The 12 Best and Worst Digital Characters
fastcompany.com — With the coming release of James Cameron's sci-fi epic, moviegoers are focusing anew on digital characters. It's tough to fashion from mere pixels believable beings that walk and talk and seem to feel the same emotions of real humans and come off as something more special than special effects. (Submitted by amprather) More...
Will Microsoft's Pivot Reinvent How You Surf the Web?
fastcompany.com — Pivot combines the ideas behind web-browsing, web search, image organizing and text information into one big data soup that has some clever graphical tools to help you sift through it for the information you're interested in finding. (Submitted by vigilante1) More...
Company checks your SM followers to predict your credit risk
fastcompany.com — They say you can tell a lot about a person by the company they keep. The mother lode of personal data comes from sites like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace--virtual bazaars of user-generated content where status updates, pics, & any other political, religious, or sexual information is accessible to all.It's called Data-Mining. (Submitted by Surferess) More...
Boston Dynamics Robots Tiptoe Toward Terminator
fastcompany.com — A new video of a Boston Dynamics robot has surfaced--possibly the scariest yet. The company's name alone should give you the willies if you've watched the Terminator movies or seen the previous chilling robots BD makes. We've rounded up the videos for you. Happy Halloween. (Submitted by brainnovate) More...
Nokia Sues Apple Over iPhone Patents
fastcompany.com — Nokia may be the World's biggest cell-phone maker, but its performance in smartphones has been largely disappointing, especially in the post-iPhone era. Apple's device is so jealousy inducing it seems to have prompted a lawsuit. nokia sues apple (Submitted by subtheorist) More...
Did Sears Just Whoop Wal-Mart, Amazon, and Target?
fastcompany.com — Last week, Wal-Mart cut the price of some popular new books to just $10, a slice of over 60%. Not willing to be out-done on home turf, Amazon matched them. Wal-Mart went down to $9. Amazon went to $8.99. Target jumped in tardily at $8.99. Then Sears jaunted into the battle and dropped some serious knowledge... (Submitted by CB810) More...
If It's Not iPhones, What's Apple's Extra Air Freight For?
fastcompany.com — While reporting its most profitable quarter ever yesterday, Apple's execs let slip a few nuggets of information about past and future products. The most intriguing is related to upcoming extra freight flights...but for what? (Submitted by inactive) More...
Tokyo Makes a Sun-Powered Bid for the 2016 Olympics
fastcompany.com — It's about time the world's largest sports festival caught up to the ecologically responsible times. This week, the president of the Tokyo 2016 Olympics bid team announced that the city's proposed Olympic stadium will be the first to be entirely powered by solar energy--no small feat. (Submitted by naturalpapa) More...
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