This is a report about what it will be like in ‘the future’, when we will be reading news from our computer. This is ‘newspapers by computer’. It is truly awesome to see how far we have come in terms of the Internet and networking computer communication. It is also slightly amusing to see how [...]
Archive for the ‘Science & Technology’ Category
Imagine turning on your computer to read a newspaper…
UFO Files Released – March 2011
The National Archives have recently released a large amount of documents on reported UFO sightings and related internal and public communications relating to them. In total, the National Archives have released over eight and a half thousand UFO related pages this March. You can download all the documents in PDF format individually. However, for the convenience of [...]
The Scale of Space or ‘You are Tiny’
I was recently shown this image of online, orginal source unknown, which shows just how small we really are in the vastness of space. Click the image to view it enlarged, on its own.
Mark Gasson ‘Cyborg’ catches a Computer Virus
Dr Mark Gasson, from the University of Reading has had a virus infected computer chip implanted in his arm. Tests proved this virus could spread to external control systems wirelessly. The BBC who initially reported this proof-of-concept ‘infection’ stated that Dr Gasson admitted that the test is only proof of concept but believe that there are [...]
The Next iPhone ‘found lost in a bar’ by Gizmodo
Gizmodo, a blog well known for spreading hype about Apple products has apparently found ‘Apple’s next iPhone’. Here is a quote from the article Gizmodo recently posted. You are looking at Apple’s next iPhone. It was found lost in a bar in Redwood City, camouflaged to look like an iPhone 3GS. We got it. We disassembled [...]
Can Morality be Derived from Science?
Values can be reduced to facts about the experiences and related well-being of the minds of concious beings. Since we know the human brain is the physical existence of the memories and personality of concious beings, we will be able to, eventually ,map these experiences and the related effect on the well-being of individuals. Based on this logical [...]
Get Opera Mini from the iPhone App Store
This is just a quick follow up to my previous post regarding Opera Mini for the iPhone to state that, contrary to Apple’s own terms and conditions, Opera Mini has been approved for the Apple iPhone App Store. iPhone users now have a choice in their web browsing experience! I previously ran a post regarding [...]
British Space Agency (UKSA) – It’s here!
I’ve previously posted about the possibility of a British Space Agency and amazingly, it is it going to happen! The name of the ‘UK Space Agency’ (or UKSA) and its logo, as shown below were recently announced at a conference in London. The British… well, UK space agency will come into being on the 1st of April [...]
Opera Mini being released on the iPhone
I’ve recently been using Opera Mini on my Nokia N97. It is a really great portable web browser which works incredible well in my humble opinion. One of its best features being the automatic reformatting of text columns in websites so they fit on your phone’s screen regardless of its orientation. This makes reading on [...]
The iPad and its effect on the Mobile Web
I recently wrote an article on the company blog regarding the Apple iPad and its potential effect on the mobile web. “The release of Apple’s ever popular smartphone, the iPhone, back in mid 2007 caused a huge development spike in websites and dynamic web applications designed the mobile devices. Of course, the vast majority of [...]