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Young adults in China are taking serious measures to buy expensive apple products, according to reports. Biznewschina reported that a female jiulinghou, referring to those born during the 90’s, tweeted on Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) that it is her “dream to own a iPhone4 but her father won’t let her get one.” She then decided to sleep with someone in exchange for the mobile device. The [...]

It is quite obvious that gadgets that are not made to work under water should simply not be submerged into the liquid. But sadly this little known fact does not stop accidents from happening all too often. There is however hope, if you find your digital camera, cell phone or other tech device unintentionally physically associated with H2O. The first thing that you should do is remove the battery [...]

At the door to a major computer game expo in Shanghai, visitors are greeted by columns of Chinese girls in white boots and miniskirts, the name of a computer parts maker emblazoned on their chests. A bit farther on, amid the blaring music and pulsing lights, 40 more models in bikini shorts, tiny tanktops and hard hats shill for an online security company, handing out small locks in boxes designed to [...]

Hackers at an infamous DefCon gathering are proving that old-fashioned smooth talk rivals slick software skills when it comes to pulling off attacks on computer networks. A first-ever “social engineering” contest here challenges hackers to call workers at 10 companies including technology titans Google, Apple, Cisco, and Microsoft and get them to reveal too much information to strangers.

Google has agreed to delete all personal WiFi data gathered by its “Street View” mapping service in Hong Kong, in what the city’s privacy commissioner said was a first. The Internet giant is being investigated in a number of countries after the cars, which drive around taking photos for Google’s free online mapping service, mistakenly picked up the private information. After [...]

If you’re not ashamed of quickly finishing with the help of cheat codes now you could do it easily with any game in the world. And without any knowledge of these codes. A software called Poke is what makes this possible. Install the application on your computer and run it while playing the game. Poke accesses the RAM of your PC and shows you all variables stored in it. Then if you’re playing a [...]

Although Bill Gates is credited with bringing in the ‘revolutionary’ Windows into PCs – operating systems with graphical-user-inerface existed much before Microsoft managed to get its act together. Take a look at all the GUI systems developed over the years for systems such as OS/2, Macintosh, Windowsamiga, Linux, Symbian OS, and many more – here.

27 years ago to the date Scott Fahlman posted the following electronic message to a computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University: I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: : – ) Fahlman says he came up with the idea after reading “lengthy diatribes” from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post. With [...]

Meet the guy who started it all… Jorn Barger coined the term “weblog” to describe the list of links on his Robot Wisdom website that “logged” his internet surfing. In the decade since then, blogs have come to dominate the net, from 100 million personal diaries to the breaking news sections of the august The New York Times. There are more than 100 million active blogs, according to Technorati [...]

Pranav Mistry at MIT is spearheading Sixth Sense – a technology that that augments the physical world around us with digital information and proposing natural hand gestures as the mechanism to interact with that information. Check out this video where a mobile phone connected to the internet, a projector and colored-bands on the fingers result in some wonderful applications.