Virtual Reality has promised big since the 80s, but never quite delivered in the way many of us hoped it would. Now, though, a new form of augmented reality called Mixed Reality hopes to up the game. New Scientist reports that researchers from University College London have modified an Oculus Rift headset to combine real-time […]
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Martin Krzywinski is an artist. No, wait, he’s a mathematician. Actually, scratch that: he’s both, and he can make the number Pi look insanely beautiful. In this video, Numberphile takes a look at his work on visualising the magical number Pi. Some of them are simple, some are complex; all are beautiful. Sit back and […]
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New Year’s Eve is always messy — even if you managed this year to navigate the horrors of a night bus route, your next-day hangover still probably looked like a scene out of Requiem for a Dream. But you’ve nothing to write home about unless you’ve marked the turn of the year by having a toe bitten off […]
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A suite of the world’s cash-richest companies are said to be in line to buy Channel 5, with the owner of the TV network looking for around £700m to hand it over. Considering Richard Desmond’s media group bought the station for £103.5m back in 2010, that’d be a nice little profit for him. [FT & THR via Digital Spy]
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A bridge that deploys huge inflatable buoys to slow storm surges. A barrier reef grown from minerals harvested by electrical currents. An artificial island protecting the most surge-prone neighbourhoods. Most of us are bracing for storms this weekend, but the winners of a recent design competition, Stormproof, are imagining how to protect cities for the […]
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PC gaming platforms Steam and Origin have both been subjected to distributed denial-of-service attacks, causing sporadic downtime for both platforms and leaving gamers twiddling their thumbs for all the wrong reasons. Credit for the attack on Valve’s Steam has been claimed by Twitter users @chFtheCat and @LARCENY_, bringing the service down for around on hour earlier today. The […]
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In case you needed reminding, it’s nearly tax return deadline day. And to get the nation in the mood for the tedious act of working out how much money to willingly give the government, HMRC has released its ten stupidest reasons for late tax returns. Even the government is doing list features these days. The […]
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