Motion capture animation is what has made Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest possible. But it's extremely expensive and requires an indoor environment to capture the movements. You have to place special dots all over the actor's body using reference markers, then have the actor perform in front of meticulously calibrated cameras hooked up to a sophisticated computer system, inside a closed stage with controlled lighting. Now all ...
Cisco Systems' financial results will indicate if Internet traffic is easing
A Google spokesperson said human error, and not a technical malfunction, led to a minor fender bender near the company's California headquarters.
AT&T Inc's $1.9 billion offer for some of Qualcomm Inc's wireless licenses will be tied to a simultaneous review of AT&T's $39 billion proposed takeover of T-Mobile USA, U.S. communications regulators said in a letter sent late on Monday.
A lawmaker called on Tuesday for BlackBerry's instant messaging service to be suspended after rioters used it to mobilize in London and other British cities.
Smartphone makre RIM has said it will help police investigate BlackBerry users who have used its messenger service to aid the London riots.
A new study from ViaForensics uncovered how most apps on iOS and Android don't properly protect consumer data.
Demand for personal navigation devices , the must-have gadget of recent years, is declining as traffic and mapping functions become almost standard in cars and mobiles, forcing Garmin Ltd and Dutch rival TomTom NV to find new revenue drivers to get profits back on course.
The Tribune Co., one of the largest newspaper publishers in the U.S., is working on a tablet computer of its own to offer its subscribers, CNN reported, citing interviews with more than half a dozen current and former Tribune employees.
AOL posted worse than expected earnings numbers on Tuesday, begging questions whether the former Internet powerhouse will ever regain its footing.
Apple has released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant for beleaguered OS X Lion users, allowing them to create recovery partitions on external drives. Previously anyone who had purchased the Lion upgrade through the Mac App Store would be forced to reinstall and update Snow Leopard before they could reinstall Lion if disaster struck, forcing them to replace the hard disk.
At this year's DefCon hacking conference, kids were given the chance to play and learn. One 10-year old impressed all by hacking a popular social game.
Tech stocks recovered slightly from Monday's beating
After 21 years working with Microsoft and spearheading development for Windows Phone, Charlie Kindel has suddenly resigned, leaving Microsoft to start a new company on his own.
Researchers find a protein nanofilm can move electronic impulses.
A breakthrough in motion capture techniques has now expanded its territory - by turning the cameras around, scientists have found a way to capture motion almost anywhere.
Google's social networking site Google+ on Monday released a new update to Apple iOS app to support the iPad and iPod Touch, following the last month's launch of Google+ app for iPhone users.
Visa Inc said it would accelerate the move to chip technology and speed up the use of mobile payments in the United States, as the world's largest payment processor tries to corner a share in the nascent smartphone payments market.
Would-be rivals to Apple's iPad have more of a chance in Europe than they do in the United States, but they need to cut prices fast to grasp the opportunity, IT research firm Forrester said on Tuesday.
A global bunch of musicians and tech giants have come up to set off a campaign ?I?m Gonna Be Your Friend", to help Save the Children fight the famine in East Africa.
The London riots and looting have continued for the third consecutive day.
More than two billion people in the world live without access to clean drinking water, and recent droughts in Africa have left 12 million people without water. To aid them, French eco-entrepreneur Georges Mougin plans to harvest icebergs across the world to solve the water shortage.
While the politicians and police believe Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry Messenger has triggered the fire of riot in London, but thousands of these social network users have made a clean-up effort.
Scientists have identified the mysterious orange-colored goo that washed ashore and sparked pollution concerns in an Alaska village last week, as small and possibly toxic crustacean eggs.
A 10-year-old girl, who goes by the handle of CyFi, found that the gaming prowess of many a smartphone can be undermined by some serious security holes.
Jefferies believes reports that Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) will launch a QNX phone in first quarter of calendar 2012 are correct. However, the brokerage also believes it will be a single-core, non-native email, non-push, non-data compressed BlackBerry.
International Business Machines (IBM) has terminated its contract with the University of Illinois to build a supercomputer for the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), citing technical and financial constraints.
The riots, currently, have continued for the third consecutive day and have spread to other parts of UK.
Researchers have found a flaw in Android, which can be exploited for stealing data via phishing or for sending irritating pop up adverts.
Previously a number of set-top boxes, unlike Apple TV, supported gaming and other user applications.
