Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
If you were sitting around today thinking, “God, I wish someone would create a terrifyingly quick assembly-line robot that could potentially tear me limb from limb in a matter of seconds” – then you’re in luck, because we’ve got that exact robot.
The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker is the fastest industrial robot in the world, which means that not only can it make your food, package your candy and make your fax machines at terrifying speeds, it also means that you’re quickly becoming outsourced to robotics, so, you know, hurray!
Writer’s Strike to End Saturday
Friday, February 8th, 2008According to former Walt Disney chief executive, Michael Eisner, the writer’s strike is over. Practically. According to Eisner, "It’s over… They made a deal, they shook hands on the deal. It’s going on Saturday to the writers in general."
Wait, so does this mean the thirty million reality shows are going off air? Because we were really starting to like the re-imagining of American Gladiators. Then again, it can only get better with writers…
Space Solar Power System to launch in Japan
Thursday, February 7th, 2008Japan, the country that likes to terrify us with new and terrifying technology, has announced that they are building giant solar panels to be shot into space in an attempt to garner delicious, solar energy. While the word "death star" wasn’t necessarily thrown around, the news definitely conjured up the image.
The company called, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or, the appropriately evil-sounding acronym, JAXA, is behind the Space Solar Power System (SSPS) and hope to have it running by 2030.
Duke Nukem 3D to be released in late 2008
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008It’s hip to remake old games, and Garland-based video game developer, 3D Realms, knows it — as it’s announced that it will be releasing Duke Nukem Forever, in late 2008.
Duke Nukem, the romantic story of a man who just wanted to blow things up, was revolutionary as a 1996 PC game called Duke Nukem 3D. The new game should be available for the Xbox 360, the PS3 and PCs.
Microsoft May Borrow to Buy Yahoo
Monday, February 4th, 2008You know that friend we all have, the one that makes big investments and then realizes they can’t quite afford them so they ask you if they could borrow a little bit of cash?
That friend is Microsoft.
After making a huge, unsolicited $44.6 billion dollar offer to buy Yahoo Inc., Microsoft has said that it may issue some debt to finance the cash portion of the buy out.
Oh, get a job.
Japanese Researchers Put Tiny Camera in Mouse Brain
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Japanese researchers in Tokyo implanted a tiny camera inside the brain of a mouse to see how memory is formed. The scientists hope that the experiment will not only help humans treat diseases like Parkinsons but will also show us the complicated inner workings of a mouse brain.
Finally.
Amazon Acquires Audible, Alliterists Alarmed
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Amazon isn’t just slowly moving into the digital media world, it’s smashing its way in, like a large, book-selling rhinocerous. The company announced that it had acquired Audible for $300 million this Thursday, a move that meant very little to anyone who doesn’t know what Audible is.
What, then, is it? Audible is the leading provider of audio books in digital form — with a library of 80,000 titles, Amazon has officially entered the audio book market. Take that… all you audio book market competitors.
Myspace Opens Legs for Developers
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008MySpace has announced that it will be introducing tools for developing games, media-sharing features and other programs to make it resemble Facebook even more closely — and while that wasn’t said in so many words, it certainly was implied. Heavily.
MySpace, while still doing better than Facebook, has slowly made changes in the last few months to make it look and feel that much more than its smaller competitor, making Facebook feel like the belle of the ball.
Nintendo Doubles Yearly Earnings
Thursday, January 24th, 2008Remember how Nintendo was supposed to die when it released the GameCube and got beaten to death by Sony and Microsoft? Well, it appears to refuse to do so, in fact, thanks to the Wii and the DS, Nintendo earnings doubled from the previous year.
How do you like dem silky-white, motion-sensing apples?
