Sony has announced the PlayStation Eye, an enhanced USB camera that features low-light sensitivity, a 4-mic array tuned to voice frequencies, voice location tracking, and frame rate of up to 120fps. The zoom lens has 2 positions: a 56-degree field of view for face close-ups and a 75-degree field of view for whole body shots.
One [...]

First, it was the computers on your desktop: if you are using a lenovo, aka IBM, desktop or laptop, it’s really made by a Chinese manufacturer. Read that again. Not only “made in” but “designed and made by” a Chinese computer manufacturer. IBM, for all practical purposes, is out of the desktop and laptop computer [...]

Despite having more powerful game consoles, Sony’s PlayStation 3 and Microsoft’s Xbox 360 have been unable to catch up with the Nintendo Wii.
In February 2007, Sony sold 127,000 PlayStation 3 and 176,000 PSP. Microsoft sold 228,000 Xbox 360. Nintendo sold 335,000 Wii and 485,000 DS portable players.
It all goes to show that it’s not “by [...]

Could radiation from our mobile handsets be causing Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) among our bees population?
CCD occurs when bees from a hive suddenly disappear, leaving the queens, eggs and immature workers behind. Parasites that normally invade a colony for pollen and honey also mysteriously refuse to go near these abandoned hives.
If these were isolated cases, [...]

If the idea of scraping the Internet as it stands today and starting all over again seems a wee bit drastic to you, that is just what researchers at various universities in the US and Europe are considering doing.
This “clean slate” approach is considered the only viable option to address important underlying issues plaguing the [...]