The last mile issue has plagued ISPs since the advent of the Internet. While projects like Google Fiber can deliver massive bandwidth to your door, they require the installation of an entirely new network infrastructure. Not so with the new G.fast standard. It delivers fiber optic speeds over existing telephone lines. Read more…
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The Next Generation of DSL Can Pump 1Gbps Through Copper Phone Lines
Looks like Jeff Bezos’s new toy, The Washington Post, is the latest victim in the hacker war on newspapers . Company officials announced Wednesday that hackers had gained access to employees’ usernames and passwords, though it’s unclear how much data the company lost. Read more…
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Hackers Broke into the Washington Post for "a Few Days"
Binary lies at the heart of our technological lives: those strings of ones and zeroes are fundamental to the way all our digital devices function. But while the invention of binary is usually credited to German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz in the 18th Century, it turns out the Polynesians were using it as far back as 600 years ago . Read more…
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Polynesian People Were Using Binary 600 Years Ago
Do you hear that? In the distance? That’s the sound of thousands of college students shouting with joy. Because designer Benjamin Vermeulen has created a line of easy to assemble flat-pack furniture that doesn’t require screws, nuts, bolts, or those dreaded allen wrenches. Just the magic of magnets. Read more…
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The Ikea Nightmare Is Over, Magnetic Flat-Pack Furniture Is Here
The YouTube app is now available on Roku 3 , and it features full HD streaming and a send to TV feature from your phone. Might we suggest this Beyonce video as a candidate for the first thing you watch? Read more…
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The YouTube app is now available on Roku 3, and it features full HD streaming and a send to TV featu
Apple just released OS X 10.9.1 , the first update to Mavericks. Included in the update are some fixes for Gmail support in Mail, smart inbox improvements for Mail, and most importantly, it resolves an issue that prevented VoiceOver from speaking sentences that contained emoji. You can grab the in the Mac App Store now. Read more…
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Apple just released OS X 10.9.1, the first update to Mavericks.
There’s no doubt that 3D printing is going to play a huge part in the future of manufacturing, especially now that researchers at Cornell University have managed to print every component of a fully functional speaker —including the cone, the wiring, and even the magnet. Read more…
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You Can Now 3D Print a Fully Functional Speaker
Jeff Keacher wanted to get his Mac Plus, now well into its third decade, online. It had been on BBSes and text-only Lynx via dial-up back in the day, but Keacher wanted to go full TCP/IP. And it worked. He even loaded Gizmodo for us! Read more…
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You Can Actually Browse the Web on a 27-Year-Old Mac Plus
This is basically the least worst thing that can happen with Russian nuclear bombs! For the past twenty years, the Russians have been turning 500 tons of uranium from decommissioned nuclear weapons into nuclear fuel for the United States. It’s called the Megatons to Megawatts program. The last shipment from that 1993 deal arrived at a U.S. storage facility Tuesday, according to reporter Geoff Brumfiel of NPR’s Morning Edition . Read more…
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10% of U.S. Electricity Comes From Old Russian Nuclear Warheads
Outlook.com’s latest move to win over Gmail users is an easy, one-step importer that copies over your Gmail messages with labels, read status and conversation structure intact. The feature is new today, with a gradual rollout to all Outlook users. [ Outlook Blog via Engadget ] Read more…
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Outlook.com’s latest move to win over Gmail users is an easy, one-step importer that copies over you