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Sony Confirms Paid-Sub PS3 Video Mag 'Qore', Produced By Future

Future Publishing (LSE: FUTR) has confirmed to us our earlier report it has been licensed to start providing online magazine-type content to Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation Network. “Qore�, a monthly digital “program� featuring editorial from Future, will launch on Friday in the US and Future is talking with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) about a UK launch. It will be a premium subscription offering, with both monthly and annual fee structures, though no fees are available yet. The publisher will also sell video, interstitial and contextual ads on the service. Qore will include game demos and previews, tips and developer interviews.

Canada: Future Shop to enter used video game market

Best Buy, Canada's largest electronics retailer, will enter the second-hand games market with a test run at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, Alberta. They will then expand this venture to all 133 Future Shop outlets by late summer. By the end of 2008 or early in 2009, Future Shop hopes to have used game titles available from their website.

The Future Has a Kill Switch

palegray.net writes "Bruce Schneier brings us his perspective on a future filled with kill switches; from OnStar-equipped automobiles and city buses that can be remotely disabled by police to Microsoft's patent-pending ideas regarding so-called Digital Manners Policies. In Schneier's view, these capabilities aren't exactly high points of our potential future. From the article: 'Once we go down this path — giving one device authority over other devices — the security problems start piling up. Who has the authority to limit functionality of my devices, and how do they get that authority? What prevents them from abusing that power? Do I get the ability to override their limitations? In what circumstances, and how? Can they override my override?' We recently discussed the Pentagon's interest in kill switches for airplanes.

The Future According To nVidia

NerdMaster writes "Last week nVidia held their Spring 2008 Editor's day, where they presented their forthcoming series of graphics processing units. While the folks at Hardware Secrets couldn't tell the details of the new chips, they posted some ideas of what nVidia is seeing as the future of computing. Basically more GPGPU usage, with the system CPU losing its importance, and the co-existence of ray-tracing and rasterization on future video cards and games. In other words, the 'can of whoop-ass' nVidia has promised to open on Intel."

The Future of Mind Control of Physical Objects

mattnyc99 writes A month ago we discussed the accomplishment when researchers got monkeys to feed themselves with a robotic arm controlled by their brains. But after all the recent successful experiments with brain-computer interfaces, will the technology ever make it out of the lab and into hospitals — or even into our hands, for the closest thing imaginable to The Force? Popular Mechanics takes a look at the future of mind-machine control, speculating on several theoretical applications once brains can adapt to devices via direct communication between, say, synapse and prosthetic. Quoting the field's leading neuroscientist: 'For the foreseeable future, the main benefit is for rehabilitation. But the research is showing that the brain can act independently of the body.

The Other Future Of Copyright: The Draconian Suffocating One

The fourth piece in the Cato Institute's Future of Copyright series is a bit bizarre. Written by Tom Bell, who we've mentioned before for his efforts to get people to start calling "intellectual property" "intellectual privilege", it attempts to take a look at the "other" future of copyright. It's sort of the opposite scenario to Rasmus Fleischer's opening piece imagining a world without copyright. Bell's piece tries to get into the mindset of a Hollywood exec, explaining why it seems to make sense to make copyright more and more draconian in an effort to make the "costs" of infringement go up by attacking infringers with everything they've got. Of course, this isn't surprising, and even Bell sort of makes the half-hearted case for it, as he admits at the end.

Ohio middle school students win Future City Competition

A city of the future, named "RA," engineered by students from Heritage Middle School in Westerville, Ohio, has won the 2008 National Engineers Week Future City Competition.

Fiddler MacIsaac offers half of future revenues to winning eBay bidder

Ashley MacIsaac says he'll share 50 per cent of his future receipts with a winning bidder until the day he dies.Ashley MacIsaac says he'll share 50 per cent of his future receipts with a winning bidder until the day he dies.

Culture24 Teams Up With Their Past Your Future 2 Project

Veterans at the 2005 launch of Their Past Your Future's first phase. Learning from conflict is at the heart of the 28 projects receiving funding in the first year of Their Past Your Future 2, announced on December 12 2007. © TPYF

Robotic facial expressions of the future

Humanoid HeadPutting aside the tedious and arduous tasks asked of robots and forgetting their ability to entertain, some students at USC have looked to the future and thought “If we’re going to interact with robots every day, lets give them a more human face� - And for them the future looks alot like this.

Anusha, Srinath win NASA prize for designing future aircraft

ImageChennai, July 11: R. Anusha and S. Srinath have won the NASA prize for designing future aircraft. The two students of College of Engineering that comes under one of South India’s most successful Ann University have done the whole country proud by bagging the second prize for designing the future transport aircraft.

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Full-scale models of (left to right) the Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, Sojourner, and the upcoming Mars Science Laboratory. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Multi-page PDF To Multi-page TIFF and Archiving?

GeorgeMonroy writes "One of my clients has aperture cards that they have been scanning into multi-page PDF files — but now they want them in multi-page TIFFs instead. One of the reasons they gave for this is that TIFF files require less storage space. While that is true, I wonder if TIFF is the best format going into the future. Are TIFFs better than PDFs for future use? I wonder what format you think would last longer. Are there any other formats that you think would be better or more future-proof? To me, storage is not a good enough reason to go to TIFF, because storage prices are always dropping anyway. Also, since they already have many of these files in PDF format and they want to convert them into multipage TIFFs, are there any programs that you can recommend that will perform batch processing of files so that we do not have to co

Buy Future Shop Products from Your BlackBerry

Future Shop has become the first Canadian retailer (to my knowledge) to offer an optimized e-commerce shopping solution through BlackBerry smartphones. The retailer’s new application will allow BlackBerry customers to easily browse and shop the www.futureshop.ca Website in a fashion that’s optimized for the mobile device.

The future of enterprise search

Future search systems will get to know the user as much as the content they crawl, analyzes, and indexes

Future says new digital programme launched with Sony U.S.

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Future Plc. said it has signed an exclusive development agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA), to produce a monthly digital programme to be launched on June 5 across SCEA's Playstation network.

Future launches new title covering online games market

LONDON - Specialist magazine publisher Future has launched a new free 16-page title to tap into the growing online games market.

Future for Jodrell Bank Telescope is Secured

The Jodrell Bank telescope has been secured for the "medium and long term future", the University of Manchester said yesterday.

Future Sony HDTVs to embed support for new Amazon video service

Industry heavyweights Amazon and Sony are aligning to take on the combination of Apple's iTunes and Apple TV set-top-box with a new Amazon-powered video on demand service that will see embedded support on all future Sony Bravia HDTV sets.

Your Business Future Is Online Services

Your Business Future Is Online Services - Xero provides small businesses and their advisers with one, up to date, easy to use, instantly accessible set of accounts and business information. Latest research is predicting yet more staggering growth in broadband-enabled business, and with mobile broadband use also set to increase, if you’re not yet running your business using online services, you soon will be, according to Hamish Edwards, co-founder and UK MD of online accounting software product Xero. The numbers back him up. In June, Ericsson predicted that the number of mobile broadband users around the world will grow from 250 million to 2.2 billion in the next five years.

Intel: future iPhone to be Atom powered

An Intel executive has apparently claimed a future iPhone will be based upon the chip giant's Atom processor.

Warning Future Generations About Nuclear Waste

Smivs writes "How do we warn people 10,000 years in the future about our nuclear waste dumps? There is a thought-provoking essay in the The Guardian newspaper (UK) by Ulrich Beck concerning this problem. Professor Beck also questions whether green issues are overly influencing politicians and clouding our judgement regarding the dangers of nuclear power."

ICC to discuss Zimbabwe's future in cricket amid political turmoil

LONDON - Zimbabwe's future as a cricketing nation will be decided next week by the International Cricket Council amid the country's ongoing political turmoil.

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