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Chromebook Review Part 2: The Setup
Once running, the Chromebook boots with miracle swiftness and whisper silence. First, it wants to know how to connect to the nearest Wi-Fi network. The Chromebook doesn’t run very well (initially) without a connection to the Internet. I expected this, it is after all an OS based almost entirely on the cloud that runs mostly ...
Chromebook Review Part 1: The Unboxing
It’s a rainy day and Fedex says that the Samsung Chromebook is on the truck–out for delivery. For me, it’s like any other day as I wait and do general work at the computer. The tasks are simple: play a few games, read everything in my Google Reader feed, retweet a few messages on Twitter, ...
3D Printing and the Upcoming Cultural Crisis in Gun Control
3D printers represent a technology that may have great implications for the culture of prohibition–that idea that “things” can be controlled by regulation. Certainly this has become true for questions of copyright when it comes to the ease-of-copying and the digital era; but now 3D printers are bringing the ability to produce tangible objects into ...
TV Viewers in Marquette, MI and Great Falls, MT Treated to Zombie Warnings via EAS
The city of Marquette, Michigan had two separate TV stations warn viewers of a zombie apocalypse via the emergency alert systems including an announcement that “dead bodies are rising from their graves.” Hackers accessed the ESA of both PBS-affiliate WNMU Channel 13 and ABC-affiliate WBUP-TV Channel 10 sending out scrolling text as well as an ...
Nodejitsu Announces Partnership with Telefonica to Amplify DevOps with Node.js WebOps
Nodejitsu just announced a partnership that will change the landscape of Node.js development as deployed across Platform-as-a-Service using the Joyent cloud. By partnering with Telefonica the PaaS company becomes the first on the market to give customers a choice of infrastructure provider as well as what datacenter they want their applications to run on—this is ...
Games Workshop Bullies E-Book Author Over Use of “Space Marine”
Games Workshop, well-known publisher of tabletop games such as Warhammer 40,000, has decided that they need to take the fight to cyberspace over the use of the term “space marine” in science fiction. Having spent part of my life living in a comic book store, I’m used to seeing GW games and reading their short-but-punchy ...
TPB-AFK: The Official The Pirate Bay Documentary Available for Download and Viewing Out Now
The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard is a grim documentary that follows the founders of TPB during the trials in Sweden up until the final verdict—produced by Simon Klose as a documentary of TPB’s impact, both cultural and personal—and now it’s been released for free as a BitTorrent (indexed on TPB itself) and as a ...
Gameloft and EA Throw in with B10 but is it Enough for BlackBerry Gaming?
When Research In Motion now known as BlackBerry are brought into a conversation the first thing that comes to mind is not gaming. The so-dubbed “crackberry” got its name from how extensively social networking can take over a mobile device but not about how fun they were to play games on. BlackBerry’s new launch model ...
OnLive Has Game Changing Plans for the Cloud-Streaming MMO Market
The year of 2012 was a troubled time for the video game cloud-streaming outfit OnLive, but they managed to pull through only because, after becoming insolvent, they were bought out by another company—also called OnLive. Red Bull UK interviewed general manager Bruce Grove about how OnLive intends to regain a place in the video game streaming market ...
China Once Again Takes Hacking Headlines by Storm
It seems like every time cybersecurity experts turn around, China is standing right behind them. The country has been accused (and caught) in numerous hacking attempts against multiple targets and the most recent hacks against US held journalism sites has just been added to the country’s shady cyber resume. Very recently, numerous US journalism cites ...
