Technology

Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 make Facebook debuts

Xbox 360 and Play Station 3 integrated onto the social network this week when they allowed users to update their Facebook and Twitter accounts from their consoles

Posted: 5 days ago

Study shows new, faster way to diagnose heart attacks

According to a study, new technology has found a cheaper, faster way to diagnose heart attacks when patients come into the hospital with chest pains.

Posted: 5 days ago

Atlantis arrives at the International Space Station

Atlantis, which launched Monday, arrived at the International Space Station for its week-long stay and delivered spare parts needed to keep the station running.

Posted: 5 days ago

Nintendo's Mario endures even as games come and go

Mario, the star of Nintendo’s Super Mario video games, has been around for nearly 30 years and is still going strong.

Posted: 5 days ago

Twitter recommended user list favors Dems in Calif. gov race

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is on the suggested user list and has 1.2 million followers. His likely opponent for the Democratic nomination, Attorney General Jerry Brown, also made the list and has 960,000 followers, even though he is not a declared candidate and has posted the fewest tweets of all the gubernatorial hopefuls.

Posted: 26 days ago

Sparks, Nev. to host energy, tech conference next week

The convention entitled “Re-Energizing America” runs Monday through Thursday at John Ascuaga’s Nugget in Sparks. It will include workshops intended to help businesses access more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts for energy-efficient technologies.

Posted: 26 days ago

Review: $99 WikiReader is a pocket encyclopedia

There are few better illustrations of the staggering advance of digital technology than the new WikiReader. It’s the size of a thick table coaster, and contains nearly the entire text of the English-language Wikipedia. That’s 3.1 million articles, written and edited by volunteers around the globe.

Posted: 26 days ago

Hawaii gets $5.3M in fed funds for smart grid

The funding is part of a $3.4 billion nationwide effort for renewable energy promoted by President Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Posted: 26 days ago

Barnes & Noble unveils new e-reader: the 'nook'

Barnes & Noble Inc. unveiled a new electronic-book reader Tuesday that will compete with Amazon.com’s Kindle. The wireless nook, which runs on Google Inc.‘s Android platform and comes with 2 gigabytes of memory built in, can store and play MP3 audio files and photos.

Posted: 33 days ago

Bengals WR Ochocinco has iPhone app

Chad Ochocinco has a new iPhone application that was created with the help of Bengals quarterback Jordan Palmer and breaks new ground for the media-savvy receiver.

Posted: 33 days ago