Norwegian Scientists Create Evolving Hardware While Jeff Hawkins Creates the Brain (Verdict: Start Building Nuclear Shelters NOW)
Say hello to Kyrre Glette, Jim Tørrenson, Jeff Hawkins and one of your future robot overlords. The first three have developed two different ways to create independent machines. The fourth is just looking to destroy you. Glette and Tørrenson, from Oslo University, have come up with what could be the next generation of hardware—machines that…
Google Desktop For Mac OS X First Impressions [verdict: solid, feels slower than Spotlight]
So word in the Valley is that Google and Apple are still going out, going dutch at Mel’s Drive-In and doing naughty things at Apple dad’s garage. Now Google wants to get the relationship one step further without putting pressure on Apple and has released Google Desktop for Mac OS X. It indexes applications, Mail…
Frenchies Release Petit Computeur – C’est Très Cheap
French ISP Neuf Cegetel has come up with a computer that costs pas beaucoup. $53 buys you the computer gets you a month’s worth of computer plus ADSL line rental, $39 gets you a mouse, keyboard and camera, and a 14-inch color monitor is $132. UPDATE: That’s about $13 a month more than a broadband…
VESA Approves DisplayPort 1.1 With Digital Content Protection, World Doesn’t Give a Damn, Orders More Pancakes
Those crazy videoheads at VESA have approved the final version of DisplayPort 1.1 that was announced at CES ’07. And while we thought it was yet another new connector for your computer, monitors, TVs and projectors, different to every other video port out there and obviously designed to confuse everyone, apparently VESA says “it’s a…