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Watch: Disney’s Experimental Touchscreens Let You ‘Feel’ Digital Objects

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As reported on Wired. BY KYLE VANHEMERT The latest project out of Disney Research’s lab is a rig that lets you feel objects on a touchscreen, using nothing more than some cleverly programmed vibrations. Image: Disney Research By modulating the voltage of the vibrations supplied to the screen, the team’s algorithm can simulate bumps, edges, textures and protrusions. Image: Disney Research In some cases, that can be predefined geometric information. Here, a Kinect-like depth-sensing camera pulls out some…

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Vaccine deniers: inside the dumb, dangerous new fad

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As reported on The Verge. By Lessley Anderson Why a San Francisco community is disregarding mainstream medicine and putting its children at risk In San Francisco’s upscale Pacific Heights neighborhood, some 200 students from kindergarten to the eighth grade attend classes at the private San Francisco Waldorf School. On any given afternoon outside of the cheerful, modern white building, parents congregate to wait for their kids. Chit-chat includes the typical fodder like play dates and birthdays,…

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Dick Cheney had the wireless disabled on his pacemaker to avoid risk of terrorist tampering

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As reported on The Verge. By Carl Franzen Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has for years warned that America needs to be on guard against terrorist threats. As it turns out, he took that warning to heart quite literally. In a recent interview with medical journalist Sanjay Gupta on CBS News’s 60 Minutes, Cheney and one of his doctor’s revealed for the first time that the Vice President’s pacemaker had its wireless feature disabled in 2007,…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Board of China’s Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Catherine Shu Apple CEO Tim Cook has joined the advisory board of Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (SEM), according to its Web site. Located in Beijing, Tsinghua is one of China’s most prestigious universities. The advisory board meets annually “to offer advice on the development of Tsinghua SEM,” according to its site. Other notable American members include Henry M. Paulson Jr., the former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and former…

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‘Army of Darkness 2’ rises from the grave with Bruce Campbell as Ash

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As reported on The Verge. By Rich McCormick Bruce Campbell has confirmed the existence of an upcoming sequel to 1992 schlock-horror, Army of Darkness. Campbell — the star of the Evil Dead trilogy that includesArmy of Darkness — also confirmed that he would be reprising the role of chainsaw-handed protagonist Ash at Wizard World Nashville Comic Con. Campbell’s confirmation came in response to fan questions, and follows remarks made earlier this year by Sam Raimi. Raimi, the director of the original Army of Darkness, ‘threatened’ Campbell “every…

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Tablets To Grow 42.7% This Year, Says Gartner, As The Traditional PC declines 11.2%

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As reported on TechCrunch. by Natasha Lomas   The tablet category is continuing to eat the PC’s lunch, albeit it’s a large lunch so the feast is taking a while. Analyst Gartner expects worldwide tablet shipments to grow 42.7% this year, with shipments reaching 184 million units. And while traditional PCs are still shipping a lot more units (303,100 forecast for this year), those shipments are continuing to decline — predicted to be down 11.2% on 2012 shipments.…

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IBM Is Not A Cloud King

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As reported on TechCrunch. IBM reported its third quarter financials this past week that showed a company struggling with its legacy hardware business and the problems that come with a confused cloud services strategy. Revenues were down $1 billion with hardware sales declining 17 percent. Overall revenues for the nine-month period totaled $72.1 billion, a decrease of 4 percent, compared with $75.2 billion for the nine months of 2012. The software division is not having tremendous success, either. This last…

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Time Machines: A PC pioneer

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As reported on Engadget. By Jon Turi Welcome to Time Machines, where we offer up a selection of mechanical oddities, milestone gadgets, and unique inventions to test out your tech-history skills. This digital device was released in 1971, just prior to the announcement of the first commercially available microprocessor. It offered a personal computing experience at a relatively affordable price and, in 1986, it was selected as the winner in the Computer Museum’s “Earliest PC Contest.” Head past…

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Microsoft Surface 2 review: a second chance for Windows RT?

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As reported on Engadget. By Dana Wollman We get the sense Microsoft wants to distance itself from the original Surface RT. After taking a $900 million hit on unsold inventory, the company held a press eventwhere it saved the Surface 2 for last and billed it as a major redesign. “Surface 2 is not subtle, but a revamp,” Surface GM Panos Panay said that day. “It is not the simple changes that everybody wants, but it’s the changes people need.” Those changes include…

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The Amazing Classic Cars in These Vintage Shots Aren’t What You Think

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As reported on Wired. BY DAMON LAVRINC View as gallery   They’re scenes pulled straight out of a 1950s traveling brochure. Classic cars, trucks, buses, and trains set in period-specific backdrops of vintage Americana. But it’s not what you think. It’s a world of scale models and forced perspectives, all created with a cheap point-and-shoot and just the slightest touch of Photoshop. Michael Paul Smith is the first to admit he isn’t a professional photographer. “I…

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