Tuesday, January 8, 2008
CES: Dude, Where’s My Driverless Car?
So General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the company expects to have driverless cars on the road by 2018.
Now, I know the autonomous Chevrolet Tahoe SUV that GM developed with Carnegie Mellon University (pictured above) did win the Urban Challenge competition held last fall by the U.S. Defense Department’s research agency. And I [...]
CES: Fear and Loafing in Las Vegas
Highlights and lowlights from the conference floor.
Monday, January 7, 2008
CES: Less Is Moore, Paul … Less Is Moore
So how many times do you think Intel CEO Paul Otellini is going mention Moore’s Law during his keynote at CES (which I’m live-blogging from the ballroom of the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas)?
I’m betting once every seven minutes for its duration. Any takers?
Here’s what Otellini said and did, in reverse chronological order:
5:34 p.m.: Otellini [...]
CES: Intel Announces Faster MacBooks
Well, not exactly. But the debut of Intel’s Penryn laptop processors at the Consumer Electronics Show today likely means there are some big changes in store for Apple’s product line, and we’ll almost undoubtedly see a few of them at Macworld next week.
Intel uncrated 16 of the new processors, all of them smaller, denser and [...]
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Gates at CES: Big Pimpin’
Tonight, tech’s highest roller gave what may have been his final Vegas performance. Sadly, it was far from his most memorable. All glitz and very little glory–certainly not the sort of glory befitting such an iconic figure. In the end, the memory of the event that lingers longest is not Gates reflecting on his storied [...]
Friday, January 4, 2008
Off to Vegas
On Sunday, the AllThingsD team, including Walt Mossberg, Katherine Boehret, Kara Swisher and I will trek to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show, taking place all next week.
Such tech legends as Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Yahoo’s Jerry Yang and Intel’s Paul Otellini will deliver keynotes during the conference, but the real stories will [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
