One of the very first games I owned was Half Life, this game along with the Command and Conquer series got me hooked on gaming. I have been following the long awaited…
Category: Sci/Tech
Robot Learns To Be Self-Aware
“Only humans can be self-aware.” Another myth bites the dust. Yale roboticists have programmed Nico, a robot, to be able to recognize itself in a mirror. Why is this important? Because robots…
Curiosity’s Martian Landscape Shot
NASA’s rover Curiosity has sent back a stunning image from the surface of Mars, shot from the rover’s 100mm camera. The image shows Mount Sharp, near Curiosity’s landing site. Quite beautiful, wouldn’t…
Obama In Armstrong Tribute
From the BBC: US President Barack Obama has led tributes to astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon, who died on Saturday at the age of 82. Mr Obama said on…
Tenenbaum’s $675,000 fine, for downloading 31 songs on Kazaa
28-year old Joel Tenenbaum has been found guilty of illegally downloading 31 songs from file sharing application Kazaa. The sentence? A $675,000 fine. Nearly $22,000 per track. U.S. District Court Judge Rya…
Samsung to pay Apple $1bn
Well, it looks like Samsung have lost – and lost big time, in the long-running dispute over intellectual property. From the BBC: A jury has ruled that Samsung should pay Apple $1.05bn…
Curiosity Rover Report – 24th August
NASA have released a video to update us earthlings as to what the Curiosity Rover has been up yo on Mars this week, check out the video below for full details;
A Working Hover-bike
Luke Skywalker, eat your heart out! Geekologie have posted about a working and functional hovercraft/hoverbike – it looks almost like a bike to me – on their site. It’s essentially a fan-operated…
Curiosity Descent in HD
A high-definition video, created from picture stills as Curiosity made its descent towards Mars, has been released on YouTube. As one of the top commenters stated, for some reason, you expect there…
Curiosity fired its frickin’ lazer beam
The BBC reported late last night that the Curiosity rover has successfully fired it’s lazer beam as a test to see if the instrument was working. It’s target was a small stone…
Crysis 3 Tech Trailer
If you haven’t seen this, take a look now! N.B. Have a drool bucket at the ready! The Crysis series have consistently set the bar for video game graphics over the last…
The Sun is the most perfectly spherical object in nature
Here’s your interesting science factoid of the week, from The Guardian. The sun is the most perfectly round natural object known in the universe, say scientists who have conducted precise measurements of its…
Star Wars 1313
The Star Wars franchise has seen many video game installments, another installment was announced at E3 this year, called Star Wars 1313. This new installment looks a lot darker and grittier than…
High Resolution Photo of Curiosity on Mars
Wow, just wow! This is an amzing picture of Curiosity’s wheel on the surface of Mars, this is an incredible image of the martian ground and as time goes on more amazing…
New Video and Images from Curiosity
I have been following the Mars rover Curiosity since launch last year, I watched the successful landing yesterday and now I am in amazement of some of the images and video that…
The Perseid Meteor Shower 2012
As there is a bit of a space theme going around the Internet this weekend; I thought I’d continue it. The annual Perseid Meteor shower is now upon us and is set…
Going Mobile: Casinos & Technology
Lucky Nugget reviews the impact on mobile gaming of Apple’s decision to use HTML5 and Adobe’s announcement to stop supporting Flash in future versions of Android Back in 2010 Steve Jobs, the…
Curiosity Has Landed
Congratulations to NASA and the entire team behind the Curiosity Rover trip to Mars. At 05.32 GMT, Curiosity successfully landed on the surface of Mars. Â I was watching it live on NASA…