The five movies nominated for the “Best Visual Effects” Oscar have something fairly obvious in common: They all relied on special software to create the effects. Check out the various 3D tools from Autodesk that were used for each film.
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Social Media Okayed by the Pope
For all those who have been staying off social media until the Almighty Himself says that it’s O.K., would you settle for the Pope’s approval? Yes, his Holiness has been talking about humanity’s need for connection and how it …
Sid Meier Talks XCOM: Enemy Unknown Remake’s Action, RPG Angles
The last time I saw Firaxis co-founder Sid Meier, he was doing a promotional spot for Zenph, specifically a digitally engineered re-release of the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations. Speaking as a pianist and …
YouTube Says It Now Gets Four Billion Video Views a Day
Today YouTube announced that it gets four billion video views every single day. Think about that for a moment — four billion. The earth, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, is currently home to 6,989,687,015 people. Imagine …
Banned Android Apps May Soon Have a Place to Go
Despite the Android Market being more “open” than the iPhone App Store – there’s no approval process to get in — Google still bans Android apps on occasion, including emulators, legally-questionable music services, tethering …
iPhone 4S and iPad 2 Get Proper Jailbreaks at Last
Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 proved particularly difficult to jailbreak, but the hackers have finally prevailed.
The so-called Corona A5 jailbreak is the first “untethered” hack for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2, meaning users can …
Please Witness the Jolliest 404 Error Page in Internet History
I have no idea what’s happening at this 404 page, but I don’t care.
Coincidentally, if you get a message saying “500 Internal Server Error”, just refresh it a few times. You should ultimately be treated to a dancing stick …
Kid Recreates Skyrim on TI-84 Graphing Calculator
Back in my day, kids used their graphing calculators to play games with boring, vague names like “Snake” and “Brick Breaker.” Not this intrepid student, who programmed his TI-84 Plus graphing calculator to give school kids …
TouchTV: A Simple App for Snack-Size TV on the iPad
Personally, I don’t like watching long videos on the iPad. There’s too much other stuff to do, and I can’t sit still through an entire movie or TV show without succumbing to the tablet’s many other distractions.
So TouchTV, a …
China Introduces RedPad: The $1,600 iPad Alternative for Party Officials
Would Mao Zedong have used an iPad? Well, probably in secret, but we’d bet the deceased icon of the People’s Republic of China would have approved of the Communist Party’s latest move: the RedPad Number One.
Officially, it’s …
Shoppers Open iPad Boxes to Find Bags of Clay Instead
Clay! It’s nature’s iPad. Drag your finger across it to create drawings, multitask by molding it into the shape of a camera or typewriter, see what your friends are up to by ripping a hole in it and peering through.
Shoppers …
Google+ Addresses Internet’s Dangerous Shortage of Memes
Like Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards, memes have burst onto the internet and refuse to leave, no matter how annoying you might find them. Before, you had to have some minor knowledge of Photoshop or at least know the url …