From the fellows that brought you Chromium, the open-source browser project that aims to build a safer, faster, and more stable way for all users to experience the web built from the Google Chrome browser source code and brought you Chromium OS, the operating system built on Google’s Chrome OS are now in the midst [...]

Well the holidays are upon us and the year of the Ox (cow) is coming to a close. Where did the year go? YISTA has been stagnant at best as all of our editors have moved on to the next episode of their lives. However we will not let this deterrent sway our enthusiasm for [...]

This isn’t your everyday chocolate bar here as TCHOPro chocolate has been specially formulated around how chefs, confectioners, and others who use chocolate as ingredients work with chocolate. When TCHO started they had the goal of making the best chocolate possible. This includes the chocolate that is used to make other oh-so chocolately confections (i.e. [...]

A secret document called the “Open Cloud Manifesto” has been leaked onto the Internet as of recently. The net community at-large had become aware of this document when someone (or some group) asked some people at Microsoft to sign it. Microsoft wasn’t very happy about this since they are trying to lauch their newly released [...]

“The eBay auction expires on May 23rd and 100% of the sale price will go to OLPC. This couldn’t have been done without the help of the fantastic hosts of ROFLCon, a collection of great Internet meme-creators who were happy to smear some Sharpie for this project, and of course, breadpig’s friends at OLPC. [...]

Kenshoto has officially released their call-for-ninjas regading Defcon 16’s Capture The Flag (CTF) competition.

When questioned about this shocking revelation, Dr. Shoto responded palm-to-forehead, “What you say?!” He further elaborated, “The recent challenges with cyber-infrastructure and the threat of cyber-attack from cyber-terrorists plotting devious cyber-crimes has been troublesome. So let’s all get together and cyber-bitchslap each [...]

Demonoid ReturnsDemonoid, the wildly popular torrent tracker is back in the p2p tracking game after a long hiatus. The previous admin @ Demonoid could no longer manage the site going forward and has handed his responsibilities to a close friend.
“Since a few months ago, Deimos, the site administrator, lacks the necessary time to take care [...]

A program to create a nationwide alert system using cell phones and other mobile devices was approved Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission.
The system would send text messages to Americans when an emergency occurs.
The FCC said cell phone companies that voluntarily opt into the system would send text-based alert messages to subscribers in response to [...]

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A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer [...]