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Submission + - A $10 wok replaces a $20,000 satellite dish

Submitted by tchild on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @06:44PM

tchild writes: EE Times reports a $10 wok replacing a $20,000 satellite dish.

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jht ml?articleID=197700218

Audio Watermark Web Spider Starts Crawling 173

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday February 28, 2007 @05:44PM from the now-it-just-needs-to-serve-you-papers-automatically dept.

DippityDo writes "A new web tool is scanning the net for signs of copyright infringement. Digimarc's patented system searches video and audio files for special watermarks that would indicate they are not to be shared, then reports back to HQ with the results. It sounds kind of creepy, but has a long way to go before it makes a practical difference. 'For the system to work, players at multiple levels would need to get involved. Broadcasters would need to add identifying watermarks to their broadcast, in cooperation with copyright holders, and both parties would need to register their watermarks with the system. Then, in the event that a user capped a broadcast and uploaded it online, the scanner system would eventually find it and report its location online. Yet the system is not designed to hop on P2P networks or private file sharing hubs, but instead crawls public web sites in search of watermarked material.'"

Miyamoto Lecture At Smithsonian Documented 36

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday May 25, 2004 @07:18PM from the it's-a-me dept.

Thanks to 1UP for its report on last week's Smithsonian lecture featuring game industry luminaries, including Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto, and as previously mentioned on Slashdot Games. After Miyamoto's entrance, heralded with "hoots and hollers [so loud] that you'd think Natalie Portman had just walked out on stage at a Star Wars convention", the article quotes the Nintendo mainstay on his entrance to the industry ("When I originally I came to Nintendo it was to do industrial design... I wanted to make the new Rubix Cube. I never imagined that I would work in video games, especially since I don't like computers"), and his concern over making videogames accessible: ("Everyone should be able to pick-up a controller and play a video game... But still so many people think games are too complex. So I developed the L/R buttons and analog stick to simplify things.")

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