Oct 21
A laser first developed in the early 1990s to survey complex architectural structures in the petrochemical and nuclear industries is now being leveraged to preserve at-risk monuments— at least in digital form.
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Oct 21
After releasing and subsequently pulling a buggy version of Windows RT 8.1 from the Windows Store, Microsoft is offering a fix to affected users. Redmond has released instructions for restoring those devices that involves creating a USB recovery drive among other things. If doing it DIY seems a bit …
Oct 21
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As with Lego, it seems Minecraft’s possibilities are limited only by the imagination, and also like Lego, the game has the potential to act as a powerful educational tool. The team at Google’s Quantum AI Lab, which explores the possibilities of quantum computing, put their heads together and figured out that the next generation of computer scientists could discover their talents in none other than Mojang’s vast, open, voxel-based world.
Together with MinecraftEdu, a group that partners with Mojang to bring Minecraft to schools, and scientists at California Institute of Technology’s Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Quantum AI Lab has built a Minecraft mod called qCraft that simulates quantum behaviors in the game.
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Oct 21
Steve Horvath, a professor of human genetics and biostatistics at
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has invented a new
biological clock that accurately keeps time of nearly all tissues in the
human body and how fast they age. His clock helps us understand not only how we age, but how our biological clocks can be turned back.
Oct 21
Imagine creating a 3D digital archive of 500 of the world’s most at-risk heritage sites, preserved in virtual reality so that future generations can explore them in detail for centuries to come. That’s exactly what the CyArk 500 Challenge hopes to achieve—and it’s set itself the ambitious target of doing it in just five years.
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Oct 21
Apple is holding a second fall media event Tuesday, and we’re expecting a boatload of new products and announcements. The company even admitted as much in its “We still have a lot to cover” invite. Here’s what we know — …
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Oct 21
Leaked from today’s 404 episode:
– Modern manners: what’s the protocol for dining alone with your device?
– New type of hacking combines blackmail for digital extortion.
– Neiman Marcus offers $1.5 million outdoor entertainment system.
– Sono concept device attaches to your window; offers peace, quiet.
– Netflix to test extra features for its original shows.
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Oct 21
I stumbled on this video made by Li Jin, a fan of both martial artists/actors. I don’t know this person, but he or she has managed to create a well put together 3mn computer graphics story that shows a rather epic fight between Donnie Yen and the legendary Bruce Lee. The rendering itself is not “super-realistic”, but the characters modeling is decent and the animations and overall choreography are well done. That is a ton of hard work right there. Interestingly enough, Donnie Yen is a big fan of Bruce Lee, and is most known for his role in Ip Man (bio here) – a Wing Chung grandmaster who happens to be Bruce Lee’s former master.
Awesome Bruce Lee vs. Donnie Yen (Virtual) Fight Video original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Oct 21
Netflix’s results for the third quarter have arrived and one of its most important numbers, the total amount of US subscribers (not including trial accounts), has reached 29.93 million, more than HBO’s last count of 28.7 million. Last year at this time it had notched 25.1 million US customers, and …
Oct 21
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Opera is taking the mobile market by storm with its mobile browser. In July Opera Mini users browsed their way to nearly 1 billion pageviews, and it currently occupies about 0.24% of the total browser market according to Net Applications. That’s not too shabby since it’s being ranked among desktop browsers.
It’s not surprising that Opera continues to work heavily on the Opera Mini browser to pack in even more great features. Now Opera Mini 4 Beta 2 was just released earlier this morning, and with it comes dozens of improvements and bug fixes.
Two of the more notable features with this release is the ability to browse sites horizontally (pictured to the right), and the option to change your search engine. Now you can use Google as your default search engine instead of Yahoo. Here’s a quick look at everything that’s new, and it appears that there was some tender love and care given to Blackberry devices:
- Customized search engine – now you could put Google Search on the start page. You can also create a search from any search field.
- Shortcut keys
- Browse in landscape mode – view the Web on a wider screen (hit "*" then "#" on your phone)
- Native menu for BlackBerrys and several other optimizations.
- Content folding – Collapses long menu lists (like those found on sidebars of webpages), so you don’t need to scroll through them to get to the page content. Note: This only works in “Fit to width” mode, not desktop.
- Supports secure connections for banks, eBay, etc.
- Small fonts have been enabled
- Improved image quality
- Added ‘Full screen’ mode
- Web-2.0 looking dialogs
- Fixed a ton of bugs
For those of you wondering there will be at least one more Beta release before it hits final form. I also received some good news today, and it’s that the problem rendering our site’s navigation bar has been confirmed as a bug. Now they are working on a fix for it. 🙂
Kudos to Opera on yet another fine pre-release, and I can’t wait to see what Opera 9.5 Alpha will bring on Tuesday.
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Sources: Opera Watch & Opera Press Release
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