Ever wonder how a song gets from the guitar to an MP3, or video gets from the camera to your screen? Sure, everyone knows that an MP3 takes up less space than a WAV file because of “compression,” but do you know exactly what compression is? Xiph.org, which is responsible for all the Ogg media […]
If Hollywood can make an overly dramatic film about Facebook, maybe someone should try and make one about Twitter? Merci Carl!
Yes Folks, the Flintstones are celebrating their 50th anniversary today, and to mark the occasion, Google has changed the logo on their home page with a Flintstones doodle. Happy birthday Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, and Dino! The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966 on ABC. […]
Imagine a world without Pamela Anderson, yellow showers, or rusty trombones. Well, I’m afraid to tell you such a world exists: it’s the world of Google Instant Search. The website of 2600: The Hacker Quarterly (the number comes from a 2600 hertz tone that could be produced with a toy whistle to gain access to […]
There’s something kind of sad about this video which shows how electronic conversations discourages all traces of spontenaity from human interactions. Don’t you agree? [Via MUO]
Apple receives a level of media coverage that could be argued as disproportionate according a new report. (And yes, we at GeeksAreSexy are aware of the irony involved in covering this report and giving the company even more publicity!) The Pew Research Center looked through 437 tech stories across 11 newspapers, three cable news channels, […]
For the first time ever, 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, the multi-billionaire founder of Facebook, invited cameras inside his modest home, which surprisingly, isn’t even his. Check it out:
About 20,000 light years from the Sun, right near the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy, sits V838 Monocerotis, a red variable star. Does it remind you of something? Of course it does: it resembles one of the world’s most famous Internet browser: FireFox. This shot was taken by the Hubble space telescope on February […]
Sweden’s Pirate Party has failed to repeat its success in last year’s European elections in this month’s poll for Sweden’s own parliament. Its vote collapsed to roughly a sixth of its total last year, prompting debate on what caused the apparent huge drop in support. Last summer the party — which campaigns for reforms of […]
Mozilla Labs has just released this interest video showing the Mozilla Seabird, a concept phone featuring an 8 Megapixel camera, an embedded Bluetooth dongle, wireless charging, and dual side pico projectors. Check it out, the thing looks pretty darn sexy. [Via Gizmodo]