World Wide Web - What happens behind the scenes
A short explanation of what makes the World Wide Web work: browsers, packets, servers and links.
 
The Complete History of Internet
An animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.

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The personal computer (PC) is expected to advance in both intelligence and form factor over the next 10 years, evolving into a merger of computing devices and peripherals that can help carry out “the higher cognitive tasks of what people do to get their jobs done,” says Intel research director Andrew Chien.
The laptop form factor [...]

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A recent IBM Academic Initiative survey found that 80 percent of 1,600 college students polled agreed that high-technology skills will help them succeed, and a majority expect to have to master new technologies while in the workforce.
More than 50 percent of the students said they plan to improve their technology skills before they graduate, with [...]

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Researchers say that computer circuits based on quantum packets of heat instead of electricity could use the heat generated by processors to perform computations and store information.
Recent research into the physics of controlling the flow of heat packets has led to designs for heat-based diodes, transistors, and logic gates capable of performing “and,” “or,” and [...]

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University of New Brunswick researchers led by professor Howard Li are developing cars capable of driving themselves.
Li says one of the first steps is to take detailed pictures of sharp turns, deer, pedestrians, and other obstacles and program those images into a simulator so the system learns what objects to avoid. He says the biggest [...]

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Fast Company recently posted a several photos and a video showing crazy urban schemes for South Kores’s future architecture. South Korea is lesser known than United Arab Emirates for such architonic plans, but this does not mean they are less spectacular.  Take a look to the original post on Design Boom for more photos and descriptions.

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Analysts hammer away at candidates vying to become the next Secure Hash Algorithm.
Analysts have started the process of testing new Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) candidates for flaws as part of the first round of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) competition to select the next government standard for cryptographic tools. So far, three [...]

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IBM researchers have successfully captured a three-dimensional (3D) image of a virus for the first time.

The researchers, based at IBM’s Almaden Research Center, used magnetic resonance force microscopy (MRFM) to capture a 3D image of a tobacco mosaic virus with a spatial resolution down to four nanometers. MRFM uses an ultrasmall cantilever arm as a [...]

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The world’s most expensive mobile phone is a iPhone 3G Kings Button. Created by Austrian jeweler Peter Aloisson, this special iPhone is dressed with high quality diamond and gold.

The home button has integrated 6.6 carat diamonds and every corner of the phone has a white gold line which contain 138 finely shaped diamonds on it. [...]

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Computer scientists are helping to restore a 2,000-year-old Roman statue discovered in the ruins of a town near Pompeii.
Scientists from WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group), an academic department at the University of Warwick; the University of Southampton; and the Herculaneum Conservation Project are scanning, modeling, and digitally recreating the statue, believed to be of a [...]

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