What Most Schools Don’t Teach
Add this stat to America’s education problems: computer programming isn’t taught in 90% of U.S. schools. For many people, including myself, the subject of computer science is foreign and intimidating. But the sentiment that computer programming requires a high level of intelligence and innate knowledge of computers is wrong. Programming is a skill that can … Read more
New Album by The xx Premieres Through a Single Fan
The xx released their upcoming sophomore album, Coexist, in an experimental fashion this last Monday. They decided to go about the release by giving the album to a single fan and then letting him/her (the person wishes to remain unnamed) spread the album by word of mouth. Without any marketing, the album is now being heard … Read more
Music Video Made Entirely in Microsoft Excel
I wish I had the excel skills of the popular ’MysteryGuitarMan.’ I feel bad about my own computing skills as is, so it doesn’t help knowing that the video took 5 hours to make.
Tablet Wars: Google Unveils the Nexus 7
The saga continues in the tablet market. Add Google to the list of tech giants that is diving into the Apple dominated market with its recent introduction of the Nexus 7. The annoucement comes on the heels of Microsoft’s plans to make its own tablet at an uknown price. Now for Google, the question consumers are asking is where does … Read more
Is Microsoft’s new tablet the iPad killer?
Now I’m not the biggest fan of Microsoft products, but this new 10-inch tablet PC titled Surface 2.0 looks pretty nifty. There’s sleek design and a beautiful operating system in Windows 8. Check out the video and pics below and if you’re curious to learn more about the Surface 2.0 which was released just this … Read more
The World Without… Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Tiger Woods
In honor of the world’s richest people, Forbes Brazil is taking a look at what the world would look like without some of the current forerunning business leaders. In the campaign created by Ogilvy Brazil, faceless graphics of leaders – such as Zuckerberg, Gates, and many others – are engulfed in infographics where the contributions … Read more
300 Chinese Workers ‘Threaten Mass Suicide’ At XBox Plant
Nearly 300 Chinese manufacturing workers that make the XBox console threatened their boss with mass suicide over salary disputes on top of their office roof, yesterday. Located in the Hubei province at the Foxconn Technology Park in Wuhan, Foxconn is a global manufacturing partner to companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Sony. Microsoft is investigating … Read more
Xbox Kinect 2 can read your lips and read emotions
Now this is just a rumor, but the next Kinect from Microsoft is said to have technology that can do some pretty incredible stuff. This device can already read body movements and allow users to control games and interfaces using only what god gave them. Now, the Kinect will be able to read your lips … Read more
Visions of the Future – Xbox Kinect
Who ever thought that Xbox + Kinect, the home entertainment device for playing video games, could affect our lives in so many different ways? Once again, Microsoft comes out with another amazing vision of the future – here’s a link to their other recently released video called “Productivity Future Vision.”
