Technology 
Adobe makes it easier to download old Creative Suite apps, dump your monthly subscription
Want to get off the Adobe Creative Suite subscription treadmill, but not sure how? Now Adobe makes it easy to re-install your older versions, from right within its Cloud application.
NASA’s new InSight lander will plumb the depths of Mars in 2016
In just over two years, NASA hopes to have InSight on the surface of Mars to see what makes the red planet tick.
New method of SSD garbage collection can boost drive performance up to 300%
A Japanese research team is claiming a storage efficiency breakthrough that could improve SSD performance by a huge margin.
Microsoft shows off real-time universal speech translator for Skype, coming in 2014
At the inaugural Code Conference in California, CEO Satya Nadella has revealed that Microsoft’s real-time speech translation technology will finally make the jump from the mystical, bottomless pit of its R&D department to a consumer product: Skype. On stage at … Continue reading
Blasting drugs into your brain with ultrasound: Is this the future of chemotherapy?
Phased array technology enables an ultrasound beam to be focused to pinpoint locations inside the body. Researchers from Chang Gung University in Taiwan have now managed to shrink tumors deep inside the brains of rats by using this technique to … Continue reading
Solar Roadways passes $1.4 million in crowdfunding: Just short of the $56 trillion required, but not bad for a crazy idea
Over the weekend, the Solar Roadways project on Indiegogo reached its target of $1 million. At the time of publishing, that figure is now north of $1.4 million, with five days left to go. The concept is verging on utopian: … Continue reading
ET deals: $270 off the Lenovo Y50 gaming laptop with GTX 860M
If you’re a PC gamer, then you know how hard it can be to travel. Packing up a massive gaming rig is a hassle, and you’re lucky if it survives the trip through checked luggage. Thankfully, gaming laptops are quite … Continue reading
Watch Dogs: Analyzing the impact of Nvidia’s GameWorks integration and AMD performance
Forbes has slammed Watch Dogs as the latest example of GameWorks optimization hurting AMD, but the situation appears to be more complicated than that — and it’s not helped by the generally wretched state of the game in general.
MH370 satellite logs released, but redactions by Malaysian government will only fuel further conspiracy theories
Malaysian authorities, working with British satellite company Inmarsat, has released 47 pages of satellite logs that were used to track flight MH370 to the southern Indian Ocean. The timing on this release is significant, as Australia today announced that the … Continue reading
B-52 receives first tech upgrade since 1961: Now with color screens and wireless networking
The B-52 Stratofortress, which first entered service as a nuclear deterrent during the Cold War in 1952, has received its first ever technology overhaul. This overhaul, dubbed CONECT, brings the B-52H bomber kicking and screaming into the late 20th century, … Continue reading
