Some day, Assistant Professor Hod Lipson believes, every home will have a 'fabber,' a machine that replicates objects from plans supplied by a computer: Instead of buying an iPod, download the plans and the fabber will make one for you.
We're well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media ...
Good piece on Mashable worth a quick scan. http://mashable.com/2007/12/16/best-of-2007-trends-that-shaped-the-web/ Politics, Social Networks, Online Citizen Action, Ecommerce and Open Source. Other useful Google Trends to monitor.
University of Utah physicists developed small devices that turn heat into sound and then into electricity. The technology holds promise for changing waste heat into electricity, harnessing solar energy and cooling computers and radars.
If the Activision-Vivendi merger goes through, the resulting company could capitalize on the strengths of <cite>Guitar Hero</cite> and <cite>World of Warcraft</cite> and dominate the industry.
Alex St. John, DirectX architect, swims against the current and predicts the demise not of PC gaming, but of game consoles, in this exclusive two-part interview.
In part 1 of our interview with Alex St. John, the visionary behind DirectX predicted that consoles--at least as we know them--will disappear. See what he has to say about retail games, DirectX 10, Windows Vista, and the future of 3D gaming.
The widgetsphere is roughly divided into two camps. There are desktop widgets like Apple Dashboard Widgets, Windows Gadgets, and Yahoo Widgets that act ...
The infamous Dutch anti-piracy organization BREIN has infringed TorrentFreak’s copyright and blatantly copied a quote from one of our articles without attributing the source. TorrentFreak is thus considering legal action against these copy/paste pirates, where they may face a fine of up to $975,000 and several years in prison.
TechRepublic salutes geek culture and entertainment in the Geekend blog, which allows users to take a few moments to stray from the daily grind of business technology.
While lots of sites talk about high tech living, very few talk about how to actually live with technology. TechRepublic provides a real world look at lifestyle technologies and how to optimize them for a higher level of digital living.