If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Guest Post: Being a music fan is just like being in a romantic relationship. First, you court each other a little bit—listening to the tune on the radio to see how it fits. Then if things go well and you dig the song, you invest in the album. Finally, if you realize that you two have something really special, you go see a live show. Music is intimate. It...

Guest Post by Kevin Ball: Robots are big news just now. The Curiosity Rover has been on Mars for just over two weeks and has been sending back some truly breath-taking images of the red planet. On the 21st of August the rover took its first blast at the Martian surface with its laser beam. This allowed Curiosity to analyze the chemical composition of the rocks. It is fair to say that Curiosity has captured the imaginations of the planet...

Guest Post by Megan Cunningham: There are laptop users who want to push visuals to the extreme. They’re never content with just one video card. They need two! Desktop owners can be even crazier. They can connect up to four graphics cards and get insane benchmarks! Of course, if you want a laptop with four video cards, you’re going to need a tank, not a laptop casing, to fit those four cards, so you’ll have to make do with that. The...

Guest Post: Today’s world is becoming more and more tech-oriented, especially thanks to the development of mobile technologies. More and more people all over the world buy and activate new smartphones and tablets. Why? The answer is simple. It is happening just because current Android mobile development allows making the applications for mobile gadgets with the full package of all possible function that used to be available only for...

In the popular imagination, Thomas Edison is credited as the inventor of the incandescent light bulb. While it’s true that he did bring about the birth of light bulbs as a commercial enterprise, the basic research in converting electricity to useable light predated him by 70 years. In the early 1800s, Sir Humphry Davy experimented with both platinum filaments and carbon arcs to produce light. Other experimenters developed incandescent...