June 2012
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Flash Arrays are changing the IT game for...
Bourgeoning flash-array startup Pure Storage announced the launch of its latest all-flash array disk on May 16th. The flash array will include upgrades that will feature enhancements for high availability, as well as some encryption and FlashCare I/O management. This release is after the company sent out upwards of 100 units for beta testing, according to Pure Storage President Matt Kixmoeller....
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Welcome the world's newest superhero, Captain...
A new comic book series has been published in China, called Captain China. The comic is very real, and as you might guess it’s pro-China. Captain China dawns a superhero outfit of China’s national flag with a Chinese military hat to match, and has been brought back to life in modern day to show the growth of China’s economy and China’s world power. In Captain China Volume...
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Measuring the size of the Universe
Finding out the distance from the stars to Earth may seem like a huge task at hand. And don’t get me wrong, it is. However, in this video by the Royal Observatory Greenwich, they breakdown how scientists measure the Universe in very simple terms using somewhat simple math. H/t to Geeks are Sexy for the video. If you’re curious about the picture inset, it’s a timeline of the...
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Myspace is up 4 million users in 2 months
Well well well, look who is showing signs of improvement for the past two months in a row? Yeah, that’s right - Myspace. I like to keep tabs on my old friend Myspace. For the past year or so it’s been a steady decline into the abyss never to be found again. But wait, back in February Myspace announced that it had generated a million new users. Certainly something to be excited about,...
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Turn your Android phone into a kid-friendly phone
Anybody that has kids knows that in today’s mobile driven society that you probably have a mobile device that your child likes to play with. It’s only natural. They see mom and dad playing with it, and you may even download apps for them that are made specifically for children. But what happens when they accidentally delete your other apps or maybe purchases apps unknowingly? Or that...
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The relaunch of Green Lantern has him coming out...
Well I’m sure this will raise some eyebrows. DC Comics is relaunching the Green Lantern series, which has been a staple of comic book history for the past 70 years. Green Lantern is coming back, or shall I say coming out, and he is arriving with a twist. In an interview with the NY Post, the comic book writer James Robinson decided to bring back Green Lantern as a gay superhero, making it...
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Co-Founder of Google Sergey Brin live demos...
On The Gavin Newsom Show, Google co-founder Sergey Brin brought along with him the top secret Google Glass (not glasses since it’s one lens only). In the hour long interview, Brin let Gavin Newsom try on the glasses and test them out on live TV. So far the glasses have been pretty hush-hush with images only, and one recent video that was a short clip of someone on a trampoline. Well now, we...
May 2012
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The state of the Internet and Internet trends
At the annual D10 Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, tech and industry analyst Mary Meeker did her now famous slide show of Internet Trends. Last year in her slides at the Web 2.0 Summit she told us how the future is all about mobile. This year, she came up with some more interesting stats, but nothing too mind-numbing.
As I would say at this point, which many already realize,...
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How to turn a banana into a piano
If you think it would be impossible to turn a banana into a piano, you may want to think again. Or maybe try turning Play-doh into a game controller, and being able to actually play a game with it? The possibilities are endless with this new amazing and fun invention kit called Makey Makey. Makey Makey is a Kickstarter project that can turn any every day object into a touchpad. The invention kit...
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Skywiper, the ghost in the machine
I don’t claim to know a lot about malware, or spyware for that matter, other than I know it’s bad shit and if your computer gets infected it can really mess things up. It’s also a pain in the ass to try to remove a virus, which I have had to do on an occasion or two. Which is also why I run virus scans often and am very careful about my web browsing and the sites I visit. ...
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Facebook is a public company now, so please click...
A few days after the Facebook IPO, which made Mark Zuckerberg a billionaire, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg gave a speech to the 2012 graduating class of Harvard Business School. Incidentally, Sandberg became a billionaire as well. During her speech, in a half-whimsical way she uttered these words: “Keep in touch via Facebook; this is critical to your future success. And since we’re...
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Have NASA scientists discovered the fountain of...
It’s called “Space Drink” or AS10, and it was created by NASA scientists to protect astronauts from the harmful radiation of the sun. According to NASA and new research from scientists at the University of Utah, drinking the Space Drink will provide noticeable reduction in facial wrinkles and signs of reduction in aging. The Week provided the Space Drink’s mixture of...
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Congrats to Tumblr who made it on ComScore’s Top...
comScore released their April 2012 Top 50 U.S. Web Properties and social blogging phenom Tumblr finally made it on the list! This is just another sign that Tumblr is growing exponentially. In the report, it shows that Tumblr is ranked number 47 with 23,507,000 million visitors for the month of April.
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How Facebook is able to take your Likes and turn...
Facebook is now up to 900 million users, which was uncovered in their recent Initial Public Offering. Having that many users, close to a billion, is astronomic for any one entity which then has to take that user data and turn it into something - that something being useful data which is forming the social web which many want to be a part of and which Facebook can benefit financially from. So, how...
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A wood table that is a perfect cassette tape...
I remember buying my first cassette tape at the local Waxie Maxies near my house when I was just a young kid, maybe 12 yrs old or so. My first tape, if I remember correctly was, Ice Cube’s Death Certificate. Cassette tapes were cool back then, but later came the CD and they slowly died off. CD’s are now suffering the same fate. Designer Jeff Skierka has a love for cassette tapes, and...
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Instagram may close down as Facebook launches...
Could this be a sign that we are nearing the end of our beloved Instagram? Today Facebook launched their own Instagram-esque mobile photo sharing app, with photo filters and social tied directly into Facebook. The conundrum is that Facebook just acquired Instagram last month for $1 billion. What gives? Well for starters, Facebook is a photo-centric social network, so they are simply trying...
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Code from Kazaa is resurrected in nefarious scheme...
Who remembers Kazaa? It was only a few years ago that Kazaa and Napster were running the Internet with peer-to-peer file sharing networks. Then things got crazy as the RIAA and others cracked down on file sharing networks, and life changed for all of us. Now the same people who helped create and share pirated content, are working on software that will block it, and the way it will be done might...
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Star Wars watercolor paintings by Terry Cook
Terry Cook is an artist who really captured the essence of all our favorites Star Wars characters in her Star Wars watercolor paintings, shared by Rebel Squadrons on Google+. My favorite of them all is the C-3PO and R2-D2 painting. What is yours?
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Track Mark Zuckerberg's billions, and see how he...
After the Facebook IPO, Mark Zuckerberg instantly became a billionaire many times over. Although, the FB stock isn’t doing as well as most would have liked. It started out with an IPO price of $38 a share, which made Zuck worth $19.14 billion. At the opening public price, it went up to $42 but has since bottomed out a bit, down as low as $30.94 and at $31.65 as of this writing.
The price of...
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New tech claims to make your dreams a reality
In the movie Vanilla Sky starring Tom Cruise (pictured inset), Cruise’s character suffers an accident leaving his face deformed. To cope, he signs up for a futuristic program that does cryonic suspension placing people in a lucid dream state, meaning, their minds are are in a controlled dream which feels like reality. New technology called Remee claims to be able to do something similar;...
