Live Face Mapping Demonstration
Aphex Twin held a live facial recognition demonstration at the London Electronic Festival this weekend. Check out the video below, kinda trippy looking if you ask me. Comments
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Amazon Eyes Subscription Web TV Service
An anonymous source claims that Amazon will soon launch a subscription web TV service to go head to head with Netflix. The Seattle-based online retailer has approached media companies including Time Warner Inc, CBS Corp and Viacom Inc, these people say. It is still not clear if the media companies would agree to Amazon's proposals which are still at an early stage, according to one person familiar with the talks. Comments
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Target Stores to Sell Facebook Gift Cards
This seems like an incredibly lame idea, doesn't it? Who is going to buy Facebook gift cards in a retail Target store? Social networking website Facebook is dipping into the brick-and-mortar world by selling gift cards at retailer Target that can be used toward purchasing virtual products for games hosted on the site. Facebook Credits will be available in Target stores beginning September 5 in increments of $15, $25 and $50. Comments
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Pirate Bay Documentary in the Works
A documentary about The Pirate Bay? Read the description below, would you actually watch something like this? "TPB AFK is not a fan movie about the Pirate Bay," says Klose. "Neither is it a journalistic piece on copyright conflict. It's an observational, character driven film about three guys whose hobby homepage became the embryo of a global political movement." Comments
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Coverage of Apple's Fall Event
For those of you interested, there will be up to the minute live coverage of Apple's fall event here, starting at noon today. For those of you not interested, consider this your warning. So it's just around the corner. What are we going to see? Some new iPods? A revamped Apple TV? Updates to iTunes? iOS 4 for the iPad? A fix to your heartbreaking antenna problem? New, brightly colored iShoes? Or all of the above? It's hard to say, but luckily Engadget will be covering Apple's latest event live with up-to-the-minute coverage. Comments
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AMD Graphics Business Announces Expanded Ecosystem
AMD today announced that a number of technology partners soon plan to release an inexpensive Single Link DisplayPort-to-DVI adapter. The addition of the adapter to the burgeoning ATI Eyefinity ecosystem comes on the heels of the recently announced increase in AMD-powered discrete graphics options for the Apple iMac and Mac Pro, as well as AMD's return to market share leadership in discrete graphics. The industry's only complete, top-to-bottom line of graphics products offering Microsoft® DirectX® 11 support helped drive the company's strong discrete graphics sales in the second quarter. In fact, in just nine months AMD had shipped more than 16 million DirectX 11-capable GPUs. Comments
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Microsoft Announces Upcoming Events with the Financial Community
Microsoft Corp. today announced participation in the following upcoming events with the financial community. Interested parties can view a webcast of these events on Microsoft's Investor Relations Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/investor. Citi Global Technology Conference Tuesday, September 7, 2010 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT Peter Klein, chief financial officer, Microsoft Deutsche Bank Technology Conference Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:30 p.m. ET/11:30 a.m. PT Tivanka Ellawala, chief financial officer, Mobile Communications Business Comments
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AT&T On Net Neutrality
You guys seriously have to read this blog post by AT&T vice president Hank Hultquist. You might have to skip all the talk of dogma, pagans, hegemons, faith-based initiatives and other stuffÂ…and even then you'll probably have to read it twice to figure out what the hell this guy is talking about. The CoENN creed against quality of service states that paid prioritization of Internet traffic: (1) has never been contemplated by standards organizations like the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); (2) does not exist on the Internet today and, to the extent it exists anywhere, is probably being used nefariously by the pagans; and (3) if it did exist on the Internet, it would be available to and affordable for only a small number of deep-pocketed hegemons. Comments
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Foursquare, MTV to Reward STD Checkups With Badge
This is definitely not one of the things I'd want to broadcast to the world. Are they going to give out pass / fail badges? This is just a stupid idea all the way around. You can "check in" to restaurants and bars, so how about health clinics while you get tested for sexually transmitted diseases? Foursquare, the phone application for telling friends and strangers where you are, is offering a special virtual "badge" in September to people who do just that. Comments
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Chilean Miners Receive PSPs
Buried in a collapsed mine 2,300 feet beneath the surface of the earth? What would you want sent down to you…well, besides a bunch of PSPs? The group of Chilean miners who became trapped in a deep section of a mine on August 15th have been receiving more and more help from the surface lately – after establishing the transportation pipe to the mine, the rescue workers have been sending all kinds of vital goods to the miners – and now they're providing them with some entertainment too, by sending them some PSPs. Comments
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Triple 42" 1080P TVs + Car = [H] Gaming
I am in the process of staging stuff to be packed for an upcoming move and, purely by coincidence, our TVs ended up sitting in front of my carÂ…and that's when it hit meÂ…wouldn't this make a killer Eyefinity or SLI Surround set-up? I already have the Eyefinity / SLI rigs and TVs, I just have to sit in the car with wireless keyboard and mouse / controller and I'd be all set. Hmmm, I'll try to get this set up before I make the move and show you guys how it worked out. Comments
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HP Holds Navy Network 'Hostage' for $3.3B
I think HP figured out a way to recoup the money from the $55M fine they got earlier todayÂ….with interest. "HP is holding the Navy hostage, and there isn't a peep about it," one Department of the Navy civilian tells Danger Room. "We basically had two recourses: pay, or send in the Marines." Comments
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