Occasionally, in this line of work, I need to have a slight freak-out moment where I rave about the fact that things like this OrcaM "reconstruction sphere" actually exist. [......]
Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
The pro-SOPA ad in Times Square Creative America is fighting back. The group, which represents NBC Universal, Viacom, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, Disney, and others in the TV and movie business, launched a new TV commercial today supporting SOPA and PIPA[......]
The special interests behind the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act are in full retreat, throwing the bills' most controversial provisions overboard in a desperate attempt to stop the entire bill from sinking. Realizing that proposals to create a DNS-based blacklisting scheme had become politically radioactive, the bills' sponsors—Rep[......]
The Playstation Vita handheld system, unveiled at E3 last year, went on sale just before the holidays in Japan. It saw serious sales: around 325,000 units ( 500,000 by Sony’s reckoning ) were sold in its opening week. Naturally numbers tend to drop after the initial rush, and the next week saw healthy sales of around 72,000[......]
The Stop Online Piracy Act is an American piece of legislation, and as a general rule, American legislation has only limited influence outside US borders. [......]
SOPA protests are everywhere today. The Internet is collectively up in arms about the proposed legislation. Major sites are shut down, banners are everywhere, but that’s online. [......]
FixYa , a product Q&A site, took a look at its own holiday stats to collect some facts about many major cell phones and tablets including iOS and Android devices. The conclusion? iPhone owners tend to be most interested in fixing battery and call quality problems on Android users found a number of screen issues including freezing and problematic interfaces. [......]
It’s not often that you improve on a bit of math that has been around for 200 years. The Fourier transform was first proposed in 1811 by a Frenchman named Joseph Fourier, though it wasn’t until the middle of the 20th century that he was given the credit he deserved. His technique broke down a complex signal into a number of component signals, which could be transmitted or processed separately and then recombined to produce the original in a fairly nondestructive way[......]
An enterprising group of techies who oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act is taking a page from corporate America with a fundraising campaign to hire its own lobbyist firm. With millions of dollars being thrown at members of Congress on behalf of corporations that want the power to shut down websites suspected of intellectual property infringement, an eight-person team calling itself " We The Lobby " is trying to give ordinary people a similar way of influencing votes in Congress. Since getting the site online on Monday, the group has raised more than $1,300 toward its goal of $10,000, which will be used to lobby against both SOPA and PIPA (the Protect IP Act). [......]
Wow. Talk about not doing your homework[......]
XFX says "We don't need no stinkin' reference design!" It’s not unusual to see factory-overclocked videocards ship with custom cooling solutions—a few months after the GPU launches. This time, XFX hits the ground running with their Radeon HD 7970 Black Edition. This is a factory-overclocked card with a custom cooling solution that aims to take the performance crown[......]
The Internet community is like one big Encyclopedia Brown, always solving mysteries with barely any information to work with. Just ask Eidos Montreal. [......]
Before anyone hops straight to the comments section with virtual pitchforks and torches aimed in our direction, bear in mind we're not saying Android or iOS will kill the PC, and quite frankly, we think any talk of a post PC era is a bunch of nonsense. But there are some who think the PC is dying, and at least one analyst who envisions mobile platforms dealing the death blow. Horace Dediu, the guy in charge of Asymco, a company that sells software development and consulting services for companies interested in deploying mobile applications, threw a whole bunch of numbers and graphs into a blog post and came to the conclusion that PCs might be in trouble, depending on your perspective. [......]
AOC sent us a note informing us of its newly released e2352Phz, a slim HD 23-inch monitor that delivers flicker-free 3D. It uses Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology intended to deliver brighter, crisper images with less eye-fatiguing funkiness, like flickering and ghosting. It's a plug-and-play panel that also includes an HDMI 1.4a input for your Blu-ray player, Xbox 360, or PlayStation 3 console[......]
Now that we've all been spoiled by the 802.11n WLAN standard, a standard that underwent significant growing pains to get to this point (remember all those Draft-n devices?), it's time to start looking ahead to 802.11ac. How far ahead has yet to be determined, but if you ask Broadcom, the company will tell you it could become mainstream by the second quarter of 2013. It could also slip all the way back to the first quarter of 2014, according to Micheal Hurston, senior vice president for Broadcom's Home and Wireless Networking business unit, DigiTimes reports [......]
