It has taken 120 years but the worlds best mathematicians and computer scientists have mapped out a 248-dimension mathematical structure, knows as E8. Solving E8 is seen as a major step in the study of symmetry, a mathematical field important to our understanding of the origins of the universe. (Image: John Stembridge, based on a drawing [...]
PureDepth Inc. has developed some new displays that won them a deal with International Game Technology Inc., the world’s largest maker of slot machines. Puredepth CEO Fred Angelopoulos demonstrates a 3-D image of a slot machine. The Silicon Valley startup has signed a deal with International Game Technology, the world’s largest maker of slot machines.(Marcio [...]
It seems not only did 300 set the record for biggest march opening and is now ranked number three for biggest R rated opening ever, it may have set a totally different type of record. According to the folks at Ain ‘t It Cool News, 300 might actually be the first movie ever to owe [...]
Aviv Raff, an independent researcher from Israeli, found a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer that could let someone “easily conduct phishing attacks”. Phishing is a technique in which criminals try to trick people into disclosing sensitive information such as online banking names and passwords and is often conducted through e-mails. Raff publicly disclosed the vulnerability in [...]
Google has been slapped with yet another lawsuit! This time it comes from the multimedia giant Viacom at the tune of $1 billion US. Viacom claims that there is approximately 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming that has been viewed 1.5 billion times. “YouTube is a significant, for-profit organization that has built a lucrative business out [...]
According to MPAA chairman Dan Glickman, the feature film ratings system everyone is used to may be receiving an overhaul in the coming months. There are two major problems they feel need to be addressed. First, the R rating is too broad in its current categorization of films. [...] the R rating is too broad, [...]
Well, you take it of course. That’s exactly what a man in Germany did after losing half his house to his wife in a divorce settlement. A trained mason, the man cut directly down the middle of his home, chainsawing through the wooden roof and walls. After finishing the job, the man took his half [...]