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‘Leap Seconds’ May Be Eliminated From UTC
By admin on August 24, 2010 | Comments Off
angry tapir writes “Sparking a fresh round of debate over an ongoing issue in time-keeping circles, the International Telecommunications Union is considering eliminating leap seconds from the time scale used by most computer systems, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Since their introduction in 1971, leap seconds have proved problematic for at least a few software programs. The leap second added on to the end of 2008, for instance, caused Oracle cluster (more…)
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Rubber Made from Chewed Gum Could Replace PlasticBy admin on August 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Designer transforms chewed gum into a useful rubber that can be made into anything from toys to boots.
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How a Criminal Conspiracy Made Millions From Stolen iPhonesBy admin on August 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Police have shut down a global criminal conspiracy suspected of milking millions of pounds from stolen iPhones through premium phone lines.
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Powering Music Player With Kinetic Energy from PantsBy admin on August 14, 2010 | Comments Off
Talk about a dance, dance revolution: The Dancepants Kinetic Music Player, a shortlisted entry in Designboom’s Green Life competition, makes you work for tunes. Designed by Inesa Malafej and Arunas Sukarevicius from Lithuania, the Dancepants converts kinetic energy from running or dancing into electricity for your MP3 player.
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Surf Video shot from a mini helicopterBy admin on August 2, 2010 | Comments Off
Smooth overhead footage of the surf at Broken Head (Byron Bay) – shot from a mini rc helicopter. Very smooth.
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Did the Bailout of GM and Chrysler Save Ford from Collapse?By admin on July 23, 2010 | Comments Off
Senator Harry Reid has made the assertion that if the Government hadn’t bailed out GM and Chrysler, Ford would have gone under also. The rationale is that if GM and Chrysler no longer existed, the supplier base which provides about 90% of the parts that make up a car would have collapsed also.
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5 Unwinnable Situations from Classic 80s GamesBy admin on July 23, 2010 | Comments Off
It was once common practice to have situations in which it becomes impossible to complete a videogame. To add insult to injury, the games in question rarely mentioned that fact to the player, leaving them to lurch around forever without knowing that the only way to succeed was to turn off the game and start from scratch.
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Five Things We Learned from Legend of ZeldaBy admin on July 19, 2010 | Comments Off
Playing a good videogame can be, in some respects, like reading a good book: you can take themes, ideas and feelings from fiction and carry them with you into real life. Somewhere, in some senate subcommittee meeting, this claim made Joe Lieberman take a dump in his pants. But it’s true. And we’ve got the proof.
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Muralitharan to retire from TestsBy admin on July 6, 2010 | Comments Off
Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan will retire from Test cricket after the first Test against India in Galle starting on 18 July.
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Halo Reach – Lessons from the BetaBy admin on June 29, 2010 | Comments Off
Halo: Reach’s multiplayer beta, which ran from May 3 to May 19, had more than 2.7 million participants. In this exclusive interview, Bungie’s community director Brian Jarrard discusses the lessons, numbers, and stories that came out of the beta testing, as well as what we can expect to see in Halo: Reach when the full game releases Sept 14 on x360.
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