The industry giant Intel can more than just create micro processors (CPU’s).

Yesterday, at the California firm’s annual developers forum in San Francisco, Intel’s chief technology officer Justin Rattner showed off a wireless electric power system that analysts say could revolutionize modern life by freeing devices from transformers and wall outlets.

Electricity was sent wirelessly to a lamp on stage, lighting a 60 watt bulb that uses more power than a typical laptop computer. The technology, Wireless Energy Resonant Link, is transmitting energy using the magnetic field not the electric field which does not affect human bodies.

“The trick with wireless power is not can you do it; it’s can you do it safely and efficiently,” Intel researcher Josh Smith said in an online video explaining the breakthrough.

The technology is still in an early stage of development and much research remains before it can be brought to market. However, the implications seems endless. Imagine a world without cables, that would really be something wouldn’t it?!

Some of us may not live to see this happen, but then again technology develops faster than one might think (most of the time). Can you see this happen in the near future, and would you consider it safe?

Source: Yahoo News

I’m sure some of you have noticed already but for the rest of you (us) I’d like to announce that the number one database management tool has finally reached version 3. To see what’s new have a look at the release notes.

I don’t think all of you can start using it immediately as it requires PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5.0+. However, if you are running a local server it shouldn’t be a problem.

First impressions are very good and the opening page looks better than ever. Congratulations to the development team for reaching yet another milestone!

Feel free to let me know what you think and if you encounter any difficulties during upgrading.

Download and test the latest release from the official download page.

In this amazing video, a slow-motion camera captures the strange and beautiful electricity dance that is a lightning strike.

The Linkscanner feature in Grisoft’s free anti virus solution, AVG 8, has been way too active for some. Linkscanner is meant to assist users to see whether their results in Google (among others) leads to safe or unsafe websites.

In order to do so the software scans the site before the user actually visits it. It’s done by a component called Search-Shield.

Until recently this feature was only available in the full (paid) version, but after being included in the free version as well several websites experienced a massive increase in traffic.

Smaller websites would be lead to believe that it was a DOS attack (Denial Of Service) as the traffic from AVG’s Search-Shield would exceed normal traffic. In some cases the servers were reported to go down. An in-depth analysis is available at AVG Linkscanner Watch.

The server logs clearly shows the massive increase in traffic is caused by Grisoft. Multiple complaints has been forwarded and a fix is now being “shipped” in order to solve the problem.

With 70 million potential users I’m glad I’m running this site off a powerful server with no bandwidth restrictions to worry about. What about you, have you been noticing any changes in traffic recently?

Stunning satellite images of the Red Planet reveal avalanches, sand dunes and more. Visit Popular Science to view the new photos recently released.

Photo shows Gullies near Gorgonum Chaos, a region of jumbled valleys, cliffs and plains, contain powerful evidence that liquid of some sort may have once flowed on Mars.