Angry Birds take wing on Android
Source: The RegisterPosted: 2010-09-06 14:30:27
Fight or flight?
Show detailsSenate Candidate Sued By Copyright Troll
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 13:31:25
The Iso writes "Las Vegas based company Righthaven found two articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal about Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle reprinted on her web site without permission, so it did what it always does: bought the rights to the articles from the Review-Journal and sued the alleged infringer, seeking unspecified damages." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsThe State of Household Robots
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 13:31:21
paulelaguna writes "The dream of owning a household robot is starting to become reality, particularly for people in Japan. There are robots to help you do the dishes, move furniture, and even robotic wheelchairs to help you get around. Really, the only question that remains for us is when do we move?" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsResearch: Early Man 'Butchered & Ate the Brains of Children as Part of Everyday Diet'
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-06 13:30:27
Other than that, early man was fantastic...
Show detailsAndroid Phone meets NES Controller At Last
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-06 13:30:24
I've long held that ROMs are the biggest selling point for Android phones that no one wants to talk about (or are at least neck and neck for those of you who absolutely need your porn on the go). If, after a few drinks, I start having a good natured debate about smartphones with an iPhone owning friend (which does indeed happen more often that I'd care to admit), I'll usually break out my Droid and start playing a round of Super Mario 3
Show detailsFirst-Ever Baby Seahorse Spotted in British Waters
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-06 13:30:20
The Dorset waters are Britain's largest known breeding colony for seahorses, according to the Telegraph, which writes that adult, pregnant male, and juvenile spiny seahorses have been spotted there since surveys of the area began in 1994. But this was the first time a baby has been spotted.
Show detailsMonkey kisses cat
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-06 13:30:17
They are in love. Or maybe it's only about the monkey.
Show detailsThe New Difficulties In Making a 3D Game
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 09:31:07
eldavojohn writes "MSNBC spoke with the senior producer of a new stereoscopic 3D game called 'Killzone 3' and highlighted problems they are trying to solve with being one of the first FPS 3D games for the PS3. The team ran into serious design problems like where to put the cross hairs for the players (do they constantly hover in front of your vision?) and what to do with any of the heads up display components. Aside from the obvious marketing thrown in at the end of the article (in a very familiar way), there is an interesting point raised concerning normalized conventions in all video games and how one ports that to the new stereoscopic 3D model--the same way directors continue to grapple with getting 3D right. Will 3D games be just as gimmicky as most 3D movies? If they are, at least Guerrilla Games is at least making it possible for the player to easily and quickly switch in and out of stereoscopic 3-D while playing." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsUK Music Industry Calls For Truce With Technology
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 09:31:03
Stoobalou writes "The British music industry has called for a truce with the technology firms with whom it has till now fought a bitter battle over rights, royalties and file sharing. Feargal Sharkey, CEO of lobby group UK Music, told a conference in London this week that it was time for the music and technology industries to set aside their differences and strive instead toward a common goal: nothing less than the total global domination of British music." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsIdeas For a Great Control Room?
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 05:01:23
lewko writes "Our company is about to build a central monitoring facility and I'm looking for ideas/suggestions about the best hardware and the best way to make it comfortable for those manning a screen. It will be manned 24x7 and operators will be monitoring a variety of systems including security, network, fire, video and more. These will be observed via local multi-monitor workstations and a common videowall. This is going to be a massively expensive exercise and we only get one chance to get it right. The facility is in a secure windowless bunker and staff will generally be in there for many hours at a time. So we have to implement design elements which make it a 'happy' place. At the same time, it has to be ergonomically sound. Lastly, we will be showing it to our clients, so without undoing the above objectives, it would be nice if it was 'cool' (yet functional). Whilst Television doesn't transfer to real life always, think 'CTU' from 24." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsFine-Structure Constant Maybe Not So Constant
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 05:01:19
Kilrah_il writes "The fine-structure constant, a coupling constant characterizing the strength of the electromagnetic interaction, has been measure lately by scientist from University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has been found to change slightly in light sent from quasars in galaxies as far back as 12 billion years ago. Although the results look promising, caution is advised: 'This would be sensational if it were real, but I'm still not completely convinced that it's not simply systematic errors' in the data, comments cosmologist Max Tegmark of MIT. Craig Hogan of the University of Chicago and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., acknowledges that 'it's a competent team and a thorough analysis.' But because the work has such profound implications for physics and requires such a high level of precision measurements, 'it needs more proof before we'll believe it.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsTransition Metal Catalysts Could be Key To Origin of Life
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 05:01:15
An anonymous reader writes "One of the big, unsolved problems in explaining how life arose on Earth is a chicken-and-egg paradox: How could the basic biochemicals - such as amino acids and nucleotides - have arisen before the biological catalysts (proteins or ribozymes) existed to carry out their formation? In a paper appearing in the current issue of The Biological Bulletin, scientists propose that a third type of catalyst could have jumpstarted metabolism and life itself, deep in hydrothermal ocean vents." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show details4chan Gives 90-Year-Old Vet a Great Birthday
Source: SlashdotPosted: 2010-09-06 05:01:11
Hugh Pickens writes "Members of 4chan aren't known for doing things that are cute and heart-warming and when they decide to go after someone, it's typically to subject them to ridicule. But not this time. Someone at 4chan decided that the Internet should get together and wish 90-year-old WWII veteran William J. Lashua a happy birthday, and soon Lashua's local branch of the American Legion was deluged by birthday calls from people as far away as Sweden. The account someone set up for Mr. Lashua's birthday on Facebook had 3,956 'likes' and over 500 comments, most of which wished him a happy birthday and thanked him for his military service. It's not clear how 4chan originally came across a photo of Lashua, but a member of the site posted a snapshot of a flyer that was on the bulletin board at a store in Ashburnham, Massachusetts asking for guests to attend the nonagenarian's birthday on at the American Legion hall and the post took off. In contrast to their usual behavior, 4chan members 'were giving him nice phone calls and sending him nice notes' and discouraging those who wanted to do something stupid or mean. 'They were all being.. well, shucks, awful nice.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Show detailsFord Opts for Liquid Cooling to Maximize Battery Life
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-06 05:00:39
While air is sufficient to regulate battery temperatures in smaller battery systems, Ford says, liquid works better to meet the Focus' needs. The liquid system works by...
Show detailsWTF: Your Weekly Dose of Asian Insanity (Video)
Source: digg.com: Top NewsPosted: 2010-09-06 05:00:37
I don't know, people. I don't know what's happening here. I don't know which Asian country is responsible for this, I don't know what product this
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