Have you ever wondered how much a single Lego can hold up before it’s crushed under the weight? Well it can lift a lot more than you, tough guy. The question, first posed on Internet black hole Reddit, is such a simple question, but not a simple one to answer. …
I will be the first to come clean and admit that I wasn’t entirely right in my predictions for the next iPhone. However, consider that through most of August, there were two distinct opinions on the matter with one camp firmly convinced the next iPhone would be similar to the …
A few days ago, AMD started revenue shipments of the first Bulldozer CPUs to the server market. The current Bulldozer version in question is the Interlagos, which features two 8-core Bulldozer CPU dies on a single MCP (multi-chip module package). A single Interlagos processor features two 8-core Bulldozers, with each …
Soon we will be computing at the speed of light, if these engineers have anything to say about it. Just as optical fiber is replacing copper wires and the resultant data is made up of a photonic as opposed to an electronic stream, processing photonic signals on silicon chips is …
SeaMicro, a company founded in 2007 and based in Sunnyvale, California, continues to shake up the server market with their best-in-class data center computing servers. In a span of nine months, the company has introduced three Intel Atom based servers that continue to break the barriers on the compute power …
The rumor that AMD (which merged with ATI) may indeed be the big winner in the next generation console cycle comes, oddly enough, from PC tech site HardOCP. The guys over at HardOCP aren’t very much into console gaming, however, they are quick to note that consoles have and continue …
My most sinere apologies for not being here so far this week…I got caught up in work and politics and a number of other things. Which means today’s posts are going to be extra long and will contain multiple articles from the same source, since not everybody disappeared for three …
I accidentally set my alarm this morning even though I didn’t have to get up for anything. Unfortunately, I didn’t remember that until I was already in the shower, so I’ve accomplished a bunch of stuff I probably wouldn’t have gotten done if I’d slept in as planned. However, soon …
Taking over 30 hrs to build, this is LEGO’s largest set yet! It contains over 5,900 pieces and is recommended for only the most experienced builders. The set is fully detailed capturing all the minarets, domes, finials, arches, and stairs. This thing builds out to 20″ x 16″ inches and …
Both historians and architects had been wondering for many years how the Great Pyramid of Kheops – last remaining of the Seven Wonders of the World – had been constructed at an age where wheels, pulleys and iron tools were virtually unheard of. French architect Jean-Pierre Houdin had a hypothesis …
After over 2,000 years, it was about time to update the list! In this first truly global poll, everyone will be able to vote — either by Internet, or with their mobile phone — for their own pick of seven architectural wonders of the world, from the Incan mountaintop city …
Remember those movies where the valet takes the rich corporate moguls high end sports car and drives it around town while he’s at dinner? Well, the days of the misbehaving valet are numbered. New York is announcing the first of many robotic parking garages. The initial rollout will happen in …
