TV Broadcaster Speeds Up Telenovela Production With Final Cut Pro X
While it’s hard to know what a nation might collectively be thinking at any point in time, it’s easy to see what it’s watching. And on any given day, millions of Mexicans are watching telenovelas, the Latin American equivalent of U.S. soap operas that draw even more ardent viewers. Some of the most popular Mexican telenovelas are produced by Azteca — one of Mexico’s leading broadcasters and its second-largest mass media company. These...
Helping Data Centers Cope With Big Data Workloads
Big data applications, on the other hand, tend to suck up massive amounts of compute load. They also tend to feature spikes of activity-they start and end at a particular point in time. “Big data is really changing the way data centers are operating and some of the needs they have,” says Rob Clyde, CEO of Adaptive Computing, a specialist in private/hybrid cloud and technical computing environments. “The traditional...
If you’ve got the SADs, this sunlight-tracking wearable could help cure it
There are wearables to track your exercise activity, food consumption and sleep habits. There are even wearables that want to be smartphones-lite. But never before has there been a portable tracker for daily sunlight exposure. That’s a niche GoodLux is looking to fill with its SunSprite, a solar-powered, Bluetooth 4.0 wireless device with a Harvard Medical pedigree that’s launching today on Indiegogo. And it’s gone...
Wearable computers could act like a sixth sense
People will one day depend on wearable computers to monitor not just their activities but a myriad of data about their health, making the devices basically like a sixth sense. That’s the vision that was laid out during the MIT Tech Conference on disruptive technologies in Cambridge, Mass. this past weekend. The wearable computer market will see the kind of dramatic growth that the smartphone market has over the last decade and...
iPad Helps Racers Gear Up for the Win
For more than 20 years, Mark Post has raced over almost every sand dune, past every tumbleweed, and through every ravine of deepest Baja. And as the owner of Riviera Racing and 2007 champion of the Baja 1000, he knows what it takes to win in the dirt. “Most people consider it the toughest motor sport race of any kind, because once that flag drops, it’s a thousand miles nonstop of war,” says Post. “And you need a battle plan. It’s a...
