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Entertainment

Futuristic Movie Timeline: The Next Few Decades Will Be Eventful

1:20AM Adam Frucci | Ever wondered when exactly we can expect the events from your favourite sci-fi movie to happen? Thanks to Dan Meth’s awesome Futuristic Movie Timeline, you’ll wonder no more. Ugh, only 4 more years ’til the Postman. Damn you, Costner! [Dan Meth]
Computers

Acer’s 8-Hour Aspire Timeline Drops to $599, Available Now

12:20AM John Herrman | Acer has finally made an honest product of its Aspire Timeline, so to speak, and Intel’s brand-new ULV processors, designed for precisely these kinds of laptops, make a surprise appearance, pulling the base price down to $US599, from $US699.
Games

The Definitive Game Boy Timeline

12:30PM Jesus Diaz | The Nintendo Game Boy—the most popular game console of all time—was born today, April 21, back in 1989. Here are its 20 years of history in a timeline that actually goes back to 1889. More »
Hardware

Forty Years Of Intel: Interactive Timeline

12:30PM Matt Hickey | This week marks the 40th anniversary of Intel, the people who likely made the CPU in your computer. To mark the occasion, the people at PC Magazine have put together a pretty comprehensive timeline showing every major generation of Intel processor from the first one to the current Core 2 Quad and Atom series processors. We’ve all used them at some point in our lives, and I remember my first Intel processor was a Pentium II running at a blazing 233MHz. I loved that laptop. What was your first Intel processor? Or which was your favourite? [PC Mag] More »
Software

The Bill Gates Timeline

4:40AM Gizmodo US Edition | Here it is, the definitive Bill Gates timeline. It may contain some bugs and lack some features, but it works: from his parents to the last day of his work at Microsoft, the Bill Gates timeline shows his personal and business adventure–on the top–in relation to the tech industry–on the bottom–as his company takes over it all. More »
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Sony Trinitron Timeline Shows Why It Will Live Forever In Our Hearts

7:35AM Jesus Diaz | After 280 millions tubes sold, Trinitron will be officially dead this month. Few Sony inventions have had the same gravitational pull as their Trinitron display technology, perhaps only second to the Walkman. Trinitron became synonym of the best quality TV sets and computer monitors in the planet, despite the thin cables that secured in place its aperture grille. This timeline shows TV history since 1873, how colour TV became a reality in the 40s, and how Sony became the king of TV, with more than 100 million sets sold by 1994, to later fall under the weight of plasma and LCD technologies: More »