After reading our post on , you got online immediately and bought 3D printer for your workshop, right? Congratulations! Now what on earth do you do with it? The 10 projects that follow?will demonstrate the capabilities of your $1,500 plywood factory and make you the envy of fellow geeks everywhere. Visit? , download these models, and put your new toy through its paces.
To the naked eye, the photo above doesn't seem to show anything more than a couple of bland houses against a deary landscape. But a prominent nuclear-weapons researcher thinks it might display the concealment of Iran's nuclear program. All this over a few water stains.
Tesla has announced that their long-awaited and finally forthcoming Model S sedan is expected to have a real-world operating range between 250 and 350 miles.Those numbers come from computer models of Model S battery performance, and appeared in a post on?Tesla's blog?co-authored by founder and CEO Elon Musk and Chief Technical Officer JB Straubel. They ...
SoundCloud, the online music-streaming platform and de facto music label for independent artists trying to share their tunes efficiently, announces a complete redesign of its service Wednesday, in what the Berlin-based company calls an attempt to "unmute the web."
The internet is still spawning memes at an accelerated rate ? and they'll never go away. But there are some major shift underway that may fundamentally change the way they?re created.
Citing First Amendment issues, a federal appeals court is barring Illinois from enforcing a law prohibiting the audio-recording of police officers. The decision Tuesday by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals comes two weeks ahead of a NATO summit in Chicago that is likely to draw throngs of protesters May 20-21.
What's more interesting than seeing what your friends are up to? Seeing what your code is up to of course. Check out Gitspective, a Facebook-style timeline for GitHub.
Google and other search engines have a First Amendment right to sort or even censor search rankings as they like, according to a legal analysis Google commissioned from a law professor.
Ji Lee's likes to bite the hand that feeds him. By day, the former Google Creative Lab Creative Director is a designer, churning out images for editorial and advertising campaigns. But by night, he's an ad-buster. Lee turns , and in his latest bit of mischief, has created a plugin (with Cory Forsyth writing code) called the Wordless Web which subtracts text from any web page.
Microsoft usually plays it cards close to its chest on customer numbers for its cloud service, but now the company is bragging about "high tens of thousands of customers" for Windows Azure, with "hundreds" of new customers added daily.
Accessing and viewing child pornography over the internet is not necessarily a crime under New York law, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
Nokia wants to turn your Windows Phone into an augmented-reality browser and discovery tool. The company has released a beta version of its Nokia City Lens app, made for Lumia Windows Phone users to find and explore nearby destinations.
HP has introduced new ultrabooks that are thinner and lighter than their predecessors, as well as a pair of "sleekbooks," a new term HP uses to describe thin and light laptops that don't quite meet Intel's ultrabook criteria.
Google has officially filed for a mistrial in its legal battle with Oracle over the Android mobile operating system, arguing that under settled Supreme Court law, the partial verdict returned by a jury on Monday cannot stand.
As a wary technologist and an enthusiastic amateur waterman, when I first heard of theBlu, I was prepared to dismiss it as a waste of funds. For those who have yet to get wet inside its virtual oceans, theBlu is a distant relative of one of those old virtual fish tank screensavers on your computer. But instead of a lowly fish tank, theBlu is a virtual world simulating several habitats in the ocean, with dozens of species swimming around.
The week wouldn't be complete without a new Apple rumor, or at least an update to an existing one. The news today: Apple's next iPhone will reportedly launch in September and a 7-inch iPad will landing in August, according to Digitimes.
Paleontologists have just named a 27-foot-long fossilized crocodile that hid in the rivers and lakes of prehistoric Kenya between 2 and 4 million years ago. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek explains how the creature may have lived alongside human ancestors.
Mozilla, the developer behind the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird e-mail client is branching out into a smartphone operating system. We go hands-on with Boot2Gecko to see if it can match the speed and slickness of OS competitors.
Physicists have created a new gamma-ray lens and they believe it will open up a new field of gamma-ray optics for medical imaging, detecting illicit nuclear material, and getting rid of nuclear waste.
Farthest North: America's First Arctic Hero and His Horrible, Wonderful Voyage to the Frozen Top of the World.?Byliner Orignals. $1.99 ?Publisher?site.?Reviewed by David DobbsCrossposted from Download The Universe, the science e-book review site_____When people today imagine scientists, they tend to picture a man in a white lab coat, glasses, and a scraggly beard. A ...
A Sukhoi Superjet 100 is missing in Indonesia after departing Jakarta with 50 people on board.
The new "Intent" tag debuts in WebKit, the engine that powers web browsers like Chrome and Safari. Web Intents, as the new API behind the Intent tag is known, allows websites to easily pass data between each other -- for example, to edit a photograph or share a link with friends.
As HP prepares for the May 10 launch of its public cloud and HP Cloud Services, people are going to start noticing the other HP, writes Alexander Haislip.
Researchers who studied charitable donation rates after the December 2004 tsunami noticed some surprising regularities. Mathematician and Social Dimension blogger Samuel Arbesman explains how the donating pattern resembles an outbreak of disease.
Considering that The Avengers has been shattering box office records right and left since it opened, and that it passed the $700 million mark worldwide yesterday, it can hardly be considered a surprise that a sequel is already in the works.Still, it's nice to get official notice that the process has begun, and Disney CEO ...
In the last couple years the Obama administration has pumped billions into cutting-edge clean energy tech. But these all share a common problem: plugging into an electric grid that is mostly unchanged since the 1930s. Energy experts say meeting our carbon-footprint reduction goals will remain a pipe dream until we can revamp electricity distribution. The solution? The "smart grid," a nickname for a sweeping series of updates on everything from power stations to the meter in your home, which promises to save power and money by being sensitive to your energy use.
Steve Herrod envisions a world where we create entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn't unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade, VMware has helped the world's businesses move their computing applications onto virtual servers, machines that exist only as software, and now, Herrod and company are working to expand the world of virtual computing, so that applications run atop not only virtual servers but completely virtual networks.
Steve Herrod envisions a world where we create entire data centers using nothing but software. His dream isn't unexpected. Steve Herrod is the chief technology officer at VMWare. For more than a decade, VMware has helped the world's businesses move their computing applications onto virtual servers, machines that exist only as software, and now, Herrod and company are working to expand the world of virtual computing, so that applications run atop not only virtual servers but completely virtual networks.
Amazon is broadening the appeal of its cloud services, again targeting Windows developers -- this time with the launch of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for SQL Server, as well as .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk.
*Okay, if there's AR politics in Austin this week, and AR street-art campaign launches in Torino, then some AR shoe is gonna drop in Beograd. You Balkanista guys just lemme know; I'll be waiting here next to the Update button.Published on May 4, 2012 by GalvestonPALa strada e il mobile, l'arte e l'inatteso.Il progetto ...
Der Analysedienst Klout misst den Einfluss, den Internet-User auf andere haben. Je mehr Klout - so heisst die Währung - einer hat, desto grösser ist die Chance, dass ihm Firmen mit Rabatten hofieren.
Anfang Juni enthüllt Nintendo an der weltgrössten Game-Messe die ersten Spiele für die neue Heimkonsole Wii U. Der Wii-Nachfolger erscheint im Herbst, doch bereits jetzt geistern im Internet Spiele-Listen umher.
Der weltgrösste Elektronik-Hersteller hat grosse Pläne: In zwei Jahren sollen eine Million Roboter bereit stehen und nicht nur in den eigenen Fabriken die Menschen überflüssig machen.
Der zweibeinige Roboter HRP3L-JSK ist hart im Nehmen, Karatekicks steckt er locker weg. Dabei hilft ihm ein ausgetüfteltes Gleichgewichtssystem.
Der iFernseher kommt - wohl noch in diesem Jahr. Laut einem Maulwurf in der kalifornischen Firmenzentrale testet der Konzern erste Geräte.
Russische Hacktivisten haben gleich mehrere staatliche Webseiten lahmgelegt. Mit dem Cyber-Angriff soll offenbar die Opposition gestärkt werden.
Die neusten Smartphones haben ultraschnelle Quad-Core-Prozessoren. Das bringt mehr Leistung, aber auch einen höheren Energiebedarf.
Im US-Wüstenstaat Nevada ist ab sofort mit fahrerlosen Fahrzeugen zu rechnen. Der Internet-Konzern Google hat grünes Licht für umfangreiche Testfahrten erhalten.
Samsung, Nokia, Apple und Co. kämpfen um die Smartphone-Krone. Nebst der Technik zählt vor allem das Design. Doch wer hat das schönste Modell am Start? Wählen Sie Ihren Favoriten!
Im Internet sind die Zugangsdaten Zehntausender Twitter-Konten aufgetaucht. Betroffene Benutzer sollten ihre Passwörter schleunigst ändern.
Bald erscheint «Max Payne 3». Unser Gamejournalist hat bereits einen Blick darauf geworfen und meint: Kaputter sah Payne nie aus. Etwas Wichtiges fehlt jedoch.
Vom Tablet-Boom profitiert Apple, Android-Tablets hingegen bleiben Ladenhüter. PC-Giganten wie Dell, HP oder Acer haben nun die Nase voll. Und dürften bald bei Microsoft anklopfen.
Nach der Vertreibung der Islamisten können auch die Kinder in Mogadischu am Computer spielen. Aus blutjungen Kämpfern werden friedliche Stubenhocker.
Eine neue Version des mobilen Betriebssystems iOS steht zum Download bereit. Das Gratis-Update behebt zahlreiche Fehler beim iPhone und iPad und schliesst gefährliche Sicherheitslücken.