technology - "computer"

The fear of a decaying brain has inspired a mini-industry of products from dietary supplements to computer games.

Washington - Go shopping for a notebook computer today, and you are likely to focus on the specs that manufacturers tout: dual core processor, large screen, size, and light weight. Other features of current notebooks, though, are less desirable - and ...

'Geeks making the world better one bit at a time.' That's the playful slogan for the University of North Carolina's 'Maze Day,' during which scores of blind and visually impaired children from across the state came out Wednesday morning to test drive computer programs especially designed for them.

ianare writes 'The first legalized home computers have gone on sale in Cuba, the latest in a series of restrictions on daily life which President Raul Castro has lifted in recent weeks. The desktop computers cost almost $800, in a country where the average wage is under $20 a month, but some Cubans do have access to extra income. Internet access remains restricted to certain workplaces, schools and universities on the island which the government claims is due to low bandwidth availability. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is laying a new cable under the Caribbean, but it remains unclear whether once the connection is completed, the authorities will allow unrestricted access to the internet.' of this story at Slashdot.

andrewmin writes with an enthusiastic pitch for Google's closed-beta call-aggregation service called GrandCentral, for which we non-beta-testers can at least reserve a number. Specifically, he's using GrandCentral in combination with Gizmo5 to make free VoiP calls. Excerpted: 'Most of the time, I'm at my computer. Or near it. And if I had an internet device like a Nokia N810 or an iPod Touch, I'd have it with me 24/7. And since most of the time I'm at a place where there's a WiFi network, it makes sense for me to use VoIP rather than a regular phone line. ... I'm talking about making and receiving calls that are completely free (that is, $0.00/minute) forever (that is, no 30-day demo) for as much as you want (that is, no 30-day trial or five hour/week limit).' of this story at Slashdot.