A company called Cooligy, started by three Stanford mechanical engineering profs, has developed a new liquid cooling technology that keeps computer CPUs cold, helping improve performance. They recently demonstrated the tech running on a notebook computer. How does it work?… Read the rest
Author: Dylan (Page 141 of 194)
I've been a professional writer and editor for over two decades.
I am the founder of Tweney Media, a content agency that helps companies communicate through blog posts, online magazines, podcasts, video, and more. I'm the former editor-in-chief of VentureBeat and was an editor at Wired.
Outside work, I founded tinywords, the world's smallest daily magazine. It's a haiku and micropoetry journal that's been publishing more or less daily since 2000.
The FBI has been telling some journalists to turn over their notes, email messages, and sources, secretly, as part of an investigation into the hacker Adrian Lamo, according to Mark Rasch, a computer security expert and former head of the FBI’s computer crimes division.… Read the rest
“There are a color, a form, and a motion in all sound.”
… Read the restThe pleasure generating equipment named the game which can feel transformer feeling in the rhythm which comes on the contrary by the act a player “shoots”, and it are “Rez.”
According to this story from Reuters, Dutch health ministries have found that exposure to the radiation from third-generation (3G) cell phone towers can make you sick. On the other hand, cell radiation improves your alertness and memory. Are these guys for real??… Read the rest
I took home a Gateway Tablet PC this weekend to test it out. With its built-in WiFi connection, the tablet makes a pretty decent Web-browsing and reading machine: I could stretch out on the couch, for instance, and read the latest WSJ while holding the tablet on my lap at any comfortable angle.… Read the rest
I’ve posted a new issue of the tweney report: Spamfighters. This issue also went out via email to 2,647 subscribers. Although I’ve not published much lately, the bounce rate is pretty low — only a handful of defunct email addresses on the mailing list this time.… Read the rest
According to a research firm called Strategy Analytics, sales of digital camera-equipped cell phones have, for the first time, exceeded sales of standalone digital cameras: Mobile Commerce World.com
“Mobile phone makers shipped 25 million handsets with built-in cameras worldwide in the first half of the year.… Read the rest
One sad side effect of online life is that the longer you stick around, the more spam you get. This is particularly true if your email address appears online in any clear, unobscured form [Why Am I Getting All This Spam?… Read the rest
Threat Matrix is a TV drama about the Department of Homeland Security and their anti-terrorism efforts. Last night’s episode centered on some terrorists sneaking into the country via shipping containers.
The show is a mediocre and jingoistic ripoff of 24.… Read the rest
This summer, NPR ran a fine series on the extensive sharing and crosslinking between the blues, country music, and white and black musicians. But they inexplicably overlooked the banjo — which pretty much epitomizes the rich, intertwined, and often troubling musical history of America.… Read the rest