I've been meaning to address this Lytro thing since it hit a few weeks ago. I wrote about omnifocus cameras as far back as 2008 , and more recently in 2010 , and while at the time I was more interested in the science behind the systems, though it appears that Lytro uses a different method than either of those[......]
Attention spans are short these days, and some might even say the Web isn't helping this phenomenon. Regardless, time is money, and people are ever-looking for more useful ways to maximize what time they have. Many have little tolerance (or time) for long-form digital content, and we're seeing the proliferation of the "tl;dr" (too long; didn't read) mentality as it sweeps the Internet nation[......]
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge not to return the domain names of one of Spain’s most popular websites seized as part of a major US crackdown on Internet piracy. The legal filing over Rojadirecta.com represents the government’s first legal response to a lawsuit challenging “Operation in Our Sites.” Commenced last year, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has seized as many as 208 domains the authorities claim are linked to intellectual-property fraud. The court-ordered seizures are aimed at websites that sell counterfeited goods, as well as sites that facilitate illegal music, film and broadcast piracy. [......]
By now you’ve probably seen Mike’s post about the redesign coming next week and I wanted to talk a bit about where things are headed. CrunchGear, in short, is being subsumed into TechCrunch/Gadgets, a plan that has been long percolating at the HQ and something we, in a way, welcome. I started CrunchGear on August 10, 2006[......]
If your time isn't worth much, do take advantage of the free $25 iTunes gift card offer circulating Facebook. Clicking the link will lead you to a page compelling you to share the offer with all your friends, before moving on to a survey. [......]
If your time isn't worth much, do take advantage of the free $25 iTunes gift card offer circulating Facebook. Clicking the link will lead you to a page compelling you to share the offer with all your friends, before moving on to a survey. What do you get -- other than perhaps a few dislikes from your social network[......]
It takes a lot for a timepiece to be truly controversial. I am not just talking about people arguing whether a design is pretty or not. [......]
OS X Lion (pictured at right), which was announced back in October , is in "Gold Master" status and is "shipping" to developers. A curious set of terms for an OS that strives so mightily to cut ties with the old disc-based model for software distribution. [......]
It's funny to think back when Google first launched its Chrome browser, a simplistic window to the Web that didn't look like any other browser out there. The minimalistic interface caught surfers off guard, and the lack of support for third party extensions was, to many, a deal killer. And today[......]
Gamers and free speech advocates alike scored a major victory today as the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a controversial California law that restricts the sale or rental of violent videogames to minors. Following a majority vote, the Supreme Court ruled that the law violates the First Amendment, noting that California sought to "create a wholly new category of content-based regulation that is permissible only for speech directed at children[......]
It's all very well buying a photo editing package with lots of bells, whistles and complicated tools, but actually having to learn and use all that functionality can, to put it mildly, be slightly off-putting. Ashampoo Photo Optimizer 3 is designed to simplify the process of improving your photos by providing a number of one-click tools that can quickly improve individual photos or entire albums up to scratch. [......]
We suspect that with a little bit of tweaking, Japan's "K Computer" wouldn't break a sweat running Crysis, but where this supercomputer really struts its stuff is in the LINKPACK benchmark. Equipped with 68,544 processors, Fujitsu's half-build system cranked out 8.162 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point operations per second) in LINKPACK, short of the company's goal of 10 petaflops by 2012 but still enough to take first place on the 37th Top 500 list. RIKEN and Fujitsu co-developed the K Computer system, which currently consists of 672 computer racks. [......]
We've heard that the sky is falling in the PC market so many times that we've quit looking up. [......]
If you're looking to customize the look of your Windows PC, then you might start with wallpaper, icons, sounds maybe -- they're all quick and easy to customize. Animated cursors are more difficult to work with, and so tend to get a little neglected by comparison. But it doesn't have to be that way. Especially if you install a copy of the free AniTuner 2 [......]
It seems like the beta had only just appeared, but the final build of Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware 1.51 released to the public today. Highlights for the free version include "much more efficient" updating, says Malwarebytes, and it does seem noticeably faster in our initial tests. [......]
