Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
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...
May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered
2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.
“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”
That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.
WebBuzz du 21/01/2014: La boucle vidéo avec une caméra est hypnotisante-The camera feedback loop is mesmerizing
Tous ceux qui ont joué avec une caméra vidéo connaissent ce phénomène. Mais le résultat change d'un appareil à un autre. Dans tous les cas, on peut s'amuser pendant des heures jusqu'à être hypnotisé par l'écran.
Everyone who has played with a video camera familiar with this phenomenon. But the result changes from one device to another. In any case, we can have fun for hours to be hypnotized by the screen.
WebBuzz du 10/02/2015: Robot quadrupède tous terrains-All road four legged robot
Robotics lab Boston Dynamics est heureux de vous annoncer la naissance de spot. C'est un robot quadrupède totallement indépendant et capable d'affronter n'importe quel terrains. Il se déplace tout seul et sait garder l'équilibre. Impressionnant.
Robotics lab Boston Dynamics is pleased to announce the birth spot. It is a quadruped robot totally independent and able to tackle any terrain. It moves by itself and knows how to keep the balance. Impressive.
L’accessoire Les geeks décodent l'heure au poignet
Cadence a conçu une montre que seuls les geeks seront capables de décoder.

L’affichage des heures se fait en mode binaire.
En vente en pré-commande au prix de 195 dollars.
WebBuzz du 16/04/2014
Vous souhaitez disposer de votre propre simulteur de vol personnel. C'est maintenant possible avec cette nouvelle version, il est même possible de vous mettre la tête à l'envers. Veuillez attacher vos ceintures, ça va décoiffer.
You want to have your own personal flight simulteur. This is now possible with this new version, it is even possible to put your head upside down. Please fasten your seatbelts, it's going décoiffer.
WebBuzz du 19/09/2013
Pour Ceux qui n'aurait pas eu le loisir de voir en direct l'opération de redressement du Costa Concordia, voici une petite scéance de rattrappage et en moins de 2 minutes. Même si l'opération a l'air simple, elle cache beaucoup de technicité et de professionnalisme.
For those who would not have had the opportunity to see live the recovery operation of the Costa Concordia, here's a little time-laspe and in less than 2 minutes. Although the operation looks simple, it hides a lot of technical expertise and professionalism.
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.
Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone

Where most slider phones have a keyboard, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play sports Playstation controls. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com.
Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived.
And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful.
You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play looks positively bulky compared to its Xperia-line relatives — a veritable Jan Brady to the Arc’s Marcia.
WebBuzz du 03/11/2015: Un drône autonome évite des obstacles-Autonomous drone avoid obstacles
L'évolution de la technique permet maintenant de faire voler des drônes à près de 50 km/h de manières complètement autonomes. A l'aide des ces caméras stéréoscopiques et des ces processeurs, il "voit" et analyse en temps réel son environement et adapte sa trajectiore. Enfin, comme le code est sous licence open source, vous etes en mesure de pouvoir faire exactement la même chose.
Developments in technology now allow drones to fly at nearly 30 mp/h completely autonomous ways. With the help of these stereoscopic cameras and these processors, it "sees" and real-time scanning its environment and adapts its trajectiore. Finally, as the code under open source license, you are able to do exactly the same thing.
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