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- Game of Thrones Shows Us How CGI Works
- Why Math Works (preview)
- RIP, Nokia and RIM; HTC and Samsung Smartphones on the Rise
- How To Responsibly Stalk Your Children Using Their Cellphones
- Every Bug, Every Gas, Right Now: Air Force Wants Instant WMD Detector
| Game of Thrones Shows Us How CGI Works Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:40 PM PDT It shouldn't be much of a surprise that the fantastic castles and weird critters in HBO's fantasy series Game of Thrones are mostly computer generated. Seeing just how much stuff can be created with a computer, though, is pretty cool. BlueBolt, the studio that crafts the special effects for Game of Thrones as well as blockbusters like Pirates of the Caribbean, recently posted a video showing ... |
| Posted: 02 Aug 2011 05:08 AM PDT Most of us take it for granted that math works--that scientists can devise formulas to describe subatomic events or that engineers can calculate paths for spacecraft. We accept the view, initially espoused by Galileo, that mathematics is the language of science and expect that its grammar explains experimental results and even predicts novel phenomena. The power of mathematics, though, is ... |
| RIP, Nokia and RIM; HTC and Samsung Smartphones on the Rise Posted: 02 Aug 2011 12:51 PM PDT How times have changed in the smartphone market! Palm, once the manufacturer of the popular Treo smartphone, went under so fast once the iPhone came out that it's now wholly owned by HP. The "iPhone effect" seems to have taken longer to catch up to RIM and Nokia, but according to Horace Dediu of Asymco both companies' smartphone shipments have fallen ... or in the case of Nokia, plunged ... |
| How To Responsibly Stalk Your Children Using Their Cellphones Posted: 02 Aug 2011 08:56 AM PDT It's 11:56 a.m. Do you know where your children are? You would if you had a Location Labs monitoring app installed on their smartphones with which you could check their GPS coordinates. You could also see their photos and read their text messages.Location Labs is a start-up -- with $26 million in venture funding -- which works directly with AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile to get access to geolocation ... |
| Every Bug, Every Gas, Right Now: Air Force Wants Instant WMD Detector Posted: 03 Aug 2011 09:03 AM PDT Spurred by the anthrax hysteria of 2001, the U.S. government has thrown billions of dollars into developing new equipment and technologies to detect chemical and biological warfare agents. Now the Air Force has a plan that, if it actually works, would render all those billions obsolete. A new solicitation from the service describes the need for [...] |
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