The Google Chrome OS update

(here's another article with simple overview of what the Google Chrome OS will be about, so far. http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix/google-drops-bomb-its-own-operating-system)

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 It's almost two in the morning now in the city. I was just about to wrap up my writing session with Mathematica/LaTeX when strange news of a new operating system came flooding in through the internet. The RSS reader registered a mention of Google Chrome OS from ArsTechnica while I received links to an article on NYTimes on the possibility of ( Read more... )

Those of you in the know are probably aware of my fixation with computer games. I haven't been able to play like before though, with real world jobs and school works getting more intense by the day. Yet I still like it enough to manage to play some whenever I can afford to do so, and I'm certainly guilty of some recent sleepless nights spent on ( Read more... )

So here's an interesting short article on the possibility of internet gaining some type of consciousness due to its network based emergence-friendly structure. The author is the famous Ben Goertzel, one of the foremost minds of the futurist/AI school. If you've got time you should check out his blog for other articles as well. I've found a number ( Read more... )

First, a little article excerpt I got from the nokiablog ( Read more... )

 Cellphone novels are quite a hit with Japanese female demographic, as outlined in this article. This might sound strange to westerners who until recently considered a bare-minimum camera phone as a luxury item and live in places where bluetooth still isn't the standard on many laptops and cellphone models being offered. As the common stereotype ( Read more... )

A new documentary from Current TV. Unlike some other (let's be honest. MOST other) Japan/robot documentaries, this one focuses on the social conditions leading to the Japan's apparent love of robotics. It sheds something of a harsh, yet realistic view on the state of Japanese society and their labor market, something I am somewhat familiar on ( Read more... )

 Just a quick note before I go off to fire up a new report. (Cross posted from my tumblr feed)

Original article from the Wired.

Ok, here's my take on it.
There seem to be a way to build a cheap microfluidic array using household materials costing around three cents. The materials involved are standard double sided tapes and paper (which acts as the ( Read more... )

 In answer to a question posed by an interviewer at the end of a comic "Futuristic Tales of The Here and Now"

TW:

Many people in your story suffer from a disease you term as "Zombiism." Is this comparable to, say, the horrendously extreme amount of AIDS cases in Africa, a continent also rife with warfare?

CD:

Yeah, and all the other diseases-like ( Read more... )

I've had a chance to encounter a service on the web called 'tumblr.' So far I like it ( Read more... )