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While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?

The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.

Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...

Tuesday, 31 May 2011 13:00

The Perils of Cloud Computing

What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?

I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.

Afin d'augmenter la sensation de réalisme, cette salle de jeux videos situé dans la ville d'Odaiba au Japon, a décidé d'installer le joueur dans de vraies voitures. Il parait que les sensations sont garanties par le constructeur.

In order to increase the sense of realism, this video games room located in the city of Odaiba in Japan, decided to install the player in real cars. It seems that the sensations are guaranteed by the manufacturer.

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Lenovo a dévoilé hier, en Chine, quelques prototypes fonctionnelles de sa nouvelle tablette/smartphone pliable. Grace à ce produit 2 en 1, vous aurez partout avec vous, votre tablette et votre smartphone. On attend la réponse commerciale de la part de samsung et apple ...

Lenovo showed yesterday, in China, some functional prototypes of its new tablet / smartphone foldable. Thanks to this 2 in 1 product, you will have everywhere with you, your tablet and your smartphone. We are waiting for the commercial answer from samsung and apple ...

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Les drônes sont fascinants pour les ingénieurs. Ils sont légers et facile à programmer. Ce chercheur a mis au point un programme d'évitement. Et depuis, il s'est mis à l'escrime. Dois t on y voir une inspiration directement tiré de la guerre des étoiles ?

The drones are fascinating for engineers. They are lightweight and easy to program. This researcher has developed an avoidance program. And since he started fencing. T Do we see inspiration drawn directly from Star Wars?

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A force de conduire toute l'année leur chariot élévateur, ce conduiteur connait parfaitement son engin. Au point qu'il est capable de laisser tomber dans une bouteille, une piece de monnaie qu'il a préalablement ramassé avec son chariot.

By driving their forklift all year long, this driver knows his gear perfectly. To the point that he is able to drop in a bottle, a coin that he has previously picked up with his cart.

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L'accéléré est une technique scientifique permettant d'analyser des phénomènes lents. Dans cette vidéo, c'est la croissance de 2 aiglons en aigles adultes.

Time-lapse is a scientific technic for analyzing slow phenomena. In this video, you can see the growth of two eagles eagles in adults.

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La chinese est pleine de contrastes extrèmes. Pour le nouvel an chinois, il est de tradition de faire exploser des petards pour éloigner les mauvais esprits. Et personne ne déroge à la règle. C'est le cas de cette famille qui a ajouté un drone ! Et voici le résultat...

The chinese is full of extreme contrasts. For Chinese New Year, it is customary to blow up firecrackers to ward off evil spirits. And no exception to the rule. This is the case of this family who added a drone! Here is the result ...

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The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again

AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.

Malgré ces echecs, Boston Dynamics continue ses recherches et voici le dernier né qui avait été présenté lors du dernier salon. Voici quelques aspects de ces capacités en terme de franchissement, de déplacement et d'évitement.

Despite these failures, Boston Dynamics continues its research and here is the latest born that had been presented at the last show. Here are some aspects of these capabilities in terms of crossing, displacement and avoidance.

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