Items tagged with Gas

by Nathan Ord - Sat, Mar 19, 2022

Hacker Shows How Gas Pumps Are Security Swiss Cheese And Easy Targets For Thieves

As gas prices continue to rise, some shadowy figures are looking for "alternative" method to acquire fuel, whether legal or not. One such method, specifically hacking a gas pump, has led to the recent theft of 400 gallons of fuel at a High Point gas station in North Carolina. However, this is not the only incidence of... Read more...

by Shawn Oliver - Wed, Apr 29, 2009

NVIDIA's Tesla GPUs Transform China Oil Industry

And here you were thinking that NVIDIA was stretching its bounds by dabbling in the CPU and nettop arenas. Today -- out of nowhere, really -- NVIDIA has jointly announced with GeoStar that its hardware and software solution will "transform seismic computation for oil and gas companies in China." Bold words, huh?As the story goes, GeoStar is... Read more...

by Daniel A. Begun - Fri, Jun 13, 2008

Microsoft Surface Flirts in Las Vegas

Las Vegas's Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino becomes the second commercial location to sport Microsoft's Surface devices--table-top, multi-touch-input computers. The first commercial implementation of Surface was this last April in select AT&T stores. "Harrah's will deploy a suite of their own customized applications and be the first to... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Thu, Apr 10, 2008

Gas Masks for a Beverly Hills Apocalypse

We're not 100% sure if we think these are in poor taste based on 9/11 (OK, they likely are), but they are still ... well, interesting.A few years ago--specifically, after Sept. 11, 2001--something like a jewel-studded gas mask would have been considered to be in poor taste, to say the least. And it still is, in our opinion, but that doesn't... Read more...

by Michael Santo - Mon, Feb 04, 2008

The Dutch Unveil a Gas-Pumping Robot

Remember the days prior to self-serve? OK, maybe none of you are that old. Well, if the Dutch have their way, we may soon been seeing "Full Serve," "Self-Serve," and "Robot Serve" prices at gas stations.Dutch inventors unveiled on Monday a 75,000 euro ($111,100) car-fuelling robot they say is the first of its kind, working by registering the... Read more...

by Gregory Sullivan - Mon, Jan 08, 2007

What Happens In Vegas... Is Playing On Your Sony

Sony announced they've configured their latest televisions to play video from the internet, and many other video sources. Sony, which unveiled the plan at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, said the drive to marry Internet and other digital video with traditional devices was... Read more...

by Gregory Sullivan - Fri, Nov 10, 2006

Putting Gasoline In Your Horse - Windows Vista Tested On Old Hardware

Finally someone asks the correct question about Microsoft's new Vista OS. It's not "How well does it work?" It should be: "How well will it work on the musty old rig I'm going to try to run it on?" Arstechnica does us all a favor and tests Vista on three different computers, including... Read more...