2012 in Review: Top articles and galleries of the Mobile Gadgeteer | ZDNet

2012 in Review: Top articles and galleries of the Mobile Gadgeteer | ZDNet: " 2012 was another busy year in the mobile space and readers confirmed that longer form, in-depth articles were more popular than headline grabbing drama posts."

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This Desktop Design For Gaming Addicts Would ‘Ruin’ Humanity | Kotaku Australia

This Desktop Design For Gaming Addicts Would ‘Ruin’ Humanity | Kotaku Australia: "Sometimes you settle in for some PC gaming or web surfing. And you just don’t get up. You can feel your bum go numb and the chair meld into your skin. Surely, you know the feeling. If so, maybe the above internet-produced desktop design would appeal to you. And if it appealed to enough people, it would probably end the world as we know it. Meh, who needs that anyway? We’ve got computers!"

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Computer virus scam doing the rounds - Cyprus Mail

Computer virus scam doing the rounds - Cyprus Mail: " COMPUTER virus scam blocks internet users’ machines and tries to get people to pay €100 to get use of their computer back, authorities said yesterday."

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Windows-8 computers show slower-than-expected sales: Acer chairman - CNA ENGLISH NEWS

Windows-8 computers show slower-than-expected sales: Acer chairman - CNA ENGLISH NEWS: "Taipei, Dec. 1 (CNA) Sales of computers using the Windows-8 operating system have been slower than expected and the variety of consumer electronics on offer is also squeezing consumers' budgets for PCs, Acer Chairman J.T. Wang "

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How Do Computers Understand Speech? | Gizmodo Australia

How Do Computers Understand Speech? | Gizmodo Australia: "More and more, we can get computers to do things for us by talking to them. A computer can call your mother when you tell it to, find you a pizza place when you ask for one, or write out an email that you dictate. Sometimes the computer gets it wrong, but a lot of the time it gets it right, which is amazing when you think about what a computer has to do to turn human speech into written words: turn tiny changes in air pressure into language."

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