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    Distorted views

    Wanda Sloan, Published on 09/06/2010

    » Computers are also for fun. By that, I don't just mean games or even the list of jokes or weird photos you get in email, which are fun.

  • LEARNING

    Humans unabashedly steal secrets from animals

    Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 29/06/2010

    » There is no doubt that humans are incredible designers, architects and builders. From the Taj Mahal to the new Burj Khalifa, to the Airbus A380 to nuclear submarines, Homo sapiens are incredible. But many of our technologies were either inspired by or simply stolen from animals. In many circumstances, animals are aeons ahead of us in the building and design world.

  • TECH

    Massive coincidence

    Database, Published on 30/06/2010

    » Who ever would have predicted that a million Thais would not be able to get ID cards because of a spat between the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Ministry of Internet Censorship of Thailand (MICT)? Well, actually, lots of people predicted that, as far back as 2002 when the "smart card" was just a gleam in the eye of certain grasping politicians, just as it is today; the MICT has approved the million-unit shipment of the cards with chips, but the MOI says they are flawed; Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said the MICT should get with the suppliers of the cards and tell them to shape up, and the MICT people told the prime minister they would speed up the process and try to get back to him in a month or so; you should be ashamed of yourself for what you're thinking about the public-service officials and politicians who run the ministries, and are simply tragic victims of a serious problem involving the nation's security.

  • TECH

    Damage-proof ... but is it wallet-proof?

    B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 04/07/2010

    » There is certainly no lack of choice for compact camera shoppers, with shelves bowing under the weight of shiny new models vying for attention. But going against this grain is the Sony Cyber-shot DSC-TX5, which sits inconspicuously among the T series cameras, but boasts a durability that far exceeds that of its siblings, being resistant to dust, water and being dropped.

  • TECH

    Half a century of frustration

    Database, Gotfried. K, Published on 07/07/2010

    » Computers are incredibly annoying, which is odd because operating systems got their start back in the 1950s. That's right: more than 50 years ago! More than 50 years of "development" and my personal computer (running a legal copy of Windows XP) still crashes. Still!

  • TECH

    Power to the People

    B Magazine, Richard Mcleish, Published on 11/07/2010

    » HPhasnoshortage of competitive notebook models on the market, and the DV6-3022tx, dubbed the ‘‘Entertainment Notebook’’, is another tempting offering worthy of inspection. The DV6000 series has been shipping in various formats over the last few years, but it gets a full spec-loading here in a stack-it-with-power and keep-the-seriesalive approach by HP.

  • TECH

    Protecting your precious information

    Database, Pee Kay, Published on 21/07/2010

    » Nowadays, city dwellers, Internet surfers and office workers like us possess a lot of email accounts, web accounts, credit card accounts, ATM cards, office network accounts and whatnot that require us to remember account names, account numbers, passwords and PIN numbers. The fact that the numbers of these accounts are growing rapidly only make the situation worse.

  • TECH

    Dumb networks

    Database, Published on 21/07/2010

    » Kasetsart University students won first prize for software design at the 2010 Imagine Cup, billed as the world's largest technology competition for students, with 325,000 contestants from more than 100 countries; the four-student Thai team from the Faculty of Engineering returned from Warsaw clutching cups and plaques for what they called eyeFeel; their software aims to help people with hearing problems, and includes speech and facial recognition systems and a text-to-sign language translator

  • NEWS & PR

    My generation

    Learningpost, Published on 10/08/2010

    » Twenty-three-year-old Jerry Lewis Ong didn't realise his first trip to a developing country would change his life forever.

  • NEWS & PR

    Formation of the Earth

    Learningpost, David Canavan, Published on 10/08/2010

    » Earth wasn't always as it is today. I don't mean as a result of human activities like deforestation, city building and strip mining that have dramatically altered its surface and environment.

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