/dev/null

Thursday, 7 August 2014

Sony sued over Killzone: Shadow Fall's graphics

from Polygon - Full http://ift.tt/1y6NRHU

via IFTTT

Wednesday, 6 August 2014

Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters

An anonymous reader writes In response to the creation in 2012 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) of "a new email standard that supports addresses incorporating non-Latin and accented Latin characters", Google has now made it possible for its Gmail users to "send emails to, and receive emails from, people who have these characters in their email addresses." Their goal is to eventually allow its users to create Gmail addresses utilizing these characters.

Four short links: 6 August 2014

Mesa: Geo-Replicated, Near Real-Time, Scalable Data Warehousing (PDF) — paper by Googlers on the database holding G’s ad data. Trillions of rows, petabytes of data, point queries with 99th percentile latency in the hundreds of milliseconds and overall query throughput …

from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies http://ift.tt/1tVTXNB

via IFTTT

Four short links: 5 August 2014

Discussion Graph Tool (Microsoft Research) — simplifies social media analysis by making it easy to extract high-level features and co-occurrence relationships from raw data. Superlinear Productivity in Collective Group Actions (PLoS ONE) — study of open source projects shows small …

from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies http://ift.tt/WYtRMn

via IFTTT

Free Access To Stackato 20GB Cluster In Production

Commercial open source PaaS with an updated free Micro Cloud license

from Dr. Dobb's All http://ift.tt/XCvPSK

via IFTTT

Image-editing technique lets 2D objects get flipped, turned upside-down

Sure, Photoshop and other image editors are becoming increasingly good at transforming elements of a photo, but most of those tweaks are limited to two dimensions (resizing, rotating, repositioning, etc.). Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are pushing...

from Engadget RSS Feed http://ift.tt/1uksMJw

via IFTTT

Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Four short links: 4 August 2014

EtherCalc — open source web-based spreadsheet. Dynamics of Correlated Novelties (Nature) — paper on “the adjacent possible”. Here we propose a simple mathematical model that mimics the process of exploring a physical, biological, or conceptual space that enlarges whenever a …

from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies http://ift.tt/1v0LyJW

via IFTTT

You'll soon get the chance to buy Teague's e-bike of the future

If you saw the Teague X/Sizemore "Denny" e-bike last week and voted for it in the Oregon Manifest design contest, pat yourself on the back -- it just won. As a result, what was merely a design experiment will now become an actual retail product built...

from Engadget RSS Feed http://ift.tt/1s5cMgH

via IFTTT

Thesis Defense

MY RESULTS ARE A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT ON THE STATE OF THE AAAAAAAAAAAART

from xkcd.com http://xkcd.com/1403/

via IFTTT

Saturday, 2 August 2014

Kano – simple as Lego, powered by Pi

We interview Alex Klein about the best new education program for the Raspberry Pi

from Linux User & Developer - the Linux and FOSS mag for a GNU generation http://ift.tt/1xKshbO

via IFTTT

Pinky and the Brain return, and it's incredibly unsafe for work

from Polygon - Full http://ift.tt/1ogEy28

via IFTTT

Keeping Some Clutter May Be More Valuable For Lower-Income Households

Conventional wisdom says that clutter is bad. You've got a lot of junk laying around and you don't need all of it. However, as the Art of Manliness points out, reducing your stuff to the bare essentials may not be a luxury that poorer households can afford.

The Oculus Rift Made Me Believe I Could Fly

Yesterday, I flew over downtown San Francisco. I swooped past the Transamerica Pyramid, taking care not to get speared, and winged it out towards the water. A heavy fog covered the bay, as usual, so I decided to head back into the city. I dove sharply, and the wind started whipping across my face. I […]

from WIRED http://ift.tt/1ljU3Gt

via IFTTT

Friday, 1 August 2014

3D Engine for Linux UNIGINE Now Features a Complex City Traffic System

UNIGINE, a real-time 3D engine built to run on all major platforms, including Linux, has been updated again and its developers have implemented numerous features, including a comprehensive City Traffic System.

The UNIGINE Engine is built by Unigine Corp., the company behind the Heaven DX11 Benchmark software. The technology they develop is getting better all the time and the updates for the engine always bring numerous improvements...

from Tux Machines http://ift.tt/1xL0CHM

via IFTTT

Model Download: Vehicles Assets

A sweet set of game vehicles and a matching landscape to drive them around in. This is a low poly 3D Vehicles asset It's the first set I created and will create more based on this set. Set contains 12 unique cars in 7 different colors totaling 84 different vehicles. Feel free to let me [...]

from BlenderNation http://ift.tt/1liV4ib

via IFTTT

Build Your Own Bone Conducting Headphones

Bone conducting headphones sound like strange gadgets, but they're surprisingly easy to build. This video from Tinkernut walks you through the basics of speaker technology, and in the first minute or two tells you how to build a bone-conduction speaker you could easily house in a hollowed out pair of on-ear headphones or earmuffs.

Four short links: 1 August 2014

Miso — Dataset, a JavaScript client-side data management and transformation library, Storyboard, a state and flow-control management library & d3.chart, a framework for creating reusable charts with d3.js. Open source designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and …

from O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies http://ift.tt/1xJskVo

via IFTTT

Realism, Photorealism, and Style in Drawing

from Tuts+ Design & Illustration http://ift.tt/UPtnpX

via IFTTT

iFixit se fait l'Oculus Rift DK2 : surprise, un Galaxy Note 3 à l'intérieur !

On savait que Samsung et Oculus VR étaient assez proches (un peu comme Florian et Thibaut) dans le domaine de la réalité virtuelle. Mais au point de trouver la totalité d'un écran de Galaxy Note 3 au sein de l'Oculus Rift DK2, quand même pas ! Pour le savoir, les démonteurs professionnels du site iFixit ont fait passer la seconde version de développement du casque de réalité virtuelle d'Oculus VR entre leurs tournevis... [Tout lire]

from Le comptoir du hardware http://ift.tt/1qObIxT

via IFTTT