Lithium ion (also called “Li-ion)” batteries are known for being powerful yet compact, and are particularly useful for gadgets like cellular phones or laptops. They are a vast improvement from the nicel cadmium (also called “Ni-Cad”) batteries used several decades ago. Lithium ion batteries were...
When you think of the future, there are plenty of great ideas that go through your head. A lot of that has to do with how you think things will look. Will they be like something from outer space? Some car makers seem to think so. The concept cars that they create get more and more futuristic all...
The New York Times reports this week that the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] has begun an examination of "interlocking directorates" between the two technology giants Apple and Google for possible violations of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. The Clayton Act prohibits individuals from concurrently...
As a genre, dying earth has fallen out of favor recently, which is a shame because it's an incredibly remarkable one. It offers a wonderful opportunity to meld parts of dystopian fiction, swords and sorcery, fantasy, science fiction, space opera, and all set under a swollen red sun as the planet...
15. LHC The chances of the Large Hadron Collider actually producing a miniature black hole—or anything life threatening for that matter—are so small as to be minute. Like, crazy minute. As in, will probably never happen so minute. And even if the LHC does start producing tiny little baby black...
In the theatre there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time- in the cinema, only one,” as quoted by Orson Welles, the prolific director of the most studied film of all time, Citizen Kane. Within the last century cinema has grown from pioneering silent films into orchestrated musicals, “spaghetti...
Societies across the globe are facing the dire consequence that life as we know it is clambering to chaos. Worldwide infrastructures are crumbling, popular culture has become the baseline for values, and dysfunctional governments are now controlling the world. Here are 10 Signs The World Has Gone...
The FCC or Federal Communications Commission loses to Comcast in a lawsuit filed with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday. This is a landmark case which decided the FCC lacks the authority to require equal treatment of broadband providers over internet...
If teen pop sensation Justin Bieber were to shave his head right now, you would not only learn about it within minutes, but would also have access to photos and video of the incident, no matter where in the world you lived. Whether it be through your WirelessInternet.net Internet provider or your...
The European Commission (EU) has once again taken aim at Microsoft. The company has been accused of harming competition due to its bundling of the Explorer browser with its Windows operating system. The EU made the following statement on Friday morning: "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to...
