Scientists think they have discovered the energy source of auroras borealis, the spectacular color displays seen in the upper latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. New data from NASA’s Themis mission, a quintet of satellites launched this winter, found the energy comes from a stream of charged particles from the sun flowing like a current through [...]
If there’s anything you can expect out of a sequel, it’s more explosions, action and dumb dialogue. That about sums it up for this new “Rubik’s Revolution,” a supposed “sequel” to the original Rubik’s Cube. The new cube keeps that 3 x 3 configuration and the iconic colored sides, but adds in electronic games including [...]
Now that Microsoft has freed Windows Vista from the shackles of a five year development process, the company is attempting to the wow starts now us by revealing that it plans to have its next major operating system ready within the next two-and-a-half years, giving Vista’s successor an expected release date of late 2009. Speaking [...]
Intel has issued a press release announcing that its researchers have developed a prototype 80-core chip; Intel says that the real deal would take from five to eight years to hit the market. More cores at what cost? Not much, it seems. The chip-maker is claiming the 80-core device executes teraflop performance while dissipating less [...]
OK, It is official, every tech geek, or even people who know just a bit about tech is talking about HDTV, I know that at least in India, we are far off from receiving HDTV transmission, but it hasn’t stopped anyone from talking or for that matter buying a HDTV, and for the uninitiated HDTV [...]