The UK Government is refusing to investigate well grounded claims that BT together with Phorm electronically eavesdropped on hunderds of thousands of ISP users without a legal reason to do so. It seems the UK Home Office stance is that since they’re companies they don’t need to be brought to account, which means basically they’re Read more about BT’s and Phorm eavesdrop and get away with it[…]
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Jonas Samson has managed to create wallpaper that through layering several materials emits light. http://www.jonassamson.com/products/wallpaper-5.jpg
Or crashing. In short it comes to running netsh interface tcp set global autotuning=disabled from the command line. If for some reason it goes wrong, change disabled to normal in the line above and run it again!
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This unique sound bar is called The Hive, shaped as it is like a honeycomb cluster. Each segment of the speaker that you see is an individual unit that can be tilted and positioned independently, allowing you to set it up for your specific room’s shape and design. It’s a neat idea, and it’s really Read more about The Hive lets you point your speakers wherever you want[…]
When asked to design a building for a vacant lot in downtown Manhattan, the designers at Work AC went hog wild. They’re local foodies, you see, which means that they try to avoid buying produce that’s traveled from far-flung places like New Zealand. What better way to eat local than to bring the farm to Read more about Concept building has farms on top and sculptures below[…]
We the Brits were crazy about tea, but some French aficionados are giving them a run for their money. Two young French designers have created a self-stirring teacup. It’s a glass, actually, and it has a ceramic ball at the bottom that mixes around and mixes the tea as you lift the cup or swirl Read more about Self-stirring tea glass helps automate personal tea ceremonies[…]
If you’re unfortunate enough to be stuck in the middle of the country, away from the coasts, you probably don’t get too many chances to see the ocean, let alone surf in it. But hey, that doesn’t mean your dreams of surfing need to die in the flat Missouri sun! Just get yourself a Banzai Read more about Bring surfing to the Midwest with the Skimboard Surfer[…]
This shiny, pretty phone is a heavily-modified Nokia N95 that’s been decked out head-to-toe with Buddhist iconography and characters. It’s got gold everywhere, a Buddha on the back, and fancy imagery all over. It even has custom wallpapers and ringtones onboard to complete the theme. It’s slick, to say the least, especially if you’re Buddhist, Read more about Buddhist phone is much prettier than your phone[…]
Suddenly your $40-$50 bill to fill up gas every other week isn’t so bad: the North American Eagle jet car costs $18,000 every single run. That’s because it uses a 42,500 horsepower engine from airplane manufacturer Lockheed’s retired 1957 F-104 Starfighter, which uses up 160 gallons of fuel each minute. The car needs that kind Read more about Driver wanted for jet car: must be young, fearless, good looking[…]
Hitachi has done an about turn and decided it won’t be selling its struggling hard drive division. The division was formed when Hitachi bought IBM’s disk business in 2002 and has made losses for almost every quarter since. In late 2007 Hitachi was trying to sell the business to private equity group Silver Lake. But, Read more about Hitachi to go it alone on discs after all[…]
Big Blue has made yet another storage buy, this time scooping up privately-held Diligent Technologies for an undisclosed sum, although rumors peg the price at $200m. The company, which has in recent months been on a considerable storage spending spree, said today that the Framingham, Massachusetts and Tel Aviv, Israel-based de-duplication software specialist will be Read more about IBM continues storage land grab with Diligent acquisition[…]