Author: Sal McCloskey

Many of us were born or raised in a world with the internet. For some, it has been a part of their lives for as long as they can remember and the idea of living and doing our daily activities without the connectivity that it presents is almost obscene. We’re a spoiled society. The internet itself has a much longer history than most realize. Some think back to the days of America Online as the origin, but that was only one of the tipping points that brought it into our consciousness. It was goes back much further to the time when the space program was hitting stride and computers were still huge machines in…

Three challenges that accompany many PCs are cooling, noise, and aesthetics. They need a cool place to operate if you want to run many programs, they get loud, and they look ugly. All of these problems are solved by the AquariusPC. There are three designs named after cool cities around the world – Miami, Bali, and Marrakech – though the only real difference we’ve seen is the color. Don’t let that minor design flaw bother you – the aesthetic might not match a city but it definitely makes a statement. Completely submerged in water, these computers seem to operate just fine and with both cooling and noise…

The folks at Team BlackSheep put together a “Christmas Special” video with their quadcopter and GoPro camera. While there are few details about the group, the equipment used, or whether or not the French police are investigating, it’s fun to watch as they land on a truck in traffic, hover close to the street with people taking pictures, and follow a French police car up until the point when they are apparently spotted. Then, they make their hasty retreat. Check it out: Here’s a separate video of a cool homemade quadcopter with a GoPro attached: Related articles ‘Team Black Sheep’ Troll French Police…

There’s something particularly creepy about Google Now that not only makes it superior to Siri and other voice- and location-based digital personal assistants, it makes it worrisome to those who take their privacy seriously. For the first time, we get to see the full breadth of how much Google really knows about us as individuals. It knows us from our Gmail accounts. It tracks our activities online. It knows where we are at any given moment. It’s aware of our real-world activities. In essence, it knows more about us than many of our significant others. That should be a little disconcerting. Strangely,…

The world of technology in general is often associated with computers and geeks behind them typing away at equations. The jobs in the tech sector are often considered boring and without risk. Some are riskier than others. For most, the video below would fall under the category of “Nope”. As you can see from the image above, any fear of heights would prohibit you from doing this job. Better stick to computers and equations. …

One of the initial promises of the internet was realized when social media started taking hold a few years ago. Constant communication and the ability to reach out and engage with others around the globe became more than just a dream once sites like MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook opened the doors for our lives at every level to be detailed for anyone to see. The options to keep it personal are still available but so many have chosen to give access to anyone willing to take it. Lives are recorded in fine detail on social media every day. That’s nothing new. What has really been emerging in the…

We reported earlier that the NY Times is finding success with its paywall model for generating revenues and increasing profits. On the other side of the fence is News Corp, which has walked along similar paths over the past couple of years but can’t seem to find the right mix and is now showing a loss of $2.1 billion in its recent SEC filing. According to Techcrunch: The non-cash loss is attributed to the closing of the News of the World as well as “a write-down of New News Corporation’s goodwill of approximately $1.3 billion and a write-down of the indefinite-lived intangible assets (primarily…

Most industry experts (AKA Tech Bloggers) thought that when the NY Times website went to an online subscription model in March, 2011, that it was the beginning of the end for the once proud media giant. It was called a desperate move that would not yield the results that they were expecting. The general opinion was that a free and open internet was the way to go and embracing it by generating revenue through online advertising made much more sense than asking people who were used to free news to suddenly pay up to read what they can find on other sites. Everyone who felt this way was apparently wrong. The…

When Unbox Therapy decides that they want to build something, they go all out. That’s the case here as they have finally put together what they’re calling “The Ultimate Gaming PC”. Here are the specs: Intel 3770K CPU ASUS DirectCU II Top GTX 680 ASUS Xonar Phoebus Soundcard Corsair Obsidian 800D Chassis ASUS Maximus V Formula Windows 7 Ultimate Corsair Dominator Platinum RAM Corsair AX1200i Power Supply Corsair H100 Water Cooling ASUS VG278HE Monitors ASUS Blu-Ray Drive Corsair Neutron GTX SSD WD 3TG Green Drives Corsair Vengeance K90 Keyboard Corsair Vengeance M90 Mouse Check out the video…

The environmental movement has long had its sights on the automotive industry as a central point of change. They have pushed the idea that gas-guzzlers are one of the main culprits in the war on the environment and that if we change our ways to alternative energy sources, we can improve the world around us. What about our health? Can EVs improve our health conditions as well? That’s the contention of the study-based infographic below. It came to us from Baker Electric Solar thanks to Milwaukee Ford Dealers. Click to enlarge. …