Computers - Male or female?
A student asked what gender a computer is. Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether “computer” should be a masculine or a feminine noun. ...
Alert: Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves
I don’t need a faster, bigger computer for work, in fact not even for video-conferencing or watching movies. If I were a gamer, or editing video, well, that’sa different story, but for running productivity apps, and simply managing ...
iTunes 101: Deauthorize all computers at once
Many iTunes users are aware of the 5-computer limit for purchases made through iTunes. But what happens when you reach this limit? Well, you could go to each computer and de-authorize it by going to Store > De-authorize Computer, ...
Your Computers Are Slowly Killing Themselves
Now, you’ve heard this a zillion times, but let me present another side: the more you use your computers, the slower they get. In fact it gets worse: you don’t even have to use your computers, they get slower by themselves. ...
Ubuntu coming to low-power, ARM-based computers
Thanks to a newly announced partnership between chipmaker ARM and commercial Ubuntu sponsor Canonical, Ubuntu Desktop, a Linux-based operating system, will come to low-power ARMv7-based System-on-Chip (SoC) processors commonly used in ...
Books VS Computers - computers winning?
I just found out the other day that my school is actually getting rid of all the books in the library, and they're gonna be replaced with computers. I was pretty annoyed at this. Sure, the books are kind of outdated, but I can't see why ...
Ubuntu coming to low-power, ARM-based computers
... ARMv7-based System-on-Chip (SoC) processors commonly used in portable electronic devices. ARM announced the co-operative effort on Thursday, which will enable small computer devices to bring with them integrated graphics proce...
Dell customizable computers with “scores of colors, patterns, and ...
Ed Boyd, Dell’s new Industrial Design Director, told BusinessWeek that Dell also plans on launching customizable computers with “scores of colors, patterns, and textures,” and options that will “go far beyond the handful of choices ...
Turn Your 3G Signal Into a Broadband Connection for Multiple Computers
III, a wireless Router for Macintosh computers. This Router establishes a mobile internet connection through a mobile network operator and uses WLAN and Ethernet to distribute this connection to the network. ...
High School Students Build Computers Through UA Engineering Project
Two University of Alabama engineering professors are teaching Aliceville High School students about computer science and the vital role it plays in the world.