Holiday albums could be less forgettable when pictures of a Mediterranean meal carry the scent of olives; a selfie on the beach contains a trace of salt spray or a rainy London scene conveys the distinctive aroma of freshly wet concrete. If the digital age has increased the volume of communication, it may not have improved the quality.… Read More »
Dead’ Mississippi man who kicked out of body bag has died A Mississippi man pronounced dead last month and put in a body bag only to come alive just before embalming, has now died, a coroner said on Thursday. Walter Williams, 78, died at about 1 a.m. local time in Lexington, two weeks after shocking people when he… Read More »
ATMs will still run Windows XP –but a bigger shift in security looms The vast majority of bank ATMs around the world currently run on Windows XP. Come April 8, when Microsoft cuts off support for Windows XP, the vast majority of those bank ATMs will still be running XP. While there’s some cause for concern, it’s much… Read More »
The Real Reason Facebook Cracked Down On Guns (Moms, Of Course) New York’s top law enforcement official brought Facebook to the table to talk about getting tough on guns. But it was an increasingly powerful group of mothers that likely forced the social media giant to crack down on what some saw as an underground market for gun… Read More »
The following appeared on BetaNews this morning. The more adventurous explorers among you might want to get a jump on everyone else and install Windows 8.1 Update 1 before it’s officially released. If you like living on the edge, this is for you: Get the purported Microsoft Windows 8.1 Update 1 NOW Reports about Windows are often… Read More »
Despite the fact that American companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix and others dominate the tech world, America ranks number 31 in the world in Internet download speeds and 42nd in upload speeds. That’s pretty pathetic when you think that America is arguably the richest country in the world. I guess it’s not as shocking as the… Read More »