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2010 Round Up: Kinect Revolutionizes I/O
The Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect controller has done more than simply captivate millions—it’s captured the hearts and minds of thousands of homebrew hackers, the DIY community, and spurred a sudden Pandora’s Box flood of innovation. At first, Microsoft didn’t know what they were looking at. In fact, they reacted to the emergence of people interested ...
Comcast Takeover of NBC Universal Approval Imminent, Final Deal Delayed Until Next Year
The Federal Communications Commission has announced without much gusto that they will be approving the Comcast-NBC Universal merger, but with some caveats. The exact details of the restrictions, however, themselves seem to be restricted. While the FCC held a “background” conference on the deal this morning they asked that government officials not be quoted directly ...
Chinese Hacker Connects OpenNI Kinect Drivers With 3ds Max
In the realm of 3D rendering and animation software 3ds Max is one that’s been around for what seems like forever and I know 3D artists who swear by it. So, when I came across a video showing how a Chinese hacker hooked the OpenNI drivers for Kinect up with the 3D software. The skeleton ...
The Next Big Thing: Embrace the Cloud
As computer networks began to grow and the possibilities of offloading both storage and computing from local machines became a reality, the cloud as we know it today was born. It lives as an emergent phenomena in webmail, offsite backups, even Skype, Twitter, and other communication platforms. They all take place in the “out there” ...
Windows Coming to ARM, Will Intel Get Edged Out?
As tablets and other mobile platforms begin to rise in sales—predicted to outshine even desktop PCs within the next few years—a lot of hardware and software companies are looking to cash in on this ascending star. Microsoft among them, partnered with ARM in July to start producing chips that can run their titular software, Windows. ...
Microsoft Kinect as a Perfect Foundation for Amateur Animators
Animation is foundational to pretty much all computer generated special effects, the entire video game industry, and even a great deal of entertainment. Part of animation, of course, is creating effective renderings of the motions of things—and often those things happen to be human beings, or at least ape human motion. Numerous extremely expensive tools ...
Net Neutrality Advocates Complain New Rules Under Vote Are Broken
Right now the big row about the net neutrality vote in front of the FCC happens to be about how many groups feel that the rules being considered are broken and don’t go far enough to protect an open Internet. Most proponents advocate a reclassification of broadband as regulated common-carriers much the same way telephone ...
Kinect Hacked to Aid Learning American Sign Language
Didn’t I just predict this? Although, I see the merit for a computer being capable of reading American Sign Language simply for interface purposes, as a somatic and tactile language, it can be quite difficult for some people to pick up on and having a tutor (even in computer form) can be a tremendous aid. ...
Nokia Might Go With Windows Phone 7
Rumbling is still grinding in the rumor mill as people mutter about Nokia mulling over offering Windows Phone 7 in their lineup. We have heard this one before, but Larry Dingan of ZDNet thinks that they’ll bite this time, and they might as well go even further. It’s hard to disagree with the analysis, in ...
Carriers and Fee-Per-Service, the Net Neutrality Argument
With the FCC putting Net Neutrality regulation to vote tomorrow it seems like a fairly good time to unveil some recent news stories that articulate the issue and CrunchGear has one. Allot and Opennet, some sort of communications carriers it seems, have posted a presentation about how to monetize networks based on specific traffic and ...