Christopher Roupe, an aspiring 17-year-old US marine, was killed by a female police officer who mistook Roupe’s Wii Remote for a firearm. Roupe opened the door to the police as they were looking to serve a warrant on his father over a probation violation. When he opened the door holding a Wii Remote the female officer shot him in the chest. The family’s solicitor, Cole Law, said the 17-year-old was just about to watch a movie on his Wii console when he opened the door.
Don’t look now but Google’s(s goog) at it again.
The company has always wanted to index the world’s information and its latest effort, dubbed Project Tango, takes that mantra and applies it specifically to the world around you. Yes, you. And me. And everyone else in the world too if Project Tango expands beyond a startup project.
Google’ Advanced Technology & Projects group announced Project Tango on Thursday and says the goal “is to give mobile devices a human-scale understanding of space and motion.” That can many so many things but at a high level, it essentially means adding more smarts to a phone so that it can “see” the world and understand how to move through and interact with objects around you. The initial device will be powered by the Movidius’ Myriad 1 vision processor platform.
Think of Project Tango like Microsoft’s(s msft) Kinect being put inside a smartphone.
That’s pretty much what…
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While your next job probably won’t pay in Bitcoins, it just got one step closer to reality with the planned rollout of Bitcoin ATMs. In other news, the readers of Gigaom chose their favorite new startups for the Structure Data Awards. And until building cool things with Legos starts paying the bills, check out the weekly jobs review here:
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Pesquisadores divulgaram a descoberta de um ataque um tanto diferente que está afetando roteadores Wi-Fi da Linksys. A ameaça consiste em um malware “auto-replicável”, que infecta os aparelhos através de uma provável vulnerabilidade que permite a execução de código, de acordo com o ArsTechnica.
Segundo o site, depois de infectar um dispositivo, o vírus procura pela internet outros aparelhos similares – e igualmente vulneráveis – para se espalhar. O especialista Sans Johannes B. Ullrich afirmou à página que, apenas nos EUA, cerca de 1.000 casos foram confirmados em roteadores da linha E da Linksys, que inclui os modelos E1000, E1200 e E2400, por exemplo. No mundo todo, no entanto, o número pode ser bem maior.
Ao invadir os aparelhos, o malware injeta um script que carrega esse mesmo comportamento de “procurar e destruir” – ou “se espalhar”. Ele pode alterar o endereço de domínio do dispositivo para 8.8.8.8 ou 8.8.4.4…
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As you will know from the Japanese sales charts yesterday Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze didn’t do too well in Japan. The game only managed to shift 35,717 units while the Wii U sold 8,782 units. Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Wii sold an impressive 163,310 copies in its first week and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D sold 104,569 copies in its first week.
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Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate – Deluxe Edition for the PlayStation 3 system, Xbox 360 games and entertainment system from Microsoft, Wii U system and PC. Developed by Armature Studio, the same team behind Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate for handheld, the game delivers the same dynamic story and gameplay, now in high-definition. Fans will be able to purchase the game from 2nd April on the PlayStationNetwork, Xbox LIVE Marketplace, Nintendo eShop and Steam for £15.99.
Have you ever used a great third-party keyboard on an Android(s goog) device and wished for the same experience on your iPhone(s aapl)? That might finally happen, as Fleksy just made its iOS keyboard SDK available to all developers.
Fleksy first introduced the SDK back in December, but it’s been in a closed beta until now. Apple doesn’t allow third-party keyboards to be installed across its operating system the way that Google does with Android, but Fleksy makes it extremely easy for developers to integrate its keyboard within their app, since it doesn’t require any additional lines of code. iOS users will need to have the free Fleksy app installed, since it will remember settings and make for a universal keyboard experience no matter which app you use. You’ll see an option to switch to Fleksy in supported apps when you press down to bring up the cut, copy and…
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