Researches are working on mouth controls for the disabled to operate computers. Teeth as keyboards? picked by suebe 4 days ago

A 20-year-old Boise man accused of stealing between 15-to-20 Dell computers from his workplace and attempting to sell them out of his home is charged with felony grand theft.

he lives on my street. or he used to anyway. seems like he will be living in jail for a while. picked by muppet 5 months ago

Computers are smart but they can't understand apostrophes. It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams. More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers are still getting confused by the apostrophe. picked by 2manyusernames 6 months ago

Computers from "back in the day". And I mean really old... picked by kamaloo 10 months ago

Apple Inc. updated its iMac computers Tuesday with a slimmer design, faster chips and glossy screens, hoping to further propel sales that already outpace the rest of the PC industry. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Copy and paste between computers in three easy steps picked by pjanaway 1 year ago

A survey has found young Japanese women talk to their computers, give them names, and decorating them with toys. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Stuff about computers that only happens in movies picked by kamaloo 12 months ago

Planets may be present in a quadruple star system 150 light years from Earth, according to Spitzer Space Telescope observations. The system, called HD 98800, consists of two pairs of stars in which the partners in each pair orbit one another closely. The pairs themselves travel around each other on a very elongated path. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

A growing band of collectors are gathering retro computers, considering them important relics and even good investments. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Psystar's Web site was overwhelmed Monday after it was found to be selling cheap computers with Mac OS X Leopard preinstalled. This caused quite the commotion, as Apple does not license its operating system to other hardware makers, and specifically prohibits (PDF) end users from installing Mac OS X on anything other than an "Apple labeled" computer. picked by buddha 5 months ago

Optical computers, computers that use light instead of electricity will revolutionize life. Researchers have not been able to create the ideal crystal to manipulate light properly. However a beetle seems to have done it, its back has the crystal structure we have been looking for. picked by 2manyusernames 3 months ago

A sheep called Lottie has proved that not all of her kind are stupid by regularly letting herself out of her locked pen... with her tongue. Staff at Swansea Community Farm, south Wales, were baffled when Lottie and her three pen-mates started escaping every night. CCTV cameras installed to watch over the sheep - now dubbed Ewe-dini - showed the rare Llanwennog breed was unbolting the gate using he... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

A student group at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., has found a way to make money off the frustration that misbehaving computers generate. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

An international team of scientists, including several at The Johns Hopkins University, has detected a hidden magnetic “quantum order” that extends over chains of nearly 100 atoms in a material that is otherwise magnetically disordered. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Computers the size of blood cells will create fully immersive virtual realities by 2033, leading inventor Ray Kurzweil has predicted.

In other news, sexually frustrated nerds everywhere rejoice. picked by mahler87 6 months ago

New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centers a thing of the past. Scientists are investigating the use of extremely high radio frequencies (RF) to achieve broad bandwidth and high data transmission rates over short distances. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Enter your age and discover your age on other planets in our solar system. (Good link on here for building a scaled solar system too). Not completely updated: Pluto still a planet on this site. picked by ogri2003 1 year ago

Jürgen Stumpf owns three wine bars in Berlin that operate on the honor system. For the price of 1€ (about $1.50), you rent yourself a glass and get to sample as many of the wines as you want. At the end of the night you throw some bills or coins into a big jar, the amount based on what you think is fair. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

50 years ago, the standard hard drive was the width of two refrigerators and stored the equivalent of one MP3 song. Today, we have 15,000 times the capacity of the original. Who knows what the future hard drive holds... picked by ybne1else 2 years ago