Technology Archive

5 Technologies that Will Lead to the Singularity

We live in a wondrous age. Never before has mankind enjoyed such free availability of knowledge, and such control over the natural world. Technology is at our fingertips, and (I firmly believe) embracing it is one of the steps towards the cultural maturity of our species. You have probably seen this type of graph before. It [...]
Meteor Lights Up South African Skies!

The northern parts of South Africa were treated to an incredible sight on Saturday night as a meteor lit up the night sky “like daylight”. The Meteor is believed to have made impact with Earth somewhere around Botswana It has since emerged that there are a couple of CCTV cameras that caught glimpses of the flying [...]
Why You Should Give a Shit: The Large Hadron Collider

Hello and welcome to the second edition of my ‘Why You Should Give a Shit’ technology series. Today is a very special day, and it’s time that you, the man on the street, take notice of the Large Hadron Collider. At about 10pm on 20 November (GMT +2) the CERN team issued a twitter update (I [...]
The Space Shuttle Has Worms

Thousands of microscopic worms are taking to the skies as part of a space mission, a university said.
Happy Birthday Firefox!

The Daily Discharge would just like to wish Mozilla’s little open-source experiment a big Happy Birthday. Around five years ago the Mozilla Foundation decided to start a project that would be open to all contributors, in an attempt to break the massive market share enjoyed by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Since then they have produced Mozilla Firefox, [...]
Space Rockets: Why You Should Give a Shit

Allow me to make something clear. I believe that the two most important human endeavors are scientific progress and space exploration. I believe that the third is solving my Rubik’s Cube. This week, two important bits of news surfaced about the world’s space-faring plans. One is that NASA successfully test-fired the Ares 1-X rocket this week, [...]
Geocities, RIP

Today is the end of an era. Or rather, the era ended a long time ago, but like the AWB and Redsox fans, one community refused to let the dream die. Mashable had a story yesterday announcing the shutdown of Geocities, which if you were a user you had plenty of warning about. However, today is [...]