Thelasko writes “After several pictures of the Model S were leaked onto the internet, Jalopnik has the first official pictures of the Model S. One of its most striking features is its massive touchscreen in place of the center console.”
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GrApHiX42 writes “I pissed away my 20s and now I want to go to school and get a bachelor’s degree in computer science. The thing is, I’ll be 35 when I get out of school, and I’ve read on numerous sites that there seems to be some ageism going on in the IT industry when it comes to older geeks. What have some of the ‘older’ Slashdot readers experienced as far as being replaced or just plain not getting hired because IT is a ‘young man’s game’?”
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Facebook (and other social networks) has been skewing older for a while, but the trend has been “massive” in the past six months, according to insidefacebook.
Here we go: Apple’s just announced that its Worldwide Developers Conference will take place June 8-12 in San Francisco. If you’ll recall, last year’s WWDC was where a little gadget called the iPhone 3G made its appearance, and we’d say chances are good we’ll see new hardware this year as wel
People with repetitive stress injuries may see some of these keyboards as a godsend, but the rest of us are likely to have a different reaction: These things are just plain weird.
It will cost you an arm and a leg, but Apple is now offering an official 8GB memory upgrade kit for the mid- and high-end models of its current 15-inch unbibody MacBook Pro family, AppleInsider has discovered.
It happens to all of us eventually, the ExtremeTech staff probably more than most. Whether due to failure or obsolescence—or after you’ve run out of alternative upgrade paths—it comes time to pull a motherboard out of a working system and replace it with something different.
Apple’s announcement last week of a new operating system for the iPhone – iPhone OS 3.0. Aside from being your mobile business assistant, the iPhone may also become your medical assistant in the near future. Two of the more interesting applications are for blood pressure and blood sugar monitoring.
Still holding out on the Vista upgrade? Now’s a good time to give Ubuntu Linux a try.
GrApHiX42 writes “I pissed away my 20s and now I want to go to school and get a bachelor’s degree in computer science. The thing is, I’ll be 35 when I get out of school, and I’ve read on numerous sites that there seems to be some ageism going on in the IT industry when it comes to older geeks. What have some of the ‘older’ Slashdot readers experienced as far as being replaced or just plain not getting hired because IT is a ‘young man’s game’?”
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