Nano-machines built to mimic human muscle could help power cyborgs, keep the OSI budget down
By Daniel Cooper posted Oct 24th 2012 1:26PM At today’s prices, building a Six Million Dollar Man would cost around $31 million. Of course, being a TV show means the Office of Scientific Intelligence doesn’t have too many bionic employees, but that might not the case in the future. Nicolas Giuseppone and a team at the Université de Strasbourg and CNRS have created thousands of nano-machines to replicate the movement of...
Going to Extremes with Aperture
After running Palouse Falls, a 189-foot waterfall in southeast Washington State, 24-year-old extreme kayaker Rafa Ortiz of Mexico described experiencing part of the descent in what felt like slow motion. But for photographer Lucas Gilman, who covered the attempt, the drop was very much in real time. “Rafa was actually visible for only three frames of the 4-second free fall, because after he got over the tongue, he was engulfed in...
CyanogenMod code fixed to prevent unlock gestures from being logged locally on handsets
By James Trew posted Oct 24th 2012 1:47PM If you’re one of the root-and-ROM brigade, it’s also likely that you have a keen eye on what goes on under the hood of your mobile OS. It might, then, come as a surprise to users of CyanogenMod, that a line of code could have been logging your phone-unlock gestures and patterns. Gabriel Castro, a developer involved in the project, was surprised to spot the rogue logging, that seems...
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to receive the Dolby Atmos treatment
By Jamie Rigg posted Oct 24th 2012 2:08PM The CinemaCon crowd may not have been keen on 48fps footage of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, but we defy anyone to say they don’t want the best sound possible. A select few will get just that, as Dolby and Peter Jackson’s own Park Road Post Production have announced the film will be mixed for the speaker-packed Atmos technology. If you’re lucky enough to live near one of...
Windows 8 in the enterprise? Not next year, says Gartner
Enterprises will not be moving quickly to adopt Windows 8, and most will skip next year, according to market research firm Gartner. See the rest here: Windows 8 in the enterprise? Not next year, says Gartnerhere’s a nice site
