Pictures showing the progression of technology through the years. Pretty neat to see how far we have come. 

Open Source Database vendors work together to squash bugs. OSS versus Retail  

Pictures from the Pirate Bay demonstration in which 1000s of people protested the RAID on Pirate Bay

Awesome video showing the latest Dapper Drake Ubunto linux distro using XGL (i.e. 3-D Aero like interface)
Somehow I feel this 3-D implementation is better than the Windows Vista one. Seems faster and cleaner to me. Who knows. 

This is why you DO NOT want a Motorola phone
Motorola phones dominate the top radiation list 

Firefox 2.0 Alpha 3 released, reviewed 

Interactive Flash Human history timeline 
This is DAMN cool. I highly suggest everyone take a look at this. 

Virtual Sphere Computer Interface 
You get inside a large sphere and walk around inside of it as you appear to be walking in the actual computer simulation. Very neat! 

Cloaking device is in the works.. For real!

Sweet Domino effect with the game Oblivion

Why the NSA phone spying is bad — A former analyst looks at the agency’s current controversyVideo guided tour of Vista beta 2 by Vista programmers — Get a look at more detail

Conroe @ 2.93Ghz Core Duo 2 Extreme — This one SWEET lookin CPU

NVIDIA to release fastest single card solution: 7950GX2 
the card contains two 7900 GTX GPUs each clocked at 500MHz. There's 1GB of GDDR 3 SDRAM – 512MB per core, presumably – on board clocked to 600MHz (1.2GHz effective). MORE DETAILS HERE
NVIDIA x86 and x64 drivers for Vista beta 2 and nforce drivers

No loyalty for teens for the sites they visit

Smackbook and MacSaber — uses for your Mac motion sensor 
Make your own Smackbook with these instructions 

Highlight: Reverse AJAX with DWR

Adium getting voice and video chat (thanks to Google summer of Code) 

Adobe offers a sneak peak into InDesign CS3 and here

NASA develops cool invisibile infrared light detector
 

Microsoft to make their own JPG competitor — WMP (Windows Media Photo)

Spaceport race going global

Last human chromosome has been sequenced. The last one was the most complex and might contain the must usefulness toward curing diseases

Microsoft patches Windows XP SP2 Core Duo Battery Drain bug 

Web Outlook 2007 Screenshots — This looks VERY awesome. Can't wait for this

2010: The year of the techie
Any article on why being a technie is good for climbing the corporate ladder. 

JAVA to go Open Source! – Just a matter of when

Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications easy. With GWT, you can develop and debug AJAX applications in the Java language using the Java development tools of your choice. When you deploy your application to production, the GWT compiler translates your Java application to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

IO₂ Technology creates floating touchable mid-air display

Great article that talks about the glossy versus matte laptop displays
Which do you think is better? Maybe it’s just me but on a laptop, I really do like the glossy but on a larger desktop LCD, I prefer the matte.

New Lexus LS-460 the most Techie car

JAVA inches closer to being Open Source 

Great article on why so many e-mails are misinterpreted. It just goes to show how important face to face communication is in today's world of technology

Google Notebook launches (with Firefox plugin)

John Carmack disses Playstation 3
… in an interview that the PlayStation 3 game console is not as optimal as Microsoft’s Xbox 360

NEAT! — A musical realization of the motion graphics

Treo 700p announced. YAWN!
With a weight of 180 grams, it runs on a 312 MHz Intel XScale processor and features a high-res, 320×320 TFT colour screen like the Treo 650 – up from the 700w's limited 240×240, 128MB of memory -60MB free for PalmOS apps and data-. The 700p runs PalmOS Garnet v5.4.9., and supports Bluetooth v1.2 and dual CDMA digital (800/1900Mhz) plus CDMA2000 EvDO to complete the feature set. As usual, compatibility with Office, Excel and Powerpoint files is provided via the bundled software. MultiMediaCard, SD & SDIO cards are supported, up to two gigabytes, according to Palm. The digital camera sports 1280×1024 resolution and automatic light balance, capturing video at 352 x 288.

Online nightclub for teens. What's next?
The club is a cross between MySpace.com, the Web's biggest networking site, and "World of Warcraft" a multiplayer online game. Both are successful at building Web communities, and Littlefield and his company, Doppelganger, hope they've built a hybrid.

Awesome article on the "singularity debate"
Sometime in the next few years or decades, humanity will become capable of surpassing the upper limit on intelligence that has held since the rise of the human species. We will become capable of technologically creating smarter-than-human intelligence, perhaps through enhancement of the human brain, direct links between computers and the brain, or Artificial Intelligence. This event is called the "Singularity" by analogy with the singularity at the center of a black hole – just as our current model of physics breaks down when it attempts to describe the center of a black hole, our model of the future breaks down once the future contains smarter-than-human minds. Since technology is the product of cognition, the Singularity is an effect that snowballs once it occurs – the first smart minds can create smarter minds, and smarter minds can produce still smarter minds.—Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

The "right" way to eat a Reeses Peanut Butter cup.. in New York

The right man, at the critical time — Says Bush

More anger towards Bush over surveillance report 
Approval rating at new low: 29% 

Brain merging with microchips
Numenta is building a computer memory platform called the Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) platform, which is modeled after the human brain. Hawkins said this week that Numenta's open-source software toolkit will debut later this year or early 2007, and it will let developers create applications for computer vision, artificial intelligence, robotics and machine learning.

NVIDIA reports record earnings
For the first quarter of fiscal 2007, revenue increased to a record $681.8 million, compared to $583.8 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2006, an increase of 17 percent. Net income computed in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for the first quarter of fiscal 2007 was $90.7 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to GAAP net income of $64.4 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the first quarter of fiscal 2006.

Tim Sweeney Interview video via bittorrent and direct download

Sony and Panasonic announce a new HD format (for camera) 

Intel Core Duo 2 will be 40% faster than Intel's fastest Extreme CPUs out today

Light so fast, it actually travels backwards?!
In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science on how they've gone one step further: pushing light into reverse. As if to defy common sense, the backward-moving pulse of light travels faster than light.

GMAIL adding pictures

7 minute XMEN 3 Trailer 

Bioware's Jade Empire coming to PC (with enhancements!)

Chip power breakthrough
John Wood, a British engineer who founded Multigig in 2000, devised an approach that involves sending electrical signals around square loop structures, said Haris Basit, Multigig's chief operating officer. The regular rotation works like the tick of a conventional clock, while most of the electrical power is recycled, he said. The technology can achieve 75% power savings over conventional clocking approaches, the company says.

News.com E3 coverage

Apple's head laywer steps down
This is what happens when you make little girls cry who write you letters!!

Windows CE 6.0 previewed

Windows Live Messenger now open to public

E3 HD High-res torrent site
Download all the HD trailers from E3 here

Torvalds comments on Linux kernel instability

Researchers able to cure cancer — in Mice
Now, they said white blood cells from that mouse's descendants were injected into ordinary mice with cancer and their disease was completely wiped out.