We\’ve heard some Canon EOS 60D rumors before, but this one might just be probably the most convincing yet — the as-yet-unannounced camera recently turned up in a roadmap that wasn\’t leaked but actually posted on the positioning of optics module manufacturer DxO. As you’ve guessed, all mentions of the camera have now been removed [...]

Congress is getting behind a policy \” rethink\” regarding online privacy, including the implementation of an FTC-enforced \” Do Not Track\” list. This type of list would allow shoppers to opt-out of advertising and behavioral tracking that follows customers from item to item. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) is punctiliously creeped out, as expressed at a [...]

Oh what a tangled web we weave. The local ABC affiliate in San Francisco is reporting a scandalous tale of misplaced nude photos, fraudulent laptop purchases, pornographic websites, and a Dell tech support guy-basically a web soap opera. The gist of the story, as ABC tells it, is this: Tara Fitzgerald, a single mother hailing [...]

I feel I will be able to speak for everyone here once I say there\’s nothing worse than not drinking a bottle of brewskie through a crazy straw. But this collective passion we’ve got, a religion, in case you will, dedicated to drinking cold bottles of beer through ornate and sometimes rare straws, oft-requires the [...]

Earlier this spring, Sony\’s Rocket Project gave eight lucky high school students several Vaios, a crash course in rocketry, and the opportunity to design and build a rocket that may make it to the stratosphere. Well, what have you learnt? After a couple of weather-related setbacks, the item finally launched on Friday, July 23 from [...]

This is probably the most luxurious airplane \” seat\” money can purchase: The Singapore Suite, on board Singapore Air\’s A380s. Fully isolated from the airplane, it has real bed and a three-feet-wide armchair, together with a multimedia center with integrated 23-inch TV. Each of their A380s includes 12 of these, each costing $15,000 for a [...]

We were secretly hoping that RIM\’s acquisition of the blackpad.com domain name was nothing more than a joke (or a preventative measure, at worse), nevertheless it sure sounds as if that\’ll be the name the parents in Waterloo go along with come this winter. In line with unnamed sources who have unloaded new information to [...]

Not only will the town\’s subway stations be rigged to support your handheld electronic devices, but chatty citizens might be allowed to make calls in between stops, too. Is there anything worse than this? The MTA reached a cope with an organization called Transit Wireless three years ago to enable cellular phone service in subway [...]

Remember Panasonic\’s DMP-B15? You know, that \” world\’s first portable Blu-ray player\” that was introduced at CES and just started shipping last month? With an $800 ticket, there\’s a great opportunity you never even let the object enter your stream of consciousness, but we are able to only wish you the simplest of luck as [...]

In a paper published earlier this week, IBM researchers made huge strides in mapping the architecture of the brain, charting 3 times as many connections as any previous study. Where does one of these map lead us? The cognitive computing future. Specifically, the study traced long-distance connections inside the brain of a Macaque monkey, the [...]

Folks that use Google Apps probably assume data is safer in a cloud than it’s on a laptop, likely to being dropped and spilled upon. Spanning Backup says otherwise, offering data protection services against data loss on Google\’s end. The service, priced at $3.95 a month or $39.95 a year after a free 30 day [...]

digg_url = \’http://digg.com/apple/Canadian_iPhone_4_s_sold_from_carriers_are_NOT_Unlocked\’; We\’ve been tipped this morning (and have now been ready to confirm, because of our own Myriam Joire braving the lines) that if you are going to buy an iPhone 4 in a Canadian carrier\’s store today, you permit with it locked to that carrier — despite Apple\’s trumpeting available to buy [...]