Four more months of these ads? For shame!
On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Representatives voted to delay the transition to digital broadcast television by a margin of 264 to 158. Only a simple majority was needed, which means the new official date for the nationwide switch to digital television is now June 12, nearly four months after the original date of February 17.
The delay will give more time to the estimated 6.5 million citizens completely out of it people who are still unprepared for the transition despite three-plus years of preparation by government and broadcasters.
via House Delays Digital TV Transition | Epicenter from Wired.com.
This technology is a long way from consumer availability, but it is extremely cool…
Official Google Blog: No cameras. No lights. Just data.
The song is called “House of Cards,” from Radiohead’s recent “In Rainbows” album. In this new video, there were no cameras on set. Instead, two scanning technologies were used to capture 3D images. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produced structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne LIDAR system that uses multiple lasers was used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In the video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes.
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The X-47B Unmanned Combat Aircraft Demonstrator. So much for pilots.
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