Blimey, where did the time go? Last night we settled on the sofa to check out this new release, Aquaria, and before we knew it four hours had passed and the battery on the iPad was utterly depleted. Also, our mug of cocoa had gone cold.
Sorry folks, if you were one of the few people that were interested in Samsung's Bada platform on a tablet -- you're not going to get it in the UK, at least within the near future.
I've seen some good re-entries filmed from orbit, but I like this one because it feels like a chase. In fact, it is a chase, as the ISS was following the same direction of the Russian Progress Resupply that was destroyed.
What is technology, really? An amusement? A shield from nature's labors? Industry? None of these — technology is meant to transcend the human. And when we behold this font of tomato, dipping fries into a ketchup continuum, we become gods.
Poor old Greenwich Mean Time might be out in the cold, if the UN has anything to say about it. They're looking to ditch the typically British time code, for a purely atomic time.
The very real six-man crew from the very real European Space Agency finally ended their very fake mission to Mars this afternoon. They've spent the past 18 months — 520 days! — locked inside a fake space shuttle outside of Moscow as a simulation.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November. Let’s face it, though, most of us don’t bother to remember the Gunpowder Plot these days, but focus on the fireworks instead. Lots of fireworks. Lots and lots and lots of them. But they're hardly rocket science, right? Uh, wrong.
I don't want to say I told you so, but... I told you so. Specifically, I've been saying that shooting video on SLR cameras simply doesn't make sense -- in some cases. Don't get me wrong; if you're a stills shooter who occasionally shoots video, knock yourself out. It's just the current wave of filmmakers shooting on SLRs, that baffles me.
Here's what the newly renovated Glass Cube Apple Store on Fifth Ave in New York City looks like now. It uses only 15 panes of glass to create the cube (compared to 90 panes previously) and is held "seamlessly" together without any visible hardware. CAN YOU TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
A Canon EOS 4K SLR is on the way, and we just learned that the $20,000 (converts to £12,500) Canon EOS C300 Digital Cinema Camera, announced earlier today, is due out next March.
After Hollywood's successful legal posturing to get BT to block Newzbin, which did nothing, the BPI is following their lead and is now after The Pirate Bay. Considering there's already a good record, they're taking the voluntary route this time.
There's a good reason this is probably the first bike mounted hands-free umbrella you've ever seen. Previous attempts to bring such a product to fruition fizzled out once their creators realised what a terrible idea it would be. But not the makers of the Uberhood.
Good old British Airways looks like it's about to swallow-up one of its smaller, loss-making rivals, BMI, giving BA pretty much total control of Heathrow. BA's parent company IAG has agreed to buy BMI off Lufthansa for around £300 million.
The K supercomputer just got a bit quicker — boosting its computational output to 10.5 quadrillion calculations per second and making it the speediest number-crunching system on the planet.
Missed that important, amazing programme on Channel 5 you've been looking forward to? No, probably not. But if it ever does show anything decent, and you miss it, Channel 5+1 will launch this December, on Freeview, Freesat and Sky. [Guardian]
Not long ago, I was in the United States on a short holiday. We ended up in Chicago, in a rather, well, ‘authentic’ pizza place. In the corner, there was a table of Chicago’s Finest. I’ve always been a little curious about how real-life policing happens in the colonies, so I asked if I could join them for a bit. “Uhm… Yeah”, one of them said, seemingly unsure.
