TELUS Forcing Customers Off Unlimited Plans An anonymous reader writes "Canadian telco TELUS sold a bunch of (expensive) Unlimited EV-DO aircard accounts last winter and are now summarily canceling them or forcing people to switch to much less

Category :Technology | 9 views | read more | 2008-08-26 16:42:00

MapReduce Goes Commercial, Integrated With SQL CurtMonash writes "MapReduce sits at the heart of Google's data processing — and Yahoo's, Facebook's and LinkedIn's as well. But it's been highly controversial, due to an apparent conflict with

Category :Technology | 5 views | read more | 2008-08-26 15:48:00

Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Exoskeleton dominique_cimafranca notes a story up at the Daily Mail in the UK about a partially paralyzed man who is able to walk again using an exoskeleton frame. The article goes a bit far in comparing the devi

Category :Technology | 6 views | read more | 2008-08-26 14:55:00

Examining Portal's Teleportation Code Gamasutra is running a story deconstructing the mechanics of Portal's teleportation programming. They present a snippet of Portal's code and a downloadable demo. They ran another article in this serie

Category :Technology | 3 views | read more | 2008-08-26 13:55:00

Web Fraud 2.0 — Point-and-Click Cracking Tools An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post's Security Fix blog is running a fascinating series that peers inside some of the Web-based services cyber crooks are using to ply their trade: from mas

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-26 13:08:00

Scientists Discover Cows Point North Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen have discovered that cows tend to point north. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of image

Category :Technology | 1 views | read more | 2008-08-26 12:44:00

Gamepark Holdings Officially Announces the WIZ Handheld Croakyvoice writes "Gamepark Holdings, the makers of the GP2X Console, have today announced the successor, which is called the WIZ. The new GBA Micro-sized console features a touchscreen, Linux OS, an

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-26 12:15:00

The Impact of User Feedback, Part 2 (and more Popular Picks!) As a follow-up to my recent post about how user reports of webspam and paid links help improve Google's search results for millions of users, I wanted to highlight one of the most essential parts of G

Category :Search Engines | 4 views | read more | 2008-08-26 11:41:00

Google Drops Bluetooth API From Android 1.0 Ian Lamont writes "Google has dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs from the set of tools for Android 1.0, but says that handsets using the Android OS will work with other Blue

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-26 11:22:00

New Evidence Debunks "Stupid" Neanderthal ThinkComp writes "In what could possibly be a major blow to a scientific consensus that has held for decades, recent research suggests that the traditional conception of Neanderthals being "stupider"

Category :Technology | 2 views | read more | 2008-08-26 10:30:00