Our take on Egypt, lasers fighting pirates, HDMI MacBook call, Google soft censorship, portable translation software and more.
With more than 3 million iPads finding their way into consumer hands, the iPad has comfortably found a place for itself in the musical chairs game of consumer electronics. The way fans and consumers have reacted to the iPad defied critics who proclaimed that the device didn
On some noncompliant Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapters, the audio signal may not be passed to the HDMI device.
The latest pathetic flail comes in the form of coercing Google into censoring its results for some search terms. A number of words will no longer be autocompleted or trigger an instant search, among them the interesting and perfectly legal
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Betelgeuse, one of the night sky’s brightest stars, is losing mass (it is collapsing). It could run out of fuel and go super-nova at any time.
When that happens, for at least a few weeks, we would see a second sun in teh sky. There may also be no night.
A neutron star may result in the formation of a black hole 1300 light years from Earth. Of course – it’s all harmless…
Some think its fantasy, but high-seas bandits are a big problem for ships; including oil tankers and container ships. Last year, there were 430 reported attacks acoording to the ICC
Earlier this week the Egyptian government started blocking social sites like facebook, twitter, etc. Late Thursday, they dropped internet connection to most ISPs including their four largest. One ISP is still up that handles the stock excahnge and some big multi-national compaies (like Exxon, Coke, and Nestle). About 88% of egyptian internet has fallen off the web including banks, schools, cafes, government agencies, etc.
For the fourth consecutive year, Google is funding CS4HS. It is a workshop for high school and middle school computer science teachers that introduces new and emerging concepts in computing, and provides tips, tools and guidance on how to teach them.
If you
Alex Jordan, a former Ph.D. student in Stanford
