Technology

On January 18th, 115,000 websites participated in a widespread blacking out their website (including our own website) to protest the censorship that was allowed into the House bill SOPA--as well as the Senate bill PIPA.

Since then, Congress received 400,000-500,000 phone calls about it. Some congressmen had their websites go down due to the amount of traffic.

Google.com, Wikipedia.org, Imgur.com, Reddit.com, Mozilla, Wordpress, Wired have all joined in the strike against this draconian censorship bill SOPA and PIPA.

Corporations are facing heavy boycotts after social media sites went into an uproar over the list of companies that put their support in for the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Here's the full list of corporations that support SOPA.

Today, Google.com honors Robert Noyce for his birthday by changing its logo to a microchip. Robert Noyce, co-founder of Intel and one of the inventors of the integrated circuit or microchip. His ideas and inventions are the reason for much of our computer technology advances today.

An impressive demonstration by the University of Tel-Aviv as the ASTC (Association of Science-Technology Centers) records the demonstration of liquid nitrogen cooled superconductors levitating an object in suspended animation over tracks, allowing a frictionless path for the object to travel.

NASA has created a brand new design for a heavy-lift launch vehicle. The Space Launch System (SLS) will be designed to carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle.

The newest cutting edge technology from the Constellation and Space Shuttle programs will be used for the new system. Flight tests are scheduled to begin in 2017.

The HTC 4G Android Phone series has been the main focus of most press related to HTC; however, HTC recently shook up the constant news regarding the Sensation 4G and Thunderbolt 4G by stating that it will be releasing a phone just for Facebook.