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Never Lose Again Your Digital Memories

Back Up and Recovery Sep 30, 2024

Losing photos and precious videos is incomparably much more than just a technical inconvenience: it is an emotional loss of dear memories. Cherished captured moments from family gatherings, vacations, and personal milestones hold deep sentiment. It’s as if part of our past has been torn out when these things disappear….

How to Clean Up Your Computer or Laptop after the Holidays

Best Software Sep 19, 2024

Your laptop most probably carries more than just travel photos and memories from your holidays. Using it to stay in touch, watch movies, or navigate your way around an unknown location during your vacation adventures, it’s no surprise that digital clutter builds up. From downloading huge files and accessing unfamiliar…

Holiday Video Disasters: Common Issues and How to Solve Them

Best Software Aug 28, 2024

The arrival of summer is often accompanied by cameras ready to capture every special moment of our vacations. However, too often we discover upon returning home that those memories have various types of errors. From videos that won’t play to corrupt files that prevent us from reliving our experiences, it’s…

Boxed Kit: Portable Office Furniture

News August 4, 2013

What would it be like if you could carry a table and set of stools around in a neat, tight package? To be able to practically move your office wherever you want and work on your laptop while sitting comfortable at your desk in the middle of a park?... Read more

Scientists Freeze Light for a Minute

Internet August 3, 2013

It turns out that the fastest known thing in the universe, light, can in fact be stopped. A German team of scientists have successfully stopped light from traveling for a whole minute. The record-breaking event could be a major breakthrough in the field of quantum memory storage. So how... Read more

Leap Motion Officially Out for $80

Internet News August 2, 2013

If you’ve seen as many science fiction films as I have, you’re probably familiar with how characters with are shown to move virtual objects in midair with their hands, without ever touching a keyboard or a touchscreen. The idea is pretty impressive and has become the staple for computer/virtual... Read more

WaterBean Filter Purifies Tap Water

News August 1, 2013

We at Techbeat like our water filtering products and we believe the world can never have enough of them. This new system, called the WaterBean, is an interesting concept in that its goal is to purify tap water AND to reduce plastic bottle waste. Most water filters, such as... Read more

3.5GB of PlayStation 4 RAM Reserved for OS?

News August 1, 2013

Almost half of Sony’s PlayStation 4 RAM memory will be reserved for the operating system, according to press reports. The gaming system will reserve 3.5GB of its 8GB RAM for the OS, which will leave 4.5GB available for games. A report on Digital Foundry also said initially that an... Read more

World’s Oldest Calendar Dates Back 10,000 Years

Internet July 31, 2013

Humankind has been developing systems to track time for thousands of years, but a recent discovery shows that such systems were already in use a lot earlier than previously thought. Archeologists found what is believed to be the world’s oldest calendar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The lunar calendar is about... Read more

First 3D Printed Rifle Test Fired

News July 30, 2013

Missed all the controversy surrounding 3D printed weapons and their potentially disastrous effects or not, depending on who you’re asking? Rest assured, for we now have what is believed to be the world’s first 3D printed rifle being successfully test fired. Well, okay, maybe not 100 percent successfully, given... Read more

U.S. Navy Uses Kinect to Combat Sexual Assault

News July 30, 2013

Microsoft’s Kinect is an amazing piece of technology with a huge potential to be used in many different areas that would benefit from motion tracking. And now the United States Navy has found another use for the technology. The Navy plans to use Kinect to combat sexual assault and... Read more

Implanting False Memories is Possible… At Least in Mice

Internet July 29, 2013

Researchers have managed to bring Christopher Nolan’s 2010 mind-bending film Inception to life at least for mice, by successfully implanting false memories in the minds of rodents. The experiment was conducted by the same Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) team that discovered that memories are stored in individual neurons.... Read more

Microsoft’s 1 Million Servers: What Are They For?

Internet July 29, 2013

Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer recently revealed that the company has over one million servers in its datacenter infrastructure. The statement, made at Microsoft’s 2013 Worldwide Partner Conference, was the first time the company officially acknowledged the extent of its infrastructure. But what do Microsoft’s 1 million servers mean for... Read more

Nintendo 3DS Sales High, Wii U Still Behind

Internet News July 27, 2013

Nintendo’s stocks have seen a significant rise lately, amid a surge in 3DS sales, especially in the U.S., and due to enthusiasm over upcoming Wii U original games. The Japanese gaming giant’s stock just hit a two-year high and is on a steady climb. Another reason for this, according... Read more

Acoustic Levitation: Surfing Objects on Sound Waves

Audio News July 26, 2013

Scientists have been looking for effective ways to levitate objects for decades. Several methods exist nowadays, such as magnetism and light, electrostatic fields or sound waves, but they all have their own drawbacks. Acoustic levitation has generally been the preferred method, as unlike its counterparts, it can float larger... Read more

Sweat Machine Turns Perspiration into Drinking Water

Internet July 25, 2013

The idea of drinking water recycled from your sweat or urine may not seem very appealing, but it wouldn’t matter much if we lived in a place where access to drinking water and to any kind of water, in fact, would be almost impossible. This is where a Sweat... Read more

LEGObot: The DIY 3D Printer Made of LEGOs

News July 25, 2013

As 3D printing technology continues to expand, 3D printers are expected to become cheaper and more accessible. But this has not been happening as fast as we want, and even cheaper 3D printers on the market are still too pricey for most of us. So how about building your... Read more

Xbox One & PS4 Shortages at Launch?

Internet July 24, 2013

Gamers should expect shortages of next-generation consoles Xbox One and PlayStation 4 at launch, amid high demand and the difficulty of coordinating the launches, analysts believe. Robert W. Baird’s Colin Sebastian told GameSpot that it will be impossible for retailers to satisfy all their customers from day one and... Read more

iKnife: Intelligent Surgical Device Sniffs Out Cancer Cells

News July 24, 2013

When a surgeon has a hard time determining the edges of a cancerous tumor, this can be a real problem: if too little is cut, cancer cells are left behind, when too much is taken away, the patient’s life is in immediate danger. Enter the iKnife, a revolutionary invention from... Read more

ConceptNet 4 AI System as Smart as a 4-Year-Old

News July 23, 2013

Mainstream culture teaches us that artificial intelligence systems are incredibly bright and able to outsmart many human beings. And if we take a look at trivia game master Watson or the Deep Blue program that managed to beat Gary Kasparov at chess, we will most likely agree with what... Read more

Autonomous Cars on UK Roads by Year-End

Internet July 23, 2013

Most of the major car manufacturers, scientists and even Google are trying to develop functional self-driving cars, in an attempt to hopefully reduce the rate of accidents caused by human error. Partial self-driving models have already been tested, and UK authorities are ready to move forward: autonomous cars will... Read more