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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 ...
Trade in Private Facebook Shares Surges on Matching Services
The powerhouse social networking site, Facebook, still isn’t a publicly traded company; however, this doesn’t stop interested individuals from trading in its shares. In the past, movement of private shares has been largely opaque, but recently the advent of buyer-seller matching services such as SecondMarket and SharesPost, a little bit more insight can be gained ...
2010 Round Up: The Limewire Roller Coaster Crash
The P2P music trading company that caught the attention of the music industry, LimeWire, led everyone on a merry chase after they attempted to hold onto the last vestiges of their service in the face of an onslaught. First, the RIAA and MPAA took it upon themselves to do everything they could to sue them ...
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” ...