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  2012’s 25 Geekiest 25th Anniversaries

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 10:28pm CET by Digg

  Network World’s 6th annual collection of the year’s “geekiest anniversaries” this time includes the births of pioneering companies such as UUNet and NEXTEL; technologies like OS/2 and SPARC; television classics topped by “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and the first “Simpsons” shorts; disposable contact lenses; the first naked-eye supernova in four centuries; and, who could possibly forget The Woodstock of Physics.
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  The New Police Siren You Can Actually Feel

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 7:26pm CET by Digg

  A new kind of police siren that emits low-frequency vibrations, is making waves -- quite literally -- in the town of Bartow, Fla. Although pedestrians may find it unpleasant, officers think it's a safer and more effective means of announcing their presence.
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  From Googol to Glory: The Tale of Sergey and Larry [Interactive]

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 7:15pm CET by Digg

  Larry Page and Sergey Brin were once computer science nerds trying to find their way in a world without Google -- but they quickly got to work on what would later become the algorithm behind the world's most heavily trafficked search engine.
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  100,000 People Visited Reddit at One Time on Monday, Breaking Record

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 6:04pm CET by Digg

  As further evidence of Reddit‘s red-hot growth, the news aggregation site had 100,000 unique visitors at one time on Monday, breaking a previous record.
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  The Pirate Bay Wants You To Really Download A Car

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:35pm CET by Digg

  You wouldn't download a car, the Internet meme predicted. But if The Pirate Bay has its way that action will be a reality in the years to come. In preparation for this world-changing day, the world's biggest torrent site has just premiered a new section containing the plans for physical items that can be downloaded then printed out. Today its a plastic pirate ship, but one tomorrow in a decade or two it may well be a car.
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  Fold-up car of the future unveiled at EU

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:26pm CET by Digg

  A tiny revolutionary fold-up car designed in Spain's Basque country as the answer to urban stress and pollution was unveiled Tuesday before hitting European cities in 2013.
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  Kelihos botnet creator worked for antivirus company, Microsoft says

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 5:21pm CET by Digg

  The Kelihos botnet that was sending up to 3.8 billion spam e-mails per day before being taken offline was allegedly created and controlled by a software developer who formerly worked for an antivirus firm.
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  Inside Apple's secret packaging room

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 4:08pm CET by Digg

  It's no secret that Apple sweats every last detail when it comes to their products, an obsession which even includes a product's packaging.
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  How Words With Friends Beat Scrabble At Its Own Game

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 3:22pm CET by Digg

  The creators of the social Scrabble-like smartphone and tablet game offer insight into their re-invention of board game night.
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  Will Call wants to help you decide what you're doing tonight

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:53pm CET by Digg

  You are rarely rewarded for waiting until the last minute to go to a ticketed event, especially a concert. Will Call wants to be the place to connect promoters with extra last-minute tickets to sell with the spontaneous and the procrastinators among us.
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  Apple’s “thermonuclear war” against Android is an expensive dud

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 2:37pm CET by Digg

  This morning Reuters reported that Apple had lost an appeal to ban Android tablets in the Netherlands. It’s another failure for an expensive legal strategy that has done nothing to stem the growth of Android’s marketshare in the smartphone and tablet space.
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  Court Rules Americans Can be Ordered to Decrypt Data

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 12:40pm CET by Digg

  Colorado federal Judge Robert Blackburn on Monday set a precedent with an order requiring that a woman decrypt data on the hard drive of her Toshiba Satellite M305 notebook by February 21.
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  An Apple store is worth as much as the White House

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 11:20am CET by Digg

  Apple stores sell per square foot what the White House is worth. That's nearly double its closest competitor.
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  The Pirate Bay Wants You to Download Physical Objects Now

  Posted: January 24th, 2012, 6:13am CET by Digg

  File sharing site The Pirate Bay has introduced a new content category for sharing 3D data files.