Dell offers to fix laptops that smell like cat pee.
Everyone knows the internet is all about cats, but Dell may have taken that too literally with one of its new computers. The company this week issued one of the funniest customer service notes in the world of tech when it offered to replace a part in laptops that smell like cat urine.
See Dell’s post here
William Lowe pushed IBM to create its first PC in a single year. The man who pushed IBM to create its first PC has died at the age of 72.
via Vale William Lowe: the man behind the IBM PC – PC & Tech Authority.
Scientists at the DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have struck the battery mother lode: They’ve created an all-solid lithium-sulfur battery that is cheaper, less flammable, and has four times the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries.
via New sulfur-based battery is safer, cheaper, more powerful than lithium-ion | ExtremeTech.
warning for people with implanted defibrillators … If a person falls asleep with the iPad 2 on the chest, the magnets in the cover can “accidentally turn off” the heart device, said Chien, a high school freshman in Stockton, California, whose father is a doctor. “I definitely think people should be aware. That’s why I’m presenting the study.”
While the study was done with an iPad 2, any device that incorporates magnets can, in theory, cause the same effects.
via iPad 2 Heart Risk Discovered By 14 Year Old Girl | Defibrillators.
Monster Machines: How This Supercomputer Will Silence Jet Engines – http://t.co/vgVRRASa
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