Cosmic Blogs

Alright everyone, the time has come for our first weekly contest. If you need a quick refresher on how the entry process goes, the guidelines can be found here. The topic for this week’s contest is hodgepodge. As the photographer, you have total creative control, anything is fair game! Once you’ve taken your photos, choose [...]

As you probably noticed, we never announced the topic on Friday. We ended up deciding to wait until next Friday so we could get the word out to some more people. This Friday is for sure, so check back then.

Alright, so we never get finished in time to launch the first contest this Friday, but we will have everything done for next week. Check back here at 3:30 PM on the 18th and you can get all of the details of our first contest.

Keep checking back for a ton of new stuff over the next week or so. There will be a public gallery and a weekly contest. We hope to be done within a week, and the first contest is set to launch on March 11th. -Bobby

On Thursday, Intel entered an agreement to buy tthe security software giant McAfee for $7.7 billion in cash. With this deal, Intel hopes to expand the security department of the company. The deal states that Intel will pay $48 per share of McAfee, a 60 percent increase of $29.93, their closing stock price on Wednesday. “In [...]

Google has purchased Slide, founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin and makes widgets that help people express themselves, for $228 million. This seems like their next stem in creating a huge social network that will rival Facebook in years to come. Google’s message regarding the acquisition was rather vague, and not much is known about the [...]

Samsung, Toshiba, Sharp, LG and other major electronics companies have been accused by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo of fixing, or causing a change in price, on their LCD screens. It is reported that these companies had secret meetings to discuss the minimum prices, increases, and rates of LCD screens that were to be sold [...]

On Tuesday, Google introduced a redesigned interface for Google Images. Google Images product manager Nate Smith says that images have become one of the most popular types of Google searches and that Google decided to update its image search to keep up with the increasing number of images online. Bing’s image search may also have added [...]

The torrent-dedicated website TorrentFreak has reported that the Swedish Pirate Party, who is the host of The Pirate Bay,  has launched their own “Pirate ISP”. To defend torrent users everywhere, the Swedish Pirate Party volunteered to provide bandwith to The Pirate Bay after legal issues in May.  Now the Party has decided to partner with other [...]

Intel has updated their popular 2010 Core series of processors by adding low power models designed for thin notebooks. The Core i3, i5, and i7 will use Intel’s latest manufacturing processes to boost performance. Intel has also updated their Celeron and Pentium chip lines, making them faster and smaller. These chips are going to be used [...]

HP has confirmed reports that their new HP Slate tablet PC will be running Palm’s WebOS. HP acquired Palm earlier this year, and is now going into their first project together. WebOS will be used by HP for their tablet and smartphones. HP plans to release more details later next month and we could see it [...]

HP Labs has announced that they are working on a solar powered watch for the military. The watches will all be linked together on a network and will be capable of displaying maps, communicating, and other strategic information. HP says that the prototype will be finished within a year. The idea of making it solar powered [...]

HP has issued a battery recall for 54,000 lithium-ion notebook batteries. The recall was first announced Friday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and adds on to an earlier recall of 70,000 of the same lithium-ion batteries. The first recall came after two reports of the batteries overheating. Since then, HP has gotten 38 additional [...]

Google just can’t stop moving ahead! After the 5th birthday of Youtube, which has been known as Google’s smartest buy ever, they announce a new Google TV with Intel, Sony and Logitech. Google’s conference in California was coming to a close on Thursday, but not before huge news was dropped. Google is going to take the [...]

The CEO and co-founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg has been having a tough time. To make matters worse, he was accused of securities fraud on Thursday. This case dates back to the Facebook legend that he stole code from other Harvard students. These allegations have been around since he went to school at Harvard, when he [...]

The German Internet Provider that was the ISP Host for the peer-to-peer downloading website The Pirate Bay shut the site down on Monday afternoon. However, as of the next day, the site is up and back at full power. The new host for the website is the internet service provider, Swedish Pirate Party. The Swedish Pirate [...]

The computer storage giant Seagate has released more details about their new 3TB hard drive and its release later this year. The problem that Seagate was able to overcome was the logical block addressing standard, which is unable to give addresses to any storage block greater than 2.1TB. The first edition of LBA standards gave [...]

Google has recently announced big changes to their smartphone, the Nexus One, saying that they are closing their online cell phone store and will not sell the Nexus One online to consumers any longer. The Vice President of Engineering at Google posted on the company blog “While the global adoption of the Android platform has [...]

The microprocessor company AMD has released details about their new Fusion CPU. The Fusion combines both the Central Processing Unit and the Graphics Processing Unit into one quad-core processor. AMD merged with the computer graphics company ATI in 2006, and was looking to expand their share of the market. The concept behind the Fusion is pretty [...]

The battle between Apple and Adobe just got a little more intense. Adobe rekindled the fight after it was decided that the iPad wouldn’t support Flash.  The  battle started when the iPhone was first released. The first generation iPhone didn’t support Flash, but Adobe decided to make it available in the App Store.  It would now [...]