Apple`s Victory over Samsung: What it Means
First, let's address the ruling itself. After deliberating for three days, during which they faced 109 pages of instructions and had to fill out a 700-item questionnaire, the nine-person jury found...
View ArticleApple Unveils iPhone 5
For those of you who just know you're going to want it, I'll start with the prices. The iPhone 5 will be available in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB versions for $199, $299 and $399 (in US dollars)...
View ArticleMeet Baxter, Your New Robot Co-Worker
Rethink Robotics' home page currently features a great picture of Baxter. He's no Data or C3PO, of course, but the almost curious expression in the eyes on his display screen and those bright red metal...
View ArticleFirst Kinect, Now Digits: Microsoft Advances Gesture Recognition
I admit, I was pretty skeptical about Kinect myself until I actually played a few games on the system at a nearby science museum. I couldn't stop smiling - or sweating; I felt like I got a real...
View ArticleLatest Apple Offerings: iPad Mini, Redesigned iMac, More
So much for all those statements by Steve Jobs that his company would never produce an iPad mini. Apple CEO Tim Cook trotted out the new $329 device with a smile while VP of marketing Phil Schiller...
View ArticleApple iPad Mini Release No Big Deal
Larry Dignam at CNet is not surprised. Purely aside from the other major issues dominating the news, the iPad Mini itself isn't exactly the best example of Apple thinking outside the box. The product...
View ArticleIntel Unveils Itanium 9500 Processors
Why should you care? It's very simple: these are exactly the kinds of installations becoming more and more common now that so many of us are doing so much of our computing in the cloud. And if you work...
View ArticleWii U Offers Secretly Cool Features
Ben Kuchera of the Penny Arcade Report weighed in after playing with the Wii U in his home for several days. As he pointed out, the gaming device's virtues aren't obvious right away. Commercials for it...
View ArticleLatest iMac Not For Tinkerers
At least, that seems to be the verdict from the crew over at ifixit. Seeing the lovely new 21.5 inch iMac, they had to take it apart to see what made it tick. If you like taking things apart too, be...
View ArticleAn Ugly Side to Gaming`s Boy`s Club
Anita Sarkeesian gave a talk on the topic at TEDxWomen this year. The video went up early this month; check it out at the link. In less than 11 minutes, you'll find out what lengths your fellow gamers...
View ArticleIBM Predicts Computers With Five Senses
You can check out the report itself. If you read the introductory paragraph covering each sense, it's an easy skim; you can also choose to delve a bit deeper with the connected videos and the links...
View ArticleCES 2013 Brings New Toys, Devices, More
Lenovo came out with a big new tablet computer. And when we say big, we mean big - twenty-seven inches big. It's an attempt to marry a traditional desktop to a tablet, and intended to be used either...
View ArticleIntel Exiting PC Motherboard Business
AnandTech reported on Intel's announcement. If you hope to score your own desktop mlTX/mATX/ATX motherboard from the chip maker, you'd better do it this year. After 2013, Intel will only be producing...
View ArticleApple Doubles iPad Max Storage
You can get the full story over at Computerworld. Basically, starting February 5, you'll be able to get a fourth-generation iPad with 128 GB of storage space. If you're okay with just Wi Fi, you can...
View ArticleIBM`s Watson to Help in Fight Against Cancer
In taking on its new role, Watson gained quite an education: it took in data from 1,500 lung cancer cases from Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital and assimilated more than two million pages of text from...
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