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Friday Forum Focus: Windows*8 development, gesture recognition, Unity
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted May 24th 20130
Once a month, we take a look at some of the most popular posts in the Ultrabook™ and Windows*8 forums here on the Intel Developer Zone, as well as notable blogs and articles.  Whether you’ve got a specific question or ...
The Rise of the Independent Game Developer
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted May 23rd 20130
Independent developers might not have as many resources as their larger studio counterparts have to offer, but it seems that the barrier to game development at least has been made a little bit easier to jump lately. A recent announcement from Unity, one of the most popular game rendering engines ...
Basic Javascript
By Dale Schouten (...Posted May 22nd 20130
I was in High School when we got our first "home computer".  At the time there were quite a variety of home computers available, with different operating systems, different hardware and different features.  One thing they all had in common, though, was 'Basic'.  Pretty much every computer came ...
Perceptual Computing and Exergaming: It’s a Match
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted May 21st 20130
What is “exergaming”? According to Exergaming Australia, it’s a whole new way to combine fitness with technology: “Exergaming is more than a combination of just “exercise” and “games,” since such a definition would ...
Perceptual Computing Event Series
By MonikaLischke (...Posted May 21st 20130
You probably already noticed that a lot of talk is going on on the Intel websites about Perceptual Computing, so we´re not only having a very cool Challenge for you guys, but also many events scheduled where we provide hands on ...
Meshcentral.com - Intel AMT hardware KVM multi-display support
By ylian-saint-hil...Posted May 20th 20130
Every few weeks, I try to add more Intel AMT support in Meshcentral.com. This time around, I added multi-display support for Intel AMT on the hardware KVM viewer. So, when you connect to Intel AMT KVM from ...
Using HLE and RTM with older compilers with tsx-tools
By Andreas Kleen (...Posted May 20th 20130
To use HLE/RTM to improve lock scalability the lock library needs to be enabled. If you already have an enabled lock library, like glibc ...
Foliage Patch - Organizing Our Data
By Doug Mcnabb (Intel)Posted May 19th 20130
This blog post discusses how we organize our foliage data with patches. The previous blog post mentioned that we separate foliage rendering into full-3D objects near the camera, and 2D billboard proxies further away (and for small objects near the camera). This data drives our rendering of both ...
Processing Arrays of Bits with Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (Intel® AVX2)
By Thomas Willhalm...Posted May 17th 20130
It is only a few weeks until you will get a chance to get your hands on the 4th Generation Intel® Core&tm; Processor Family formerly code-named Haswell. This architecture will come with some very nice features including Intel® Advanced ...
Ten Google Search Hacks for Developers
By Wendy Boswell (...Posted May 16th 20130
The world’s most popular search engine can do a lot more than just look up the latest NFL scores or find funny pictures of cats. There’s a vast array of advanced search tricks that anyone – but especially developers – can use to dig deep into data. In this article, we’ll take a look at ten ...

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