Category Archives: Miscellaneous

Back to School Special

This weekend, we’ll give you a free brand-name, ReadyBoost-ready USB flash drive (and ship it to you free!) when you buy select Cloudeight Direct Computer Repair Keys Packages! Your Cloudeight Direct Repair Keys do not expire, each key is good until you use it. Each key is good for one Cloudeight Computer Repair Session.We’ve fixed hundreds of computers… Read More »

Walmart.com Lets You Pay With Cash When Shopping Online

Walmart.com is launching today “Pay with Cash,” a new feature that enables users to place orders online and then pay for them at a nearby Walmart. In an interview, Joel Anderson, president and CEO of Walmart.com, said the new feature is targeting people who don’t have access to debit or credit cards. “The fact that only 15 percent… Read More »

Facebook’s Telescope on Human Behavior

One way to describe Facebook is as the most extensive data set on human social behavior that ever was. Every month more than 845 million people record and share traces of their daily lives, relationships, and online activity through their friend connections, messages, photos, check-ins, and clicks. The richness of that information goes some way to explain why… Read More »

Researchers say crab-based computing possible, lobsters throw up claws in disbelief

IBM’s Holey Optochip? Yawn. Fujitsu’s K supercomputer? Yesterday’s news. Forget about boring old conventional computing stuff, the future of computer technology lies in crabs — lots and lots of crabs. Researchers at Kobe University and the University of the West of England’s Unconventional Computing Centre have discovered that properly herded crabs can signal the AND, OR and NOT… Read More »

How Smart Do You Think You Are?

Yeah, you’re pretty smart. You’re reading this! TC and EB took this test and you can guess who got the highest score! Sorry, EB. At least you look better! Ahem…. Unlike some IQ tests, this test won’t take you a day and a half to complete. It’s only 12 questions, but that may be enough. Some of the… Read More »