http://www.technobeta.com The Brighter Side of Technology! Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:16:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sprint's high-speed WiMax service, Xohm, has been silent aside from a deal with Clearwire to make it happen. To our surprise, Sprint's starting to market Xohm to potential customers again. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/xohm-lives-and-its-in-the-inbox/ Ooh, there's a paladin character sheet from the upcoming 4th edition of Dungeons & Dragons on the web, and you can see plenty of World of Warcraft influence on it too. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/dnd-sheet-leaked-by-wotc/ It's not up to the traditional level of a conspiracy you might have heard in the old days of the Art Bell show, but some gamers think shenanigans took place between Ubisoft and Nvidia that will result in poorer video performance for Assassin's Creed on ATI video card equipped computers. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/assassins-creed-video-performance-conspiracy/ British defense officials want to see what the private sector can come up with in the robotic devices of destruction and other types of warfare department. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/fun-with-suicide-robot-warriors/ The latest rev of Opera's browser promises faster everything, but if you got used to Ctrl+B for Paste & Go, you'll have to unlearn that habit. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/opera-drops-95-beta-2-on-the-web/ The network made more ad money per person through its exclusive online NCAA hoops broadcasts than it did on network TV. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/cbs-cleaned-up-online-with-march-madness/ It wouldn't be a new meme if it didn't have a bunch of made up words dumped into the blogosphere and shaken up like a Vesper. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/web-30-exists-and-its-got-words/ 50Mbps down, 5Mbps up, shame that Comcast only rolled this out in Minneapolis/St. Paul (what, was Mars taken?) and priced it like water in the desert. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/comcast-speeds-up-broadband-to-50mbps/ Once the eggheads at CERN and Fermilab fire up the Large Hadron Collider in Europe, the results could be catastrophic in a comic book kind of way, except we don't have Superman around to fix things if that happens. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/scientists-sued-over-end-of-world-concerns/ Marissa lives on but the Notorious B.I.G. is gone so you've got to carry on, heed the wisdom of their years as it creeps into your ears, miss it and you'll find yourself in tears. http://www.technobeta.com/posts/wisdom-from-marissa-mayer-biggie-smalls/