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Realtime Special Effects!

This is to show that sometimes you don’t need much to create illusions. The only real thing in the scene is the guy. All the rest is mostly a green screen realtime projection. Interesting!

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Run Siri on the iPhone 4 (not S)!

This Siri install on a regular iPhone 4 is something one could expect to happen as it’s just a piece of software. Apple simply decided that to help the iPhone 4S sales, Siri servers would block any other device running it. But there are good news here. One day, sooner or later, in fact, when [...]

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Dennis Ritchie, Father of C Language, Is Dead!

Dennis Ritchie (guy on the right in the above picture) is dead at 70. In case you don’t know him, he’s the father of C programming language, one of the most used in the IT world. The guy on the left is Ken Thompson. Ritchie and Thompson created the so famous UNIX operating system. Thanks [...]

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Why Apple’s iPhone 4S Siri Sucks?

1) Press the button. Every fanboy sees iPhone 4S’s Siri as a game changer in voice command. Really? Hey, you still need to push a button to make it work, right? Any $10 voice command gadget works like that! If the device had to permanently “listen” in case you say something, your iPhone battery would [...]

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Take The Skin Of Your Favorite Celebrity!

Always wanted to look like Brad Pitt (or any other celebrity)? Soon you’ll be able to make that dream come true. Kyle McDonald and Arturo Castro have created a still experimental software that can apply a skin to your face while real time video chatting with your webcam. The result is that you really look [...]

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Windows 8 Secure Boot = No Piracy or Other OS!

Microsoft is making things happen in the near future with Windows 8 secure boot system. Secure boot is made to lock installing non genuine software, and by the way, non signed software, like other Operating Systems (i.e. Linux distros) on your new machine. Of course, the majority of PC buyers won’t care as they don’t [...]

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Why Windows 8 Will be an Epic Fail?

Well, nobody reads the future for sure, but check the above pic. See the alternate sequence? Windows is like a wine, one year it’s pretty good, the other just an apocalypse. So what do you say? Epic fail or Epic fail? ;)

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Windows 8 with Built-In Blue Screen Of Death!

Remember that epic blue screen of death of Windows 95 and sons ? Well, here you are with the new modern Windows 8 version of it: an almost empty screen with a sad smiley to remind you just bought a bunch of bugs called Windows ! :( Ah, of course, at that very moment, your [...]

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Will Windows 8 Kill The iPad and Android?

With Microsoft adding a huge touch interface to Windows 8, is “windows” still a good product name for it? “Metro”, the name of the touch interface with tiles for apps built-in Windows 8 could simply be THE product name. Microsoft is rushing all engines on into the touch screen land, and serves it as the [...]

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Can a Computer Predict The Future?

What? Strange question isn’t it? First of all, and you know it, a computer is only the host of a program: hardware hosting software. So when we talk about computers that can predict the future, we only talk in fact about the software their run. That said, the question remains relatively new to us, people [...]