Technology

I have a few notes on home networks, which notes come from recent experience with some network setup issues. Encryption: How to secure one’s network — or whether not to — continues to be a point of…

It may seem like a waste of time that young people play video games for hours on end but, at least for some, it may help them in surgery one day.   A new study says reorganization of the…

It’s managed to stay out of the general press, mostly — probably because it’s geeky, it’s hard to explain what it really means, and it’s not likely to affect anything any time soon — but the tech…

Last week, I talked about Amazon’s email-in service, which lets you send documents to your Kindle by email. The nicest part of it for me is the PDF conversion feature, but you can, in general, sent…

The La Jolla, California-based company BUMP launched earlier this week with an eponymous web service that uses license plates as a means to connect with drivers around you. As reported by Technology…

The spread of mass panic through Short Message Service (SMS) and text on phones and services like Twitter is unnecessary and people need to learn to look at information with a more critical eye.…

Think science is a close community?  Indeed it is, but video game aficionados are not as shallow as they are portrayed either. Relic Entertainment developer Brian Wood, aged 33, was driving…

Yesterday, I complained about the new Kindle’s handling of PDF files, which, despite my complaints, is better than what the earlier software does. Well, I have discovered that Amazon has a PDF…

Human vision is very advanced.  While a human child can look at a cartoon picture of a chicken and know that's a chicken, computers cannot.   We can also recognize cars, people, trees…

I decided to try out one of the new Kindle e-readers. Only, I’m not planning to use it for the purpose that most buyers do — purchasing and reading books. I want to use it to read academic papers,…