UK University Making Universal Game Emulator

Posted by technology-blog on 17 Jul

According to reports coming in from the University of Portsmouth, England, researchers from the aforementioned University are in efforts to develop a universal game emulator. This game emulator will be able to play all game technologies from the 1970s until the present day. The primary aim of this software is to preserve software from the early days of computers. The thought behind this is aptly summarized by David Anderson of the Humanities Computing Group when he says that there is no point in preserving games if people do not know how they were played. The prior technology will be wasted and thus, instead of doing this, it should be made transparent to people.

New Tool Promises to Passively Identify BitTorrent Files

Posted by technology-blog on 14 Jul

The entertainment is very pleased with reports of developments of software that can apparently detect illegal transferring of files over the Internet. This technology can detect the downloading of files using the peer-to-peer method of downloading movies, music and other forms of electronic media by using BitTorrent. The creators said that this technique can detect the downloading without creating an interruption in the flow of data and can monitor the networks. The technique basically provides the authorities with hard proof of such transfers without changing the status of any data transfers. There is no change in the flow of data either outward or inward.

MIT Team Creates Shock That Recharges Your Car

Posted by technology-blog on 14 Jul

A team of students has invented a shock absorber that apparently converts the shocks from going over bumps on the road into energy which can act as fuel for the car. The product titled the GenShock cultivates the energy from potholes on the road to convert it into fuel which can be used as fuel. The energy which is harnessed in this manner is converted into electricity which helps in recharging the car. The team has reportedly said that this mechanism can provide an improvement of around 10% on normal fuel consumption with the use of regenerative shock absorbers.

A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread

Posted by technology-blog on 10 Jul

Reports have come in which say that memes spreads in the same way through the use of social networking sites in a similar way as diseases do. This was found out after a survey was conducted on Facebook concerning 3000 people who were tagged in an online survey. The survey included all those people who had participated in a “25 Random Things About Me” poll on the social networking site. But contrary to diseases which spread even more faster once it has been initiated, the number in this case dies down quickly when the number of persons who took the poll started depleting.

BeOS Successor Keeps the Faith

Posted by technology-blog on 02 Mar

The managing editor of OSNews Thom Holwerda has reportedly reviewed Haiku who is the open source successor of the BE operating system. The editor seems to have only praises for Haiku when he says that the same has been highly successful in replicating user experience for BeOS and also the ‘personality’. It has been able to do so with pronounced short periods for booting. Along with this project, a native GCC 4.3.3 tool chain has also been launched which is really helpful in clearing the path for bringing up-to-date ports for multi-port programs like Firefox and VLC. The entire aim of the technology under consideration is to make the use of Haiku ports easier and more user-friendly.

US Nuclear Weapons Lab Loses 67 Computers (IT)

Posted by technology-blog on 25 Feb

The Los Alamos nuclear laboratory over at New Mexico is the new hot-bed for technology thieves as officials confirm reports that there have been extensive thefts over the past few years. The laboratory in question has apparently lost 67 computers over the past few years with 13 being stolen in the last year itself. The matter was brought before the general public when a highly confidential document by the Project on Government Oversight was leaked from one of the stolen nuclear laptops. A few of the 13 stolen computers have been stolen from a scientist’s home. Apart from this, a Blackberry containing confidential information was also reported missing in a sensitive foreign country.

New Microsoft Strategy

Posted by technology-blog on 07 Feb

There’s a new position available for application from the Microsoft Corp. It would seem that they’re looking for an “Open Source” position to be filled. This is not to bring open source to the company, but more so to compete and beat Linux desktop operating systems. There just seems to be no other purpose to start a campaign like this unless their OS rival was in their cross-hairs. Not sure though why Linux would be more of a problem than that of MAC who’s OS is UNIX based. Their reason remains unclear, but we do have our suspicions

Making More Revenue With Traffic Infractions

Posted by technology-blog on 06 Feb

Many people around the world are familiar with traffic tickets received in the mail from an infraction such as running a red light. You’ll get a statement in a letter with some legal mumbo jumbo and that you need to pay “X“ amount to the local municipality. Ok, yes, no doubt running a red light is dangerous and a person shoul dbe fined for such acts, but Italy ha staken this to a whole new level. Kind of a new way to make more money. The traffic monitory system has been rigged to make the yellow light shorter. So short that the scam has increased recently to bring suspicion and even lead to arrests.