Maggie McKee, space news editor A successful third spacewalk to repair the cooling system on the International Space Station should clear the way for its crew to resume scientific research, NASA says.
Maggie McKee, space news editor A successful third spacewalk to repair the cooling system on the International Space Station should clear the way for its crew to resume scientific research, NASA says.
Pegatron has admitted that one of its subsidiary companies, Kaedar Electronics, paid brokerage commission to an intermediary for services related to its Apple contracts.
In case you didn’t know: BFG, a hardware company known for high-end gaming laptops, desktops, and components, is killing off its graphics card business.
This isn’t the first time that a game has appeared in Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE Marketplace ahead of its launch. And it’s not the first time that, even if you had the required amount of money to actually download that said game, you wouldn’t be able to.
VMware has pushed out an update for their virtual machine software for Intel-based Macs. Version 3.1.1 includes:Improvements to iSight Camera accessFixes an issue where an incorrect disk error message pops up after A Mac hard crash while working in VMwareFixes audio recording issues when the device...
Mobile device chipmaker Qualcomm will begin shipping its delayed dual-core Snapdragon chips this fall, and devices running on them may also arrive before year's end. This could include smartphones and tablets, the company said on Monday.
What do you do if you’ve created an incredibly successful game, made your millions, and can retire on the royalties? You build your own robot, of course. That’s exactly what the creator of the Aimec did: built a robot using off the shelf technology and custom software.
Intel has introduced two new Atom processors for home media servers with the 1.8GHz single-core D425 and dual-core D525. Apart from the higher clock speeds, the new CPUs support DDR3 RAM to further boost performance. The new chips support Microsoft Windows Home Server and Linux....
A pair of anonymous Indian government officials said on Monday that RIM might avoid a BlackBerry Messenger ban as soon as next month. The approach divulged to Bloomberg would allegedly start with a by-hand solution at first, where data would have to be given on request based on phone numbers.
George Church, who helped start the Human Genome Project, doesn't need a millennia for evolution... just a few days. He and his Harvard Medical research team invented a table-top machine that speeds up the evolutionary process by generating multiple changes in the DNA of bacteria.
We’re not sure when it happened, but apparently the move to make your wristwatch look more like a bracelet than, say, a watch is apparently taking off.
We featured a cool GPS Puzzle Box earlier this year that Markus built. It was based on a version that Mikal Hart created. Turns out there is quite a bit of interest in these GPS Puzzle Boxes, Mikal has since written a Make article which will be published in the Fall 2010 edition of the magazine.
A collection of recently published patents and a new hire at Apple suggest that future iPhones may carry built-in features to replace your credit cards. Apple recently hired Benjamin Vigier as a product manager for mobile commerce.
Reverse-engineering the human brain so we can simulate it using computers may just be a decade away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near.
What happens in Japan for Toshiba is usually a sign that the same will happen in the U.S. Starting today, Toshiba will be taking pre-orders for the Libretto W105--you know, that dual-screen slate that folds in half-- through ToshibaDirect.com and some of its channel partners.For those who rather...
Bose will soon release new in-ear headphones made specifically to work with multimedia-capable smartphones. The three will include the IE2 headphones and MIE2 and MIE2i mobile headsets.
Adobe today took Flash 10.1 for Android out of its current beta stage and posted a finished version in Android Market. The release is currently available only for the Nexus One but should eventually reach all Android 2.2 devices in the future.
MSI has announced its second new notebook for North America on Monday, the 15.6-inch FX600. Just like the FX400, it was introduced back in March at CeBit and is powered by a Core i5 CPU, this one rated at 2.66GHz.
Toshiba on Monday acted on vows of a US export and started selling the Libretto W100 in the US. The system is the same model available worldwide and thrives on its use of twin seven-inch, multi-touch screens as virtually its only interface.