Microsoft Announces ID@Xbox for Indie Developers
Microsoft announced today at Gamescom the company would be supporting independent game publishers through a new program called ID@Xbox which will give Indie developers the access to needed tools for publishing.
"In talking with scores of independent developers over the past year, it's clear they are ready for new ways to develop and reach customers, so, we're acting to meet the needs of the development community and in turn, enable a proliferation of games for Xbox fans."
Comments
Read More ...
Apple Patents 3D Gesture Control Via Hover-Based Input
Apple has just received a patent for 3D gesture control for maneuvering 3D objects above the screen on iPads and other similar devices.
Other uses include using 3D gestures to sculpt with virtual clay-like materials, and the ability to use gestures to change things like object shadows, brightness textures and more.
Comments
Read More ...
Court: IP Masking Violates Computer Fraud Act
A ruling handed down by a Northern California District Court Judge ruled that masking your IP to gain entrance to blocked web sites violated the terms of the 1984 CFAA law. Thanks to TheWeazmeister for the heads up.
3taps asked the court to "hold that an owner of a publicly accessible website has no power to revoke the authorization of a specific user to access that website" and argued that criminalizing its activity under the CFAA would create a slippery slope that could harm ordinary Internet users and allow Web companies to use anti-competitive practices.
Comments
Read More ...
New GeForce 326.80 Drivers Now Available!
Just released today, the new 326.80 Beta Drivers are now available for download. The updated drivers are optimized for the just-released Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist and are the recommended drivers for Windows8.1 preview.
Performance Boost – Increases performance by up to 19% for GeForce 400/500/600/700 series GPUs in several PC games vs. GeForce 320.49 WHQL-certified drivers.
Comments
Read More ...
Chrome 29 Arrives with Omnibox
Chrome 29 was released today for the major operating systems. The new version brings new improvements to the browser and fixes nine security vulnerabilities.
As in previous releases, Google also included the usual bug fixes, stability improvements, and so on in Chrome version 29.0.1547.57
Comments
Read More ...
Gamescom: Battlefield 4 Video Roundup
Gamescom promised to deliver footage of the major game rollouts coming later this year and has not failed to live up to that promise. Up this round is gameplay footage from soon-to-be Beta, Battlefield 4.
Comments
Read More ...
Waiting Is Over: Sony Announces PS4 Launch Date
If you had a pool going on the date of the new PlayStation 4 being released and had sometime in October, you just lost.
Floating through the PlayStation 4 user interface, the company showed how seamless it would be to see online games in progress before joining up in an instant. It's expected that this online gameplay system will be launched at the same time as the PlayStation 4 itself.
Comments
Read More ...
Scan the Entire Internet in an Hour or Less
Now you can scan the entire Internet and see where the end really is. A research team at the University of Michigan have developed ZMap that can do the job quick as a wink and showed off their handiwork at the Usenix security conference on Friday.
The lower overhead of this approach allows ZMap to send out packets more than 1,000 times faster than Nmap.
Comments
Read More ...
Google: We Are Above UK Privacy Laws
Google has basically informed the British government this week that they have no jurisdiction over the multinational company. The defiant stance from Google stems from a lawsuit concerning privacy matters over tracking cookies.
In response to the campaign group's allegations, the search engine giant says in legal filings that as an American firm, British privacy laws do not apply, and so the matter cannot be brought to a U.K. court.
Comments
Read More ...
Skype Now Comes Straight from Outlook Account
Keeping to its promise of Skype integration, Microsoft announced Skype would be accessible straight from within your Outlook.com account.
Skype is launching in the U.S., the U.K., Germany, France, Canada, and Brazil today, and will continue to roll out the integration to users in other countries "in the near future."
Comments
Read More ...
Google Glass Tipped for Police, First Responders
Mutualink, Inc. is pitching Google Glass as the next big thing in assisting emergency personnel, namely firemen and police personnel, in the course of their everyday duties. At last, a place where Google Glass will be welcomed.
Mutualink also enables multimedia file sharing, and when this is combined with Google Glass, first responders could receive and view documents, images and schematics in real time.
Comments
Read More ...
Seasonic X-Series: X-650 Power Supply Review
Seasonic's X-Series computer power supply comes to us boasting a patented fully modular design that minimizes voltage drops and impedance while greatly maximizing efficiency, cooling, and overall performance. Being a Seasonic unit, we can also count on it targeting the users looking for a quiet computing experience.
Read More ...
Available Tags:Microsoft , Apple , 3D , Via , GeForce , Chrome , Sony , PS4 , UK , Skype , Google ,
No comments:
Post a Comment