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Video games activate reward regions of brain in men more than women
Allan Reiss, MD, and his colleagues have a pretty good idea why your husband or boyfriend can’t put down the Halo 3. In a first-of-its-kind imaging study, the Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have shown that the part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more activated in men than women during video-game [...]
MS Bashing is out of fashion
Microsoft-bashing was in vogue the last century!!!
My partner asked me recently why people hate Microsoft so much and it’s a question I’ve been pondering for a while, as well as thinking about my own attitudes towards the world’s largest software company. I consider myself to be in an unusual position in that I’m a Java [...]
First Psystar Mac Clones Ship
According to Gizmodo, Psystar has begun shipping its Macintosh clones, thus proving that the company is not a hoax. Initial impressions seem to be positive, though Software Update does not work.
Shutdown Day 2008 - Can you? Will you?
Shutdown Day 2008 is your opportunity to be part of one of the biggest global experiments ever to take place on the Internet. The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day on Saturday 3rd May 2008.
I think we can all agree that [...]
Apple to Licence Haptic Technology for iPhone
Apple Inc is in talks with Immersion Corporation to licence Haptic Technology for its iPhone. Immersion Corporation on Thursday announced that they have appointed former Apple executive Clent Richardson to the position of President and CEO.
Blake’s 7 poised for Sky comeback
I feel sure that if you can remember the TV series ‘Blake’s 7′ then you most probably have fond memories of it. It was, on balance, an interesting mix of adventurous television making on a very low budget. In fact, I well recall a comment made, I believe, by the producers that a single episode [...]
ComScore Reports Increase In Traffic To AOL Websites
The Wall Street Journal (4/25, Steel, B1, 2.06M) reports, “A yearlong effort by AOL to transform its content Web sites into crowd-pleasers is beginning to pay off.” The Journal continues, “Traffic to the sites — including AOL Money & Finance, entertainment, and the male-oriented Asylum — grew 15% to 56.5 million unique U.S. visitors in [...]
YES WE CAN - get XSSed
You know XSS has hit the mainstream when it reaches this level of visibility.
Ubuntu takes second stab at enterprise servers
Canonical, the Linux distribution maker best known for the Ubuntu Linux desktop operating system, has taken the wraps off a new release of the server edition of its product.
Twitter Scapegoat?
Blaine Cook, lead architect at red-hot, sometimes-down Twitter, has left the company. Blaine describes his departure at an “amicable” one.
I left Twitter just over two weeks ago. It’s an amicable change; Twitter’s architecture is at a good point for them to pursue stability and growth, and I’m looking forward to a new challenge after nearly [...]
