Computers

Verizon Rolling Out Geek Squad Knockoff Called ‘Expert Care’

Starting today, Verizon will join a growing list of companies including Best Buy and AT&T that offer a service dedicated to in-home customer support. Verizon’s ‘Expert Care’ will offer a ‘protection pak’ that provides home repair and replacement coverage for your computers, televisions, and telephones as well as monitors, modems, keyboards, mice, OEM remote controls…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Asus Planning to Release Touchscreen Eee PC Within Six Months

Asustek executive Samson Hu has confirmed his company’s plans to release a touchscreen Eee PC variant for sale by Q1 of 2009. It’s not known whether the devices will look like the touch panel Eee mods that have been floating around or take the shape of a tablet, but we’ll see in January when the…

Gadgets John Herrman

iPhone Apps from Science Fiction

Inspired by the fantasies of SF writers, we’ve made a shortlist of applications that developers need to build for the iPhone right now — and all of them will make your phone more powerful than a light saber. In fact, the whole iPhone-light saber conversion process is completely retro. In the brave new iPhone future,…

io9 Alex Carnevale

Samsung MV100 and MZ100 Consume Even Less Energy than the Korean Sex Cyborgs Presenting Them

Looks like Samsung keeps pushing for green computing. These computers are Korea-only for now, but the MV100 Tower and MZ100 Slim Tower, running on the Intel G43 chipset, consume only sixty watts in “power saving mode” and one watt in stand-by mode. I only have one question for you: Do you really care about how…

Gadgets Jesus Diaz

The Heat Sink Computer Loves to Sweat

This computer uses 100% passive cooling (read: no fans or liquid chilling systems). So how is that possible? Well just look at the thing. It’s like one big freakin’ heat sink. We don’t have much information on the design, but from what we can tell, copper tubing helps dissipate the heat from hot spots like…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Dell Preloading Select Computers with Iron Man

We love Iron Man and really have nothing bad to say about the guy. But we were surprised to hear that customers who are personalizing their Dell’s Inspiron, Studio or XPS will have the options to bump up the RAM, upgrade the video card and then preload Iron Man (in standard definition) with some extras…

Tech News Mark Wilson

HP Touchsmart IQ816 Adds Bigger Screen, Blu-ray, VESA Wall Mount

HPs Touchsmart all-in-one, launched earlier this summer, was a pretty good all-in-one PC, and now it got a few more features that sweeten the deal. The key updates for the Touchsmart IQ816 are that it now comes with a 25.5-inch LCD, Blu-ray drive and VESA wall mount capability. Other new features include a drive bay…

Tech News Adrian Covert

San Francisco Hunting For “Mystery Device” on City Network

San Francisco is continuing to untangle the mess created by the notorious Terry Childs after his attempt to bring down the city network. According to estimates, the cleanup has cost taxpayers $1 million so far, with an additional $800,000 set aside for unforeseen problems. The latest development in the saga occurred late last month when…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Sony’s New Vaio NS and CS Laptops Are (Almost) HD Ready

The NS series of laptops is the latest in Sony’s Vaio update frenzy, and they’re machines aimed at delivering HD video. Hence the NS is available with a Blu-ray ROM drive and has a widescreen 15.4-inch Xbrite-Eco LCD for showing video off. Trouble is, the screen resolution is 1200×800, just enough to deliver 720p, but…

Gadgets Kit Eaton

Question of the Day: How Often Do You Upgrade Your Laptop?

We have talked about updating your cellphone in the past, but after witnessing the excitement surrounding a possible MacBook event on October 14th, I began to wonder whether or not there are a lot of people out there that buy a new laptop every year. After all, for most of us frequently updating a laptop…

Tech News Sean Fallon

The Machines that Will Remember You in 100 Years

Computers are getting smaller, hard drives are getting cheaper, and processors are getting faster — but that doesn’t mean we no longer have computers so huge that they fill entire floors of a building. It just means that when computers do fill an entire floor, they are crunching a shitload more data than they would…

io9 Annalee Newitz

200,000 Core Supercomputer to be Built, Still Not As Clever as HAL

Recently green-lit to be built at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IBM’s future Blue Waters supercomputer is peta’d all over. It’ll have up to 2-petaflops processing speed, more than a petabyte of memory and a 10 petabyte disk storage system. It’ll also have more than 200,000 processor cores, and cost around $208 million, which…

Tech News Kit Eaton

Sony Vaio LV All-In-One Entertainment PC One Ups The Vaio LT With HDMI-in And Integrated HD Tuner

Sony’s Vaio LV all-in-one PC is the direct successor to the Vaio LT desktop PC released earlier this year, but this time around, they added two crucial features — HDMI-in and an integrated ATSC tuner. This means you can watch over the air TV or connect any HD cablebox, DVR, Game Console, DVD/Blu-Ray player, etc…,…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Project Inkwell ‘Spark’ Aiming for OLPC’s Head With Its Handheld Form Factor

Project Inkwell’s Spark is not only a potential OLPC competitor because of its handheld, UMPC form factor and K-12 educational focus, but also because it doesn’t look like it’s made exclusively for the preschool user base. The Spark was developed in conjunction with the design firm Ideo, and though details are vague, the visuals are…

Tech News Adrian Covert

Question of the Day: How Fast Can You Type? (Test Yourself)

With all of that time spent on the computer, I would imagine that most of you can type at a pretty good clip. Back in elementary school I managed a personal best of 88 WPM (Not that great, but I still had to cheat by working over the same paragraph for an hour or so…

Tech News Sean Fallon

Question of the Day: How Many USB Ports Are You Using?

If you are anything like me, you have waaaay too many gadgets plugged into your USB ports. I have a hub of course, but it is still hard to keep up with the insane amount of stuff you can plug in these days. That having been said, I am curious to know how bad things…

Gadgets Sean Fallon

Crayola EZ Type Keyboard: When Normal Keyboards Are Just Too Confusing

There are only four acceptable reasons I can think of for buying this $30 dollar Crayola EZ Type keyboard: 1) You’re a little slow. 2) You’re under the age of five (and still maybe a little slow). 3) You have a kid under the age of five (and you’re both a little slow). 4) You…

Tech News Adrian Covert

FAA Computers Aren’t Computing, Cause Delays At Airports Everywhere

We don’t know how many airports total are being affected, but FAA computers at one of their facilities are having trouble processing data, which means flights everywhere are being delayed. So far CNN says LaGuardia in NY and Hartsfield-Jackson in Atlanta were having problems (among many others), but radar and plane contact is fine everywhere.…

Tech News Jason Chen

Epson Artisan 700 and 800: Feature-Rich Printers on the Cheap

The Epson Artisan 700 and 800 are new all-in-one printers featuring, well, enough goodies to make use write about a generally dull topic. In addition to the standard scanners, memory card readers and LCDs, both units feature Wi-Fi and ethernet, fancy touch panel controls, direct to CD/DVD printing, and standard printing up to 38 pages…

Tech News Mark Wilson

Experts Say Biggest Planetary Emergency Comes from Cyberattacks

Click to view This weekend, Sicily plays host to an annual conference devoted to analyzing “planetary emergencies.” 120 scientists and engineers come from all over the world to discuss what the biggest planet-wide threats are, and how we might solve them. You’d think they’d be focusing on stuff like climate change — or maybe that…

io9 Annalee Newitz

Verizon Rolling Out Geek Squad Knockoff Called ‘Expert Care’

Asus Planning to Release Touchscreen Eee PC Within Six Months

iPhone Apps from Science Fiction

Samsung MV100 and MZ100 Consume Even Less Energy than the Korean Sex Cyborgs Presenting Them

The Heat Sink Computer Loves to Sweat

Dell Preloading Select Computers with Iron Man

HP Touchsmart IQ816 Adds Bigger Screen, Blu-ray, VESA Wall Mount

San Francisco Hunting For “Mystery Device” on City Network

Sony’s New Vaio NS and CS Laptops Are (Almost) HD Ready

Question of the Day: How Often Do You Upgrade Your Laptop?

The Machines that Will Remember You in 100 Years

200,000 Core Supercomputer to be Built, Still Not As Clever as HAL

Sony Vaio LV All-In-One Entertainment PC One Ups The Vaio LT With HDMI-in And Integrated HD Tuner

Project Inkwell ‘Spark’ Aiming for OLPC’s Head With Its Handheld Form Factor

Question of the Day: How Fast Can You Type? (Test Yourself)

Question of the Day: How Many USB Ports Are You Using?

Crayola EZ Type Keyboard: When Normal Keyboards Are Just Too Confusing

FAA Computers Aren’t Computing, Cause Delays At Airports Everywhere

Epson Artisan 700 and 800: Feature-Rich Printers on the Cheap

Experts Say Biggest Planetary Emergency Comes from Cyberattacks

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia Adds ‘Succulent Chinese Meal’ Guy

Feds Sniffing Around Polymarket After Suspicious Bets

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Don’t Get Too Attached to Any AI App

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Trump’s New White House App Is Mildly Concerning and Weird for a Lot of Reasons

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MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Review: A Solid 2-in-1 Laptop With Some Glaring Flaws

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Asus ROG’s Massive Swift OLED Gaming Monitor Epitomizes Excess in the Best Way

The Ikea Varmblixt Smart Lamp Fills a Donut Hole in My Life

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