Serious gamers can't rely on a touchscreen for long periods of mobile gameplay -- at least, that's what Milkshake Labs co-founder Colton Gyulay says. So the startup developed its own portable gaming solution for the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S III called the coco controller.
Who rolls on Shabbos? Anyone who has a deep love of , that?s who. Even Walter abides when Lebowski Fest is in town. The traveling celebration of the Cohen brothers classic comedy hit Seattle last weekend, drawing dozens of rabid fans who traded lines, but with better music.
After weeks with his fate hanging in the balance, Ecuador is preparing to formally grant WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asylum in that country, according to a news report.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday said the authorities do not need probable-cause warrants to enable them to track a suspect's every move via the GPS signals emitted from a suspect's mobile phone. The decision, a big boost for the government's surveillance powers, comes as prosecutors are shifting their focus to warrantless cell-tower locational tracking of suspects in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling in January that law enforcement should acquire probable-cause warrants from judges to affix GPS devices to vehicles and monitor their every move.
screenwriter and co-director Chris Butler was inspired by some of our favorite '80s movies as he worked on the stop-motion film about a boy who can speak to the dead.
A Tuesday report indicates that Microsoft will price its Surface RT tablet at just $200. But that low of a price makes no sense, and would be "suicide," according to one analyst.
Apple was granted a number of patents by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Tuesday morning, the most interesting of which concern Apple's television software and a new method for packaging touchscreen technology.
The athletics aren't the only competitions at the Olympics. In addition to drawing the world's top athletes, the games pit some of the best sports photographers on the planet against each other for the chance to show audiences what they can do.
The Curiosity rover seems to be eagerly looking ahead at its eventual target, Mount Sharp, in this new color photo taken with the probe's Mast cameras.
Apple lovers go to great lengths to get their hands on the company's gear, but authorities say the burglar who stole more than $60,000 worth of computers, jewelry and other valuables from Steve Jobs' Palo Alto home likely wasn't a fanboy.
Election season is in full swing, and that can only mean one thing: barely factual ads attacking incumbents and scaring the elderly.
A do-it-yourself spaceflight program called Copenhagen Suborbitals tested a launch escape system early on Sunday, Aug. 12 in the middle of the Baltic Sea. It ended with a crushing splash.
This extremely tall photo taken from space shows of Curiosity's landing site and the stunning environment that the rover may explore over the coming year on Mars.
Less than two months after Microsoft paid $1.2 billion to acquire Yammer, the business social network has updated its service. With the updates, we get the first glimpse of how Yammer looks as a Microsoft company, and it's looking more useful than ever.
Forget all the talk about Trapwire being some kind of all-seeing, revolutionary spy network. What's truly extraordinary about Trapwire was how it was marketed by the private intelligence firm Stratfor. Internal documents show the company being less-than-straight with its clients, lobbying government officials for Trapwire contracts, and hoping for "easy money." It's a rare look into the largely-closed $25 billion world of intelligence-for-hire that's ordinarily hidden from public view. In this case, the sunlight isn't particularly flattering.
Tony Posawatz, the former head of the Volt program at General Motors, has been named the new CEO of Fisker, as the automaker hunkers down on development of its second model, the Fisker Atlantic.
Google Instant Search eliminates the opportunity to use the good old "I'm Feeling Lucky" Button, offering search results as soon as you type. Now Google has turned "I'm Feeling Lucky" into yet another random adventure, and this time you can feel "Stellar," "Wonderful," "Trendy" and more.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.--Michael JordanAs with so much in life, so it goes with IT:?The parts that are fun aren?t always valuable, and the parts that are valuable aren?t always fun.?Let?s talk about ...
While Silicon Valley elites gravitate toward university-level education startups, one company is focused on practical training for the jobless.
Want to discover a new species? Start combing through Flickr images. The site recently helped connect a macro photographer and insect enthusiast with scientists around the globe to collaboratively define a new species of green lacewing.
I?m addicted to the whole concept of the Internet of Things, and it is having an impact on my bank balance. From the novelty of a computerized ball that I control with my smart phone (Sphero), through to the Pebble Watch or the Makey Makey UI system, the ability to make things other than computers and phones a part of the network is increasing.
In part one of this post, we gave 14 fictional foods and recipes for re-creating them. Now we turn to the potent (and not so potent) potables of our favorite far-off places.
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab are asking the public for help in cracking an encrypted warhead that gets delivered to infected machines by the recently discovered Gauss malware toolkit. They're publishing encrypted sections and hashes in the hope that cryptographers will be able to help them out.
Ben Paynter on why near misses aren?t successes, but indicators of near failure.
Most people say creativity can?t be reduced to a recipe. But Chris Cardinal, a web developer and founder of cake-decorating competition Threadcakes, has done just that.
With the ubiquitous Polycom speakerphone dead in their sights, four startups are pushing a new wave of conference calling services that promise to make our conference-call nightmares, if not disappear, at least better, faster, and cheaper.
Headless puppets, elaborate dioramas, doll parts and Victorian curiosities come to life in a major new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art celebrating the intricate, idiosyncratic works of the Quay brothers.
While the cosmic-ray problems that Curiosity Rover is facing are many times worse than anything you?d see here on earth, they?re also the kind of problem that chipmakers are increasingly having to confront as they build smaller and smaller components.
Mexican drug lord Joaqu?n "El Chapo" Guzm?n is arguably the world's most wanted criminal, supplanting Osama bin Laden after the terrorist mastermind's death during a Navy SEAL raid in May 2011. Now the Pentagon reportedly has a plan to send the SEALs after El Chapo too. There are lots of reasons why the report may be off. Chief among them: The Mexicans hate U.S. troops on their soil even more than the Pakistanis do.
We've been drinking it in with mother's milk for a century now: The first heavier-than-air manned flight was made by the Wright Brothers in 1903. Or was it? Does the name Gustave Whitehead ring a bell?
An anonymous reader writes "Bloggers in Vietnam are increasingly finding themselves thrown in jail. Despite freedom of speech being enshrined in the nations Constitution, many who speak out against the government are thrown in jail — thanks to a new law that forbids such talk. In one desperate act, Dang Thi Kim Lieng lit herself on fire outside the Bac Lieu People's Committee building in southern Vietnam. She died of her injuries. She was protesting the detention of her daughter who was arrested for blogging against the government. Three other bloggers are scheduled be tried under section 88 of the criminal code, which relates to propaganda against the nation. A maximum sentence could carry with it 20 years in jail."
joabj writes "Expanding beyond math and the physical sciences, Khan Academy has added a set of computer science courses to its popular collection of learn-at-home instructional videos. For the project, Khan tapped jQuery creator John Resig, who chose JavaScript as the first language to teach students. The initial set of tutorials cover drawing, programming basics, animation and user interaction."
Grumbleduke writes "Anton Vickerman, who owned SurfTheChannel.com, has been sentenced to 4 years in prison following his conviction last month for 'conspiracy to defraud.' This is the first successful prosecution of an individual in the UK for running a website merely linking to allegedly infringing content (several earlier cases collapsed or resulted in acquittals). Vickerman was prosecuted for the controversial offense of 'conspiracy to defraud' for 'facilitating copyright infringement,' rather than for copyright infringement itself, and it is worth noting that the relevant copyright offense carries a maximum prison sentence of only two years — half of what was given. FACT, the Hollywood-backed enforcement group who were heavily involved in the prosecution noted that the conviction 'should send a very strong message to those running similar sites that they can be found, arrested and end up in prison,' but it remains to be seen whether this will have any effect on pirate sites, or encourage development of the largely hopeless legal market for online film."
colinneagle writes "People continue to pay money for Twitter followers, and, naturally, a deep network of developers and merchants has arisen to feed the market. A Barracuda Labs study found that the average dealer has the capacity to control as many as 150,000 followers at a time, sometimes more. Those who can control 20,000 fake accounts and can attract sales of $20 or more — the going rate is 1,000 followers for a minimum of $18 — stand to earn roughly $800 per day, according to Barracuda Labs. Keep in mind that very little of this work is manual; the dealers could easily control a system of botnets and set up a few software tools to automate much of the process. Using Twitter's API, developers can design programs that collect all the information of a given group of Twitter users, such as, for example, the 800,000 users following Mitt Romney's account. These programs don't necessarily hijack these accounts — they copy the images and text from their profiles and tweets. This pool of information can then be automatically ported into accounts based on an algorithm that automates the registration process on a massive scale."
Andy Updegrove writes "Between 2005 and 2008, an unparalleled standards war was waged between Microsoft, on the one hand, and IBM, Google, Oracle and additional companies on the other. At the heart of the battle were two document formats, one called ODF, developed by OASIS, a standards development consortium, and Open XML, a specification developed by Microsoft. Both were submitted to, and adopted by, global standards groups ISO/IEC. But then Microsoft never fully adopted its own standard. Instead, it implemented what it called 'Transitional Open XML,' which was better adapted for use in connection with documents created using older versions of Office. Yesterday, Microsoft announced in a blog entry that it will finally make it possible for Office users to open, edit and save documents in the format that ISO/IEC approved."
Trailrunner7 writes "Controversial document-sharing site WikiLeaks was back online Monday evening after sustaining a week-long distributed denial-of-service attack. The organization apparently received some extra capacity and assistance from Web performance and security firm Cloudfare to counter the 10 gigabits per second of bogus traffic that overwhelmed servers for numerous WikiLeaks domains and several supporters' sites. Targets included WikiLeaks' news aggregation site and its donations infrastructure, which it calls the Fund for Network Neutrality. A few days ago the organization posted a statement describing what it surmised was a DNS amplification attack. 'Broadly speaking, this attack makes use of open DNS servers where attackers send a small request to, the fast DNS servers then amplify the request, the request has now increased somewhat in size and is sent to the server of wikileaks-press.org. If an attacker then exploits hundreds of thousands of open DNS resolvers and sends millions of requests to each of them, the attack becomes quite powerful. We only have a small uplink to our server, the size of all these requests was 100,000 times the size of our uplink.'"
New submitter tsakas writes: "I am an IT researcher from southern Europe looking for a good place to relocate. Markets are pulling the teeth out of the strong European countries by destroying the south. The U.S. is in debt and there is no way of telling how long this can go on. China and India are on the rise. Brazil and Australia are looking good. The question: Which city would you choose to go and start a family if you were to stay there for a) 5, b) 10 and c) 20 years?"
An anonymous reader quotes the introduction to Inhabit's article on the upcoming launch of an art project cum satellite intended to be as different as possible from conventional space hardware: "South Korean artist Song Hojun has created his own DIY satellite from scratch – and he's planning to launch it into space this coming December. Song created the satellite from assorted junk he found in back-alley electronics stores in his home town of Seoul, and over the course of six years he has finally managed to complete his space-bound project. Song's satellite cost just over $400 to make, however the cost of launching it to space is going to be a lot, lot more – over $100,000."
whyloginwhysubscribe writes "The usually excellent BBC 'Click' programme has an article on 'Why computer code is the new language to learn' — which features a company in London who offer courses on learning to code in a day. The BBC clip has an interesting interview with a marketing director who, it seems to me, is going to go back and tell his programmers to speed up because otherwise he could do it himself! Decoded.co's testimonials page is particularly funny: 'I really feel like I could talk credibly to a coder, given we can now actually speak the same language.'"
Part Two ran last Thursday. Part One ran last Wednesday. This is all a lead-up to Slashdot's Quinceañera, or 15th Birthday, this October. (Cue music: Fatboy Slim's Slash Dot Dash.) In this final part of The Conversation with Rob Malda, he talks a bit about what he's working on at The Washington Post, and leaves us waiting with bated breath for more information about projects he's not allowed to tell us about. Yet. So obviously, we'll want to get back with CmdrTaco before too long for an update. Meanwhile, please get ready for the Slashdot 15th Anniversary Celebration, which is sure to be at least as glorious as you would expect from Slashdot.
An anonymous reader writes "The BBC reports researchers in Korea have developed a technology that can be used as a viable alternative to QR codes. Made of plastic and electronic ink, the rectennas cost less than one penny each to produce and use the NFC standards for wireless radio communication to devices. They are seen as a cheap, easy-to-print and environmentally friendly way to overcome the limitations and inconvenience of QR codes, the usage of which has greatly increased in the last few years."