It gives the phrase “a stiff drink” a whole new meaning: Australian researchers have made the surprise discovery that alcohol improves, rather than damages, men’s performance in the bedroom.
Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg, who has over 88,000 followers on Twitter (making him the second most followed after President Obama) gives ten tips on how to get more followers on Twitter. Bonus Tip: 11. Submit a story about how to get more twitter followers to Digg with your twitter link in the description. =] Follow http://twitter.com/FirstDigg
Steve Jobs’s announcement on Jan. 14 that he will be taking a medical leave from Apple is not the first time the company will go without his services, as Mr. Jobs was not at Apple from 1985 to 1997. A look at Apple’s products before, during and after that time shows what effect Mr. Jobs has had on the company.
“Sparsh” is an interactive multi-touch table made by using FTIR techniques. In an 8 week research project, we designed, developed and built a fully functional working prototype of a multi-touch console based on Jeff Hann’s FTIR, with a wide range of software and applications that we were able to run using this new platform.
The California Highway Patrol uses their track for a high-speed presentation. The most impressive move would probably be back to back 360 spins of the police cruisers at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour.
While much of the media is tripping over itself to mark the Second Coming of Windows (aka the Windows 7 beta), I recall the First Install of Vista. Though I have been running Vista without major incident since January of 2008, the initial switch consigned me immediately to my own private Vista hell. Let’s hope Microsoft makes the upgrade to Windows
A very strange music video that could almost be described as too strange, messed up and weird. I was shocked.
An anonymous reader writes “John Schiefer, the Los Angeles security consultant who in last 2007 admitted wielding a 250,000-node botnet to steal bank passwords, sometimes from work, says he’s spent the past 15 working as a professional in the security scene while awaiting sentencing. Prosecutors are pushing for a five-year sentence, noting the exceptional threat he represented to society.”
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Barence writes “The European Commission could force Microsoft to bundle Firefox with future versions of Windows. The revelation came as part of Microsoft’s quarterly filing with the Security and Exchange Commission. Among the statements is a clause outlining the penalties being considered by the European watchdog, which recently ruled that Microsoft is harming competition by bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. The most interesting situation outlined in the filing would see either Microsoft or computer manufacturers forced to install Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari by default alongside Internet Explorer on new Windows-based PCs.”
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AtariKee writes “Universe Today is reporting that a small 10m asteroid, discovered earlier this month and named 2009 BD, is passing within 400,000 miles of Earth. Although the asteroid poses no threat to the planet, the site reports that the asteroid is still very interesting, as it may be a rare co-orbital asteroid (as in, shares the same orbit as Earth).”
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