I had previously wrote about building a new gaming rig, in which I had described some of the parts I had purchased. One of the parts I used was a case that came with a 585 watt power supply at $69.95 and free shipping. The unit [power supply] failed within a week of use. This is a link to the item I...

Skudd writes "Modern reckoning has always been reliant on accuracy and correct answers. Now, a instructor at Rice health center in Houston posits that some future applications could be revolutionized by 'probabilistic computing.' Quoting: 'This afternoon, Krishna Palem, oratory at a minicomputer sci...

Seriously. Forget copy and paste, forget Bluetooth file transfer, and forget Yelp. The Pizza Calculator is the iPhone killer application, and a must for Giz's Pizza bingos. Come on people, this is......

KentuckyFC writes "There is absolutely, positively, definitely no chance of the LHC destroying the planet (or this way either) when it eventually switches on some time later this year. And yet a few niggling doubts are persuading some scientists to run through their figures again. One undeveloped me...

When I was in elementary school I was very annoyed by all this studying. But my idea and hope was that once I was done with school, I would also be done learning. I couldn’t wait. Thus I was rather irritated when I heard that my dad had to complete training for his job to learn new things. I r...

RTFA: http://tf.nist.gov/timefreq/pubs/bulletin/leapseco… The master clock pulses used by the WWV, WWVH, WWVB, GOES, ACTS, and Network Time Service NTS time code transmissions are referenced to the UTC NIST time scale. Occasionally, 1 s is added to the UTC time scale. This second is called a l...

While going through one of the biggest financial crises ever, we’ve learned a valuable lesson, that money should be spent a bit more wisely. For that reason, designer Eun-Gyeong Gwon developed Supervision, the personal financial assistant that features a touchscreen display and a stylus to make it...

There are gadgets, and then there are gadgets. And we could write about this Multi-Function Tape Measure in italics all day long. You see, most tape measures stop at just one function: Measuring. And we all think that's OK because, so far, it has been OK. We've been living our OK lives in our OK hou...

This Takumi calculator is a perfect metaphor of life: Its layout looks like a puzzle and when you try to solve any problem, it crashes at random. Can't get any better than that for $60. Unless it......

Many users shy away as soon as they hear the words hash or shell extension because of the connotation that the conversation will turn into a highly technical - and geeky - one. The concept itself however is pretty simple that even a inexperienced computer user should understand it. A hash is just a ...