This week, we’re looking at the ever-increasing digitization of memory , and indeed, today’s technologies can even access memories stored on the most closely-guarded of hard drives: our brains. In a recent study, MRIs accurately predicted what individuals were remembering. More
Topics: Apple We’ve had a few concerned readers contact us, worried that Apple has deleted or otherwise discontinued the “Downloads” section of its Web site. Fear not, gentle reader, they are still available in the same place as always: http://www.apple.com/downloads/ . What caused the confusion was the redesign of Apple.com that took effect at the end of last week. In order to make room for an iPad tab in the navigation bar at the top of Apple’s Web site, something had to go. Fortunately you can easily locate the downloads section simply by typing the word “downloads” into the search box. Below the links to Apple products, the iTunes store and the Apple store, the bottom link will bring you …
While it seems that Apple’s iPad may not experience the shipping delays that were previously rumored , but that same can’t be said for the accessories. Items such as the iPad case have been moved from April 3rd to mid-April, and now the iPad Keyboard Dock has also been pushed back to May. To make matters worse, the iPad Camera Kit isn’t anywhere to be found in Apple’s online store, so if you’re a photography junkie, the delay is certainly going to be a negative point to your iPad purchase. Do you think that these accessory delays are going to stop you from buying an iPad? Permalink: iPad Accessories Delayed? from Ubergizmo | RSS Sponsor: Win a Fellowes Microshred Paper
The week is finally here! There is no doubt about it, there is only one game you guys will be setting your eyes on for this week, and that’s none other than God of War III. Kratos
Codemaster’s VP Gavin Cheshire has lashed out at the PSP and its little brother, the PSP Go, in a magazine interview, calling the handheld a “bollocking useless waste of space”.
It seems that the question on everyone’s mind over at SXSW this year is: What will be the next Twitter ? Well, as our own Pete Cashmore said the other day during an interview with Bloomberg, and during a recent interview with Time.com ’s Dan Fletcher: It’s all about location . Twitter still remains a SXSW legend, even though some point to stats demonstrating that Twitter’s web traffic has been leveling off as of late. Still, the microblogging site asserts that it’s going as strong as ever, arguing that the true rubric for success is the number of tweets being sent out as opposed to the number of people logging on to Twitter via a web browser. Now, location-sharing services like…
Stanford’s Quake-Catcher Network has been up and running since early 2008, but it looks like it’s just now starting to reach the critical mass of users that’s essential for its success. As you may be aware, the software takes advantage of the accelerometers built into many new laptops to watch for any signs of shaking or vibration, which it then compares with data from other laptops in the same area — if they’re all shaking at the same time, that’s a pretty good indication there’s an earthquake happening. Until recently, however, there hasn’t been enough users in any particular area to produce reliable data, but Stanford now counts more…
Looks like Dell is getting itself a membership in a club of which AT&T , Nokia , and the US Department of Justice are none too pleased to say they’re members. The company has filed suit in a San Francisco court today against four Japanese LCD makers - Sharp, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Seko Epson - and Taiwan-based HannStar. The crime at hand? None other than the much-chronicled LCD price fixing cartel. At least two of the aforementioned companies ( Sharp and Hitachi ) have already come forth to admit involvement and pay fines elsewhere, and now it looks like the troubles are still coming for them and others. If only there was some way the companies could band together to increase profits and…
It’s been obvious from day one that it was possible, but after a couple of years of oh-so-painful 30 FPS recording on the EOS 5D Mark II , Canon is finally coming through with its long-promised 2.0.3 update that brings 29.97 FPS and 24 FPS (23.976, to be precise) 1080p recording at last. Even the VGA mode has been swapped to a 29.97 actual rate, and PAL mode has a flat 25 FPS and 23.976 FPS as well. Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp…
Here’s a fun tidbit we just learned from Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore: in order to focus Windows Phone 7 Series on the idea of best serving end users, the team actually created two fictional targets consumers named “Miles” and “Anna,” a pair of married 38-year old “life maximizers” who demand the most from their devices. Yes, it’s a little strange and hilariously specific on the surface — Anna just scaled back her PR job to part-time so she can take care of the kids! Miles like to take pictures and use Facebook to share them with his parents in Europe! — but it makes a certain …
