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Recovering Nintendo’s Lost SimCity for the NES
A lot of you are probably aware of Nintendo’s remarkable rendition of SimCity for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. The cartridge launched alongside the system here in the United States, and brought the popular PC game to a brand new console audience. But did you know that Nintendo’s version of SimCity actually started life on the original 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System?
This version of the game was announced at the same time as its 16-bit cousin, and was said to contain all of its same features. It made a brief appearance at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in 1991, but was canceled soon after, and was never seen again.
This version of the game was thought to be completely lost or, at best, confined to some deep dark archive inside of Nintendo’s offices. Either way, the game was seen as something of a Holy Grail among collectors and archivists alike, and the odds of ever seeing it outside of a handful of published screenshots seemed slim, until a cartridge containing an unfinished version of the game materialized at 2017’s Portland Retro Gaming Expo.
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Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
Given a single photo as input, we create a 3D animatable version of the subject, which can now walk towards the viewer. The 3D result can be experienced in augmented reality; in the result above the user has virtually hung the artwork with a HoloLens headset and can watch the character run out of the painting from different views.
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Apollo 8 launch - December 21, 1968
Drones are becoming increasingly disruptive. Can they be stopped?
GATWICK, ENGLAND — The second-busiest airport in the United Kingdom was recently beset by a robotic menace. Starting at 9 p.m. GMT Dec. 19, a pair of drones was spotted near the airport, prompting the airport to cancel flights until 6 a.m. Friday. Airlines scrambled responses, passengers remained delayed and confused as their holiday travel plans were increasingly sent out of whack, while Sussex police actively searched for the people at fault.
The military has been called in for assistance with counterdrone equipment, as the rest of the world ponders two similar, related questions: How can drone flybys cause so much disruption, and why isn’t there a tool that can stop them yet?
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