Face painting is a simple pleasure most of us gave up when we turned 7 -- unless we ran off to join the circus. But singer Olga Bell is bringing it back 21st-century style in her new music video, which uses face-tracking algorithms to ...READ»
The first time you see Giuseppe Randazzo's "Stone Fields" designs, you may think he's ripping off Andy Goldsworthy: in each image, thousands of stones and rocks are artfully arranged into circular patterns that evoke timeless nature ...READ»
3-D printing was supposed to liberate the masses to become product designers -- design to object, one step, no fuss and no muss. Unfortunately, as Technology Review bluntly puts it, "the reality is that if you want to make anything ...READ»
Here's one thing that Andy Samberg was unlikely brag about in his SNL Digital Short "I'm On A Boat": a design based on "a special kind of decomposition of a metric space determined by distances to a specified discrete set of objects ...READ»
Google unveiled plans to make Net searches lighting quick with Instant Pages. This is possible only because Google's "very confident that we know what search results you want." Sure, you'll shave five seconds or so off all your searches--but it's not without some complexities. READ»
Facebook's gaming platform, spurred on by huge successes like Zynga, has introduced social gaming to the masses and kick-started a minor gaming revolution. On the other hand, it's also caused massive clutter in the news feeds of ...READ»
Today, Yahoo launches The Upshot*, a news blog that uses search queries to determine its content. Staffed by a couple of editors and six writers (no robots as yet, though) it is, as James A. Pitaro claims--he's the VP of Yahoo ...READ»
Robots with legs are, you might think, no great shakes. After all, they come in both four- and two-legged varieties--of the former, Boston Dynamics' Big Dog and Little Dog are the most notable, and you can check out the latest video ...READ»
Is it just me, or is social media getting a little creepy? This week I came across a couple of Web sites that, as well as being cute, funny, and a little bit different from the usual Facebook and Twitter offshoots. The first, ...READ»
Project quality management requires managers conduct real-time monitoring of projects in progress to help ensure resources, timelines and expectations are met in a manner that produces the most benefit to the company. The ...READ»
The clever chaps at Duke University have been busy beavering away for years to make the sci-fi staple cloaking device a reality, and their recent results mean a real product is closer than ever. They've fabricated a better ...READ»
On today's Internet, algorithms rule. But a handful of startups are using large-scale human participation to offer online services that computers alone can't deliver. Can human judgment scale with the Web?READ»
