Remember the arcade? ...no? It used to be a place where you would hang out and play games for a quarter a pop. This video will likely appeal to you older gamers out there.
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Record Companies Sue LimeWire For All the Money in the World (and then some)
One of the numbers that thirteen recording companies have come up with in their lawsuit against LimeWire is so massive that there is, quite literally, not enough money on Earth to cover it.
Read More »USAF: Building Supercomputers — One PS3 at a Time
The United States Air Force has been working on a PS3 supercomputer for many years, with the number of PS3s being used increasing from eight to 1,716.
Read More »Tom Pinckney: MIT Graduate (w/o a High School Diploma)
Tom Pinckney, co-founder of SiteAdvisor and founder of Hunch, is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In fact, his application was so impressive that he was accepted to MIT without ever completing high school.
Read More »Behold! This is How NASA Recovers Those Spent Rocket Boosters
Have you ever wondered what happened with those giant booster rockets once a shuttle is launched? ... seriously? Well, today's your lucky day, then!
Read More »“E-mail” is Dead. Long Live “Email.”
It's official: "E-mail," the term used since the inception of the service, is dead. From now on, "email" will suffice.
Read More »The .”XXX” Domain Seems to Be a Go
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has again decided to give the ".xxx" domain a go. Workplaces everywhere scramble to block a whole lot of new URLs...
Read More »Internet Explorer: From “The Internet” to “Internet Explorer 9”
Andrew Tait has put together another video, this time showing us the history of Internet Explorer from Windows 95 straight through Windows 7.
Read More »Computer Virus Turns 40
Forty years ago, in 1971, the first computer virus was released to the world. Sadly, PC worms, viruses and trojans have gotten much, much worse than a simple text-based challenge to computer owners.
Read More »Multicore CPUs Could, Very Soon, Be Damn Near Indestructible
A group of PC companies and universities have devised a new CPU architecture that could render most computer processors next-to-impossible to completely knock out of commission.
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