Month: November 2024

Schauspieler Michael Dorn hat in einem neuen Interview über die Zukunft seiner Figur Worf gesprochen. (Star Trek, Science-Fiction)

Mit smarten Beamern lassen sich Filme zu Hause und unterwegs wie im Kino genießen. Zum Black Friday gibt es bei Amazon Top-Geräte zum Schnäppchenpreis, darunter Smart-Beamer von XGIMI. (Technik/Hardware, Heimkino)

Wenn Artemis-Astronauten auf dem Mond landen, könnte es zu einem unerwarteten Notfall kommen. Die Nasa sucht dafür nach einem Rettungssystem. (Nasa, Raumfahrt)

Ursprünglich galt die Ampel als unproblematisch. Ein paar Baustellen in der Nähe scheinen die KI nun jedoch aus der Fassung zu bringen. (KI, Auto)

Das Topmodell des elektrischen Macan ist ein Traumwagen. Nicht nur wegen seiner dynamischen Fähigkeiten, auch seine Cleverness beeindruckt. Von Franz W. Rother (Porsche, Elektroauto)

Die Golem Karrierewelt bietet während der Black Week attraktive Rabatte auf IT-Security-Schulungen: von Security Awareness über First Response und Pentesting bis hin zu Microsoft und Web Security - sichert euch euer Security Knowledge! (Golem Karrierewelt, Betriebssysteme)

The company working on a Linux-based operating system for handheld gaming PCs that’s not as tightly integrated with the Steam game client as Valve’s SteamOS has released a second alpha. And this time it’s not even all that locked to handhelds – there’s keyboard, mouse, and NVIDIA graphics support, which means you can run it […]

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Lobby groups for Internet service providers claim that ISPs' customer service is so good already that the government shouldn't consider any new regulations to mandate improvements. They also claim ISPs face so much competition that market forces require providers to treat their customers well or lose them to competitors.

Cable lobby group NCTA-The Internet & Television Association told the Federal Communications Commission in a filing that "providing high-quality products and services and a positive customer experience is a competitive necessity in today's robust communications marketplace. To attract and retain customers, NCTA's cable operator members continuously strive to ensure that the customer support they provide is effective and user-friendly. Given these strong marketplace imperatives, new regulations that would micromanage providers’ customer service operations are unnecessary."

Lobby groups filed comments in response to an FCC review of customer service that was announced last month, before the presidential election. While the FCC's current Democratic leadership is interested in regulating customer service practices, the Republicans who will soon take over opposed the inquiry.

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Virtual reality (VR) technology has long sought to incorporate the human senses into virtual and mixed-reality environments. In addition to sight and sound, researchers have been trying to add the sensation of human touch and smell via various user interfaces, as well as taste. But the latter has proved to be quite challenging. A team of Hong Kong scientists has now developed a handheld user interface shaped like a lollipop capable of recreating several different flavors in a virtual environment, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

It's well established that human taste consists of sweet, salty, sour, bitter, and umami—five basic flavors induced by chemical stimulation of the tongue, and to a lesser extent in parts of the pharynx, larynx, and epiglottis. Recreating those sensations in VR has resulted in a handful of attempts at a flavor user interface, relying on such mechanisms as chemical, thermal, and electrical stimulation, as well as iontophoresis.

The chemical approach usually involves applying flavoring chemicals directly onto the tongue, but this requires room for bulk storage of said chemicals, and there is a long delay time that is not ideal for VR applications. Thermal variations applied directly to the tongue can stimulate taste sensations but require a complicated system incorporating a cooling subsystem and temperature sensors, among other components.

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Chinese media and gaming company Tencent has revealed a handheld gaming computer that it says is the first with a glasses-free 3D display that leverages eye-tracking technology to adjust on-screen images to create a stereoscopic 3D effect. At this point, the Tencent 3D One handheld is an experimental product, so it’s unclear whether it will […]

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