Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Spore Released Today

So-CoAddict September 7th, 2008

After six years of production, Spore, the highly anticipated PC game from EA Sports (also to be available for the iPhone and Nintendo DS), has finally been released. Dubbed “The Year’s Most Anticipated PC Game” by PC World, Spore has been down a roller-coaster of release dates and delays. Today, however, is the day people [...]

Robot Spider Unleashed

MaxPower September 5th, 2008

Commuters arriving at Liverpool’s Lime Street station were greeted by a 50ft (15m) high mechanical spider clinging to a nearby redundant office block.
The 37-tonne beast heralds the start of a five-day piece of street theatre as part of the Capital of Culture year.

The robot will “form part of a huge piece of street theatre [...]

More on Sunspots

MaxPower September 4th, 2008

Ever since my post a couple days back on sunspots I have been thinking about how that could (credibly) be impacting the temperatures over the next few years. Specifically, I am coming to the conclusion that we could be entering a period of global cooling. As I noted in the previous post, my interested was [...]

Chrome - Further Evidence Google is Taking Over

MaxPower September 3rd, 2008

I said here that I was going to try the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which I didn’t, ironically because the site wouldn’t let me download it - good job Microsoft.
Then yesterday I read the news that Google published its new ‘web browser’ Chrome designed in a typical Google fashion.
Here is an interesting side [...]

The Sun is Dead. Long Live the Sun?

MaxPower August 29th, 2008

Since I read this article in June, I have been keeping up with the increasingly important sunspot spotting event happening globally. The picture above shows the sun at its most active in 2001, potentially the most active period for sunspots in the past 1000 years.
Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically [...]