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Watch the wind across the US in real time-> 0

Submitted by 6 on Monday April 02, @01:37PM

6 writes "An invisible, ancient source of energy surrounds us—energy that powered the first explorations of the world, and that may be a key to the future."
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Let there be Quake-> 0

Submitted by 6 on Friday April 24 2009, @01:47AM

6 writes "Lo, there is a new release of ioquake3"
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The best Mobile Apps of 2007-> 0

Submitted by 6 on Friday December 14 2007, @09:19PM

6 writes "With the launch of the iPhone, rumors of Android, and just the shear coolness value of a pocket node on a global network spanning bazzilions of text sending monkeys mobile phones are once again going to be he item of choice on many people's list to Santa this year.
If you aren't already convinced of the fun you can have on a phone; here, according to once source, is a list of the top mobile apps of 2007"
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post-apocalyptic world of lego-> 0

Submitted by 6 on Thursday September 13 2007, @11:36AM

6 writes "Lego dioramas of a dark and bricky future"
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Why is Hollywood Making a Sequel of the Napster Wa-> 0

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on Friday August 10 2007, @08:56PM

6 writes "Cory Doctorow has an interesting article over on Information Week about Hollywood's strategy of suing sites such as YouTube. The sue-'em-all-and-let-God-sort-'em-out plan was a flop in the box office, a flop in home video, and a flop overseas. So why is Hollywood shooting a remake?"
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An Optical Solution For an NP-Complete problem?-> 0

Submitted by 6 on Wednesday August 08 2007, @11:51AM

6 writes "Tobias Haist and Wolfgang Osten have proposed a novel idea for solving the traveling salesman problem...

We introduce an optical method based on white light interferometry in order to solve the well-known NP-complete traveling salesman problem. To our knowledge it is the first time that a method for the reduction of non-polynomial time to quadratic time has been proposed. We will show that this achievement is limited by the number of available photons for solving the problem. It will turn out that this number of photons is proportional to NN for a traveling salesman problem with N cities and that for large numbers of cities the method in practice therefore is limited by the signal-to-noise ratio. The proposed method is meant purely as a gedankenexperiment."
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Artificial Womb for Artificial Insemination-> 0

Submitted by 6 on Sunday July 29 2007, @06:52PM

6 writes "In a bold move towards obsoleting half of the human race Japanese scientists have perfected a, "lab on a chip", which can be used as an artificial womb for post insemination embryos prior to implantation."
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Psychology, design and economics of slot-machines-> 0

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on Saturday July 21 2007, @03:29PM

6 writes "from the article... "Stanford design prof Michael Shanks has an online course unit about the design, politics, sociology and economics of slot machines that is flat-out fascinating, especially the manipulative psychology of slot and casino design. The layout also takes advantage of the differences between slot and table players. In general, table players do not like the noise of slot machines because they find it distracting. In addition, they may sometimes play a few rounds on slot machines spontaneously, but obviously prefer table playing. At the same time, however, spouses or partners of table players will often wile away time playing at a nearby slot machine. Thus casinos are planned such that there are slot machines lining walkways around tables. However, these slots are always tight. This cuts down on the noise and distraction to table players, and makes sense because the majority of players on these machines are playing spontaneously, with little expectation of winning. This demonstrates to what degree casino layouts are optimized — in this case, to the point that a complex system is implemented simply to clean up loose change from spontaneous players. "

the article on Boing-Boing

Design Class on Slot Machines"
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Who programs your videos->

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on Sunday June 17 2007, @02:10PM

6 writes "The battle for the video screen on your phone handset is starting to gain fire. In the end it may come down to a simple question of, "who do you want to decide what you see?

YouTUbe available on Verizon handsets and now through m.youtube.com only provides a 100 or so carefully editor graded videos. All under 5 minutes all selected to be as middle of the road inoffensive as can be.

By way of contrast a small upstart called mywaves, m.mywaves.com, presents over 50,000 channels aggregating almost every video blog on earth. Mywaves even allows you to build custom channels on the fly using search terms.

So who programs your videos, the editors or the geeks?"
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Advanced quadrupedal robot stars in music video

Submitted by 6 on Tuesday December 19 2006, @11:51PM

6 writes "The Big Dog robot by Boston Dynamics may be the most advanced quadrupedal pack droid of burden on the planet. It can carry a 120 pound load, climb hills and recover its balance when kicked. Check out this strange video of it walking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aRhRNeSpUg&eurl= or go to Boston Dynamics website for all the details http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?sect ion=BigDog"