SECTION: TECH CULT

Kim Caughey Forrest is convinced that the Xbox is a bad investment for Microsoft. Her suggestion? Ditch it. Continue reading

Well, police officials finally seem to be making headway in finding who to blame for the Sony PSN hack. So far, they’ve arrested a 19-year-old kid. Continue reading

Organized governments may now have to deal with a joint operation between Anonymous and LulzSec, which is called “Operation Anti-Security”. According to the groups, the operation is designed to leak classified government information. Continue reading

Oppressive high school administrative policies are nothing new. However, for some tech-savvy students, the challenge of outsmarting school officials is both tempting and appealing. One student, faced with oppressive school policies, decided to hack his graduation cap to display an ‘invisible’ message. Continue reading

In the wake of the high-profile hacking of Sony’s PSN, SEGA has now announced that users of SEGA Pass have had their personal data stolen. This includes names, emails, birthdays and encoded passwords. Continue reading

Using your thumbs to manipulate a virtual joystick is about as intuitive as ice-skating on gravel. The Fling, pictured above, offers a stupid simple solution to gaming with your thumbs on the iPad. Continue reading

Today in a rather out of character, but incredibly hilarious, move the C.D.C posted a how-to-guide on surviving a Zombie Apocalypse. The motive? To make the usual hum-drum press releases a little more entertaining. Continue reading

Amazon, since April 1, has sold 105 books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover and paperback books. While this is a milestone for e-books and Amazon, digital copies of books still only make up 14% of all books sold. Still, the fact this milestone happened this fast, has Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezoz smiling ear to ear. Continue reading

We’re used to typing in our “secure” credit card information, billing address, and waiting 1 to however many weeks it takes, to get our stuff. Online shopping in Russia is a little different. Continue reading

Javascript based games, Angelfire, Dragon Ball Z, and a rudimentary knowledge of HTML describes the summer before my seventh grade year. Also, it represents what I thought was the epoch of Javascript’s capabilities. Continue reading