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The Saga of the Annoying Adware

When we think of adware, what comes to mind are those annoying and pesky ads that pop up out of nowhere whenever we are surfing the net. Anybody who has surfed through the net has encountered those irritating pop-up adwares advertising everything from computer software down to Viagra. Adwares are some of the most derided […]

One of the recent accident

Date:
May 30, 2008 Time: 09:40

Location:
Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Operator:
TACA International Airlines Flight: 390

AC Type:
Airbus A-320-233

Reg:
EI-TAF cn: 1374

Aboard:
124 Fatalities 3 Ground: 2

Route:
San Salvador, El Salvador - Tegucigalpa, Honduras - Miami, FL

Details: […]

Building a 5-ton mechanical calculator… from 19th-century plans

Starting in May, many will have the opportunity to see for themselves how they did computing the old-fashioned way: with lots of gears, a big crank and some muscle.
The Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, Calif., will unveil a new construction, the first in the United States, of the 19th century British […]

Sir arthur C.Clarke died

British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke is to be buried at a private funeral in Sri Lanka. Sir Arthur, the author of science fiction classics such as 2001, died in his adopted home on Wednesday, aged 90. His body has been laid out in a casket at his home near the capital Colombo […]