Virtually Doom 3, Color in Marvel Movies, Inflate Space, more Facebook News Foo, Alternative Browsers, Robotic Walls, and more Week in Geek News from Miles, Dedi, and Lyle.
The Doom series is known for its busy modding scene, so it’s appropriate that a Doom mod may have just shown us the way to get big budget first-person shooters to work on virtual reality headsets. Using the graphically enhanced “BFG” version of 2004’s Doom 3, the mod from “Codes4Fun” skillfully ports to game to the HTC Vive, generally making it look as though it was designed for the platform all along.
This video essay from Patrick (H) Willems explores the aesthetic within Marvel movies, which, over the years, has become something of a muddled mess.
CSS4 takes on one of computing’s biggest challenges: addressing the imperfections of the humans using it. You think you know color?
The late 1990s were a fascinating period in the evolution of cinema technology. Film, the only physical medium cinema had ever known, was slowly being replaced by newfangled digital technology. And it was in 2000 that the Academy Award winning film O Brother, Where Art Thou gorgeously illustrated the potential of digital filmmaking.
Google is warning prominent journalists and professors that nation-sponsored hackers have recently targeted their accounts, according to reports delivered in the past 24 hours over social media.
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In the wake of Donald Trump’s shock Nov. 8 electoral victory, attention fell on the extent to which voter opinions could have been shaped by an epidemic of
Quincy Larson wrote an interesting article "I can
App usage (90% of time) dominates browsers in mobile usage
We reported comScore data in May 2012 that showed that on smartphones
Brave keeps you and your information safer, effectively shielding you from 3rd party tracking and malvertisement.
Today, we
A half-year has passed since astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully inflated
In Future House, Ross Trethewey helps build a robotic wall that could be the key to tight spaces in urban living.
Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what’s in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.
So much power was produced by Denmark
Effective altruism is a growing social movement founded on the desire to make the world as good a place as it can be, the use of evidence and reason to find out how to do so, and the audacity to actually try.
As the organisation to first settle on the term ‘effective altruism’, the Centre for Effective Altruism is a growing coalition of projects that put these ideas into practice in different ways. The Centre is based at its offices in the University of Oxford, with team members based all over the world.
A self-driving truck will begin traveling on two Ohio roads next week after state officials announce details of new investments to support innovative transportation technology.
You are under surveillance right now.
Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who
At this year’s LA Auto Show, Chrysler launched the Hybrid version, which also plugs in for charging and uses a 16-kWh lithium-ion battery pack netting a pure electric range of 30 miles (48km) (and a total of 260 hp/194kW), making it the world’s first plug-in hybrid minivan. For families who seek the utility, space, and easy ingress/egress of a minivan in a hybrid package, it’s a no-brainer.
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