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Yahoo hopes to spur on an industry that has been slow to fight the scourge of so-called phishing attacks.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Gurus at the University of Warwick have developed a system that "identifies partial, distorted, scratched, smudged, or otherwise warped fingerprints in just a few seconds." The process is garnering attention thanks to its ability to spit out results in the blink of an eye after it "unwarps any fingerprint that has been distorted and creates a clear, digital representation that can then be mapped onto an image space of all other prints held on a database." Reportedly, researchers have already established the Warwick Warp spinoff company to bring the technology to market, and they're looking in the commercial access control, financial transaction authorization and possibly even ID card / border control segments for opportunities.
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Hewlett Packard unveils a video demonstrating a concept for the company’s upcoming handheld system.
Directors: Ash Brannon, Chris Buck - Cast: Jeff Bridges, Shia LaBeouf, Zooey Deschanel, James Woods, Jane Krakowski
Few changes have been made to NBA Live formula since last year, but it's still an enjoyable game with a good amount to offer.
Like Tango and Cash or the Ashley Olsen Twins, these guys have come to wreck shop.
As part of that sale, Huawei agreed not to compete with 3Com in certain markets, and remains one of the company's largest customers.
Hop on the Electrobike Pi, and through the courtesy of your two feet and its 1hp motor, no one will ever be able to blame you for global warming again. Three reasons? It's efficient, it's fun, it's socially responsible and it looks cool. Okay, maybe the cool look is the ".14" reason. It still has a carbon footprint (a minuscule 210 pounds a year if you ride it 100 miles a week), but reduce that number to zero (for $1800 extra) by attaching its giant arch-shaped solar charger, and after an eight-hour day in the sun (or 2.5 hours plugged in) that battery is good for another 25 miles, even if you don't peddle at all.
Let's get this straight: In its stock form, this is not exactly a racing bike—its top speed using just its nickel hydride batteries powering its 750-watt electric motor is only 20 mph, and it weighs about the same as an anvil, a hefty 58 pounds without your butt gracing its seat. But it's efficient, working like a hybrid car with its flywheel that charges up the battery when you apply the bike's brakes. We're also hearing you can hop up the thing with some aftermarket modifications, goosing its top speed up to 46 mph. No word on how long the batteries will last at that hasty clip.
Now the bad news: You'll drop $7,500 for the Electrobike Pi, and extra batteries, each good for 200 charge cycles, are $750. To be available at Design Within Reach studios in the United States, there will be just 500 of these electric bikes sold. Could be the first batch of many. Sure beats a Segway. [LA Times, via Born Rich]
He will helm yet another political picture.
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Sam Rockwell chokes for cash as a sex addict forced to come to terms with his demons. [Rated R]
Learn how to make your own tasty microwave popcorn, and as a bonus learn how from a disembodied robot voice.
Runtime: 1 min 2 sec
Advice for musicians from David Corlew. David is the personal manager of Charlie Daniels, co-owner of Blue Hat Records and has his own publishing company--Corlew Music Group. Like what you hear? Get the full interview at MusicBusinessRadio.com.
- FORESHADOWING: That clip of you jumping into the Christmas tree isn't so funny now, is it Kiefer Sutherland? Worst part of this clip is, it was shot at 5 pm today. (Youtube)
- MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGH: Look, Science, just because two things exist doesn't mean you have to make them into one thing. Example: lipstick and vibrator. (Gizmodo)
- SEXY NERD COSTUME: Oh wow, Jessica Alba claims she's actually a total dork who's really clumsy! That's so weird, because most actresses describe themselves as really hot, popular, and dexterous. (CNN)
- CORPSE BRIDE: I came pretty close to gagging at these Courtney Love pics, even after setting my eyes to "prepare to see Courney Love mode" going in. (I'm Not Obsessed)
- GOOGLE COMPETITOR: Is the person who designed Toasty.com available for hire? I don't have a company or anything, I just want to pay them my money.
Spring Break 06 mens dance contest from spi texas featuring John Melendez from the Jay Leno show.
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Spansion opened its first wafer plant focused on simplifying flash memory design with 65-nanometer processes intended to help it dominate the NOR market.
Matt Gary, Eric Lingren, Lauren McGlincy, Amrit Jawanda
New Spielberg biopic may actually be moving along
Unlike the organized crime organizations typically glorified in film, the vory appear to be a more civilized form of organized crime. Ignore the fact that they judge their members by the prison tattoos they carry and that a power struggle is going on that was initiated by the grisly slitting of a members throat which calls for retaliatory throat slitting. This is a civilized organization that seems more interested in talking than anything else. Lots and lots of talking, a lot of which feels useless and unnecessary.
Regular viewers of Best Week Ever would probably be surprised by the fact that only about .001 percent of the funny stuff panelist Sherrod Small says in his weekly tapings is suitable to be repeated aloud in public, much less aired on cable television. We could practically make a 12-hour mini-series of all his "too hot for TV" outtakes, such as this somewhat tamer example, in which he gives some frank financial advice to Disney's exiled tween nudie queen Vanessa Hudgens. For the portions of Sherrod's comedy you wouldn't mind your mother hearing, and for all our other panelists' hilarious reactions to the latest, greatest and craziest stuff that happened this week in the wonderful world of popular culture, tune into a brand new episode of Best Week Ever tonight at 9pm ET on Vh1!
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SAS added a new application to its lineup of customer service analytical offerings. SAS Real Time Decision Manager embeds analytically driven decision logic at every customer interaction. The Decision Manager tool was introduced during Gartner's CRM conference this week, along with an updated version of its Marketing Optimization application.
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Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
Rumored TGS demo release debunked.
Director: Clint Eastwood
Writer: J. Michael Straczynski
Cast: Angelina Jolie, John Malkovich, Jeffrey Donovan, Colm Feore, Amy Ryan
Genre: Biography | Crime | Drama | Mystery
Release Date: October 24, 2008
Computers once filled entire rooms. Now they fit in our pockets. How a generation formed our tech landscape.
The new industry standard, called Universal Flash Storage, is an attempt to drive data transfer speeds and memory storage capacity up.
Burning yourself rarely helps argue your point effectively...
Xboxkings just received an e-mail that Saints Row 2 will be revealed in EGM November.
The first details will be given in an exclusive article about this free-roaming game. EGM will be available at your bookstore at the beginning of October.
Google may have dominated much of the speculation so far regarding the FCC's upcoming auction of 700 MHz wireless spectrum, but on Monday the possibility emerged that Apple may be making its own bidding plans. Word has now reportedly leaked out that Apple has evaluated the possibility of placing a bid for a portion of the wireless spectrum.
Two AgResearch researchers who were last week awarded prestigious Marsden Fund grants
will use animal models for research that could lead to important insights into human
and animal growth and development and potential new treatments for cancer and heart ...
Maximo Park may not have made any musical headway since their last album 'Trigger', but they have a
Bugden joins ARTSPACE after two and a half years at the Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts
in Manukau City, where she is credited with transforming a regional community organisation
into a world-class public art gallery and bustling cultural hub.
Just to serve in the army and defend the rights of this great nation would be payment enough, right? On second thought, I'd rather have a pile of gold bricks too.
2K Games looking into community feedback.
Want a fancy new iPod Touch but worried by its skimpy 16 GB of storage space? A new software application called ShrinkMyTunes claims it can squeeze MP3s to about half their original size with only the slightest loss in sound quality. Does it work? Listen for yourself.
Here's Lindsay Lohan walking the streets of soho the other day with some of her annoying hipster friends looking like a terrible back to school ad for Wal Mart. She still looks pretty good though, when I play the lesbian streetwalker movies in my head, this is exactly how I imagine [...]
The developer of AutoPatcher, a free alternative to Windows Update, is working with Microsoft on changes to his utility that would make it acceptable to the company.
The browser actually loads pop-up ads even though they won't be seen unless users choose to maximize the pop-up ad windows that Chrome has minimized.
The PlayStation 3 title becomes the first game playable on PSP thanks to Remote Play...
A year and a half ago, Stephen King optioned The Dark Tower series to JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof for $19. But since then we haven’t really heard any updates on the project. Recently AMC got a chance to chat with Lindelof, who admitted that he won’t have time to tackle the adaptation until Lost [...]
Can this be possible? Can this be the fabled iPhone nano? Did someone get into his ninja gear, break into John Ive's Secret Lair 1.5 miles below Infinite Loop and escaped alive after being chased by giant killing spider robots and Steve Jobs clones with laser eyes? [UPDATE: in one word: NO! Isn't it obvious?]
Honestly, we don't have a clue about that. The truth is that we found this crap amazing discovery in one of the darkest corners of IFA, a remote area where people wear David Hasselhoff Live in Taipei t-shirts, floggers tried to sell us iPod Terminators (don't ask) and Addy had to beat some guy's ass with her kung-fu mojo (video of this later) when he tried to whack me to get my JesusPhone.
[UPDATE: People, I can't believe some of the comments in this post. Have any of you really contemplated this as something other than mocking a chinese knock-off and the rumor sites? It's a bloody knock-off, for chrissake! Not only is the headline and article completely tongue in cheek, but can't you see the "KNOCK-OFF" and "CRAP" tags on it? And what about the fact that this thing says "MP4 Player" on top of it? Yes, this is a crappy chinese music player that looks like an iPhone. The photo was taken at IFA 2007, in the chinese area.]
At the risk of spoiling the thousand-year-old story: Beowulf fights three monsters, and gets killed by the last one. At first glance, it seems like that might make it a pretty awful idea for a game. Shadow of the Colossus showed that the hoary, tired cliché of the boss battle could actually be done well, but even that featured a few more than three.
It would take a fair amount of ingenuity to turn the limitations of Beowulf?s setting into a compelling game experience ? but rather than grapple with that precise challenge, Ubisoft?s Montpelier-based team have elected instead to expand the setting beyond that detailed in the legend, filling out Beowulf?s life with more game-friendly scenarios.
An App Store by another name?
