Am Dienstag hat der EuGH ein Urteil gefällt, das im Netz Applaus wie Kritik gleichermaßen fand. Streitpunkt dieser Woche in Deutschland war die Anhörung von Edward Snowden vor dem NSA-Untersuchungsauschuss. Neben diesen Themen ging es auch um die Beziehung zwischen Mensch und Maschine und das Thema Gesichtserkennung. Schauen sie selbst!
Patrons at the Weisman Art Museum (WAM) on the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus are in little danger of being stung by honeybees, despite their close proximity to 100,000 of them. Bees basically mind their own business, and they have much to attend to.(more…)
Many are speculating the possibilities for the new Google Glass – a wearable computer that displays a screen in front of your eye that you can control by voice command – in industries, such as medicine and education.
One industry in particular that has people excited about the possibilities for using the device is the gaming industry. The Google glass can take gaming to a completely different level in all genres of gaming.
Multiplayer system, role-playing (RPGs) and first-person shooting (FPS) games could potentially be more efficient to play and participate in. The glass right in front of your eye places you in the hub of the action, allowing players to nearly be face-to-face and eye-to-eye with the opponents in their games. What’s more, there is the potential of better accuracy when shooting, with the glass serving as your pinpoint target. (more…)