A study at King's College, London, found that e-mail users experience a 10 percent decrease in IQ, which is twice the drop induced by smoking marijuana. E-mail also induces lethargy, an inability to focus and some other stuff I don't remember, or whatever.
Don't look now, but it's looking like the American mobile carriers are out to shaft you once again by preventing you from ever getting a Motorola iPod phone. But will it become available in Europe?
Mac Cultists Atwitter Over Discovery: Windows Ads Made With Macs
Apple fans immediately poured over the metadata for images associated with Microsoft's new 15-month "Start Something" campaign and discovered that -- SHOCK! -- they were apparently created with the -- HORROR! -- Mac version of Photoshop. Forcing your ad agency to use a specific OS while creating your ad is the kind of thing Apple would do, not Microsoft. Besides, why does everyone forget than Microsoft is the world's number-one maker of Mac software?
A robotic dentist's drill made by the Israeli-based company Tactile Technologies is currently being tested on (brave) humans in the U.S. and Europe. The creepy contraption works by being clamped to your jaw. Then it drives a needle through your gums until it strikes bone. A computer program on a nearby PC uses the depth of the needle, plus a CT scan to determine how and where to drill -- and when to stop. There. Don't you feel better now?
The Washington Post is reporting that "Today" show tech editor Corey Greenberg was paid $15,000 each by several tech giants, including Apple, Sony, HP, Seiko Epson, Creative Technology and Energizer Holdings for saying nice things about their products on the air. I'm outraged that a tech journalist has sunk to such depths of ethical bankruptcy (and also pretty upset that I never got such payments).
An organization called the Computer Take Back Campaign has identified Apple Computers as the only major tech company that has not developed a recycling policy for iJunk. It has such policies abroad, but not in the United States. UPDATE: Jobs strikes back!
Found Video: Dangerous Japanese School Security Robot In Action
Japan's Secom has unveiled a terrifying school security robot that tracks kids with RFID, monitors school activities and attacks intruders. Here comes the video! (props to We Make Money Not Art)
The German magazine Spiegel has a story on a recent modding contest, and published some pics to go with it. Here come the photos. (props to BoingBoing)
'Pope-squatters' Grab Domains, May Get Big Bucks From Porn Sites
These guys are going to hell: Domain squatters quickly bought domains related to the new Pope, Benedict XVI, hoping to turn around and sell them -- most profitably to porn sites.
