Posted on September 10, 2008 by drkllpnt
Today was special. The Large Hadron Collider fired it’s first beams this morning around 3:36 AM Central time.
That begs the questions – what the heck is the Large Hadron Collider? Which James Bond movie did they pull this idea from? How dangerous is 14 TeV? Who the F%^# cares??
Filed under: Experiments, News, Science, Society, Technology | Tagged: CERN, Large Hadron Collider, quarks, Stranglets, dark matter, vacuum bubbles, magnetic monopolies, black holes, doomsday, the end of, James Bond, electron volts, physics, Javascript, Klingon | 10 Comments »
Posted on July 29, 2008 by themicrocosm
Cuil has so much friggin’ hype, that it can do nothing but fail. Well, that is what is google.com would hope. The idea behind cuil.com is to provide a contextual relevance to the way you search. This is a model that is quite different from google. It is probably the timing combined with the developer’s [...]
Filed under: Technology | Tagged: Anna Patterson, cuil.com, google.com, search engines | 2 Comments »
Posted on July 21, 2008 by themicrocosm
It’s time. Apple has proven it can fill a market void and transform a product into a sensation. It conquers the minds of trendy youths and then it spreads like wildfire.
Filed under: Technology | Tagged: 3G, Apple, iCar, iPhone, iPod, Mac, Steve Jobs, Swiss efficiency | 7 Comments »
Posted on June 7, 2008 by drkllpnt
Google recently showcased their mobile phone “complete stack” or as I like to call it “Android” -an open source platform that should allow for some interesting applications that always seem to pop up from the open source geeks. Check the page for an interesting “wideo” from Sergey and Steve (did he call it Ooogle?)
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Filed under: Technology | Tagged: Android, Google, Gphone, iPhone | 5 Comments »
