Grand Theft Auto 4 Map on Google Maps

Rockstar Games have outdone themselves by completely dumping the entire GTA 4 Liberty City Map on Google Maps.

All the core functionality remains, all it asks is for exploration from the “comfort of your own home”

Over at GTA4.net

Source – GTA4.net

CUPP PunkThis | Dual OS

Cupp’s PunkThis is a board that replaces your 2.5 inch SATA hard drive enabling the device to be able to switch between Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) via a hotkey in real-time.

The Punk This has the following specs and ports:

• DM3730 ARM CPU
• 512MB of RAM
• Wifi radio
• mini-PCIe Socket
• SATA port
• SD Card slot
• Other connections to allow usb, video and audio interfacing with the host.

A key point to also note would be that; although the PinkThis replaces the computer’s hard drive, it also allows for an SSD to be connected to it via the mini-PCIe Socket or an SDcard. These facilities will allow for extra storage.

Source – Engadget

NFC Technology on Google Andriod

NFC (Near Field Communications) is a short ranged (1-4cm), low speed (106 – 414 kbps) and low friction setup (no discovery, no pairing) that does not need a battery to communicate. This technology is quite groundbreaking and Google is now making it available for developers to incorporate it into their applications. The NFC technology works like this:

– The Android device being used must have an NFC antenna (currently only located at the back of the device on NEXUS S).

– The NFC functionality must be enabled

– The user simply taps the device on anything that is NFC enabled

I’ve added 2 videos, the first is the short version outlining basic functionality and the second is a more in depth version

WebGL Attack | GPU exposed to hackers

The Mechanics of a WebGL Attack

The UK security firm Context (with support from the US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT) )  believes that the WebGL feature should be disabled after learning of a security threat that allows a code to be planted directly into a computer’s GPU.

The extent of the attack can vary depending on the attacker; some attacks can be a simple denial of service attack and others can be more severe with the additional use of HTML5 Canvas. As a result of these vulnerabilities Context believes that WebGL is not ready for mass usage and should be disabled in web browsers.

Source – Contextis

Google Search Volume | Looks awesome

Want to see something cool? Hell yea you do.

Via Google Blog

Google Data Arts Team developed a visualization using WebGL (a thing that IE doesn’t natively support) which is essentially JavaScript on steroids that uses your computer’s hardware to accelerate animations.