Brazilian scientists have discovered a naturally decaffeinated coffee plant that won’t keep them awake at night.

I am not a drinker of coffee so I don’t understand how cool this is, but it seems to be pretty cool. Wonder how something like this even happens and what role does caffeine play in the livelihood of […]

Today I logged into my Yahoo! email account and was pleasantly surprised to see that they have upgraded everyone for free. Seems as though they are trying to catch up to Google, which shows why competition is a good thing. Here is what’s new:

Increased storage capacity to 100MB
Increase in total message size to 10MB
A streamlined […]

Don’t really know how important that is as most people who use bluetooth devices aren’t really transferring large amounts of data, but progress and innovation never hurt. At least they are keeping things backwards compatible.

I would like to say something insightful, but the only thing I can think of is the Simpsons episode where Homer eats sushi and the new chef cuts it wrong so Homer thinks he is going to die. Homer probably wished he had the new fish instead. Less worries.
It is fascinating though how they rid […]

Ars reports that Paul Allen’s venture, Scaled Composites, is looking to ready itself and win the Ansari X Prize. So NASA spends the last 30 years using the same old spaceship and it takes a $10 million prize to come up with something new? Amazing.

Don’t know if this is a mistake or not, but it looks as thought Google has upped the GMail limit to 1 Terabyte! If this is true, pretty much every online email competitor can no longer even be considered a competitor. Google will soon control all the data in the world and change their name […]

The world-famous Apple G5-based supercomputer at the Virginia Polytechnic and State University is offline and will soon disappear from the Top 500 supercomputer list, where it currently sits in third place.
The 1,100 Mac G5s have been sold!
Not to panic though. The cluster will be back, bigger and better than ever. Virginia Tech is currently awaiting […]

I can see a lot of people being excited about this, but does anyone else besides me find this scary as hell?

The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 11,500 feet, and reportedly surrounded the jet as it conducted routine anti-drug […]

The US Energy Dept. announced on 12th May their intention to build a supercomputer that, at 50 teraflops (50 trillion operations per second), will overtake the current, long-standing champion - Japan’s Earth Simulator.
The proposed supercomputer project will involve Cray Inc., IBM and Silicon Graphics Inc., all private companies that have been deeply involved in […]

Police in Hanover, Germany have confimed that an 18-year old man arrested on suspicion of creating the “Sasser” worm has confessed to the crime.

Surprised at the rapid developments, security experts said this could be the single biggest arrest yet in bringing down a virus-writing gang.
Maybe, maybe not - don’t uninstall that AV software just yet.

I can’t even fathom turning 116. Amazing to see that some people born in the 19th century are still alive. I think it would be awesome to tell people you lived during 3 centuries (not for 3 centuries).
Good to see the only thing she wants is $50 more per month and a chance to go […]

Google plans to earn 2.7 billion dollars through an auction style IPO.

Yet another probably useless specification from everybody’s favorite standards body.

The Web Services Choreography Description Language (WS-CDL) is an XML-based language that describes peer-to-peer collaborations of Web Services participants by defining, from a global viewpoint, their common and complementary observable behavior; where ordered message exchanges result in accomplishing a common business goal.
The Web Services specifications offer a communication bridge between the heterogeneous computational environments used […]

I mention this often heard news item not because Sun is one day going to burn in hell for joining hands with Microsoft (and because McNealy will still be on the sinking ship), but I was going to write a short piece on how the tech sector is really on the rebound when you have […]

In a move that I could only assume means that MusicMatch is paying Intel a buttload of money, Intel will not start including CDs with MusicMatch software in some computers that ship with Intel motherboards. Does anyone use MusicMatch?

Intel will package Musicmatch Jukebox, Musicmatch Radio, Musicmatch MX and its Musicmatch Downloads service on a resource […]