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Microsoft releases five-minute IllumiRoom demonstration video
- Microsoft unveiled their IllumiRoom technology at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show as a proof of concept. The demo was one of the most impressive showcases during the show but Microsoft has since been mum on the subject – until now.…
Activision demos incredible lifelike facial rendering technology
- Activision’s research and development team has been working hard as of late to produce what they are calling next generation character rendering. The company showed off the new technology at the Game Developers Conference and although the video clip on…
Nvidia Project Shield demo streams Borderlands 2 from PC
- Despite the fact that we don’t know a ton of information about Nvidia’s upcoming Project Shield handheld at this point, the company is once again teasing gamers with the unit’s capabilities. A recent demo on Nvidia’s blog shows the portable…
Wine developer demos Windows software running on Android
- We’ve already seen applications that let you run Android apps on Windows. But now it looks like the opposite is possible too thanks to an ARM-friendly version of Wine, the popular 'compatibility layer' used to run Windows software on Unix-like…
MIT demonstrates new magnetic state with quantum spin liquids
- A team of MIT researchers claim they can experimentally demonstrate the effects of a long-theoretical, third state of magnetism using materials known as quantum spin liquids. The magnetic field produced by QSL closely mimics that of a true liquid in…
Demonoid's tracker flickers to life, website remains dark
- Prominent semi-private torrent tracker Demonoid is once again showing signs of life, although the website itself remains a lifeless cadaver. What this means for Demonoid is anyone's guess, but during the site's 2009 sabbatical, the website returned just weeks after its…
Sleeping Dogs PC demo now available on Steam
- Sleeping Dogs was released last week and the game has since been garnering positive reviews from critics and gamers alike -- it currently has a metascore of 83 in our Product Finder engine. If you’re on the fence about spending…
Demonoid shut down by Ukrainian authorities following DDoS attack
- Demonoid, the Internet's largest combined BitTorrent site and tracker, has been shutdown in one of the biggest BitTorrent-related busts in recent times, according to TorrentFreak. ColoCall, the Ukrainian datacenter who hosts Demonoid, was forced to relinquish Demonoid's data to local…
New Asus ROG Tytan gaming PC transforms at the push of a button
- Although many enthusiasts prefer the satisfaction of building their own PC, there's still a solid market for pre-fabbed gaming machines. Asus and a handful of other companies seem to understand this. However, Asus thinks they have an irresistible feature that…
Next-gen engine from Square Enix shows what future games could look like, tech demo video inside
- Unreal 4 better watch its back. Square Enix pulled off what may be E3's biggest surprise when they unveiled an incredible real-time demo of their new Luminous Studio engine. Using a Final Fantasy motif as a showcase, Square Enix describes the…
Intel demos wireless charging proof of concept for keyboard, phone
- Intel showed off a couple of new inductive charging options for keyboards and smartphones at Computex. Both demos were more a proof of concept than anything but the latter of the two certainly has a of promise.
Motorola challenges traditional TV interface with DreamGallery
- Motorola may not make television sets but they believe they know what the future interface of connected devices should look like. During a cable television convention in Boston, the company demonstrated a new concept for connected sets called DreamGallery.
Scientists demo radio wave "twisting" to increase bandwidth
- A group of Italian and Swedish researchers claim to have found a way to dramatically boost the information-carrying capacity of radio waves by employing a technique called "orbital angular momentum." Essentially the technique consists in forcing radio waves to twist…
Adobe demos content-aware move and extend tools in Photoshop CS6
- Adobe has posted their fourth sneak peek video designed to showcase some of the new features that will be part of Photoshop Creative Suite 6 set to launch later this year. The most recent clip highlights the new content-aware move…
Panasonic demonstrates new WiGig wireless SD cards
- Japanese Electronics giant Panasonic has been demonstrating its new WiGig SD memory cards this week, which the company claims it has developed for the past few years looking to provide users with a simple solution to short range, high-speed data…
Portal lead designer demos her upcoming title, Quantum Conundrum
- Kim Swift, a level designer and team leader for Valve's Portal franchise, has a new project in the works and recently offered an eight-minute demo that definitely got my interest piqued. Developed by Airtight Games and published by Square Enix,…
Syndicate reboot getting co-op demo, original coming to GOG
- Due in a completed form next month, Starbreeze and EA are preparing to serve a healthy appetizer of its futuristic, espionage-filled first-person shooter with a lengthy four-player co-op demo. The Syndicate preview will allow you and three of your buddies…
Samsung demos transparent smart window prototype
- Samsung showed off its transparent display technology at last week's Consumer Electronics Show, demonstrating its potential use as replacement for actual windows at people's homes. The CES 2012 innovation award winner Samsung Smart Window is essentially a 46-inch LCD, only…
Intel caught faking Ivy Bridge DX11 demo, explains itself
- During a purported "live" demonstration at CES this week, Intel was caught using pre-recorded footage. The chipmaker took the stage to show its upcoming Ivy Bridge processing architecture and as part of the presentation, it showed the chip's integrated graphics…
Samsung shows transparent flexible tablet in concept video
- Samsung has released a concept video showing what the future of mobile phones and tablets could look like. The clip opens with a ringing phone which is then rolled out and turned into a video conferencing tablet as others look…
Demo Windows Phone on your iPhone or Android handset
- Have you ever been curious about a new phone but didn’t want to have a sales associate hanging over your shoulder while you checked it out? If so, you’re in luck as Microsoft has released a Windows Phone 7.5 Mango…
Intel demos Knights Ferry CPU, 1 teraflop performance from a single chip
- Intel has revealed a new processor with more than 50 cores at the SC11 supercomputing conference in Seattle. The groundbreaking chip was running in a test machine and is capable of crossing the 1 teraflop, or a trillion floating point…
Nokia demonstrates flexible phone prototype
- Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia was all over the news yesterday after announcing multiple phones at Nokia World, but it’s a prototype handset tentatively known as the Nokia Kinetic Device that was the real star among stars. This forward-thinking handset…
Blizzard replaces StarCraft II demo with Starter Edition
- Blizzard has replaced the previously available StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty demo with a newly launched StarCraft II: Starter Edition. To use the Starter Edition, all you need is a Battle.net account and an Internet connection.
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