NASA’s near-infrared spectrometer may have captured first glimpse of moon collision

George Gardner — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:29:18 +0000

NASA’s space probe, LCROSS, intentionally crashed into the south pole of the moon around 7:30 am EDT this morning in hopes to retrieve data from the dust and particles that were kicked up from the event.

A guided rocket was followed [...]

Polar Rose adopts Facebook images for its intelligent tagging service

George Gardner — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:50:23 +0000

We’re following a promising new service from Polar Rose that combines the best of its facial recognition software with the images you upload to

Google asks users for favicon designs

George Gardner — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:52:38 +0000

Google is reaching out to its users to help them create a favicon (the little icon you see next to the URL in your browser) for its site, admitting that “creating a favicon is really difficult.”

A couple weeks ago, [...]

Polar Rose: Image search will recognize faces

George Gardner — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 23:05:24 +0000

Blorge has finally got its first sneak peak at the upcoming Polar Rose facial recognition plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer, and we must say it is certainly impressive.

Polar Rose claims its plug-in to “automatically search for and recognize faces [...]

Blogolyzer checks sobriety before blogging

George Gardner — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 23:19:09 +0000

Chemical substance abuse among bloggers has recently become a growing concern in the blogosphere; we’ve all seen their intoxicated-posts, using late 90’s buzzwords while prefixing every other word with a noun-like adjective. A small Australian company, SoBlog , has come to the rescue with a new device expected to hit the market in Spring of [...]

The top Google search quirks and how to circumvent them

George Gardner — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:13:54 +0000

While Google tries its best to anticipate what its users want, when searching the Internet, it doesn’t always return desirable links. In fact, sometimes it’s just plain “quirky,” and requires a little extra work on our part to return those sought-after links.

Google returns RSS feeds

Some may not [...]

Analyst: iPhone will fall victim to serious attack in ‘08

George Gardner — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:08:47 +0000

The iPhone sure has seen a year of imperfections and hacks, causing Apple to release numerous updates to stay ahead of the game; but security analysts say it’s not over, predicting serious attacks on the iPhone will be imminent in 2008.

The iPhone may have been vulnerable in the past, being hacked by [...]

Samsung’s got the "skinny" on LCD-TVs

George Gardner — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:08:59 +0000

Samsung’s ultra-thin, anorexic LCD display will be turning heads at one of the world’s largest trade shows dedicated to flat panel displays. The 40 inch diagonal display has a thickness nearly the size of a DVD case.

And what more would you expect from the world’s largest [...]

Yum update Feisty Fawn; Ubuntu plans for Gutsy Gibbon

George Gardner — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:02:50 +0000

Holding true to its development timeline, Ubuntu is planning the release of its Linux distribution, codename Gutsy Gibbon, version 7.10, scheduled for release in only 2 short days.

Gutsy Gibbon, considered by Ubuntu to be “complete, stable and suitable for testing by any user” will offer many new [...]

Shocking: Xbox 360 guitar throws lightning via Tesla coil

George Gardner — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 17:06:54 +0000

The folks over at teslacoil.net have successfully combined the mysterious world of Nikola Tesla with the addicting habits of video games. The result? A modified Guitar Hero guitar that throws extremely loud 4 to 5-foot bolts of lightning.

This lightning guitar (shown below) is [...]

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