What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.

Thought military tracking technology couldn’t get any creepier? Hold onto your tinfoil hats and hide behind the nearest curtain because the next generation of manhunting gear just took another step closer to reality.

Victime des pirates informatiques depuis avril dernier, le PlayStation Network va enfin revenir à la normale. Toutes les fonctionnalités du système en ligne seront en effet rétablies d'ici la fin de la semaine, a annoncé le géant de l'électronique dans un communiqué. La restauration concernera tous les pays du monde couverts par Sony, hormis le Japon, Hong Kong et la Corée du Sud. Les joueurs de ces pays asiatiques devront encore faire preuve de patience avant de bénéficier de tous les services de Sony.

A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.

Les rumeurs allaient bon train sur les nouveaux produits Apple qui seraient présentés la semaine prochaine lors de la WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) de la firme à la pomme. Eh bien, Alors que ce n’est pas franchement l’habitude de la maison, un communiqué de presse officiel annonçant à l’avance certains produits vient de tomber. iOS 5, OS X Lion sont donc au programme ainsi que l’énigmatique  « iCloud ».

2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.

“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”

That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.

After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.