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Google Brings 3D To Web With Open Source Plugin 191

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 21, 2009 @06:00PM from the linux-users-see-these-instructions dept.

maxheadroom writes "Google has released an open source browser plugin that provides a JavaScript API for displaying 3D graphics in web content. Google hopes that the project will promote experimentation and help advance a collaborative effort with the Khronos Group and Mozilla to create open standards for 3D on the web. Google's plugin offers its own retained-mode graphics API, called O3D, which takes a different approach from a similar browser plugin created by Mozilla. Google's plugin is cross-platform compatible and works with several browsers. In an interview with Ars Technica, Google product manager Henry Bridge and engineering director Matt Papakipos say that Google's API will eventually converge with Mozilla's as the technology matures. The search giant hopes to bring programs like SketchUp and Google Earth to the browser space."

Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit 370

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 16, 2008 @06:03PM from the in-case-they-run-out-of-human-tools dept.

timdogg writes "Brilliant Digital Entertainment, an Australian software company, has grabbed the attention of the NY attorney general's office with a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers. The tool can 'check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images.' As with the removal of the alt.binary newgroups, this is being promoted under the guise of preventing child porn. The privacy implications of this tool are staggering."

Journal SPAM: HiROC Photos of Mars 3

Journal by stoolpigeon on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:39AM

The HiRISE Operations Center (HiROC) at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory is responsible for the majority of the ground data system work for the HiRISE instrument. Observation planning, uplink, downlink, data processing, and instrument monitoring are all performed at HiROC. The HiRISE camera is one of six instruments on board the Mars Reconnaiss

Submission + - The Good Fortune of Wii Exercise

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eldavojohn

on Friday February 02, 2007 @10:20AM

eldavojohn writes: "While some users of the Wii complained of soreness or "Wii elbow" when playing it too much, others are heralding its workout value. The University of Toronto is working on a "therapeutic video game" for the Wii that is designed to help children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy exercise their weaker limb, people are claiming weight loss and in the January issue of Pediatrics the Mayo clinic is proposing that gaming systems like the Wii can combat child obesity."

Comment Re:Tab changes suck! (Score 1) 319

by philolaus on Tuesday October 10, 2006 @12:18PM (#16379265) Attached to: Firefox 2.0 RC2 Review

browser.tabs.tabMinWidth (in about:config) defaults to 100 (pixels); set it to a smaller value to allow the tabs to accumulate more before the scrollers appear.

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