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Play Angry Birds with this Kinect Hack Provided by KinEmote
A homebrew hacker named Joel Griffin Dodd has gone and done the possible—but still amazing—and combined the smartphone phenomenon Angry Birds with the Xbox Kinect motion capture peripheral. Now you too can freely use your hands in front of a TV screen to hurl ornery ornithopters at petulant porcines. Perhaps you could get this hack ...
INSIDE Secure Opening Up Android Open NFC
INSIDE Secure, a leading provider of NFC hardware and other secure communication products for use inside smartcards, smartphones, and other mobile devices has announced that they’re launching a further abstracted API for accessing Android NFC. From the looks of it, the release is part of a marketing and value scheme in order to make their ...
Kinect Hack Allows Players to Draw their Own Controller, Represents So Much More
The Kinect tagline “You are the controller,” just took another turn for the different when a homebrew use of the device showed how the technology could recognize buttons drawn onto a piece of paper. This is the outcome of a contest run by Willow Garage—best known for their open-source Robot Operating System. The first place ...
Bought the Presses: AOL Purchases The Huffington Post for $315M
With all the Super Bowl news zinging about we thought we’d be in for the usual strange announcements and new product lines being presented through new advertising. Then AOL came along in the last minute and announced their purchase of The Huffington Post for about $315 million, most of which it turns out was in ...
The $3 Million Heritage Health Prize: Big Data Enhancing Wellness Across the World
In his presentation, Anthony Goldbloom of Kaggle called this the biggest ever data prize. Right now, they’re running a competition in cooperation with Heritage Provider Network looking for programmers to develop the next Big Data health-related algorithm for helping re-envision health care systems across the world into something that will actually promote and predict health ...
EnterpriseDB Rolls Out Postgres Security Tools
We’ve heard it already, security in the cloud has become an important thing so when EnterpriseDB has released a new security suite for PostgreSQL our ears perked up. Notably because we’ve been watching EMC and their move to enable the open-source cloud—to do so, they acquired Greenplum who happen to leverage Postgres to realize this. ...
Scott Yara of Greenplum on Why Big Data is…the Next Big Thing
For a long while, computing power, storage, and network speed were bottlenecks to building an empire of data within the Information Technology sector—we’ve certainly always had the information, but the technology to harness it still needed its internal-combustion engine revolution. All that was almost a decade ago: now we’re not just swimming in storage and ...
Strata Keynote Sees Data Marketplaces for the Future
Taking in the keynote from the Strata has felt a lot like watching what amounted to a advertising blitz—each of the speakers took less than ten minutes a piece and focused on an individual industry sector rather than outlining things to come. One sector that caught our eye was Zane Adam’s segment on the deluge ...
IPv4 Going Extinct, It’s Way Beyond Time We Started Migrating to IPv6
“You have reached the end of the Internet. Please go back.” According to the Internet Address and Naming Agency (IANA), which hands out blocks of Internet addresses, they will be allocating the last seven remaining blocks this month. The IPv4 address set has over 4 billion addresses and it’s taken us almost 40 years to ...
Apple Ejected Sony E-Reader App Because They Want a Cut of Sales
Now that Apple has responded in relation to nixing the Sony E-Reader app on iOS devices things have gotten a little bit weirder from the initial coverage. This particular row started on Tuesday morning when The New York Times published a story about how Apple had rejected Sony’s app while leaving other e-readers alone—such as ...
