Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson has set out to defend Joel Tenenbaum, a 25-year old physics graduate student at Boston University. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is claiming Joel downloaded 7 songs using Kazaa and is seeking payment of $1,050,000 to the record labels. It is unclear whether Joel will get any sold-out [...]

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Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corp., is well known for making the prediction in 1965 that the number of transistors on a computer chip would double every two years. Early in 2008, Intel announced a record 2 Billion transistors in 1 chip.  With each new chip density record the problems of crosstalk and logic gate [...]

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Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor of Borat, dressed in white angel wings and as the flamboyant character of his upcoming movie Bruno, was flying over the audience at the MTV Movie Awards. All of sudden, and clearly staged, he experienced mechanical problems as he fell and landed on rapper Eminem who appeared to be quite [...]

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Julia Dales is a 17 year-old from Canada. Her beatbox video starts off with the words: My name is Julia Dales and I want to win the Beatbox Battle Wildcard. Her two-minute clip features DJ mixes, a bass line, drums, and an excellent remix of Justin Timberlake (who also has some beatbox skills), Fergie and [...]

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Privacy concerns and the need for discreet conversations are problems shared by secret agents and, according to engineers Joseph A. Paradiso and Yasuhiro Ono, your common office setting. After all, you cannot be too careful with discussions around promotions, pay, or that conversation that happened in Vegas, that should have stayed in Vegas.
The MIT students [...]

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For Sirius XM Radio, having your name associated with Apple should be a good thing. Especially if your stock is trading in the penny stock range ($0.3430 to be exact, as of 05/18/09 close). A recent Motley Fool article points at investor comments over Sirius XM’s interest of having an application on the iPhone’s App Store (you’ve [...]

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Have you ever seen a piece of furniture made of sound? The sofa/chair in this picture is exactly that, as it was made of cut polyethylene foam following a soundwave graph.
It’s the work of Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, a London-based designer of British and Colombian nationality. Prototypes of the chair were exhibited in Milan 2007, and the [...]

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NoiseAddicts has launched a new blog called SynthGear.com!
The idea is simple: The new blog will focus on stories, articles and interesting posts with the subject focus of synthesizers and other music machines that you have to plug in to make music.
You don’t have to be a synthesizer player to enjoy it either - we’ll [...]

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