Post Election Bits & Bytes
Election ’08 is now in the history books – so I figured it’s time to take a look backward, and a look forward at some relevant headlines. Hacking Democracy First, we’ll take a look at one of the best...
View ArticleRIAA Shifts Tactics in Internet Piracy Fight
Five years on, and 350,000 lawsuits later, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) announced this morning that the’re finally giving up on small-time file sharers. Well, sort of. Wading...
View ArticleHappy 25th Birthday, Macintosh
The original 1984 Macintosh 128K It was 25 years ago to the day: January 24th, 1984, that the very first Macintosh personal computer first went on sale, changing the computer industry – and perhaps...
View ArticleThe Great Digital Delay
This morning, in an unanimous vote, the U.S. Senate has agreed to delay the government mandated digital television transition. The target has been moved from the original February 17th date to June...
View ArticleYahoo! Confirms Plan to Build Data Center in WNY
Though the rumor mill has had this pegged for over a month, it’s now official, according to this morning’s press conference – Yahoo! is coming to WNY, and bringing at least 75 jobs with them....
View ArticlePirate Bay: So long and thanks for all the megabytes
As those of you who don’t surf the web under a virtual rock are already aware, the “Pirate Bay Four” were found guilty by a Swedish court of “assisting in making copyright content available” back in...
View ArticleNASA to Bomb the Moon Friday Morning
While it may sound like a headline straight off the presses at The Onion, I assure you it is not. NASA will be “bombing” the Moon tomorrow morning – not once, but twice. To be accurate, there is no...
View ArticleSending Tweets to Heaven
This holiday season, remember a passed on loved one by sending a message to heaven. You’ll need to be long on faith, but you’ll have to keep your message short – 140 characters to be precise – which...
View ArticleFriday is International System Administrator Appreciation Day
Not Artvoice's network closet. Not far off though. Although this made-up holiday will have its 11th anniversary tomorrow, it’s still relatively unknown. The last Friday in July has been dubbed...
View ArticleThere’s Something in the Sky Tonight
Tonight at approximately midnight, stargazers will be treated to a rare sight. Jupiter will be in near perfect opposition to the Earth, and at it’s closest in decades. Take a look to the sky tonight...
View ArticleReverse Engineering Ahmed Mohamed’s Clock… and Ourselves.
I have something in common with Ahmed Mohamed: as a youngster, I was also an electronics enthusiast. At his age and even earlier, I frequently took apart electronic devices – anything from my own...
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