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Submission + - Gaming News From CES 2011 (itworld.com)

Submitted by itwbennett
itwbennett writes: ITworld's Peter Smith has a quick recap of gaming news from CES so far. Granted, most of the buzz has been about tablets and the out of place Windows 8 demonstration. Yes, there's Intel and its Sandy Bridge processors, and Vizio's partnership with OnLive, as well as a new product called Versus that 'lets two people play a game at the same time on a single TV (without resorting to split-screen).' But the best of the bunch, says Smith, is Razer's Switchblade, 'a Windows 7 based tiny laptop built for PC gaming. Razer is calling it a concept for now. It has a 7" capacitive touchscreen running at 1024x600. The keys on the keyboard are label via LCDs. When you're not gaming you'll get standard letters and numbers, but when you fire up a game the keys automagically change to support that particular game. You can plug a mouse into the USB port, or use the touchscreen.'
Google

Submission + - Inside Google's Vision of 'Augmented Humanity' (xconomy.com)

Submitted by waderoush
waderoush writes: In recent speeches, Google CEO Eric Schmidt has called the modern smartphone a 'supercomputer in your pocket' and shared his vision of an 'age of augmented humanity' when mobile devices will make it impossible to get lost, lonely, or bored. In a series this week, tech blog Xconomy takes a look at the actual technologies behind Schmidt's vision — areas of cutting-edge computer science where Google is exploiting its massive distributed-computing infrastructure, its Web-scale data trove, and statistical, data-driven machine learning models to make mobile devices far more powerful. Part 1 on speech recognition looks at the science behind the Voice Search feature of Google's mobile apps. Part 2 on machine translation examines how Google is eliminating the language barrier on the Web and building tools that emulate Star Trek's Universal Translator. And Part 3 on computer vision tells the story behind Google Goggles, the company's visual search tool for Android phones and iPhones, which can identify landmarks, paintings, book covers, and many other categories of objects. A quote from Hartmut Neven, Google's technical lead for image recognition, captures the scale of Google's ambitions in mobile search: 'We will soon approach the point where the artificial system knows much more about what you are looking at than you know yourself.'
First Person Shooters (Games)

Combat Vets On CoD: Black Ops, Medal of Honor Taliban 93

Posted by Soulskill from the not-as-messy-as-the-real-deal dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Thom 'SSGTRAN' Tran, seen in the Call of Duty: Black Ops live action trailer and in the game as the NVA multiplayer character, gets interviewed and talks about Medal of Honor's Taliban drama. '... to me, it's a non-issue. This is Hollywood. This is entertainment. There has to be a bad guy if there's going to be a good guy. It's that simple. Regardless of whether you call them — "Taliban" or "Op For" — you're looking at the same thing. They're the bad guys.'" Gamasutra published a related story about military simulation games from the perspective of black ops veteran and awesome-name-contest winner Wolfgang Hammersmith. "In his view, all gunfights are a series of ordered and logical decisions; when he explains it to me, I can sense him performing mental math, brain exercise, the kind that appeals to gamers and game designers. Precise skill, calculated reaction. Combat operations and pistolcraft are the man's life's work."
Transportation

Denver Airport Overrun by Car-Eating Rabbits 278

Posted by samzenpus from the night-of-the-lepus dept.
It turns out the soy-based wire covering on cars built after 2002 is irresistible to rodents. Nobody knows this better than those unlucky enough to park at DIA's Pikes Peak lot. The rabbits surrounding the area have been using the lot as an all-you-can-eat wiring buffet. Looks like it's time to break out The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.

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