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Those of you who use Gchat through Gmail can now send text messages to mobile phones. The function is experimental, so you have to go to the Labs tab inside of Gmail’s settings (or click on that little green flask icon) to turn it on. Your messages will appear as a 406 number—once you’ve sent [...]

The third Terry Tate election special is set in the familiar office environment. An office worker stands at the water cooler telling his workmates that he limits his voting to American Idol. Instead of voting at lunch time he’s updating his Facebook profile. The Terry Tate Returns campaign appears to be focused on getting apathetic [...]

An Australian student stabbed a friend in the head and nearly severed one his fingers during a fight about the volume of a World of Warcraft gaming session. Zhenghao Shen, 21, was charged with intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm and refused bail in an Australian Capital Territory court earlier today. The university student was at [...]

2TB of web-enabled, media streaming goodness. It looks like Mvix USA, a company known for their media streamers, has really pulled out all the stops with their new NAS. The MvixBOX has two drive bays (1.5TB SATA HDDs not included), Windows file sharing, an RSS client, a Bit Torrent client, telnet and secure SMTP. If [...]

According to the National Sleep Foundation, 60 million adults report having interrupted sleep at least a few nights per week and more than 40 million Americans suffer from a sleep disorder. Obesity is a disease that affects nearly one-third of the adult American population – approximately 60 million adults. Coincidence? Perhaps. But there are numerous [...]

Laptop-makers including Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Toshiba are recalling 100,000 Sony-made batteries due to fears they may overheat or catch fire. Sony said the recall came after 40 instances of overheating, including four cases where users had minor burns. The recall affects around 74,000 HP laptops, 14,400 from Toshiba, and small numbers from Dell, Acer and [...]

Technology is helping families stay in touch like never before. Instead of driving people apart, mobile phones and the net are helping them maintain social ties. Families are also probably among the keenest users of technology. Using the net was has become a social activity within families, with parents browsing the web with their children. [...]

It hasn’t been too awfully long since Windows Vista SP1 hit the intertubes for real, but the Vista team is already talking up SP2. Granted, we all know Redmond is focused on moving beyond all of this Vista hoopla and forging ahead with Windows 7, but there’s apparently still some work to do on the [...]

According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the same commercial methods that are used to develop all-glass fibers, this might pave the way for future silicon fibers as viable alternatives to glass fibers. The [...]

The Terry Tate Returns campaign appears to be focused on getting apathetic voters to register, pointing them to the Google USA Elections site. There is a strong risk, however, that the stunts featuring Sarah Palin could offend the sensibilities of those concerned about violence against women. Sarah Palin is avoiding a question about which newspapers [...]