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 01/03/2017: Robotique Le dernier né de Boston Dynamics-Boston Dynamics shows its last creation in robotics
Malgré ces echecs, Boston Dynamics continue ses recherches et voici le dernier né qui avait été présenté lors du dernier salon. Voici quelques aspects de ces capacités en terme de franchissement, de déplacement et d'évitement.
Despite these failures, Boston Dynamics continues its research and here is the latest born that had been presented at the last show. Here are some aspects of these capabilities in terms of crossing, displacement and avoidance.
WebBuzz du 04/04/2016: Blue origin réutilisation des lanceurs-Blue origin pushing the enveloppe
Blue origin, société de Seattle, créée en 2000 par l'un des fondateurs d'amazon, avance dans sa conquête de l'espace. Ils ont été capable de lancer plusieurs fois une capsule à plus de 100 Km d'altitude et de réutiliser plusieurs fois le même lanceur.
Blue Origin, a company in Seattle, founded in 2000 by one of the founders of amazon, advance in the conquest of space. They were able to run several times a capsule over 100 km altitude and reused several times the same pitcher.
WebBuzz du 22/04/2015: Technique: un aveugle retrouve la vue-Technic: a blind people can see again
Mark Cronell, un vétéran de l'US Air Force, a perdu la vue depuis plus de 20 ans et grace à la technique, il peut voir ses amis pour la première fois. Un moment très émouvant pour lui.
Mark Cronell, a veteran of the US Air Force, lost his sight for more than 20 years and thanks to technology, he can see his friends for the first time. A very emotional moment for him.
WebBuzz du 10/04/2017: Chine: Un système robotisé pour une société de livraison-Robots sorting system helps Chinese company
Les robots sont de plus en plus présent. Et c'est le cas en Chine dans cette grosse société de livraison qui est capable d'expédié plus de 200 000 paquets par jour sans erreur...
Robots are becoming more and more present. And this is the case in China in this big delivery company that is able to ship more than 200,000 packages per day without error ...
Best SSDs For The Money: May 2011
Welcome to the second installment of our list of top SSDs at at any given price point. This month we see the announcement of several new drives from OCZ, availability of Crucial's m4 lineup (at expected prices), and the emergence of new SF-2200 options.
The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again
AMD is laying the foundation for its Socket AM3+, Bulldozer-based Zambezi processors with the 990FX chipset, functionally identical to 890FX. The big news is that motherboard vendors are licensing SLI again, and we want to compare performance to Intel.
WebBuzz du 26/07/2017: Faire de la balançoire en voiture-Car swinging
WebBuzz du 29/02/2016: Nouvelle version d'Android 6.0 Marshmallow-Android Rock, Paper, Scissors
Une nouvelle version d'Android est sortie. Elle se nomme Marshmallow et pour l'annoncer, Android a sortie cette petite animation qui a une raisonnance un peu particulière.
A new version of Android is released. Her name is Marshmallow and to announce it, Android has released this short animation that has a rather special raisonnance.
Content-Focused iPad Apps Value Form Over Function: Study
One set of instructions for the Moleskine iPad app.
A report released by the Nielsen Norman Group shows that many iPad apps are confusing users by being too subtle about the gestures needed to navigate them, and some are not sensitive enough to the accuracy limit of fingertips. The authors also found that many companies with perfectly functional websites are wasting their time making a less-functional iPad app.









