Microsoft Surface, which has a 30-inch display under a hard-plastic tabletop, allows people to touch and move objects on screen for everything from digital finger painting and jigsaw puzzles to ordering off a virtual menu in a restaurant.
It also recognizes and interacts with devices placed on its surface, so cell phone users can easily buy [...]
Stephen Wolfram, creator of Mathematica and author of A New Kind of Science, is offering a prize of $25K to anyone who can prove or disprove his conjecture that a particular 2-state, 3-color Turing machine is universal. If true, it would be the simplest universal TM, and possibly the simplest universal computational system. The announcement [...]
The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to:
Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page.
Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques.
Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such [...]
This project is very much still in Alpha stages but neverless it is working. Writing a database driver in actionscript raises some major concerns. One of the biggest concerns to address is fact that to use an actionscript database driver you will need to make your database server publicly accessible. Another issue is where to [...]
To say what happened today on Digg was a “user revolt†is an understatement. The Digg team deleted a story that linked to the decryption key for HD DVDs after receiving a take down demandand all hell broke loose. More stories appeared and were deleted, and users posting the stories were suspended.
That just got the [...]
Microsoft now has an officially-supported cross-platform implementation of the .NET Framework. That’s cross-platform folks, not just cross-browser. That means, in the not too distant future those cool .NET apps you’ve been working so hard on (you HAVE been building apps on .NET, right?) will run on a Mac too.
But that’s not all. Microsoft brought together [...]
Computer maker Dell has chosen Ubuntu as the operating system for its range of Linux computers for consumers. Michael Dell, the founder, chairman and chief executive of Dell, is himself an Ubuntu user. He has the operating system installed on a high-end Dell Precision M90 laptop he uses at home.
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