How Much are Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg Worth? [Infographic]

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With the historical launch of the Facebook IPO on the NASDAQ Index in New York City, more and more are beginning to ask: How much is Facebook valued at and what is Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg’s worth from it?

This live, auto-updating infographic from the folks at Visual.ly shows the current ...
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Panasonic Lights Up A Tokyo River With A 100,000 LEDs

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For a Japanese summer festival, Panasonic lights up a river in Tokyo with a 100,000 LEDs.

Japan’s festivals are steep with tradition, at least that’s what I’ve learn from all my hours of Anime watching (I just knew all those episodes of Inuyasha would come in handy!). Now, matsuri – the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04: The One that Wins Back the Crowd?

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For years, Canonical has been attempting to build a “Linux for the rest of us” with their popular Ubuntu distribution, and their latest attempt is with their version 12.04. How well does it stack up as a Linux for non-geeks?

For years, Ubuntu users have dreamed of a free an open ...
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Galaxy S3 Rumor Roundup

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2012 is slated to be a huge year for the mobile phone industry as tons of exciting developments are being created and new phones are being released. However, nothing has been spinning the rumor mill more lately than the Galaxy S3 from Samsung.

As the weeks start passing, the  anticipation surrounding ...
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Jack Tramiel, Founder of Commodore, Dies at 83

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Jack Tramiel, the founder of Commodore, died Sunday at the age of 83, Forbes reports. The company’s cheap computers, especially the Commodore 64, introduced many households in the 1980s to computing.

Born in 1928 in Poland to a Jewish family, he ended up in the Auschwitz concentration camp before the Allies ...
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Tornadoes In Space! Caught By NASA Video

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Watch, incredibly, as a NASA video shows the biggest-recorded solar tornado that recently popped up in September.

What the bean, yo?! There’s tornadoes in space?! Well drat. There goes any plans I had for inter-galactic space travel this weekend, not with these cyclone monsters on the loose – I heard the ...
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