55109737
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crabel writes:
The Oculus rift prototype Crystal Cove shown at CES uses a camera to track over two dozen infrared dots placed all over the headset. With the new tracking system, you can lean and crouch because the system knows where your head is in 3D space, which can also help reduce motion sickness by accurately reflecting motions that previously weren't detected.
On top of that, the new "low persistence" technique practically removes motion blur.
50447689
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crabel writes:
According to WHO, 127 millions of pre-school children worldwide suffer from vitamine A deficiency, causing some 500,000 cases of irreversible blindness every year. This deficiency is responsible for 600,000 deaths among children under the age of 5. Golden Rice might be a solution to this problem. The only problem? It's GMO.
In an interview inventor Potrykus, now close to 80 years old, answers questions about the current state of approval, which might happen in the next couple of months.
29805427
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crabel writes:
It appears, the dreaded RWA is dead. The bill would have prevented agencies of the federal government from requiring public access to federally subsidized research.
After Elsevier has pulled its support, it was decided that legislative action will be taken on the bill.
18349600
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crabel writes:
At the 27. Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin security researcher Julia Wolf pointed out numerous, previously hardly known, security problems in connection with Adobe's PDF standard. For instance, a PDF can reportedly contain a database scanner that becomes active and scans a network when the document is printed on a network printer.
17334322
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crabel writes:
3 blind people got implanted with a retinal chip that allowed them to see shapes and objects within days of the procedure.
"One of the patients surprised researchers by identifying and locating objects on a table; he was also able to walk around a room unaided, approach specific people, tell the time from a clock face, and describe seven different shades of gray in front of him."
15772592
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crabel writes:
A couple of weeks ago India went after RIM and it's mail service it has extended its hunger for data now to all telecommunication. All telecom companies have to give them access to all voice over IP services that go in/out or happen within the country. Heck, they are even going after VPNs used by corporate employees working remotely. What's next?
All your data are belong to us!
14666082
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crabel writes:
In Java 1.6.0_21 the company field was changed from "Sun Microsystems, Inc" to "Oracle".
Apparently not the best idea since some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine.
All eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) until and including the recent Helios release (2010) have been reported to crash with an OutOfMemoryError due to this change.
This is particularly funny since the update is deployed through automatic update and suddenly applications cease to work...
Good job!
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbugs.eclipse.org%2Fbugs%2Fshow_bug.cgi%3Fid%3D319514
