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– OMG! QUICK! SOMEBODY KILL IT WITH FIRE [Video]
– Cows & Cows & Cows [Video]
8-Bit Retro Warfare [Video]
Happy First Birthday Microsoft Kinect! [Video]
Last weekend, Microsoft’s Kinect controller turned one year old! Happy birthday Kinect!
See the future possibilities of Kinect that go beyond the expected, into truly amazing things that people around the world are beginning to imagine.
Modern Samurai Will Blow Your Mind
And now, for the coolest thing you will see today: Isao Machii, a “modern samurai”, cuts numerous objects with stunning precision. With a samurai sword. YES!
[Via Boing Boing]
Need for Speed: The Run – A Game Trailer by Michael Bay [Video]
The official Michael Bay-directed game trailer for EA’s upcoming racing game, Need for Speed: The Run.
Starring Sean Faris as Jack Rourke and Christina Hendricks as Sam Harper, The Run features an intense race-for-your-life story, taking players on an illicit, coast-to-coast race from San Francisco to New York.
The CIA is Watching You Tweet
…The CIA maintains a social-media tracking center operated out of an nondescript building in a Virginia industrial park. The intelligence analysts at the agency’s Open Source Center, who other agents refer to as “vengeful librarians,” are tasked with sifting through millions of tweets, Facebook messages, online chat logs, and other public data on the World Wide Web to glean insights into the collective moods of regions or groups abroad.
[Source: The Atlantic]
Stanford Researchers Crack “Captcha” Test
Oh, Captcha. The bane of my online-buying existance. Is that an “E” or a “C”? Lower case “B” or lower case “H”? Hopefully this recent development will force developers to think of a new, slightly less annoying way to protect our identities online.
Their bot is 25% effective in breaking the security used on Wikipedia, 43% on eBay and up to 66% on the Visa site belongs to authorize.net. The program worked pretty good on Digg and pages belonging to CNN. Most of the commonly used methods of protection are failing to the new tool created in Stanford University…
The program removes background noise from the image and then splits the text into individual letters, which are easier to identify than a whole words. After the publication of the document, Visa and Digg started using reCAPTCHA on their websites.
The Kitchen of the Future
The Guardian has a stimulating new article on the development, by researchers at MIT, of the “kitchen of the future”.
You get home late, unsure of what to make from the random collection of ingredients in your cupboard. A while back you might have speed-dialled for a pizza but now, instead of worrying about eating a collection of this and that, you’re excited. You pull out each vegetable, a couple of jars of spices and the half-bag of pasta. You pass each one in front of a webcam next to your cupboard. A few moments later, a screen on your fridge displays a tasty recipe. After dinner, you take your plates to a box next to the sink. Instead of cleaning them, your machine recycles the material and produces new plates every time you need to eat. Later in the evening, you phone your other half, who is on a business trip half-way around the world. As you drink your cup of cocoa (added to your weekly shopping list by your internet-enabled cupboards when they saw you were getting low), it makes your other half’s cup glow on the other side of the world, another subtle way to keep in touch … Welcome to the kitchen of the future.
via The Guardian