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The Hismar who was funded by the European Commission, can attach to a ship magnetically. It pressure washes the hull with the surrounding sea water and it sucks up debris and growths into a filter system that can process a huge amount of water, 150 liters of water per minute. The ship doesn’t have to [...]

Last week there was a deadly train collision outside of the Los Angeles area. The conductor had been text-messaging while on the job.
There was an emergancy order that was passed on Thursday by the California Public Utilities Commission,  or CPUC. The CPUC noted the lack of federal or state rules regarding the use of such [...]

VoIP services have already put a lot of pressure on landline services. Now, VoIP is putting the pressure on mobile carriers as well. More and more mobile devices like Apple’s “iPhone” are able to use software and networks a mobile VoIP client needs to operate. However, mobile carriers have set a few ground rules as [...]

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Over the years I’ve used many different types of anti-virus software — everything from free up to $300 (outrageous, I know). I have to say both have worked about the same.
The best free anti-virus software that I have seen is called AVG (Free Edition). AVG also has a version that you can purchase, but I [...]

Have you ever needed to connect to your computer from somewhere else. Maybe forgot that important file you needed for work. I’ve had a lot of people tell me about a website called www.logmein.com and I decided to check it out and see what all of the buzz was about.
LogMeIn (Originally known as 3AM Labs) is [...]

I was out shopping recently and I saw a very affordable camera by a company called DXG. It was only $89 so I figured what the heck I might as well get it if it’s that cheap. I was expecting something decent, but when I got home and opened it it was actually a lot [...]

I recently had my XBox 360 get the dreaded Red Ring of Death aka RROD. I contacted Microsoft and they said that it was a hardware error and that they would fix it free of charge. I must say that made me pretty happy. I also got a free month of XBox Live Gold as [...]

Snowl is an experimental add-on for Mozilla Firefox that reads news feeds. Snowl is an attempt to combine  separate content streams that many of us have feeding on to our desktops all of the time, news and blog stories via RSS,  social and personal communications from services like Twitter. Underneath it all they are basically [...]

Windows XP VS Vista. This battle has been going for about 2 years now. Which is better? From my own personal experiences I would have to say… thay are about equal. What I look for in an Operating System (OS) is speed, convenience, and a good GUI(Graphical User Interface). Vista is better looking but a [...]

The ASIMO Robot is an amazing humanoid robot prototype designed by the Honda company. I stumbled upon a video of the robot conducting an orchestra. This is one of the most amazing robot “acts” I have seen.
You can get your own ASIMO for less than 1 million dollars, which isn’t bad but I’m sure we [...]