Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
WebBuzz du 04/04/2016: Blue origin réutilisation des lanceurs-Blue origin pushing the enveloppe
Blue origin, société de Seattle, créée en 2000 par l'un des fondateurs d'amazon, avance dans sa conquête de l'espace. Ils ont été capable de lancer plusieurs fois une capsule à plus de 100 Km d'altitude et de réutiliser plusieurs fois le même lanceur.
Blue Origin, a company in Seattle, founded in 2000 by one of the founders of amazon, advance in the conquest of space. They were able to run several times a capsule over 100 km altitude and reused several times the same pitcher.
Review: Get Your Game On With Sony's Xperia Play Android Phone
Where most slider phones have a keyboard, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play sports Playstation controls. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com.
Mothers, lock up your gamers. The PlayStation phone has arrived.
And while it’s a bit on the chubby side, we think that, for Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play, big is beautiful.
You could almost call the Xperia Play the shorter, fatter cousin to the svelte Xperia Arc, which Sony Ericsson once described as the “world’s thinnest smartphone.” At .62 inches, the Play looks positively bulky compared to its Xperia-line relatives — a veritable Jan Brady to the Arc’s Marcia.
WebBuzz du 12/04/2016: Premier test de la flyboard-First test of the flyboard
Pour une fois, une avancée technologique a été faite par la France, la Flyboard est une invention française de la société Zapata Racing. Voici les premiers tests très concluant. Après les soucis de réglementations avec les drônes, voici un nouvel engin dans les airs ...
For once, a technological breakthrough was made by France, is a French invention Flyboard company Zapata Racing. These are the first very successful tests. After the worries of regulations with drones, here's a new machine in the air ...
WebBuzz du 10/04/2017: Chine: Un système robotisé pour une société de livraison-Robots sorting system helps Chinese company
Les robots sont de plus en plus présent. Et c'est le cas en Chine dans cette grosse société de livraison qui est capable d'expédié plus de 200 000 paquets par jour sans erreur...
Robots are becoming more and more present. And this is the case in China in this big delivery company that is able to ship more than 200,000 packages per day without error ...
WebBuzz du 20/09/2016: Hyperlapse Courir par tous les temps-Running the Seasons
Il y a des passions que l'on souhaite partager... C'est le cas de ce joggeur qui a eu l'idée de filmer son entrainement et de le transformer en hyperlapse. Et le résultat montre des paysages changeants au cours des saisons.
There are passions that you want to share ... This is the case of the jogger who had the idea to film his training and turn it into hyperlapse. And the result shows the changing landscapes throughout the seasons.
WebBuzz du 23/07/2015: Cure de jouvence video pour Michele Valley-Michelle Valley's video makeover
Après les retouches des images, la technique permet maintenant de retoucher également les vidéos. En voici un exemple avec l'actrice Michele Valley qui s'est prétée au jeu. Est-ce que cela sonne le glas de la chirurgie estétique ?
After retouching images, the technique now also allows to retouch the videos. Here's an example with Michele Valley actress who has construed the game. Is this the death knell of the aesthetical surgery?
May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered
2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.
“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”
That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.
WebBuzz du 03/11/2015: Un drône autonome évite des obstacles-Autonomous drone avoid obstacles
L'évolution de la technique permet maintenant de faire voler des drônes à près de 50 km/h de manières complètement autonomes. A l'aide des ces caméras stéréoscopiques et des ces processeurs, il "voit" et analyse en temps réel son environement et adapte sa trajectiore. Enfin, comme le code est sous licence open source, vous etes en mesure de pouvoir faire exactement la même chose.
Developments in technology now allow drones to fly at nearly 30 mp/h completely autonomous ways. With the help of these stereoscopic cameras and these processors, it "sees" and real-time scanning its environment and adapts its trajectiore. Finally, as the code under open source license, you are able to do exactly the same thing.
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