California Public Opinion favors License Plate Readers and Opposes Legislation

The majority of Californians agree that license plate reader (LPR) technology helps law enforcement solve crimes and any restrictions on who can photograph license plates would be unacceptable, according to a new poll conducted by Zogby Analytics and commissioned by Vigilant Solutions.



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Man Builds DIY Cellphone Using Raspberry Pi

Photographer and software engineer Dave Hunt has posted an article about his most recent project: a DIY cellphone based on a Raspberry Pi (he calls it a PiPhone). It has a touchscreen dialing interface for making calls, and it's built with off-the-shelf components.



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There’s hidden beauty in abandoned World Of Warcraft cities

Special Topics In Gameology is an in-depth look at a specific corner of the gaming world in miniseries form. For this edition of the feature—Empty Spaces—we’re examining games’ most fascinating realms of desolation. America has seen plenty of cities rapidly grow and fade.



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Instantly Find Space Hogs on Your Mac with a Spotlight Filter

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7 habits of highly successful Unix admins

Unix admins generally work a lot of hours, juggle a large set of priorities, get little credit for their work, come across as arrogant by admins of other persuasions, tend to prefer elegant solutions to even the simplest of problems, take great pride in their ability to apply regular expressions t



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3 app building services for building an Android business app

You have a business and you want to expand that business into the realm of mobility. Unfortunately, you don't have the finances to hire a programmer to create an Android app that would take your niche shop out into the world. What do you do? Give up on the idea? Not a chance.



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How I Ditched My Laptop for an iPad with a Few Apps and Accessories

If you have been thinking about using your iPad as your primary computing device, you're not alone.



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Beer and barbecues

GRILLING meat gives it great flavour. This taste, though, comes at a price, since the process creates molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) which damage DNA and thus increase the eater’s chances of developing colon cancer.



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Driven: how Zipcar's founders built and lost a car-sharing empire

In the late ’90s, Antje Danielson’s son Max and Robin Chase’s daughter Linnea often played together on a tire swing in Cambridge, Massachusetts' Dana Park. The two women had met at their kids’ kindergarten, but supervising the playground is how they got to know each other.



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