Star Wars veteran and all-around effects guru Ken Ralston brings work on The Polar Express and Beowulf to Tim Burton’s madcap 3-D version of Alice in Wonderland. The VFX team uses a grab bag of digital tricks to bring Burton’s vision to the screen, but ditched motion capture because it was “boring.”
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Mar 10
Visual Challenge for ‘Alice in Wonderland’: Make You Believe ‘World of Insanity’
Star Wars veteran and all-around effects guru Ken Ralston brings work on The Polar Express and Beowulf to Tim Burton’s madcap 3-D version of Alice in Wonderland. The VFX team uses a grab bag of digital tricks to bring Burton’s vision to the screen, but ditched motion capture because it was “boring.”
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Mar 10
Stop the Presses! Sony’s Reader Needs a Heavy Touch
Despite a larger-than-usual screen and handsome hardware design, this touchscreen-enabled e-book reader has too many shortcomings to recommend it.
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Mar 10
Stop the Presses! Sony’s Reader Needs a Heavy Touch
Despite a larger-than-usual screen and handsome hardware design, this touchscreen-enabled e-book reader has too many shortcomings to recommend it.
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Mar 10
Earth’s Magnetic Field Is 250 Million Years Older Than Thought
The earth’s magnetic field is 3.5 billion years old: a quarter-billion years older than previously thought.
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Feb 10
Ad Powerhouse FedEx Woos Small Biz With Web Parodies
FedEx is famous for memorable television commercials, but like many big companies, it is following customers as they navigate from the television to the computer. So FedEx is shipping much of its marketing to the Web.
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Feb 10
Ad Powerhouse FedEx Woos Small Biz With Web Parodies
FedEx is famous for memorable television commercials, but like many big companies, it is following customers as they navigate from the television to the computer. So FedEx is shipping much of its marketing to the Web.
27
Feb 10
Lawmakers Punt Patriot Act to Obama
The House and Senate vote to extend three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act for another year, despite calls for privacy reforms.
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Feb 10
Lawmakers Punt Patriot Act to Obama
The House and Senate vote to extend three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act for another year, despite calls for privacy reforms.
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Feb 10
Twitter Plans Search Ads Like Google’s
Twitter is reportedly set to introduce tiny text ads that come with search results. They learned it from watching you, Google.
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Feb 10
Twitter Plans Search Ads Like Google’s
Twitter is reportedly set to introduce tiny text ads that come with search results. They learned it from watching you, Google.
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Feb 10
iPad, iPhone, Cash Mountain Expected to Dominate Apple Annual Meeting
When Apple chief executive Steve Jobs holds his annual face-to-face meeting with shareholders Thursday, there will be no shortage of questions for the information-technology company that’s famously stingy with information.
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Feb 10
Found: The Future of Medicine
Take a closer look at what over-the-counter medicine will look like in 2021.
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Feb 10
Found Photoshop Contest: The Future of Camping Equipment
This month’s assignment: Imagine the future of camping equipment. What kind of tools will you be able to flick out of 2050’s Swiss Army knife? Will we have self-roasting marshmallows and climate-controlled tents? We have a feeling you won’t be rubbing two sticks together (or even striking a match) to start your campfire.
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Feb 10
Steve Jobs’ 6 Sneakiest Statements
Steve Jobs isn’t just a talented public speaker; he also has a knack for throwing off journalists and analysts with his masterful misdirections. Here are six famously misleading quotes that Jobs pulled from his bag of tricks.
