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The Ascension of the Smartphone as Digital Wallet, Powered by Google
As with all good science fiction we have a glimpse into what we might develop in the future, or at least get the scrim of an outline of how we could interact using technology. When Google Android began to implement hardware that uses Near-Field Communications enabling a lot of transactions between smartphones and other devices ...
Sprint Building 4G Device Announcements in Preparation for CES
It looks like Sprint has been champing at the bit for quite a while now to tout how badly it wants to jump into the 4G scene with their slowly blooming LTE networks. Among the scattering of announcements we’ve seen an HTC smartphone. All Things D has a short article on the details of Sprint’s ...
Korean Firm Enspert, Looking to Rival Samsung Galaxy Tab in Power, Cost
The Korean technology firm, Enspert, has taken aim at the Samsung Galaxy Tab and media smartphones by producing a more powerful product, which will be delivered to the public a little bit cheaper. They have also announced the release of a home-media phone that will connect with the tablet that will allow users to control ...
Play World of Warcraft with Kinect and FAAST
Researchers at the Institute for Creative Technologies at University of Southern California have decided that they’d like to meld work and play by hacking the Kinect system alongside their developing software in order to play World of Warcraft. They’ve put together a video where the presenters, Evan A. Suma, Belinda Lange, Skip Rizzo, David Krum, ...
Tablet Takeover: CES 2011 Rumors
With tablets being introduced as the expected bridge between palm-sized smartphones and clunky laptops they have exploded in popularity and afforded themselves a niche that puts powerful computing and communication within mobile reach. With CES 2011 right around the corner the predictions are already stacking like cordwood and we have been picking through them for ...
Nintendo Warns about 3D Game Playing and Young Children
Young children, those under the age of six, may suffer developmental issues with their eyes if they play too many 3D games, warns Nintendo Co. in a recent statement. This caution comes along with the development of their Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. The Wall Street Journal has picked up on the disclaimer, "For children ...
Facebook and Other Social Networks May be the Cradle of AI
Artificial Intelligence represents the pinnacle of information processing expectations in the collision between computer science and the human experience; the Frankenstein curiosity about creating thinking computers in order to solve problems that require social sense or human imagination. Social networks will probably be the best place to train such artificial intelligences and give them a ...
Facebook Not Moving Up IPO Due to SEC Investigation
Yesterday, we discovered that Facebook is facing potential scrutiny and an investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission over the trading of their private stocks. As the company has been seeing a lot of such trading and they’re currently privately traded, this allows them to hide a great deal of their inner workings from the ...
Robotics Expert Uses Kinect to “Connect” Human and Machine
Thank you, Japan. I’ll start with that, because it looks like they’ve just helped us produce yet another amazing innovation for the Xbox Kinect. In this case, it’s teleoperator software for controlling a robot! Stick around for the interview video after the fold. Information is sparse, but at least we know his name and some ...
Microsoft Vows to block AO Rated Games from the Xbox 360 Console
Earlier this month, I mentioned the roll out of a sex game for the Kinect—ThriXXX’s creepy, yet entertaining “groping simulator” involving a floating, disembodied hand—and I pondered what Microsoft might do about this sort of thing. Well, it looks like we’ve gotten our answer. Microsoft took one look at the game and said, “Get it ...
