Nzimmer911 writes “Heavy drinkers outlive non-drinkers according to a 20 years study following 1,824 people. From the article: ‘But a new paper in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research suggests that – for reasons that aren’t entirely clear – abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one’s risk of dying even when you [...]
Mexican technology site canal-mx is reporting that Apple will be reengineering its iPhone 4 antenna design and that the redesigned handsets will be available after September 30th. The news comes courtesy of Marco Quatorze, Tecel’s Director of Value Added Services. Telcel recently began offering the iPhone 4 to its customers and Mr. Quatorze was on the record when [...]
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germans are not known to be a nation of spendthrifts but when it comes to consumer electronics they throw caution to the wind — much to the delight of exhibitors at Berlin’s IFA trade fair starting this week. Original post by Jason Fitzpatrick
An anonymous reader writes “Engadget has photos of ‘Pionen White Mountains, the nuclear bunker in which Wikileaks will locate some of its servers. It was excavated 98 feet underground, in a rock hill in the center of Stockholm, Sweden, during the Cold War.’ It looks like they hired the same interior designer who decorated Batman’s [...]
Pogoplug is updating their existing product to support printing to some USB-connected printers or network printers on the same network as the Pogoplug. They USB-based printing works on any HP or Epson printer made since 2005 that is connected to the USB port of the Pogoplug. In addition, Pogoplug is shipping a Wireless Extender that can been [...]
Might as well keep the webOS news coming, no? If you have a Verizon Palm Pixi Plus you’ll be happy to know that your friends over at VZW are pushing out webOS 1.4.5 to your device. The update’s change log looks like this: Version information Version: webOS 1.4.5 Release date: 30 August 2010 New applications [...]
Jamie noticed an interesting map of critical thinking and science done in a sort of subway style. You can track Newton and Einstein and Tesla and so on. It’s actually pretty interesting to navigate. Read more of this story at Slashdot. Original post by CmdrTaco
Today’s top deals are an ASUS RT-N12 for $29.99 and Asus TS Mini SOHO Intel Atom N280 Windows Home Server for $199.99 after rebate. Original post by Adam Pash
