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Lars von Trier's 'Nymphomaniac' digitally stitches actors' faces to naked body doubles
New details have emerged about the notoriously graphic sex scenes in Nymphomaniac — the upcoming double feature from Danish director Lars von Trier. In an interview with ...
53 minutes ago from The Verge
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Laser cutter carves music files onto wooden records
Not too long ago, Amanda Ghassaei from Instructables caught our attention when she constructed several playable records with a 3D printer. By sending raw audio data through a custom script, ...
Mon 20 May 13 from Gizmag
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Army ground combat systems adopts tool for choosing future warfighting vehicles
Imagine trying to solve this complex problem: You have to modernize a fleet of combat vehicles, such as tanks, tracked howitzers and infantry fighting vehicles, choosing from among more than ...
21 hours ago from Phys.org
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Game system castAR debuts at Maker Faire
(Phys.org) —Two tech talents, formerly employees at video game publisher Valve, have been working on their own vision in the form of game-ready glasses. Their company, Technical Illusions, will ...
17 hours ago from Phys.org
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Cyber risks for those with heads in the cloud
Australian home computer users and businesses are being warned to consider more closely the risks associated with cloud computing, as well as its many advantages.
21 hours ago from Phys.org
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IT Hiccups of the Week: Lie Detector Lies?
No-swipe payment system swipes customers' money; Big Apple worries that e-voting will take a bite out of mayoral election
Mon 20 May 13 from IEEE Spectrum
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Researchers develop fast, economical method for high-definition video compositing
Video compositing to create special effects, replace backgrounds or combine multiple takes of an actor's performance is an integral, but highly labor-intensive, part of modern film making. Researchers ...
Mon 20 May 13 from Phys.org
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Why won't Bitcoin die?
I attended the first Bitcoin World Conference and Expo, held in a second-floor meeting room in a midtown Manhattan hotel, on a Saturday in August 2011. The virtual currency ...
20 hours ago from The Verge
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Researchers use light projector and single-pixel detectors to create 3-D images
(Phys.org) —Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of Cambridge have devised a unique method of capturing three-dimensional images. As described in a paper published in ...
Fri 17 May 13 from Phys.org
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Ex-Valve Engineers' Crazy AR Glasses Put Tiny Projectors On Your Face
Want some more tech to put on your face? Neither full-on goggles like the Oculus Rift nor slender no-AR-yet specs like Google's Glass, CastAR takes a whole different approach to modified-reality ...
Sat 18 May 13 from Gizmodo
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