A team of researchers from Princeton University has started doing some very strange things with light. Instead of letting it zip by at incredibly high speed, they’re stopping it dead: freezing it into crystal . Read more…
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Physicists are Making Solid Light
What’s the sound of one atom moving? That might sound a bit like a silly philosophical question, but actually it’s a scientific puzzle that’s now been solved . Read more…
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Scientists Have Recorded the Sound of a Single Atom
We know that Windows 9 is on its way —Microsoft even accidentally teased it! —but now we might be, maybe, possibly be looking at what it could look like. Read more…
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This Could Be a First Glimpse of Windows 9
The iPhone 6 is here! It’s sleek and rounded, just like the leaked photos we’ve been seeing for months. But now we finally know what’s inside that Jony Ive-designed shell. How’s it measure up to the stiff smartphone competition? Let’s see. Read more…
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How the iPhone 6 Stacks Up Against Its Toughest Competition
It’s finally here. The shadow of an iWatch has already spawned an army of smartwatches but now Apple’s first wearable is here in the flesh. It’s beautiful, and you control it by using that little watch knob. Read more…
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Apple Watch: Everything You Need to Know
Lenovo introduced its Helix detachable last year, with a 11.6-inch, 1080p screen, a beefy Intel Core i5 chip inside and a battery-boosting keyboard dock. Pretty much a Surface Pro. This year it’s back with a new, slimmer body and it’s one of the first gadgets out there to rep Intel’s newest “Core M” brains . Read more…
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Lenovo’s New Thinkpad Helix: A Full, Fanless PC in an iPad-Size Body
Did you bust your Nexus 5 smartphone ? Don’t sweat it— users are saying that the Play Store will send you a brand-new (refurbished) handset for free, no matter how you broke yours. Google hasn’t confirmed the offer just yet, but it seems legit . Read more…
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Google Will Apparently Replace Your Nexus 5 No Matter How You Broke It
Rambo Tribble writes: In an apparent move to push those using older browsers to update, Google is reported to be serving outdated search pages to said browsers. The older pages lack features available on the newer versions, and this policy compounds with the limits announced in 2011 on Gmail support for older web clients. As a Google engineer put it, “We’re continually making improvements to Search, so we can only provide limited support for some outdated browsers.” The BBC offers a fairly comprehensive analysis. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers
An anonymous reader writes: NASA’s Opportunity rover has been rolling around the surface of Mars for over 10 years. It’s still performing scientific observations, but the mission team has been dealing with a problem: the rover keeps rebooting. It’s happened a dozen times this month, and the process is a bit more involved than rebooting a typical computer. It takes a day or two to get back into operation every time. To try and fix this, the Opportunity team is planning a tricky operation: reformatting the flash memory from 125 million miles away. “Preparations include downloading to Earth all useful data remaining in the flash memory and switching the rover to an operating mode that does not use flash memory. Also, the team is restructuring the rover’s communication sessions to use a slower data rate, which may add resilience in case of a reset during these preparations.” The team suspects some of the flash memory cells are simply wearing out. The reformat operation is scheduled for some time in September. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Reformatting a Machine 125 Million Miles Away
Alienware is famous for two things. One: selling ever more powerful gaming computers. Two: making them look like they were designed by aliens. But its latest full-size desktop gaming PC isn’t just another box sculpted to look like it’s out of this world. In fact, the new Alienware Area-51 is trying to challenge the assumption that PC gamers need a “box” at all. Read more…
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The New Alienware Area-51 Is the Weirdest Gaming PC I’ve Ever Seen