Ten-year-old Arfa Karim Randhawa of Pakistan is believed to be the youngest person in the world to have earned Microsoft Certified Professional status. She actually has her MCAD, which involves passing more than one of the very difficult exams required [...]
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If you are a middle class (or higher) American you live better than 99.4% of all the people who have ever lived, including those that are alive right now. This is according to Greg Easterbrook in his book “The Progress Paradox”. Apparently there have been approximately 80 billion people who have lived on earth until now. Most of them [...] I recommend this free software download from Google:Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC. Every time you open Picasa, it automatically locates all your pictures (even ones you forgot you had) and sorts them into visual albums organized by date with folder names you will recognize. You [...] Wired has a good article about the largest encyclopedia on [...] Adware and Spyware might be the two most frightening developments in technology yet. Worse than viruses, which are obvious and easy to spot. Adware infects your machine and subtly releases pop up ads designed to look like they are coming from the Website you happen to be surfing. So they’re influencing your behavior against your will, without you knowing [...] As engineers scramble to utilize the new found efficiency in car power known as hybrid technology, it’s interesting to watch “the big 3″ as they attempt to portray Fuel Cell technology as the next big thing. Hybrids are already making a big difference and research has barely been fully funded. Hybrid efficiency is not hype or fantasy, it [...] Software developers are required to develop a certain expertise in user interface design. Applications are held to a fairly high standard of usability, and there’s good reason for that. Irate customers are generally a bad thing. So I am more than a little surprised at the audacity of the chumps that design these some of the interfaces that are used to access DVD [...] “Recently awarded a Dream Time Fellowship by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts, Grand is working on giving Lucy better eyesight, hearing, stronger muscles and a more powerful brain. Steve hopes Lucy will be able to learn to crawl before taking those first steps and repeating simple sounds, just like other toddlers do.Lucy’s [...] Microsoft is developing a virtual brain — a database that holds human memories. As one analyst put it — this is Web logging run amok. “By 2047, almost all information will be in cyberspace — including all knowledge and creative works,” said one of the project’s leaders, Gordon Bell. “The most significant benefit will be a [...] |
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