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New Disney Tech Can See Through Your Big, Hairy Beard
Disney Research recently made headlines at this year’s SIGGRAPH conference, announcing a number of innovative new touch interfaces that can create virtual textures and even turn plants into interactive toys, but this isn’t the only new technology that the group is trying to get its head around. Last week at the conference Disney Research unveiled ...
Motorola Cuts 4,000 Jobs; Shifts Focus to High-End Smartphones
Motorola is to shed some 4,000 jobs worldwide – equivalent to 20% of its workforce – as part of restructuring efforts aimed at restoring the company to profitability. The mobile phone maker, purchased by internet giant Google just last year, announced that it plans to shut down or merge roughly 30% of its 90 facilities, ...
Building Big Data: How Can Connected Cars Cut Down on Data Costs?
What’s the most connected device you currently own? Most people would point to their iPhone or their iPad, or some kind of Android device. But in a few years time they could well be pointing to something much bigger – their cars. So long as Verizon has their way, cars in the (near) future will ...
Google to Integrate Gmail Messages In Search Results
Google has just announced a new experimental feature for its search engine; as of tomorrow, anyone who signs up for it will be able to see relevant emails from their inbox alongside regular search results. Naturally, the trial feature will only be available to Gmail users, who will be able to view their most relevant ...
AntiLeaks Takes Down WikiLeaks
Following five days of sustained distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, the WikiLeaks website has been taken offline. The whistle blowing website had reportedly been under attack since August 3, apparently from a previously unheard of group known as AntiLeaks, whose mysterious leader “DietPepsi” released a statement claiming responsibility yesterday: “You can call me DietPepsi. I ...
What is it about Paris that Makes it Look Like, Well, Paris?
Some people might say that the city possesses a certain je ne sais quoi, others might point to the iconic Eiffel Tower, but for a new machine-learning program created by Carnegie Mellon, it’s the window balustrades, third-floor cast-iron balcony railings, molding on wooden doors, and even the shape of the streetlamps that make the French ...
Burn After Using: The New Fake Number App That Lets You Cover Your Tracks
Ever been approached by an ugly, or even worse, creepy looking stranger who insists on you giving them your cell phone number? Well, if this has happened more than once in your life, you might just be interested in the new Burner app from Ad Hoc Labs. Burner lets you purchase a new, temporary cell ...
Social Mobile Slows, Dominated by Facebook
New figures show that almost 82 million people in the US, or 26 percent of the nation’s population, are now accessing social networks from their mobile phones. But if you happen to be thinking this could be a golden opportunity for your own social networking startup, think again – Facebook has the market all but ...
Boingo Set to Expand Free Wi-Fi Access with Acquisition of Cloud Nine Media
While there seems to be Wi-Fi hot spots everywhere these days, trying to find some place where you can get connected for free is an altogether different story. However, if the latest acquisition by Boingo Wireless tells us anything, it’s that that paying for Wi-Fi may one day become a thing of the past. Sounds ...
Big Money Data: Is It Really Worth It?
In an increasingly digital world, pretty much everything we do online creates an electronic record–each time we buy something, every time we add a friend or like something on Facebook, even when we schedule a visit to the doctor’s clinic–this data is being collected by someone. Organizations today are amassing thousands of terabytes of information ...