Behold! Science fiction becomes science fact once again!

Dubbed g-speak, the mind bending OS combines "gestural i/o, recombinant networking, and real-world pixels," to deliver what the creators call "the first major step in [a] computer interface since 1984."

Basically, it's a complete, real-world working version of the UI Tom Cruise was fondling in Minority Report

The similarity is no coincidence: one of the developer Oblong's founders served as science advisor to Minority Report and based the design of those scenes directly on his earlier work at MIT.

Imagine playing games with this interface! I'm sure Nintendo and others will have more than an mild interest.....

Microsoft is planning to release free security software for download from the internet to address the growing market of new PC form factors like netbooks but also what it sees as a worrying increase in malware coming from developing nations.

Code-named “Morro,” this streamlined solution will be available in the second half of 2009 and will provide comprehensive protection from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans.

Available for free it will be architected for a smaller footprint that will use fewer computing resources, making it ideal for low-bandwidth scenarios or less powerful PCs.

The company has company also announced that it will discontinue retail sales of its Windows Live OneCare subscription service from 30 June next.

“Customers around the world have told us that they need comprehensive, ongoing protection from new and existing threats, and we take that concern seriously,” said Amy Barzdukas, senior director of product management for the Online Services and Wind [read more]

There are many documented cases of why World of Warcraft is probably the most addictive game on the planet - with players sacrificing marriages, jobs and friends in pursuit of …what exactly?

In Korea, a couple was charged with manslaughter after they lost track of time during a marathon WoW session and left their infant alone who accidentally suffocated (like heroin addicts in Trainspotting or some sh*t). Another story involves two gamers who actually DIED a few years ago training for a difficult quest for days at a time!

So how to beat the addiction, and when to try? Well, check out these tips from wikiHow if you are playing this game for more than 10 hours at time - or ANY game for 10 hours at a time for that matter!

Games are fun, I know, but seriously, get a life (and/or a girlfriend, and not a GAMER girlfriend) you guys

Holy cow! I've just watched the new Star Trek trailer (about 4 times) and am totally blown away.

I had my doubts at first about this movie, but the trailer makes it look just awesome

They have romulans from the future, which I would have to disagree with (Enterprise pulled the same sh*t with Klingons) for this reason - I remember the TOS episode where the crew saw Romulans for the first time - so once again the continuity timeline is distorted by a prequel (see Star Wars, AVP, Exorcist series, The Scorpion King etc etc)

However, the trailer still rocks so I'm willing to forgive. The movie is not out until next May, so no doubt there will be more trailers to follow, plus possible comic book tie-ins, animations etc.

Let the hype begin......check out the trailer in our Videos section.

Tomato, the 3rd party firmware for the Linksys WRT54GL router, has reached another update, version 1.22. Features this time include:

* Updated to Busybox 1.12.2.
* More flexible DHCP IP address range.
* Last 30 days is now calculated in Bandwidth Daily.
* KB/s is now displayed in QOS:Graphs.
* Some PPPoE logging is now optional.
* ebtables enabled. Use insmod/ modprobe to load.
* Proper id/support for WL520GU.
* Fixed CH12+ may not work.
* rstats now creates backups.

Download from here.

I've finally brough the GENU forums script online.

You can now discuss any news article with other readers simply by clicking the "Discuss" link below the article text.

You can also access all forums using the link in the menu.

Enjoy, and behave

I see from the EA site that Left 4 Dead is released next week, just in time for Christmas!

Set in the immediate aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, Steam Powered L4D offers four expansive "movie campaigns" that challenge you and your fellow survivors to battle thousands of swarming zombies as you travel across the rooftops of an abandoned metropolis, through rural ghost towns and pitch-black forests. In addition to the movie campaigns, Left 4 Dead features a Versus mode that allows you to play as the Boss Zombies

The game is released for PC and Xbox on the 21st of thi month, but you can check out the (crazy requirements) PC demo NOW from here. Get some!

I've uploaded some screenshots from the demo to here.

Electronic Arts Inc unveiled its first personal training product on Thursday, tapping into the growing appeal of video games as fitness systems as seen with Nintendo Co Ltd's hit title Wii Fit earlier this year.

The 60 dollar title, EA Sports Active, is exclusive to Nintendo's Wii console, and will hit store shelves in March 2009. Targeted toward women as a low-cost alternative to joining sports club or gym, the game features an interactive computer trainer, and crafts running, boxing and other heart-pumping exercises to the user's desires.

Such games are among an expanding list of casual titles for game systems that draw in new users to the gaming industry, which hopes to escape the global economic crisis that has hurt many companies and retailers, and threatens the crucial holiday shopping season.

Other games include Ubisoft's Allen Carr's Easyway to Stop Smoking and My Weight Loss Coach for the Nintendo DS portable game system.

Two decades and a half ago today, Bill Gates unveiled Microsoft's first operating systems. Oh, it wasn't for sale yet - no, no, it's still only 1983 and we wouldn't see Windows on store shelves until 1985. But that didn't stop the young heart throb Gates.

Gates wasn't at all shy when promoting his debut Windows OS at New York's Helmsley Palace Hotel that day, claiming that it, powered by a unique graphical interface, would be running 90% of IBM systems by 1984 (before missing the launch date by a year, of course).

To his credit, that ridiculously lofty number is just about identical to the Windows marketshare of today

So, I'm minding my own business installing TVersity on to a users PC so these can stream divx to their Xbox, when I catch a glimpse of something during the install process that leads me to this - that's right, FULL episodes of Star Trek via YouTube!

Pretty sweet, I thought. But delve deeper my brain says. So I did. Behold! Full episodes of MacGyver from the same channel!

Pays to read the small print, let me tell you