüfteln an neuen Suchkonzepten, um bessere, treffsichere Antworten geben zu können.
Petra Jenner, die Chefin von Microsoft Schweiz, schwärmt von der Schweiz. Freude bereitet ihr namentlich, dass in der Schweiz weniger auf den Preis geachtet wird als in anderen Ländern und dass Qualität und Innovation geschätzt werden.
Apple droht nun auch in Grossbritannien Ärger wegen irreführender Werbung bei seinem neuen iPad. Die britische Werbeaufsicht erklärte gestern, sie prüfe, ob eine Untersuchung gegen Apple eingeleitet werde. Apple hatte für das neue iPad mit Zugang zu dem schnellen Standard 4G geworben. 4G ist aber in Großbritannien nicht verfügbar.
Der New Yorker Times Square, Pekings Platz des Himmlischen Friedens oder der Pariser Place de la Concorde ohne Touristen und Verkehr: Was im realen Leben unmöglich scheint, ist den Pariser Fotografen Lucie & Simon mit ihrem Fotoprojekt "Silent World" gelungen.
Rittal hat vier neue PDU-Systeme (Power Distribution Units) aus eloxiertem Aluminium-Strangpressprofil angekündigt, die die Ausrüstung von IT-Racks mit intelligenter Stromverteilung erleichtern sollen. .
Die Postfinance hat mit dem "E-Kässeli" eine neue Möglichkeit vorgestellt, mir der sich beim Einkaufen elektronisch Geld sammeln lässt. Das Anhäufen von Kleingeld ohne dem traditionellen Porzellan- oder Plastiksparschwein wird auch mit Plastikgeld möglich.
Im Endlos-Streit um Patentverletzungen und kopiertes Design zwischen Apple und Samsung fand am Freitag ein weiteres Mal eine gerichtliche Anhörung statt. Vor einem Gericht in Washington drängte Apple einmal mehr auf einen raschen einstweiligen Verkaufsstopp von einigen Samsung-Geräten, bis die Patent-Streitigkeiten geklärt seien.
Nach Lausanne und Zürich sind am Samstag auch in Basel Kritiker des umstrittenen internationalen Acta-Abkommens auf die Strasse gegangen. An der Demonstration am späten Samstagnachmittag haben nach Polizeiangaben rund 300 Personen teilgenommen.
Beim taiwanesischen Smartphone-Hersteller HTC rutschte der Nettogewinn im abgelaufenen Vierteljahr um mehr als zwei Drittel ab auf umgerechnet 116 Mio. Euro (rund 4,5 Mrd. Taiwan-Dollar), wie der Konzern mitteilte. Der Umsatz brach um rund ein Drittel ein auf 1,76 Mrd. Euro.
Ein chinesischer Jugendlicher hat eine Niere verkauft, um sich ein iPad oder iPhone kaufen zu können. Fünf Personen in der Stadt Chenzhou wurden deswegen wegen illegalen Organhandels angeklagt, darunter auch ein Chirurg.
booth on the PAX East show floor in Boston.
In the summer of 1985 while at at a two-week camp in Terre Haute, I met a media professor from Indiana State. He told me about a game his colleagues had been playing for a few years. It involved real NFL football players and their scores during games each season. That conversation was my first exposure to fantasy sports and spawned 27 years and 80 seasons worth of league play.
Without going into the hyperbole surrounding the Nest thermostat, the simple explanation is that it is the home heating and cooling thermostat-equivalent of a smartphone. It has a beautiful graphical user interface, and simple controls. It can sense your presence in a room, and adjust the heating/cooling to accommodate. It learns your daily routines and adjusts its behavior to save energy and money. It's even internet-enabled, and there are iOS and Android apps you can use to run it when you're away from home.
Well, I'm not exactly the one who can dock her phone on her prosthetic leg, but this week I found this link, to an article about a guy who is giving me grand ideas. He worked with the big dogs at Nokia, and his prosthetist, and ended up with an artificial arm that charges his phone. Even more than that, it docks his phone and he can text while it's still attached to his body.
There will . The cancellation is due to what the newspaper calls "helicopter parents" jumping last year's rope line to ensure their tots pocketed eggs.
Remember way back when Buzz Lightyear flew to space? Yes, the toy -- and yes, really to space! He spent 468 days in orbit between May 2008 and September 2009. During his time on the International Space Station, Buzz was a dutiful crew member and did a lot of outreach to help inspire and educate students on Earth. NASA developed a series of online games and even held a Mission Patch Design Challenge to commemorate his trip!
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Should you let your toddler play Skyrim? What?s the best way to introduce your child to RPGs? How do you handle it when your kid doesn?t want to play a game because he thinks he?ll lose? What do you say if your daughter says she likes ?Twilight? more than ?Buffy?? These questions and many more will be discussed by writers for GeekDad.com, GeekMom.com, and geek parents in the audience. Come share your stories and advice for how to ensure our kids grow up to be geeks like us! Don?t have kids? Show up and find out what may be in store for you if you ever do!
It won't be long now that I will be packing my bags and heading to the Bay Area Maker Faire 2012 in San Mateo. I was thinking about bringing along an Arduino and some parts that could be fiddled with at the Faire but wasn't sure how I was going to pack them up for travel. I had a couple thoughts and then Lady Ada's Bento Box came up as a new product in my Adafruit RSS feed. I know how I am bringing some electronics parts to Maker Faire now!
well -- and some of the game is a lot of fun. Unfortunately, it is also a showcase of all the Kinect can't do, which makes for some serious frustration.
To Kill a Mockingbird, often considered one of the best novels of all time, is marking the 50th anniversary of the film version this year. President Obama hosted a special screening of the movie at the White House on April 5, stating that the novel is a "timeless American classic and one of his favorite books.
If you like bugs and picture books, here are three that you might consider adding to your library. They're all quite different from each other: One Beetle Too Many is about Charles Darwin and ? to be honest ? is a little less about the bugs than the man. Step Gently Out is a poem illustrated with gorgeous close-up photos of various insects (and a spider). The Beetle Book presents a host of interesting facts about beetles with fantastic cut-paper illustrations.
Trying to describe Cartoon Network's is a bit of a task. It's part classic animated slapstick, part new-school ensemble sitcom, and all weird. It is, more to the point, the brainchild of writer-animator J.G. Quintel, who also serves as part of the principal voice cast.
Geek culture is filled with invented languages. Some are just alluded to in movie and novel, others are fairly well developed and then expounded upon by devoted fans. But the linguistics of these inventions fascinate many of us, and understanding a word or two in these languages surely helps one's geek cred.
Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
Few acts in electronic dance music are as enduring and classic as Orbital. The British duo's first hit single, "Chime," was recorded nearly 25 years ago -- in 1989. The brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll recently reunited after breaking up the band in 2004 to pursue other projects. Now they're back with , their first new album as Orbital in eight years, and a raft of upcoming tour dates.
We've collected some of the best live streaming nest cams we could find. They all have eggs or chicks in the nest, or are about to have eggs. Turns out there are a lot of nest cams out there, from owls to falcons to emus.
This week the Game|Life crew riffs on new endings, "stupid" games, marathon Molydeux makerfests, and James M. Cain's novel .
If you've ever wondered why the web is full of companies with strange domain names like Flickr or del.icio.us, wonder no more ? domains can be hard to come by. Here's our guide to getting the domain you want when someone else already has it.
The 24-inch ErgoSensor Monitor uses a built-in sensor to determine your distance from the screen and your neck angle while sitting. And, like a worried mother, will remind you to straighten your back, keep your distance from the display, and take breaks from sitting at the computer.
A controversial new study of honeybee deaths has deepened a bitter dispute over whether the developed world's most popular pesticides are causing an ecological catastrophe.