Real-time computer rendering breakthrough – ultra realistic skin [Video]

It might not seem like much of a big deal unless of course you play a lot of games; or you are a developer of games of course, then this news is a really big deal especially since the breakthrough is based on code that will work on run of the mill computers – like yours and mine. Graphics researcher Jorge Jimenez came up with the process called separable subsurface…
Read more...Damn that Mr. Clippy, now he’s in the washroom
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And here we thought he was dead and gone. via IsViral
Read more...DARPA is after your typing biometrics for post-password security
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As much as we might like to think otherwise passwords, as we use them – or not use them, today are for the most part – useless. The majority of people don’t take password security seriously – the number of “password” and “123456″ type of passwords are the perfect example. The remaining people that do can’t be sure about how secure those passwords are given the fact that for every…
Read more...Now this is the way to learn Windows – a teacher in a bikini [Video]
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Okay it’s only windows 95 and that hairdo is a dead give away to an age gone by, thankfully, but you got to admit that the idea of a bikini clad teacher would be a great incentive to help you want to learn the ins and outs of Windows. I mean come on Microsoft where’s our Greta for the new millennium huh? I mean it has to be a great way to…
Read more...Gee, is Google suffering from a little bit of font envy?
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One of the things that fans of Windows Phone really liked when it came to the Metro UI styling was the typography used. The specially designed version of the Segoe, called Segoe WP, that was first introduced in Office 2007 and is a variation of a font that was licensed from Agfa Monotype by Microsoft. So it was rather interesting last night when Google was doing its reveal of the Android 4.0…
Read more...Skydrive gets the Hawaii Five-0 treatment [Video]
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We’ve seen the occasional windows Phone show up various television shows but tonight both Windows Phone and Skydrive got some prime treatment from Hawaii Five-0. I managed to grab a few frames of it in action.
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