27
Mar
What is Google Suggest?
As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time.
How does it do that?
Google algorithms use a wide range of information to predict the queries users are most likely to want to see. For example, Google Suggest uses data about the overall popularity […]
26
Mar
Researchers at the University of London Institute of Psychiatry recently released a report showing that workers bombarded with phone calls, e-mails and text messages suffer a greater loss in IQ than marijuana users.
Glenn Wilson, a psychiatrist at King College London University, and his team of researchers monitored the IQ of 80 volunteers while they performed […]
26
Mar
A REG (Random Event Generator) is just a basic piece of equipment that spits out random patterns of zeros and ones, which is translated to a graph, where it produces a roughly constant, flat line. What's weird is that, when 9/11 happened, the graphed line from the Random Event Generator started to move up sharply, […]
26
Mar
Here on planet Earth, we're completely oblivious to the grand scale of things in the universe. Much the way we perceive dust particles as being insignifcant, universally speaking we are not much more than this. The scale of things is mind blowing!
So how small are we really? Click to open an awesome image that explains […]
25
Mar
Check out these 15 Internet screw-ups that will live in infamy.
Dreamhosts’ $7.5 Million Billing Mistake: Due to a “fat-fingered” error, Dreamhost accidentally overbilled almost all of their customers, charging them for nearly a year in hosting fees. Large charges appeared on customers’ credit and debit cards, but Dreamhost promised to make good on refunds, and […]
1
Feb
A flotilla of ships may have been dispatched to reinstate the broken submarine cable that has left the Middle East and India struggling to communicate with the rest of the world, but it took just one vessel to inflict the damage that brought down the internet for millions.
According to reports, the internet blackout, which has […]
14
Jan
This computer has been opened today for the first time after 5 years. Dust settling is a major problem for fans, and computer health in general. Dust sticks to the grease and accumulates there, eventually interfering with the action of the fan and causing that horrible grinding noise.
Fan problems are by far the […]
20
Dec
If you use browser Firefox, you should have noticed the Google search box. You can use it to make calculations.
To use Google's built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you'd like done into the search box and the answer appears in the drop down menu of suggested search options (sometimes you have to add and […]
