The following article comes to us from Digital Trends, usually a good source of geek news and trends. Read the article, in its entirety, then come back and take our poll (at the very bottom of this post). Apple and Chrome have already made their operating systems free — will Microsoft make Windows 8 free? Would it make… Read More »
From VentureBeat comes this article, which makes me wonder what on Earth is going on! The world’s sure gone crazy! “There’s something happening here / What it is ain’t exactly clear…” (Buffalo Springfield, “For What It’s Worth”) Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes Fifteen minutes. That’s all it takes for children, felons, and people without IDs… Read More »
Normally, only rich folks read “Forbes” and I am not one of them. So it was pure serendipity that I happened to stumble upon this “Forbes” article this morning. You knew something like this was coming. There’s always someone out there figuring out a way to ruin a good thing: Wi-Fi is a good thing, right? This is… Read More »
I was always taught that two wrongs don’t make a right. I still believe that. But when governments and law enforcement agencies are allowed to lie, cheat, deceive, ruin reputations, and otherwise violate the rights of private citizens, shouldn’t we all be concerned. It’s hard enough to find the truth on the Internet today… when you search a… Read More »
Google Will Soon Know You Better Than Your Spouse Does, Top Exec Says Ray Kurzweil, the director of engineering at Google, believes that the tech behemoth will soon know you even better than your spouse does. Kurzweil, who Bill Gates has reportedly called “the best person [he knows] at predicting the future of artificial intelligence,” told the Observer… Read More »
The following is from TechRadar… Microsoft extends Windows 7 shelf life as Windows 8 struggles It seems that Windows 7 will remain on sale to business users until at least early 2015, if not longer, following a change to Microsoft’s Windows lifecycle. As spotted by ZDNet, the updated lifecycle indicates that Microsoft has not yet decided on an… Read More »