WebBuzz du 29/01/2016: Time-lapse créé à partir de photos d'internet-Time-lapse created from Internet photos
Avec le nombre de photos disponibles de plus en plus croissant sur internet, des chercheurs de l'université de Washington ont eu la bonne idée de réaliser des time-lapses d'endroits souvent photographié. Voici quelques exemples ...
With the number of photos of increasingly growing on the internet, the Washington University researchers have had the good sense to realize time-lapses of often photographed places. Here are some examples ...
WebBuzz du 05/10/2016: Le mythe des vagues scélérates enfin dévoilé-Creating controlled rogue waves in realistic oceanic condition
Des nombreux capitaines au long cours en parlaient sans vraiment être écoutés. Voici enfin, l'explication des vagues scélérates et elles sont mêmes reproduites en laboratoires.
Many captains speak about it without really being listened to. Here, finally, the explanation of rogues waves and are reproduced in the same laboratories.
The Perils of Cloud Computing
What would happen if your future arrived too early? If you got the keys to your first car when you were eight? Landed your first big management job at 15?
I’ve been asking those questions while playing with the Cr-48 laptop, the first implementation of Google’s cloud-based Chrome operating system. After a few months with it, I feel like it’s important, but I also think it’s from a future we’re simply not ready for.
WebBuzz du 25/07/2017: Lenovo présente sa nouvelle tablette smartphone pliable : folio-Lenovo show prototype of Folio
Lenovo a dévoilé hier, en Chine, quelques prototypes fonctionnelles de sa nouvelle tablette/smartphone pliable. Grace à ce produit 2 en 1, vous aurez partout avec vous, votre tablette et votre smartphone. On attend la réponse commerciale de la part de samsung et apple ...
Lenovo showed yesterday, in China, some functional prototypes of its new tablet / smartphone foldable. Thanks to this 2 in 1 product, you will have everywhere with you, your tablet and your smartphone. We are waiting for the commercial answer from samsung and apple ...
Burning Question: Why Do DVDs Still Have Region Codes?
While vacationing in France, you find a DVD of Ishtar. Score! (It’s never been released on DVD in the US). But when you get home, you discover that you’ve purchased a Region 2 disc, which, in your Region 1 player, is as useful as a coaster. This raises two questions: Why do you want to watch Ishtar? And why do we still have region codes?
The answers: taste and money, respectively. Though there’s no accounting for the former, those codes may soon be gone.
Regional restrictions began in 1997, as DVD technology was rolling out. They have nothing to do with the NTSC and PAL...
WebBuzz du 08/09/2017: Comment piloter son chariot élévateur comme un chef-Unreal skill of Fork Truck Driver
A force de conduire toute l'année leur chariot élévateur, ce conduiteur connait parfaitement son engin. Au point qu'il est capable de laisser tomber dans une bouteille, une piece de monnaie qu'il a préalablement ramassé avec son chariot.
By driving their forklift all year long, this driver knows his gear perfectly. To the point that he is able to drop in a bottle, a coin that he has previously picked up with his cart.
WebBuzz du 01/08/2017: une vedette hydroptère électrique-an electric boat on hydrofoil
Le premier brevet décrivant la notion d'embarcation utilisant des foils est déposé en 1869 par le français Emmanuel Farcot, ingénieur mécanicien, auteur de nombreux brevets. Ce n'est qu'après presque un siècle et demi que la première vedette utilisant des foils voit le jour!!!!
The first patent describing the notion of a boat using foils was deposited in 1869 by the French engineer Emmanuel Farcot, author of numerous patents. It is only after almost a century and a half that the first star using foils is born !!!!
May 31, 2006: Pirate Bay Raided, Shuttered
2006: Swedish police raid The Pirate Bay website and shut it down.
“Pirate Bay was a huge source of pirated films for people around the world, and today they are no longer.”
That was a statement issued exactly five years ago Tuesday by Kori Bernards, a spokeswoman for the Motion Picture Association of America.
After all, Swedish police that day had just raided the file sharing site’s offices and carted away a boatload of servers.
WebBuzz du 20/09/2016: Hyperlapse Courir par tous les temps-Running the Seasons
Il y a des passions que l'on souhaite partager... C'est le cas de ce joggeur qui a eu l'idée de filmer son entrainement et de le transformer en hyperlapse. Et le résultat montre des paysages changeants au cours des saisons.
There are passions that you want to share ... This is the case of the jogger who had the idea to film his training and turn it into hyperlapse. And the result shows the changing landscapes throughout the seasons.










