Black Holes and The Schwarzschild Radius

Since the media is covering black holes more frequently, we figured many of you might like to understand more about the phenomenon. Today, we have an absolutely fascinating video explaining the principle behind the Schwarzschild Radius. The Schwarzschild radius (Rs = 2GM/c2) is defined as the size at which a spherical astronomical object has been […]

Norton Commando Transformer

Being Geeks, I’m sure you all thought that this was going to be something related to Norton Antivirus, right? But no, we’re talking about Norton, the century-old motorcycle company here. Norton Commando Transformer was produced by Steve Twist for his Computer Visualization and Animation major project. Check it out, it’s pretty awesome. Transformer 2 might […]

Now that Firefox 3.5 is out, let the benchmark battles begin

Since the last time I posted browser benchmarks, Google Chrome jumped to version 2, Safari released version 4, Internet Explorer 8 was released, and just yesterday Firefox version 3.5 hit the intertubes.  Furthermore, the Dromaeo JavaScript benchmarks have been refined and expanded since then, so it’s high time we update the numbers. I ran Dromaeo’s […]