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Canadian media outlets have jumped all over the tragic death of Tahir Khan, a taxi driver who was killed when an 18-year-old, racing his parents’ Mercedes, collided into Khan’s vehicle. The other teen involved in the street race initially fled the scene, but later returned. Police later found a copy of Need For Speed Most [...]

Google Date lets you enter a date and then searches using Google for what happened on that date and shows three results. Since Google isn’t very good at sorting documents for relevance when it comes to dates, it usually doesn’t give you a list of big events, but of the things happening in the lives [...]

These webcams were found automatically through a variety of clever search techniques. Their owners might or might not have intended for them to be public. But they obviously are. Many of them are security cameras in companies or semi-public places. If you hover over the picture you’ll see what location information is available. If you [...]

Looks like the rumour turned out to be true. And I am glad! I swear I may just buy one if the price is a little bit cheaper than it is right now as I already have a PSP and a 360. Not much information yet but here is what was announced.
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata [...]

An inside source at Microsoft informed us that Microsoft is currently finishing off one huge update for the Xbox 360 that is going to put an end to all the common problems in both games and the system itself. It will contain fixes for all currently known lockups in games, missing or impossible to get [...]

Yesterday, 20 years ago, on January 24th 1984, Apple released its first affordable Mac which had a GUI. The Mac 128k ran at a blazing 8MHz speed and came with System 1.0. It was the first ever computer to accept the new 400k 3.5″ floppy discs and was originally sold for $2495.
The cost of the [...]

You know Stewie, the evil and extremely smart British baby on the series Family Guy, well he is getting his own radio talk show, sort of like a podcast. It is only for the internet so I see no reason for it not to be listed in iTunes and it will start sometime this year. [...]

There is a Flickr user who has taken apart his/her 5G iPod and shown us the guts. Pretty cool. I can’t even believe they managed to squeeze all that stuff inside there and make the battery last so long (when playing music). You can see the forum post here. Tons of more photos on the [...]

Yes it’s true.
My MacBook is shipping on the 15th of February. I told my boss that this would replace my IBM desktop and I could boot Windows XP on it. I am still confident it can be done. I am pledging $100 of my own money and offering anyone else who would like the instructions [...]

I have never heard of this technique. But it is used to make pixes look a lot sharper without changing the monitor. This is how it works: Each pixel on a display is made out of 3 smaller sub pixels with the colours red, green and blue. Each colour is then adjusted to change the [...]