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Wired.com has an important article about a new device for turning off televisions. Called TV-B-Gone, the device sends out 209 different “OFF“ commands for various televisions, with the most popular off commands first.I need this device.The device is designed for...
An Oregon man's digital TV was unplugged for sending out RF on the International Distress Frequency of 121.5 MHz, according to Newsday.com.Hmm. How could that happen? To answer that, you'll need to check out this entry in Strata Chalup's LiveJournal,...
According to the Registry Of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database, 200 spammers are responsible for 90% of the world's spam. The ROKSO database makes fascinating reading. However, while a lot of journalists routinely mine this database for stories, few non-journalists...
Instead of playing round with mathematical models of neural networks, a University of Florida scientist has grown a real neural network in a dish--and then trained it to fly an F-22 fighter jet simulator.The work is being done at UF's...
One of the more heartening developments in this election has been the outspokenness of scientists who strongly disagree with the Bush Administration's policies, such as Scientists and Engineers for Change. But few have more earned the right to speak out...
For the past season or so, advertisers and networks have been struggling to figure out where all of 18-34 year old males went -- their television viewership is down 12 percent from last year and there are a lot of...
The GM pet industry continues apace--a California-based company has started taking orders for genetically modified cats, altered to ease the sufferings of humans who have pet allergies.Allerca is selling the cats for $3,500 each, to be delivered starting in 2007....
Voters in 10 California counties will be among the nearly one third of U.S. citizens who use electronic voting machines to cast their ballots in this year's presidential election. But because of problems with the machines--real and perceived, California Secretary...
This is pretty cool --- a text editor that runs in your browser, written in JavaScript.It just shows the power of JavaScript --- and it shows that the network computer really may be around the corner....
As if the iPod wasn't ubiquitous enough already. Now Apple is releasing the iPod Photo: a version of the music player that displays photos too. The new machine is available in either a $500 40 gig version or a $600...
