Robot Invasions to smash your living room

Microsoft presents a new HoloLens gaming demo (at some new Microsoft operating system device’s conference ;-)). Also they update on release date and give some numbers! The new demo “Project X-Ray” was of course another eye-candy eye-catching presentation! After presenting AR-MineCraft the last time they show another entertainment & gaming application for their device that’s supposed to change the whole world of computing (leading to holographic computing anywhere without dedicated screens). But today it was a casual game for your own living room (or any room). Your hand is suited up with some wearable gun hologram (pretty cool and stable) and you move freely (as usual no wires) through your own space. Suddenly walls burst open and some robot invasion takes place (well, compare […] Read More

CERN Will Open New Dimensions – But With More Knowledge or Harm?

BY DAVID MONTAIGNE ⋅ CERN is amazing – and our scientists have already discovered many things about subatomic particles and how matter and energy are held together.  But in opening new doors to see through their looking glass, what risks are involved?  If Stephen Hawking is concerned, perhaps we all should be. We know that physicists have created small amounts of antimatter, and that it must be magnetically contained or it combines with matter and converts completely to energy.  The explosive potential of this antimatter is far stronger and more explosive than nuclear fission or fusion. Have they also managed to create small amounts of dark matter, and is this any more dangerous? (Just how much – and how little – we know about […] Read More