Is branding of big brands like Apple similar to the way people come to believe in a religion? Martin Lindstorm - the author of - says it is similar to a religion."Apple is (as we've proven using neuroscience)...a religion," Lindstrom

Here's a scary robot head animation threatening to wipe out mankind. The robot face pleads for a chance to destroy some humans while making human-like expressions. It has been the plot of many science fiction novels that the day will

The Sniper Twins show you how to stack the memory to the sky in this geeky rap video. TechCrunch it's part of a Seagate campaign. It's a bit remeniscient of Weird Al Yankovic's "It's All About The Pentiums" . The

PC Magazine that data from ComScore shows a 15% improvement in Cyber Monday sales for 2008 when compared to 2007. Web cash registers recorded $846 million in sales, a solid jump from the $733 million generated in 2007. Websites like

CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a human and robot love story. Many science fiction authors have predicted that human-robot love will eventually happen. Aiko is a companion robot project. She has the ability to recognize objects put in front of

When web companies make a mistake like forgetting to renew a domain it can often be very costly. The AP that domain grabbers capitalized on the mistake of a web company that worked for the George W. Bush Presidential Library.

is a funky plugin for Photoshop. Redfield Plugins says the the effects are based on extraction of so-called hidden fractal texture of an image. You can see some more images created with Fractalius on Flickr. (via ) | |

A new study is linking cell phone use to heart disease and kidney stones.The European Research Institute for Electronic Components in Bucharest found that cell phones may lead to heart disease and kidney stones, according to Switched.com.How is this possible?

The recent had many 30GB Zune owners in a panicked state.The problem had to do with the clock drive in the 30GB Zune. The glitch has passed but the news of the glitch probably won't do Microsoft any good in

Microsoft's CEO, Steve Ballmer, talked to the Associated Press at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas about Microsoft plans for 2009. Ballmer says he still thinks people are plenty interest in PCs. Ballmer also sounds excited about mobile search.

A Robot inventor and farmer named Wu Yulu once accidentally burnt down his house and plunged his family into debt when he was trying to build one of his robots. Now Reuters says Wu Yulu has turned things around and

Microsoft has to cut 5,000 jobs over the next 18 months. 1,400 of the layoffs will occur immediately. They are the first major layoffs for the software giant.The layoffs, 1,400 of which come immediately, appear to be a first for

The Wall Steet Journal's Digits blog that a Verisign report indicates that domain registrations fell 17% in the fourth quarter compared to the 4th quarter fo 2008. There were also slightly less new domains registered in 2008 compared to 2007.Domain

eWeek's Security Watch blog is a that involved a malware url that was placed on faking parking tickets.Anyhow, SANS Institute researcher Lenny Zeltser recently uncovered the two-part parking ticket/malware scam, through which someone placed phony tickets on the windshields of

Dvice that experts at Intel and Carnegie Mellon University have create Claytronics, a type of programmable play-doh. Claytronics is technically a programmable matter made up of millions of 200-micrometer-diameter spheres that can be programmed to form shapes and change color.

Reuters that actress and singer Jennifer Lopez has won her cybersquatting complaint. Jennifer Lopez argued that a man in Phoenix, Arizona had registered two domains that used her names primarily as a way to make money from pay-per-click advertising. The

Jefferson Graham from USA Today has an about online stock websites like . Jefferson Graham says that you have to get approvals if you are going to submit a photograph with a person or a corporate logo. Graham interviewed Nick

A Swedish court has jailed four defendants in a copyright test case involving , one of the biggest file-sharing websites. TorrentFreak the four defendants will each get 1 year in jail each and fines totaling $3,620,000. One of the defendants

Google has launched a Google Labs feature called Similar Images. As the name suggests the technology shows you images that are similar to the one you select. It can be useful in helping you focus on specific images when there

Two giant spiders from crawl through Yohohama's Bayside area in the clip from The Japan Times. Pink Tentacle has some of the huge spiders.Posted in | |