Tuesday, February 26, 2013 - 3:16pm
A group of Silicon Valley heavyweights comes together to encourage more people to become programmers.
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 9:57am
One kilobyte is not much data. It's 1024 bytes, so if you think of one byte being represented by one character (not strictly correct but close), I've already wasted over 200 of them right here. It doesn't seem like you'd be able to program much with a mere one kilobyte of data, but prepare to be shocked at what's possible.
Thursday, July 1, 2010 - 8:01am
This morning DirecTV activated its 3D channel lineup, consisting of three channels: one for movies, one for on-demand programming and a "general" 3D channel called n3D. This is in addition to ESPN 3D, which launched in June and has been showing some World Cup games in 3D. So what's on those other channels?
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 - 3:04am
A team led by programmer Taeg Sang Cho has developed software that can figure out 400-piece jigsaw puzzles. Previous iterations of the technology needed a helping hand via less pieces or limited colors, but Cho's program can handle any image or photograph.
Friday, November 6, 2009 - 12:14pm
Urban Defender has gangs of players putting down the guns and knives and instead reaching for what looks like a glowing dodgeball. The objective here isn't to go after other people, though. You're aiming for buildings. The game apparently isn't...
Friday, October 9, 2009 - 12:44pm
From Japan's Vstone robotics company and the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (or ATR) comes the Robovie-PC, a new hobby robot with a neat little trick: imitating your arm movements. It's all a little Robot Jox, what with the robot's...
- DOS
- Future Tech
- PC
- programming
- research
- robot operating system
- robotics
- ROS
- science
- the future
- Willow Garage
- Windows
Monday, August 10, 2009 - 12:01pm
We told you a bit about the Robot Operating System (or ROS) before when it was helping a 'bot from Willow Garage find power outlets and — after the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Pasedena, California last month...
- articulated
- cameras
- canada
- Canadian
- development
- Hawk
- programming
- R&D
- research
- robotics
- robots
- telepresence
- training
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 3:38pm
From the frozen north comes the Hawk, a 'bot made by Canadian robotics R&D firm Dr. Robot (which is led by Dr. Haipeng Xie, who we assume is also a robot). The Hawk takes the shape of a lot of...
- art
- art installation
- design
- microsoft
- multi-touch
- Multitouch
- programming
- software
- Strukt
- Struktable
- surface
- video
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 11:45am
What would Microsoft's multitouch Surface table look like if a bunch of artists designed it? Well, if the Struktable is any indication, it'd have a lot less of the functionality — you know, being able to surf the web and...
Friday, January 9, 2009 - 12:31pm
Bug Labs is adding six new BUGmodules to its lineup including 3G, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity modules; a chat pad; a speaker/microphone module; von Hippel Module (for interfacing with I/O ports with your creation) and even a Pico projector....
