Microsoft admits Xbox hacks
Software giant Microsoft has admitted that users of its Xbox Live network are being hacked, but denies that it is any hardware, software or networking flaw. Instead, Microsoft thinks that its...
View ArticleSony VAIO gets Kinect-style gestures
Sony is about to release its latest 14-inch notebook, the VAIO E Series 14P with Kinect style gesture control. It measures in at 22.4mm thick, the 1366 x 768 notebook runs Intel’s Core i3-2350M...
View ArticleCompany comes up with ultra-accurate Kinect alternative
A new USB device, called The Leap, has just been released that puts Microsoft’s Kinect back into the stone age. The hardware creates an 8-cubic-feet bubble of “interaction space”, which detects your...
View ArticleCreepy Microsoft patent filing turns Kinect into 1984-style monitor
Microsoft has registered a patent with the USPTO which could turn the Kinect into a spying device that regulates viewing content based on how many users are in a room. Microsoft’s bizarre idea would...
View ArticleMicrosoft open sources bits of Kinect
Proprietary software king Microsoft has open sourced some of the code for Kinect for Windows. Microsoft has released 22 code samples for Kinect to CodePlex. It is not a total open sourcing, but it is...
View ArticleApple to buy PrimeSense
Apple is reportedly in talks to acquire Israeli motion-tech firm PrimeSense, the company responsible for the inner workings of the Kinect. Israel’s Calcalist reports the two had been in recent weeks...
View ArticleMIT comes up with Kinect through walls
Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have emerged from their smoke filled labs with a Kinect type of device which can see through walls and pinpoint a person with incredible...
View ArticleMIT geek sex creates chips configured by light
MIT researchers have emerged from their smoke filled labs after watching a coupling of photons and electrons on a topological insulator. This type of coupling had been predicted by theorists, but...
View ArticleScientists revolt against political interference
A scientific programme, which would prove that humans had nothing to do with global warming, has hit a snag. Nebraska State Senator Beau McCoy who wants his big business chums to make their profits...
View ArticleIEEE enthuses about new cache memory management
The IEEE is getting excited about a new process for managing the fast-access memory inside a CPU which it claims can lead to as much as a twofold speedup and to energy-use reductions of up to 72...
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