Rumors are circulating that Amazon is looking to buy Texas Instruments’ (TI) smartphone and table oriented OMAP chips division, bringing its table business model more in line with Apple and Samsung. Recall that TI recently announced that it was exiting the smartphone and OMAP chip business and moving its focus to embedded platforms (particularly in…
Year: 2012
Microsoft Xbox Music, streaming music service, launching to compete against Pandora, Spotify and iTunes
Microsoft is launching a new music service, to coincide with the Windows 8 launch, that will include streaming music, paid subscription models, and a music store. It will appear on Xbox 360 and Windows 8 PCs, laptops, and phones. The service will be rolled out to other platforms (iOS, Android, and a web-based version) at…
BBC film crew arrested after sneaking into top-secret Area 51
Felix breaks three world records and breaks the sound barrier with skydive jump from the edge of space [UPDATE]
Felix Baumgartner, Australian daredevil, successfully jumped from 128,100 feet (24 miles) above the Earth plunging 833.9 MPH (Mach 1.24) to break the sound barrier. Baumgartner rode in a special capsule and wore a 100 pound pressurized flight suit that protected him from the 70 degrees below zero temperature and kept his blood from vaporizing in…
Fred Van Lente to write new zombie comic book series for Dynamite Entertainment
Slow motion picture sequence of bubble being popped
More Geek Jokes
More jokes that only nerds will get… Please send all flames, trolls, and complaints to /dev/toilet Shut up, or i’ll flush you out Cron : Enter cron command \ Now enter the number of minutes in an hour We are experiencing system trouble — do not adjust your terminal You have successfully hacked in, Welcome…
Reddit’s most loved/hated troll, Violentacrez, has been doxed – actual identify exposed by gawker
Violentacrez is the Internet’s greatest troll – you either love him or hate him. He starts controversial subreddits such as Creepshots (pictures of unsuspecting women), Jailbait (pictures of scantily clad underage girls, most picked off of Facebook), RapeBait. Still, many redditers champion him as their poster boy for free speech. Other redditers on the other…
Google’s open source Apache HTTP module (mod_pagespeed) to speed up web page serving comes out of beta
Two years and 18 releases later, Google has removed the beta designation from mod_pagespeed, the open source Apache HTTP module that speeds up web pages using filters to enhance pages by re-writing the page resources served. It is already in use at more than 120,000 sites including EdgeHost, GoDaddy and DreamHost hosting providers.








