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Power Gig: it's a rhythm game... with a real guitar

10 March 2010, 7:20 pm by:
There is a point when playing rhythm games such as Rock Band or Guitar Hero where you hit a kind of wall; there is only so much to learn hitting buttons as notes flow down the screen. Power Gig: Rise of the Six String—in addition to having a te...

Code library gives homebrew iPod remotes chance for awesome

10 March 2010, 6:33 pm by:
Not too long ago, David Finland built a device capable of communicating with just about any model of iPod via the dock connector using an Arduino Nano, PodGizmo breakout board, an old USB iPod connector, and a momentary switch. While it may not soun...

Hands-on with Sony's new PlayStation Move motion controller

10 March 2010, 5:00 pm by:
SAN FRANCISCO — At a GDC event today, Sony showed off its new PlayStation Move controller, along with a number of games. The audience response was positive, but the demos shown, including sports games and sword-and-shield-style battles, seemed...

Bad employee! 12% knowingly violate company IT policies

10 March 2010, 3:17 pm by:
By now, it's practically a mantra that the biggest problem with corporate IT security is the employees themselves. However, we usually assume that's due to ignorant users or poorly enforced policies. Not so for a chunk of the US working population...

Researchers get plastic to act totally metal

10 March 2010, 2:27 pm by:
Plastics became ubiquitous during the 20th century. They were hot topics of industrial and academic research, and saw innumerable consumer applications. While plastics can have a wide variety of mechanical properties, they are almost universally good...

Pushing the speed limits of quantum memory

10 March 2010, 1:39 pm by:
It feels like quantum computers have barely been invented, and scientists are already testing how extensible the current technology is. A paper published in Nature Photonics this week describes how researchers are beginning to push the bandwidth limi...

Donkey-politician vid keeps two Azerbaijani bloggers in jail

10 March 2010, 12:41 pm by:
Two Azerbaijani bloggers will remain in jail after using a donkey to represent their government in a satirical YouTube video. Adnan Hajizade and Emin Milli lost an appeal Wednesday asking for them to be released from their respective 2 and and 2.5 ye...

LifeLock fined $12 million over lack of life-locking ability

10 March 2010, 11:37 am by:
Identity theft prevention service LifeLock is not as pristine as its reputation claims after all. The company agreed to pay out $12 million to settle charges with the Federal Trade Commission and 35 states, which had said that LifeLock's identity-the...

Cellcos hoping to cash in on iPad with 3G/4G mobile hotspots

10 March 2010, 10:55 am by:
Though the 3G-equipped version of the iPad will only be able to get data services from AT&T, Verizon apparently sees the introduction of Apple's tablet device as "an opportunity" for the company to sell data services. A supposed internal sal...

Free wireless broadband plan is déjà vu all over again

10 March 2010, 10:13 am by:
As part of the grand hoopla-fest building up to the release of the Federal Communications Commission's National Broadband Plan this month, the agency hosted a Digital Inclusion Summit at Washington, DC's Newseum on Tuesday. Co-sponsored with the Knig...

Street Fighter IV: as good as you can expect on the iPhone

10 March 2010, 9:30 am by:
Street Fighter IV is now available on Apple's App Store; you can pick it up right now for $10 if you'd like to see what Capcom can do with Apple's hardware. Capcom also threw quite the party at GDC, allowing the press and community some hands-on time...

Nanotubes help create thermopower waves

10 March 2010, 8:48 am by:
A paper published in Nature Materials this week details a new method for using nanotubes to generate significant amounts of power, at least for their size. When multi-walled carbon nanotubes are covered with a material that produces an exothermic re...

Getting chopped: why True Crime loves bladed weapons

10 March 2010, 8:05 am by:
Jeff O'Connell is the lead producer of the new True Crime game, and he's showing off the game's hand-to-hand fighting. The part of the game we saw was low on gunplay, but it looked great, with some cinematic-looking moves and kills. The game takes pl...

Google Apps becomes a platform, gets its own app store

10 March 2010, 7:31 am by:
At the Campfire One event last night, Google launched the Google Apps Marketplace and demonstrated how external Web applications from other vendors can be integrated into Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and other services that are part of the se...

Winning the war on cancer? US death rates show broad decline

10 March 2010, 6:52 am by:
President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971 and, since then, the National Cancer Institute (part of the NIH) has funded research on prevention, surveillance, and treatments. But, despite the effort, progress has been elusive, leading to press rep...

CodePlex refresh, FOSS projects more compatible with Windows

10 March 2010, 6:09 am by:
The CodePlex Foundation has announced the arrival of several new board members, including Jim Jagielski, the Chief Open Source Officer of SpringSource. Jagielski, who was one of the original cofounders of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), brings...

feature: True story: the making of the Terminator's laser-sighted .45 pistol

9 March 2010, 9:30 pm by:
One of the most striking images from The Terminator was the weapon he carried and used in his first attempt on Sarah Connor's life: the .45 Longslide, with laser sighting. Who can forget the scene in the gun shop? The gun was likewise such a striking...

HTC lawsuit came after warning by Apple to handset makers

9 March 2010, 7:25 pm by:
Apple COO Tim Cook's warning from early 2009 wasn't the only one that handset makers received before Apple sicced the lawyers on HTC last week. According to a research note from Oppenheimer analyst Yal Reiner, Apple began warning top executives at co...

MRI's successes put the brain on trial

9 March 2010, 5:24 pm by:
A typical neuroscience paper (or a typical report on one) is a laundry list of structure:function relationships between brain regions and the mental tasks they perform. The amygdala deals with registering rewards, the hippocampus handles memory, and...

Facebook's location feature expected to launch next month

9 March 2010, 3:10 pm by:
Facebook is allegedly planning to roll out location sharing capabilities next month, once again playing catch-up to other services that have gained popularity thanks to location data. The rumor comes courtesy of anonymous sources who have been "brief...

Microsoft browser ballot gives Opera, Firefox a boost

9 March 2010, 2:22 pm by:
The Microsoft browser ballot released this month to Windows users in the EU is already doing Microsoft's rivals a favor. Two of the major competitors to Internet Explorer have seen an increase in downloads, while the other two are not willing to shar...

The Internet of tomorrow: 100Gbps to your house by 2030

9 March 2010, 1:33 pm by:
Google's recent announcement of a 1Gbps fiber-to-the-home testbed has communities across the US salivating—but imagine what the Internet might be like if that connection to your home were even faster. Say... 100Gbps. In less than 20 years, such...

FileMaker Pro goes to 11, admits people like spreadsheets

9 March 2010, 12:06 pm by:
Apple subsidiary FileMaker has released version 11 of its flagship FileMaker Pro database. The updated software purports to make building and maintaining databases even easier, while acknowledging that many users are accustomed to using spreadsheets...

European Parliament unites against 3 strikes, ACTA secrecy

9 March 2010, 10:38 am by:
The European Parliament is fed up with the secrecy surrounding the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). Today, representatives from all the major parliamentary coalitions introduced a resolution demanding that the European Commission release a...

Microsoft begins rolling out redesigned MSN homepage

9 March 2010, 9:51 am by:
Microsoft today began rolling out its new MSN homepage, but not everyone will be getting it at once: the update will trickle out over the next few weeks to the site's 100 million US customers. The software giant is touting the new version as "its mos...

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