It is true that there are many augmented reality projects, but the question is: do any advanced, practical augmented reality platforms exist today? The answer may be CastAR, a platform developed by none other than Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson, two former Valve developers. Valve has never hidden its intention to seek to create new ...

Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is often considered the first programmer in the world. For five years, the initiative of Ada Lovelace Day has offered to share the stories of women and recognize their contributions in the field of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Every year around October 15, Ada Lovelace Day is celebrated through events organized ...

After reporting in the Android world with the Slate 7 tablet, the convertible SlateBook x2 or the all-in-one 21 Slate, HP continues its allegiance to Google. Here, Google has partnered with HP to create a new notebook based on Chrome OS. Better known as the HP Chromebook 11 and has just been presented by the company ...

While AMD is increasingly switching to consoles, Nvidia and Intel attempt to draw partners in the gaming console industry as well. So far, it seemed as if the only manufacturer of graphics cards for Valve’s Steam Box would be Nvidia. AMD GPUs represents a good compromise between quality and cost–AMD APU allows a very good ...

Who are software developers? Many readers here themselves are software developers who have developed their craft in a myriad of ways–self-learning, training in college, the slow rise up the ranks of a corporation, being on the ground-level of a startup. Developers can be as different as the languages that they employ. Since 2001, market researcher ...

The shutdown announcement from Nirvanix has led to a lot of scrambling for customers and the final-closure-date is looming with the upcoming October 15th as the deadline. But fortunately, other cloud providers are stepping into the breach. We have covered a few of the top popular options to migrate to other cloud storage services provider. As the ...

There is no doubt that Ouya is a platform that dazzled Internet audiences from the first minute. For evidence of this one need only look at the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, where the developer pocketed over eight million dollars. Since then, many, many indie developers have jumped on the bandwagon of the micro console with Android. ...

Valve has announced Steam Dev Days, a two-day conference to be held next January 15 to 16 at the company’s headquarters in Seattle and where they will present their latest developments, including SteamOS, Steam Machines, and Steam Controller. The event will be exclusive to members of the industry and the press are not invited. The ...

Google defends and promotes open systems. They bring innovation and choice to the user, and make the ecosystem of companies more competitive and dynamic. Concretely, this results in the production of over 24 million lines of code for more than 800 projects, including Android and Chrome are probably the best known. Many engineers at Google ...

The Washington Post and The Guardian continue to publish articles based on leaked documents about NSA capabilities via Edward Snowden. Writing in The Guardian, Bruce Schneier explains in his latest article related to Edward Snowden that the National Security Agency (NSA) had tried, unsuccessfully, to mount an attack on the Tor network, hoping to circumvent ...