Nikon today announced details of a brand new DSLR camera designed to appeal to keen amateurs.
The D5100 boasts a 16.2 megapixel sensor, a flip-out live preview screen, full HD video recording, and an astonishing 102,400 ISO setting, which Nikon says makes it possible to shoot black-and-white images in almost total darkness.
Quite …
Here’s some surprising news about the war in Afghanistan: 1 in every 50 troops in the country is a robot. The use of robots in combat isn’t a new thing – consider the use of bomb-disposal robots or drone planes throughout the years – but according to CNN, there are also robots that exist just to get shot at, and robots that don’t need …
Update: It looks like the International Space Station astronauts are safe, and that NASA’s declared the six-inch piece of space junk a non-threat, reports the Associated Press. Our original story follows:
It’s a piece of space debris from a destroyed Chinese weather satellite and it’s due to fly dangerously close to NASA’s …
Windows Phone 7 handsets hit U.S. shores back in November of last year and have yet to be substantially updated with new features and bug fixes.
The first big update—called “NoDo”—is apparently officially coming sooner or later, but the pre-update to that update for was supposed to be here in February, with NoDo to follow in …
Movie studios may be hoping that a new Premium Video on Demand service that will stream movies into homes 60 days after their theatrical release date will revolutionize the movie industry, but analysts aren’t so convinced. The problem: Who really wants to pay $30 for a movie rental?
It’s not just the cost that makes Piper Jaffray …
If you’re a PS3 owner experiencing slow service on the console’s PlayStation Network–or no service at all–then you could be caught up in a feud between Sony and the internet hacker gang known as Anonymous. (Should Customers Have The Right To “Hack” Their Consoles?)
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We’ve seen a lot of changes to the way music gets made and sold in recent years. Day-in, day-out, people seem to come up with new ideas.
The latest is to release not songs, but apps. After all, most people – even absolute beginners – don’t seem interested in paying for songs anymore. But they’re happy to pay for apps. Especially apps …
As a work-from-home writer, the lure of the Internet is all too familiar. All day long, Twitter beckons, my news feed filled with delightful distractions from the blog post at hand.
Fortunately, a new study from the University of Copenhagen suggests that wasting time on the Internet may actually be beneficial.
Cyber criminals are turning their attention to social networks and cell phones, according to this year’s Internet Security Report by Symantec.
It makes perfect sense, if you think about it. Just like pickpockets on the street, internet criminals are going to do better if they hang out where most people are.
A decade ago, that was …
While Demand Media and their recently redesigned eHow property were – for the most part – unaffected by the broomsweep of Google’s algorithm change, a lot of SEO-driven content farms took huge hits in terms of traffic.
According to a study from Sistrix, Associated Content was among the biggest losers, down an eviscerating 93% …
Despite all the praise that tech journalists bestowed on the Verizon iPhone, a new survey says that Verizon customers aren’t any more satisfied than AT&T iPhone users.
The survey from ChangeWave Research found that 82 percent of Verizon iPhone users are “very satisfied,” and 16 percent are “somewhat satisfied.” Among AT&T iPhone …
You need to have a really good gimmick to get people to watch your music video these days, and the alternative rock band Death Cab for Cutie have come up with a fine one. Today (April 5), at 7 PM Eastern time, they’re shooting what appears to be a rather complicated music video, for their new single “You Are a Tourist.” The clever part …
