Daily Archives: June 27, 2012

CCNY, UC Berkeley develop lasers that could rewrite quantum chips, spin those atoms right round

CCNY, UC Berkeley develop lasers that could rewrite quantum chips, spin those atoms right round

Computers are normally limited by the fixed nature of their chipsets: once the silicon is out of the factory, its capabilities are forever locked in. The City College of New York and University of California Berkeley have jointly developed a technique that could break chips free of these prisons and speed along quantum computing. They … Continued

How to Use the New Facebook WordPress Plugin: A Complete Guide

By Emeric ErnoultPublished June 26, 2012 Do you blog? Facebook has released a highly comprehensive plugin for WordPress. With the new plugin, you can perform sophisticated auto-publishing to your Timeline and add many Facebook features to your blog. This makes advanced Facebook social sharing features accessible to everyone. This detailed article tells you how to … Continued

Licensed Portal 2 turret replica to arrive later this year, leave ammo at home

Licensed Portal 2 turret replica to arrive later this year, leave ammo at home

If an enthusiast-built Portal 2 turret piques your interest, Gaming Heads’ Valve-licensed miniature replica may very well force your wallet open. Modeled using Portal 2‘s in-game assets and cast in “high quality poly-stone,” these mini-turrets aim to intimidate intruders with a motion activated light-up eye. In addition to the stoically silent basic model, the company’s … Continued

Seagate and DensBits team up on solid-state drives for the home, call truce in the HDD versus SSD war

Seagate and DensBits team up on solid-state drives for the home, call truce in the HDD versus SSD war

It’s an understatement to say that Seagate started off on the wrong foot in its attitude towards solid-state drives: the company only slowly came around to embracing flash memory, and then mostly for the enterprise crowd and hybrid drive lovers. A newly-struck partnership between Seagate and controller maker DensBits is signalling a more serious attempt … Continued

Google tablet will indeed be co-branded with ASUS, says insider

Google tablet will indeed be co-branded with ASUS, says insider

We already suspected as much — not least from the FCC filing above — but an unnamed executive at Asustek Computer Inc has reportedly just confirmed that Google’s much-rumored new tablet will be co-branded with ASUS. According to Reuters, the employee said the tablet will help Google to “target Amazon” and the Kindle range of … Continued

Country Star Kenny Chesney Focuses on Online Viewers During Live Concert

Country Star Kenny Chesney Focuses on Online Viewers During Live Concert

Wildwood, N.J. — Seemingly dodging the thunderous rumble from the present crowd, country music star Kenny Chesney checks the volume of tweets from livestream viewers of his concert to decide whether they and the audience in front of him deserve an encore. A crew member gives him a thumbs-up. “There is so much activity on … Continued