Interesting News

Teaser Trailer for a 3D Physics Engine? Yes and It’s Amazing (video)

Anthony — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:26:01 -0500

Google Buys Metaweb, the One Company That Could Revolutionize Google Search

Anthony — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:03:01 -0500

Google has acquired Metaweb, which maintains a database (“Freebase”) of 12 million “entities” (persons, places, or things), and all the different ways they relate and you might refer to them.

An invisible computer mouse

Anthony — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 06:22:25 -0500

(MIT Media Lab)

MIT Media Lab researchers have developed Mouseless, an invisible computer mouse that costs about $20 to build.

YouTube now supports 4k-resolution videos

Anthony — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:48:15 -0500

YouTube has announced that its player now supports 4k, a standard resolution for films that measures 4096×3072 pixels (requiring special equipment to view).

As YouTube Engineer Ramesh Sarukkai explained in the announcement on YouTube’s official blog, “4K is nearly four times the size of 1080p,” and it dwarfs even Imax, which projects films in the slightly smaller 2k format, with its 2048?1080-pixel resolution.