Friday, 10 July 2015

Listen to N64 GoldenEye's soundtrack in beautiful, uncompressed form



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This is the Ghostbusters shot you were waiting for



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The #F1SimStar submission explained

On the occasion of their three-week F1 workshops, SimScale and Nic Perrinn are launching a competition to look for the most creative visualization of airflow around a Formula 1 car. The rules? The visualizations must be created using the F1 car simulations provided on their F1 page. Every participant is allowed to submit a maximum […]

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Solar System Questions

My country's World Cup win was exciting and all, but c'mon, what if the players wore nylon wings and COULD LITERALLY FLY?

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Four short links: 10 July 2015

Computer of Wired-Together Rat Brains — this is ALL THE AMAZING. a Brainet that allows three monkeys connected at the brain to control a virtual arm on screen across three axes. […] Nicolelis said that, essentially, he created a “classic …

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Thursday, 9 July 2015

Spectacle – A ReactJS Presentation Library

Spectacle is a React-powered presentation library. With Spectacle you can write slides with JSX. It supports tags like <Deck>, <Slide>, and there are even layout tags for making text appear in the right place without too much fiddling about with CSS. It even supports a presenter view, so you can see the next side and […]

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Microservices Resource Guide



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Download Over 240 Free Technical eBooks from Microsoft

Microsoft’s MSDN blog is again offering a big batch of free technical ebooks, and this one is the largest collection to date.

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Microsoft is getting pretty good at digitizing reality

Microsoft Research always has the best toys, and is especially strong in augmented reality (AR) with projects like Illumiroom and its insane Hololens Minecraft game. Redmond's think tank has just revealed another impressive demo called "SemanticPaint...

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How reactive applications adapt

One of the fascinating things found in nature is the ability of a species to adapt to its changing environment. The canonical example of this is Britain’s Peppered Moth. When newly industrialized Great Britain became polluted in the nineteenth century, …

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Wednesday, 8 July 2015

Four short links: 8 July 2015

Zero Knowledge and Homomorphic Encryption (ZDNet) — coverage of a few startups working on providing databases that don’t need to decrypt the data they store and retrieve. How Not to Suck at Making Products — Never confuse “category you’re in” …

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Saturday, 4 July 2015

OpenDNS to be acquired by Cisco -- will you still use it?

While you can use the DNS servers provided by your Internet Service Provider -- and the majority of web users do -- switching to an alternative DNS can deliver speed and reliability improvements, as well as additional features like phishing protection, parental controls, improved security and more. It might also help you bypass Geoblocked and censored content. OpenDNS is the go-to DNS service for millions of people around the world. It is, in OpenDNS’s own words, "the world’s most loved and trusted DNS service". Today, however, Cisco announces intent to acquire OpenDNS. Will that change your mind on how you… [Continue Reading]

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Friday, 3 July 2015

Tamagotchi Hive

The Singularity happened, but not to us.

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Granite for Unreal Engine 4.8 goes live

Granite for Unreal Engine 4.8 goes live

Graphine has released its texture-streaming tool Granite for Unreal Engine 4.8.

The tool integrates with the rendering and material features of Unreal Engine 4 itself. Developers can now stream heightmaps for bump offset mapping and displacement mapping. Streaming textures are now also supported in translucent materials.

New features in Granite SDK 2.5 also include the Tile Set Studio, designed to make it easier to import textures into tile sets. Graphine has also optimised the tool to help support 90fps in virtual reality games.

Granite for Unreal is available for use on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.

For further details, visit Graphine’s website.



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È scientificamente provato: la causa dell’autismo è Jim Carrey



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This is the Nintendo PlayStation that almost was

It might seem crazy today, but in the early '90s Nintendo and Sony were working together on a video game accessory that'd add CD capabilities to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. There would also be a separate Sony console that'd play SNES car...

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Une campagne KIckstarter pour des simulateurs dynamiques

Grands enfants et adeptes de sport auto ou aéronautiques, voilà un kickstarter qui pourrait vous faire dresser les oreilles. En effet, le petit constructeur Prosimu, ayant pignon sur rue depuis 2009, s'est fait une spécialité sur les cockpits dynamiques, c'est-à-dire motorisés par vérins électriques pour reproduire les sensations perçues par un pilote, qu'il soit spatial, à ailes, ou à roues, au travers par exemple de l'accélération, du freinage, du revêtement, de l'assiette ou encore des transferts de masses... [Tout lire]

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Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Zuckerberg reveals Facebook's AI, VR and Internet.org plans

In a Q&A on his profile today, Mark Zuckerberg explained how he and his team are preparing Facebook for the future. In it, he revealed that he believes the ultimate communication technology will allow us to send thoughts to each other. "You'll just b...

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Microsoft claims to have developed superior Oculus Rift lenses

New lens design is "sharper across the field and has far less chromatic aberration."

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How GPU Technology Is Transforming Flow Simulation

Gamers may have been the first to enjoy the benefits of GPU technology. Today it has grown into many areas of enterprise and supercomputing where it packs an impressive punch. Now a team led by Peter Vincent, a senior lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London, is giving CFD technology a 10x boost with the launch of the new GPU-accelerated PyFR v1.0.0. Computational Fluid Dynamics is the computational simulation of fluid flow. It helps engineers understand complex air and fluid flow patterns without building a wind tunnel. They're incredibly helpful when designing aircraft, wind turbines and even F1 racing cars. Comments

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