Here’s a demo of the face detection feature that’s been so popular with digital camera manufacturers. This’ll be available or already is available on many of Sony’s new camcorders. One interesting part of it is called “bit allocation” wherein the camera sensor pushes more bits to the areas containing people’s faces and subtracts bits from […]

Here’s a demo of the face detection feature that’s been so popular with digital camera manufacturers. This’ll be available or already is available on many of Sony’s new camcorders. One interesting part of it is called “bit allocation” wherein the camera sensor pushes more bits to the areas containing people’s faces and subtracts bits from less important things in the background that are going on.

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Net Neutrality is important, and the FCC is rattling its sabers at ISPs like Comcast who’ve taken part in “traffic shaping” schemes, or favoring certain packets over others. At a hearing at Harvard, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said, “The commission is ready, willing and able to step in if necessary to correct any practices that are […]

Net Neutrality is important, and the FCC is rattling its sabers at ISPs like Comcast who’ve taken part in “traffic shaping” schemes, or favoring certain packets over others.

At a hearing at Harvard, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin stated, “The commission is ready, willing and able to step in if necessary to correct any practices that are ongoing today. It’s tough speak, but I’ve met the Chairman and he’s a no-nonsense kind of guy.

Hopefully it doesn’t come to litigation, but if it does, the FCC will win. Then our cable bills might go up slightly, but our data will be safe.

FCC ready to curb ISP traffic management [Yahoo! News]

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So you’ve got this massive, powerful video card stuck to your computer, just sitting there on idle unless you’re playing a game or rendering something. Why not put it to work? Nvidia has made it possible to take advantage of the carefully engineered parallel architecture of today’s graphics cards through its CUDA (Complete Unified Device […]

So you’ve got this huge, powerful video card stuck to your computer, just sitting there on idle unless you’re playing a game or rendering something. Why not put it to work? Nvidia has made it possible to take advantage of the carefully engineered parallel architecture of today’s graphics cards through its CUDA (Complete Unified Device Architecture). Macs have missed out, though, firstly because there was no OSX version of CUDA, and secondly because there are only a few macs with compatible video cards (8-series and QuadroFXes). Well, now the former of those problems has been fixed (there’s a beta for OSX now), so I expect to see an idle-GPU-using I know not what kind of program, generating random praise for Steve Jobs or something.

GPU Programming Comes to the Mac [Wired Gadget Lab]

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