Gazopa , a search engine that uses features from an image to retrieve similar images, has been in private beta since it launched during TechCrunch50 last year . To recap, Gazopa lets users upload a picture, enter a URL of an image, create a drawing or right-click on an image anywhere on the web (via a plug-in ) and retrieves similar images. [...more]
From the NY Times: Group of 20 Agrees on Far-Reaching Economic Plan The leaders pledged to rethink their economic policies in a coordinated effort to reduce the immense imbalances between export-dominated countries like China and Japan and debt-laden countries like the United States, which has long been the world’s most willing consumer. The United States will be expected to increase its savings rate, reduce its trade deficit and address its huge budget deficit [...more]
The Big Deal yesterday was the FCC’s announcement of two additional proposals to its enforcement of Net Neutrality: non-discrimination (ISPs can’t play favorites when it comes to network traffic), and transparent management (ISPs should be upfront with their network management practices, like blocking BitTorrent during peak hours). That’s all well and good—I don’t think you’ll find anyone across the Crunch Network who doesn’t support Net Neutrality—but this is thought to apply to “traditional” ISPs: Comcast, Time Warner, etc. The question becomes, then, how should Net Neutrality affect the wireless Internet [...more]
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How's this for a bad idea: Japanese erotic game Love Death 4 is using face tracking and shape detection to add a nice dose of horror to the game's already-questionable content. [...more]
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September 1989: Much excitement surrounds Apple's first battery-powered Mac. But the 4-inch thick, 16-pound beast stretched the definition of "Portable". And though $6500 wasn't unusual at that time, it was underpowered, and couldn't run on AC power while charging [...more]
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That game gets hard enough around level 8 without having to move the stick two feet to drag a piece. [ Kotaku Japan via Kotaku ] [...more]
This past June I had the privilege of traveling to East Asia with a group of techies on a trip dubbed GeeksOnAPlane . The experience was a quick-and-dirty way to familiarize myself with the tech industries of Japan and China, since we were herded through back-to-back conferences and networking events meant to give us primers on a number of sectors such as web, mobile, and gaming (you can read about what I learned in each of those countries here and here ) [...more]
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Yesterday we argued that the old-school PMP might be dead , but Sony sure doesn't think so. It's just updated its S-series with two 2-inch LCD Walkmans that include the new 720x480 TV-out and noise-canceling features built into the upcoming A-Series . Apart from being colored differently, the NW-S640 (top left) and the NW-S740 (top right) are pretty much identical, though the S640 lacks noise canceling. [...more]
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In Japan, they take custom cars seriously . Just look at some of these! A Buddhist priest spent $110,000 creating a car with gullwings, scissor doors and a splithood [...more]
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With over 40,000 citizens aged over 100 years old, it's no wonder that Japan is pumping out elderly care robot bear nurses , exoskeleton walking aids , and now Taizo, the bizarre clown-faced, spaceman-lookin' physical movement robot. Taizo is designed by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and is supposed to look silly [...more]
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