What would a webzine for geeks be without a top ten hottest list. Here you go guys (and girls),  the JUL’s top ten hottest girls in tech. Marina Orlova Marina Orlova (Russian: Марина Орлова) is a Russian philologist, etymologist, and author who has become an internet celebrity, hosting one of the most popular channels on [...]

20/20 vision is soon to become passe. “Augmented reality” is the phrase being coined by the tech world. Already contacts with LEDs getting its power by radio waves. That’s all well and good but still just a mere start. The future could bring us  digitized captions below subjects or give us feedback on our own [...]

The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at The Big Ear radio telescope of Ohio State University. The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin. It lasted for 72 seconds, the full duration [...]

There’s a new superband in town. They call themselves Chickenfoot. Not tatersalad. Chickenfoot. Their first album was released on June 5th and they are touring and promoting the album now. From Wikipedia: “While the band’s name and logo reference a disparaging term used to describe the peace symbol, the “footprint of the American chicken”, bassist [...]

Twitter has acknowledged that they are experiencing an extended down time of 30 minutes or greater. According to Mashable one of the trending topics right before the outage was “twitter zombies”. Could this be a denial of service attack” ? And what would any one gain from an attack like this on Twitter? I guess [...]

Wikipedia is getting ready to go through some big changes with the advent of an open source video format that is set to change the way we work with online video. Wikipedia/Wikimedia has always been a proponent of Creative Commons and the ability to copy and use information anywhere anyhow. In the time past it [...]

Sarah Sharp (Linux Goddess) has created a custom Linux Kernel that will support the USB 3.0 standard before any other released OS’s. You can download the custom Linux Kernel from her site and she even is kind enough to give us unworthy indviduals step-by-step instructions on how to activate the USB 3.0 on your linux [...]

In what has been the longest arbitration of an issue in the history of wikipedia, the online encyclopedia has finally issued a world wide ban against the “church of scientology” (not capitalized on purpose). The scientologists have been running a concerted effort to to maintain their status on wikipedia and push their agenda and point [...]