The BBC has a fantastic, 3-minute clip touring a frozen pizza factory that manufactures 2 million pizzas a week. There’s something about precision, large-scale automation, even when the technology isn’t necessary cutting edge, that’s even more telling of our technological place in the world than sleek touchscreen phones and GPS navigators.
t’s the end of the world as we know it, and Steve Jobs feels fine. With the U.S. Federal Reserve now predicting a recession that will last well into next year–and others predicting much worse–sales of ammunition, spam and gold coins are surging. Oh yeah, so are sales of the Apple chief’s Macintosh computers.
Once upon time, video codecs and formats were really only the concern of AV nerds, anime freaks and hardcore not-so-legal movie downloaders. Now, even the most part-time of geeks has to deal with them. The zen of knowing what bits of data to pull out to make big data chunks smaller—make for better quality video while taking up less space
The Home Chare—yes, that’s chare, not chair—is a combination wheelchair for the disabled and for Jabba the Hutts. This device not only can be adjusted into a bed and standing aid, but also can double as a toilet via a replaceable seatless cushion.
Now that you have the ultimate setup that you’ve worked so hard on, how are you going to be sure you have the same setup after a system or hard drive crash?
Seven Hollywood studios including Paramount, Sony, Twentieth Century Fox, Universal, Warner Bros and Disney have teamed up to sue iiNet, Australia’s third largest ISP. iiNet is accused of doing little to stop its subscribers from sharing copyright works via BitTorrent. The ISP denies the accusations.
On today’s Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can’t deliver. Can human judgment scale with the Web?
It’s here. Google Street View, over the air Podcast downloads from iTunes and much more.
The Linux desktop comes with a variety of multimedia players, such as Xine, MPlayer, and Amarok. Yet all digital media players are only as good as the files they have to work with, and preparing those files requires the best tag editor you can find. Check out these popular and stable tag editors.
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An undetermined number of US telco Verizon had been put on immediate leave after the discovery that they had unauthorized access to a personal cellphone account of President-elect Barack Obama.
But Obama aides said that they were notified on Thursday that the subject Verizon cellphone said to belong to Obama was no longer in use and that no voice or e-mails were listened to or read.
Verizon Wireless President and Chief Executive Lowell McAdam apologized to Obama in a statement.
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