Overclocked Memory Breaks Core i7 CPUs, written 54 minutes ago, arcticstoat writes "Overclockers looking to bolster their new Nehalem CPUs with overclocked memory may be disappointed. Intel is telling motherboard manufacturers not to encourage people to push the voltage of their DIMMs beyond 1....

Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets., written 18 hours ago, Recently at Boing Boing Gadgets, we saw a promotional thumbdrive full of beer and a tasty motherboard cake. Breakfast is served! John saw Sega's inadvertant return to gaming "hardware"; a cutting board with an astronaut etched on it; ...

Some Like It Hot (But Your Laptop Doesn't), written 1 day ago, Few things are as dangerous to the well-being of your computer as heat. An overheated computer can cause annoying performance issues, such as lockups. It can also cause permanent damage, like when my CPU fan failed which fried my CPU and...

Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded: Fair or Foul?, written 6 hours ago, The Nobel Prize committee went off the board yesterday, awarding -- despite Wired Science readers' clear preference for graphene's discoverers -- the prize in physics to three theoretical physicists whose work has illuminated the na...

Video: Microsoft PDC Promo Sung by Boy Band, written 7 hours ago, If we didn't know better, we'd swear that some marketing genius at Microsoft came up with the entire premises of The Office, Extras and, hell, probably even grew Rickey Gervais himself in a magic test tube. Such is the mastery...

YouTube Launches Click-to-Buy Retail Links, written 5 minutes ago, YouTube's introduction of remnant post-roll advertising last week was just a taste of what the video giant has in the works to monetize its popularity. Starting today, the company is launching a new "Click-to-Buy" program. ...

2008 Nobel Prize In Physics: 3 Early Contributors To Big Bang Theory, written 1 hour ago, Today, in Stockholm, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three Japanese physicists - Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi, and Toshihide Maskawa. In different studies, 14 years apart, these men contributed to...

Industrial Origami snaps up $17 million, written 15 hours ago, In its third round of funding, Industrial Origami secured $17 million on Monday toward commercializing its fold-up sheet metal technologies for building cars and household appliances. Wedges punched into the edges of sheet metal enable g...

Disney Used Anonymous Online Quotes In Ads, written 5 hours ago, You've all seen movie advertisements that include snippets of glowing quotes from critics. "Marvelous!" "Best Movie of the Year!" etc. There's been some controversy about these quotes in the past. There was an inves...

Breaking: McCain Upgrades VP Candidate, written 4 days ago, This just in: Senator McCain traded in Sarah Palin for an equally qualified newer model:

The glass half full business conference, written 22 hours ago, Are you depressed about the market? Well, just think of all that we have that costs nothing! Here, Mitch Joel put together a whole conference for you. Costs nothing. Just grab a glass of wine and watch. It reminded me of how much I love ...

The GeekDads Podcast Live Tonight 7pm PST, written 2 hours ago, For those of you who enjoy our GeekDads podcast, we'll broadcast the recording session live tonight. So if you'd like to waste an hour and participate via chatroom, stop by right here at 7:00 this evening, Pacific time (and keep...

Prevent drunken emails with Mail Goggles, written 4 minutes ago, Google introduced a new Labs feature named Mail Goggles. If you turn it on, on late night weekends, the feature will ask you to perform some math problems before you can send an email. We're not sure how widespread a problem drunk emai...

https://everywhere! Encrypting the Internet, written 1 day ago, Imagine a world where the Internet is entirely secure and attackers have no place to hide. A major step toward realizing this vision of world-wide security is making sure that all the traffic exchanged between servers and clients is enc...

Taking on Twitter with open-source software, written 1 day ago, Earlier this summer, just as Twitter started to really pick up steam, the microblogging service began to have major stability problems. The more users who signed up, the more the site seemed to be down, and it became nearly as commonpla...

A collaborative site about technology and culture, both separately and in their interactions. It's a community of people who like to think.

Prizefight: Zune vs. iPod Nano, written 10 hours ago, Click through to see the carnage. Who can resist a good Zune vs. iPod prizefight? In fact, these days it's downright necessary, considering that the iPod Nano and the flash Zune look like they've been separated at birth. The truth is that most of...

Verizon loses patent suit against Cox, written 7 hours ago, Verizon Communications suffered a major blow in its patent battles on Monday, when a federal court ruled that cable company Cox Communications had not infringed on its patents. The telecommunications giant has accused Cox of violating six o...

Price overruns for nuke detectors likely to be in the billions, says GAO, written 1 week ago, (Credit: GAO) Soaring cost estimates for protecting US borders against nuclear smuggling arrived at by the Domestic Nuclear Detection Office (DNDO) are unreliable and could result in "significant"...

good news from Japan, written 4 hours ago, Ikeda-san reports two bits of very good news from Japan: On Sep. 18, the Council of Culture gave up the extension of copyright from 50 years after the death of the author to 70 years. Two years ago, the Council proposed the extension to follow the "glo...