Facebook Pivots, Buys Virtual-Reality Headset Maker Oculus for $2B

CEO Zuckerberg says Facebook now wants to focus on what platforms "will come next to enable entertaining personal experiences." Read more »

Why Former Symantec CEO Enrique Salem Is Invested in Security

VIDEO: Enrique Salem, former CEO of Symantec, discusses his involvement with ForeScout and FireEye. Read more »

Open-Source Apache CloudStack 4.3 Supports Microsoft Hyper-V

The CloudStack 4.3 open-source cloud platform adds new hypervisor, SSL and dynamic computing capabilities. Read more »

Google Glass to Become More Fashionable With Luxottica Partnership

Google Glass is partnering with eyeglass frame vendor Luxottica Group to bring some big brand names, such as Ray-Ban and Oakley, into the mix for future Google Glass frames. Read more »

Google Wants to Help Get Small Businesses Online

Google is broadcasting free virtual workshops this week to help small businesses get their products and services online and in front of more customers. Read more »

Oracle’s Hurd: Businesses Must Adapt to New Consumers

At the company's Enterprise Connect event, Mark Hurd warned that Millennials are less loyal and more mobile, and they're spending a lot of money. Read more »

Symmetry-Aware Template Deformation and Fitting

In this paper, we propose a new method for reconstructing 3D models from a noisy and incomplete 3D scan and a coarse template model. The main idea is to maintain characteristic high-level... Read more »

Inverse Procedural Modelling of Trees

Procedural tree models have been popular in computer graphics for their ability to generate a variety of output trees from a set of input parameters and to simulate plant interaction with the... Read more »

SATO: Surface Area Traversal Order for Shadow Ray Tracing

We present the surface area traversal order (SATO) metric to accelerate shadow ray traversal. Our formulation uses the surface area of each child node to compute the TO. In this metric, we... Read more »

Greedy Geometric Algorithms for Collection of Balls, with Applications to Geometric Approximation and Molecular Coarse-Graining

Choosing balls that best approximate a 3D object is a non-trivial problem. To answer it, we first address the inner approximation problem, which consists of approximating an object FO defined by a... Read more »