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Submission + - HP Webcam fails to track black people (dvice.com)

Submitted by Simmeh
Simmeh writes: DVICE has reported on a hilarious youtube video demonstrating HP's face-tracking webcam, showing how it works perfectly on a white women, and fails on a black man. Its more likely the lighting has caused this failure, rather than HP racism as the article declares but at least HP are looking into the issue.

Submission + - Channel 4 to broadcast 3d (channel4.com)

Submitted by fatnickc
fatnickc writes: The UK's Channel 4 are, from the 16th of September, broadcasting a few programmes in 3d, the full list of which can be found at http://www.channel4.com/programmes/themes/3d-week. Whilst the likes of a 3D Miley Cyrus concert aren't exactly groundbreaking, this will give 3d viewing at home much more publicity, paving the way for even more interesting projects in the future. In partnership with retailer Sainsbury's, Channel 4 are producing free 3D glasses (http://www2.sainsburys.co.uk/instoreoffers/free_3d_glasses.htm) so that as many people as pssible can watch them, although it's unclear which of the various types they'll be. Whether those who have glasses and enjoy the show will number more than those who complain about being left out remains to be seen, but it'll certainly give the broadcaster lots of publicity.
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Submission + - US Navy Ordered to Listen for Martian Radio Broadc (examiner.com)

Submitted by MarkWhittington
MarkWhittington writes: It seems that a SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) experiment happened decades before the Project Ozma occurred in 1960. The historians at the blog Letters of Note have uncovered a telegram sent in 1924 by then Chief of Naval Operations Edward W. Eberle instructing the United States Navy to listen for radio transmissions from the planet Mars.

Submission + - Boy Floats Away In flying saucer looking Balloon 1

Submitted by ls671
ls671 writes: FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.

The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became untethered at the boy's home.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/21306839/detail.html
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Australian Defence Force Builds $1.7m Linux-Based Flight Simulator 232

Posted by timothy from the send-some-love-to-flightgear dept.
scrubl writes "The Australian Defence Force (ADF) has revealed its latest flight simulator runs on SUSE Linux-based clusters of Opteron servers and uses an open source graphics platform. The Defence Science and Technology Organisation's (DSTO) Air Operations Simulation Centre in Melbourne creates virtual worlds that allow pilots to experience real-world combat situations without leaving the ground. The visuals software was written in OpenGL, using commercial and open source scene graph engines and making 'heavy use of OpenGL Shader Language programs.'"

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