Sony announced a new soundbar that supports Dolby 5.1.2 Atmos. I was unfamiliar with this and found a page on the Dolby site that explains how to setup the different configurations. Dolby Atmos goes beyond the ordinary listening experience and puts you inside the song in a new spatial way, revealing every detail of the…
Author: Agitator!!
Google’s Incredible New Photo AI Makes ‘Zoom And Enhance’ a Real Thing
This is impressive tech. Now, the promise of shows like CSI will be a reality. The technique is called natural image synthesis by Google, and in this particular scenario, image super-resolution. You start off with a small, blocky, pixelated photo, and you end up with something sharp, clear, and natural-looking. It may not match the…
China is looking to build miles-wide ‘megastructures’ in space
According to a story on the Daily Mail, China is looking to build miles-wide ‘megastructures’ in space. The structures will require lightweight materials to allow larger objects to get into orbit with existing rockets. Researchers will also need to adopt technology to allow for in-orbit assembly and control. For more, check out this Daily Mail/MSN…
2D ‘Supersolid’ That Flows Without Friction Has Been Made For The First Time
In a major achievement, physicists have produced a 2D supersolid in the lab for the first time. That may sound incredibly mind-bendy, but it’s a feat researchers have been working towards for more than 50 years. Supersolids are strange materials with atoms arranged in the ordered structure of a solid, yet they can flow without…
Traversable wormholes are possible under certain gravity conditions
The thing of science fiction…interstellar travel via wormholes. Rosa is attempting to virtually “build” a stable, traversable wormhole, one that can be safely crossed without the theoretical passageway collapsing or trapping its occupant. And he has recently found that it is indeed possible, but only if we tweak our understanding of gravity. For more, check…
‘Radio colors’ from mysterious deep-space flashes reveal lone stellar corpse as source
Mysterious repeating pulses of radio waves may come from a hitherto unknown kind of extraordinarily powerful cosmic magnet. Instead, what may best explain the pattern of mysterious colors from FRB 20180916B’s fast radio bursts is a magnetar, a rare type of neutron star that are the strongest magnets in the cosmos. Specifically, they suggest that…
Windows 11 available on October 5
Microsoft announced Windows 11 will start to become available on October 5, 2021. On this day, the free upgrade to Windows 11 will begin rolling out to eligible Windows 10 PCs and PCs that come pre-loaded with Windows 11 will start to become available for purchase. For more, check out this announcement.
What is Dolby Vision?
Following on the heals of the previous story comes this one about Dolby Vision – since Netflix recently announced this will be their platform. 4K brings us additional pixels, but it’s HDR that makes those pixels really shine in a way they never have before. Importantly, not all HDR TVs will come with this dynamic…
what is HDR, and what does it mean for your TV?
Higher contrast, vivid colors and brighter images are coming to TVs. What HDR does is get more dynamic pictures and quality out of those many, many pixels. This means your viewing experience is better. With an HDR TV, bright whites look brighter, dark blacks look darker, and 10-bit panels can finally display the 1 billion…
‘Simpsons Hit & Run’ Fan Remade The Game In A Week Using Unreal Engine
This is a pretty good walk-thru on how he did it and the challenges he faced. Using a tool created by another developer, Lucas Cardellini, Reubs exported the map of Springfield from the original game into Unreal Engine, then used a combination of AI and manual effort to add textures. He even went as far…