Ever since Forrest Gump shook JFK's hand in 1994, we've been obsessed with putting new things into old film footage. But just because we can doesn't mean we should: Pull it off and it's amazing; fail and the audience can only think about how fake it looks.
As the epic legal battle between Google and Oracle comes to the end of its forth week, Judge William Alsup has indicated he may eliminate the damages phase of the trial -- the third and final phase designed to decide if Google must pay Oracle for infringing on its copyrights and patents.
An electric vehicle veteran is turning his efforts from two wheels to a pair of wings as he sets his sights on electric powered airplanes for his latest world record attempts.But Chip Yates isn't satisfied with simply flying faster and higher than any previous piloted electric airplane, he is completely reinventing how electric airplanes are ...
It used to be that getting a obituary was the measure of your cultural impact. Now when you die, your legacy is measured in tweets, Facebook posts, and how much stuff comes up under your name when someone searches Etsy.
Among the number of announcements under its "path to the cloud" banner at its Synergy show, Citrix Systems has launched Project Avalon, which it says "enables enterprises to transform some of their most important workloads, Windows desktop and Windows applications, to run on cloud infrastructure."
MobBase debuts another interesting entry in the budding market for helping bands build apps: an HTML5 app that's free for any band to create, and which runs on any platform, delivering music, photos, tweets and videos.
Here?s a recipe for success: Take two of the hottest, fastest-growing websites in the world and mash them together. That?s exactly what Pek Pongpaet, 35, and Brandon Leonardo, 28, did this week when they launched Pinstragram, which uses the famous waterfall layout of Pinterest to create a platform for viewing your Instagram photos on the web.
America's top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a "total war" on Islam using "Hiroshima"-style tactics. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's comments were prompted by a Danger Room report on Thursday that described the class in detail.
Gizmodo chief Joe Brown is done with Kickstarter. Scratch?that, the whole Gawker network is?done with the crowdfunding juggernaut. Their problem: There's a lot of crap there -- crap that they regret buying.?To them, we say: Welcome to the Internet! Most of it is terrible.
Scientists are using thermal imaging to track Yellowstone's wolves, which are facing a vicious new predator: sarcoptic mange.
On Wednesday afternoon, Google rolled out an update to its Google+ iPhone app. The revamped, redesigned app now looks so stunning it may make you wish the social network itself wasn't such a ghost town.
By doing it yourself, you can customize your shed to meet your needs exactly.
Less than a year after embracing OpenStack -- the Linux of cloud computing -- HP has unveiled a public beta of the cloud service it built atop the open source platform. For the first time, HP will offer the service to the world at large -- and charge for access.
The Pentagon's newest missile interceptor shot down a test missile on Wednesday, a first for the latest upgrade to the U.S.'s main defense against a theoretical attack from North Korea or Iran.
More than 40 people were arrested on Wednesday in Canada in a sting operation against what authorities say was an international $100-million bank card ring.
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Join paleontologists Mark Norell and Steve Brusatte of the American Museum of Natural History for a live chat about the Age of Dinosaurs' last days.
I am continually surprised at how fast the cloud computing industry is maturing and growing. There is news every day of radical advances in IT delivery through the cloud. Every industry goes through phases and growth pains until they reach maturation. Todd Nielsen highlights six phases currently in progress in the maturity of the cloud-computing industry.
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A chimp famous for throwing stones at visitors now conceals his weapons to get a closer aim at his targets, providing further putative evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans do.
Mozilla calls the restrictions in Microsoft's coming Windows RT "an unwelcome return to the digital dark ages," and suggests that Microsoft may be violating its antitrust agreements by limiting browser choice in its new operating system.
A video on YouTube shows an airbag launching a man into the air -- but is it real or fake? Dot Physics blogger Rhett Allain uses video tracking and physics to find out.
*How on earth does Tish Shute manage to produce these things in the middle of running an event?http://www.ugotrade.com/2012/05/09/augmented-awareness-reality-games-are2012/categories: Ambient Devices, Ambient Displays, Ambient Findability, Android, Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Augmented Data, Augmented Reality, Big Data, GeoFencing, GeoMessaging, Hadoop, Instrumenting the World, Linked Data, Mixed Reality, Mobile Reality, New Interfaces, Web Meets World, data science, ...
Welcome to GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week!
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In the ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle over the Android operating system, a federal judge has declined to rule that Google's use of the Java on Android went beyond "fair use" of material copyrighted by Oracle.
Kevin Hartz, one of Silicon Valley's savviest angel investors and CEO of Eventbrite, is sitting this investment cycle out.
A company called BioTeam has taught Siri -- the talking iPhone assistant -- to run life science experiments in the proverbial cloud. This intriguing little demo is part of a larger movement across the life science field to harness the power of the cloud computing.
Nothing brings on bouts of nostalgia like a classic red Radio Flyer wagon. And what better way to pay tribute to a treasured childhood toy than to hack it? There's a subset of Radio Flyer fans who are doing just that: turning the wagons inside out, adding motors, axles, wheels, and raising pedestrian neck hairs as they race their DIY go-karts down the block.
Nimey writes "Adobe has posted a security bulletin for Photoshop CS5 for Windows and OSX. It seems there is a critical security hole that will allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in the context of the user running the affected application. Adobe's fix? You need to pay to upgrade to Photoshop CS6. For users who cannot upgrade to Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe recommends users follow security best practices and exercise caution when opening files from unknown or untrusted sources."
coondoggie writes "Imagine what would happen if an attacker broke into the network for the industrial control systems for New York City's elevators and boiler systems and decided to disrupt them, imperiling the lives of hundreds of thousands of residents relying on them. Think it could never happen? Think again. 'You could increase the speed of how elevators go up or down,' says Steve Ramirez, business analyst, analysis and communications in the Office of the CIO of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), which provides public housing for low- to moderate-income families in the five boroughs of the city. And if attackers ever successfully penetrated the network-based industrial control systems (ICS) for the boilers, they could raise the heat levels for municipal boilers, causing them to explode." Maybe Bruce Schneier could run a new movie-scenario contest about ways this could play out.
bonch writes "Forbes contributer Tim Worstall points out that the NY Times article claiming Apple pays less than 10 percent of its profit in taxes was based on a flawed assumption of the corporate tax system. The 9.8% figure came from Greenlining Institute, who compared Apple's 2011 profits to taxes calculated according to 2010 profits. In the corporate tax system, estimated quarterly tax payments are made based on the previous year's profits until actual profits are calculated at the end of the trading year, when the balance is then paid to the IRS."
gotfork writes "The world's largest scavenger hunt, covered in previous years on Slashdot, is now taking place at the University of Chicago. The competition is fierce: in 1999 one team build a working breeder reactor in the quad, but only won second place. Items on this year's list include your appendix in a jar (210), a disappearing spoon made of metal (105), a chromatic typewriter (216), an xyloexplosive (33) and a weaponized Xerox machine (83). Check out the full list here (PDF). Not bad for the school where "where fun comes to die.'" Does your school have any equivalent annual hijinks?
An anonymous reader writes "in a welcome move, Apple has agreed to help share initial costs with Foxconn in improving the factories being used to manufacture iDevices. From the article: 'Foxconn chief Terry Gou did not give a figure for the costs, but the group has been spending heavily to fight a perception its vast plants in China are sweatshops with poor conditions for its million-strong labor force. It regards the criticism as unfair. "We've discovered that this (improving factory conditions) is not a cost. It is a competitive strength," Gou told reporters on Thursday after the ground-breaking ceremony for a new China headquarters in Shanghai. "I believe Apple sees this as a competitive strength along with us, and so we will split the initial costs."'"
sciencehabit writes "A new study suggests that, by disrupting your body's normal rhythms, your alarm clock could be making you overweight. The study concerns a phenomenon called 'social jetlag.' That's the extent to which our natural sleep patterns are out of synch with our school or work schedules. When we wake up earlier than we're supposed to — or spend all weekend sleeping in and then get up at 6 am on Monday — it makes our body feel like it's spending the weekend in one time zone and the week in another. For people who are already on the heavy side, greater social jet lag corresponds to greater body weight."
surewouldoutlaw writes "Remember that scene in Fantasia where Mickey turns all the brooms into an army of workers? Well, Disney isn't quite there, yet. But scientists with the company's research lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have been able to turn virtually any surface, including liquid water and the human body, into a multi-touch interface. The new system is called Touché, and it is as awesome as it sounds."
wiredmikey writes "Just released, and coming in at 370 MB in size, the Mac OS X 10.7.4 update includes general OS fixes, and addresses more than 30 security vulnerabilities. But aside from typical security fixes, Apple has made an interesting move in an effort to protect users. Through this latest software update, Safari 5.1.7 will now automatically disable older — and typically more vulnerable — versions of the Adobe Flash player. While many software vendors would prefer OS makers to keep their hands off their software, the move appears to be welcomed by Adobe, which has constantly battled vulnerabilities in its widely installed Flash Player."
An anonymous reader writes "Romanian emigre Christian Gheorghe is running a Silicon Valley software company now (Tidemark Systems) after getting started in the U.S. hauling plywood on a construction site. Forbes summarizes his path to the top and sees a wider story about immigrants' edge as entrepreneurs."
An anonymous reader writes "A recent move by the University of Hawaii forcing all students and faculty to migrate their independent university email accounts to Google has raised serious questions, prompting one student to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, with senior faculty questioning both the implementation and scope of this partnership." One of the stranger notes: a clause, defended as standard, naming Google a "school official" of the university.
scharkalvin writes with this excerpt from the American Radio Relay League's site: "'For the second time since 1992, Heathkit Educational Services (HES) has shuttered its doors. Rumors of the legendary kit-building company's demise were posted on QRZ.com, with several readers bringing the news to the attention of the ARRL. In August 2011, Heathkit announced it was returning to the kit building business, and in September, that it would once again be manufacturing Amateur Radio kits. ... On LinkedIn, a popular networking site, HES Chief Executive Officer Lori Marciniak listed her employment ending at Heathkit as of March 2012. Likewise, Heathkit's Marketing and Sales Director Ernie Wake listed his employment ending in April 2012. An unsubstantiated report on Wikipedia states that "[in] December 2011, Heathkit Educational Systems laid off most employees and in March 2012, the company indefinitely suspended operations."' It looks like Heathkit is gone for good. Their plans on re-entering the kit market died with the current economy."
sciencehabit writes "Three years ago, a stone-throwing chimpanzee named Santino jolted the research community by providing some of the strongest evidence yet that non-humans could plan ahead. Santino, a resident of the Furuvik Zoo in Gävle, Sweden, calmly gathered stones in the mornings and put them into neat piles, apparently saving them to hurl at visitors when the zoo opened as part of angry and aggressive 'dominance displays.' But some researchers were skeptical that Santino really was planning for a future emotional outburst. Now Santino is back in the scientific literature, the subject of new claims that he has begun to conceal the stones so he can get a closer aim at his targets—further evidence that he is thinking ahead like humans do."
angry tapir writes "HP has unveiled an all-in-one thin client capable of being powered by an Ethernet cable. The t410 AiO supports the Type 1 Power over Ethernet (PoE) standard, which means it is capable of drawing its power from a network connection, although it can be powered by standard AC power. It uses an ARM-based processor and has an integrated 18.5-inch monitor, and it is capable of being used for virtual desktops through Windows RDP, VMware View and Citrix ICA."
First time accepted submitter Prokur writes "A brand new Russian Sukhoi Superjet 100 airliner on a demonstration flight with 37 passengers (mostly future clients and journalists) and 8 Russian crew members on board went missing after it took off from an airport in Jakarta. After an extensive search, rescuers concluded, based on the widespread debris field on the side of a ridge, that the aircraft directly impacted the rocky side of Mount Salak and there was 'no chance of survival.'"