Wednesday: March 10, 2010
- Large Hadron Collider to officially shut down for one year due to safety concerns.
Dr Myers said: 'It's something that, with a lot more resources and with a lot more manpower and quality control, possibly could have been avoided but I have difficulty in thinking that this is something that was a design error.'
Thursday: February 18, 2010
- New website exposes the dangers of improper social network usage.
In a nutshell, a third party service posts your location status via Twitter. Someone managed to aggregate that content into one easy website for the entire world to see. A happy day for burglars round the world.
Friday: January 8, 2010
- Will 3D television technology save the industry?
Many however believe 2010 really is the breakthrough year for the technology, helped in large party by the growing number of 3D movies at the theatre and the success of James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar.
Monday: November 30, 2009
- Large hadron collider manages to set brand new world energy record.
The previous record of 0.98 trillion electron volts has been held by the Tevatron accelerator since 2001. The LHC is eventually expected to operate at some seven trillion electron volts.
Monday: October 19, 2009
- These days even a parking ticket can masquerade as a computer virus.
Drivers found the following message on the yellow ticket on their windscreen: 'PARKING VIOLATION This vehicle is in violation of standard parking regulations'. The ticket then instructed drivers to visit a website...
Friday: October 9, 2009
- Everything you never knew about nuclear batteries.
Turns out that nuclear batteries hold about a million times of a charge than your standard alkaline batteries. In the future, when/if your battery explodes you'll need to break out the radiation suits to clean up the mess.
Friday: October 2, 2009
- Turns out that Twitter is also a great tool for serving court orders.
The blogger, who is also a lawyer and owns the firm serving the order, said that he thought that it was the first time Twitter had been used to deliver a court order.
Tuesday: September 15, 2009
- Microsoft decides to give Bing some visual aids.
In a blog post, the company said a study it conducted found that consumers can process results with images 20% faster than text only results. 'It's like searching through a large online catalogue,' Microsoft said.
Tuesday: August 18, 2009
- Average age of video gamers older than originally thought.
Thirty-five is the new magic number according to recent study.
