 3D Graphics Can Geometrically Guide Your Attention July 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 27 vote(s)
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When you gaze at a painting, the first thing that catches your eye is usually not an accident. Since the beginning of art, painters have used strategic techniques to guide a viewer’s attention ... | |
 Intelligent Computers See Your Human Traits May 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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Today’s computers can do a lot as far as computation goes, but they tend to do it in an impersonal, stand-offish way, so to speak. However, computer engineers are busy changing that, as they try to give computers ... | |
Chain letters reveal surprising circulation patterns April 10, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 48 vote(s)
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A chain letter hoax that fooled thousands of people may help computer scientists understand how information spreads on a global scale. | |
 Hypercubes Could Be Building Blocks of Nanocomputers April 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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Multi-dimensional structures called hypercubes may act as the building blocks for tomorrow’s nanocomputers – machines made of such tiny elements that they are dominated not by forces that we’re familiar with ... | |
 Avatar Mimics You in Real Time March 25, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 35 vote(s)
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It’s a little bit like looking in the mirror at your cartoon double, except that the “reflection” is an avatar on your computer screen. Wave your hand, nod your head, speak a sentence, and your avatar does ... | |
 New Technology Combines GPS Benefits with Privacy Protection December 11, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 33 vote(s)
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As GPS and other wireless location-based technologies are becoming prevalent on cell phones and other everyday devices, two researchers are thinking about the social reaction to constant surveillance. As George ... | |
 Artists 'draw on air' to create 3D illustrations September 19, 2007 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 125 vote(s)
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By putting on a virtual reality mask, holding a stylus in one hand and a tracking device in the other, an artist can draw 3D objects in the air with unprecedented precision. This new system is called “Drawing ... | |
 Machines might talk with humans by putting themselves in our shoes September 10, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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While robots can do some remarkable things, they don't yet possess the gift of gab. Since the 1970s, researchers have been trying to develop a speech-based human-machine interface, but improvements are gradual, ... | |
Quantum existence testing gives extreme solutions to increase network speed March 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 45 vote(s)
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Using a novel quantum computing algorithm, scientists have simplified the process for finding extreme values in a database compared with classical and earlier quantum computing methods. With its reduced time and minimal error ... | |
 In 'forty jumps,' scientists model scales of quarks to quasars January 18, 2007 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 31 vote(s)
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Comprehending the smallness of a quark or the hugeness of the observable universe is a challenge that most of us find difficult, yet captivating. Placing vastly different scales side by side to explore their ... | |
 Humanoid avatar plays a competitive game of table tennis January 04, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Recently, scientists have designed and built an immersive table tennis (or “ping-pong”) simulation that allows a human to compete against a computer. While most virtual reality environments support slow- or ... | |
 Sandia fingerprinting technique demonstrates wireless device driver vulnerabilities September 12, 2006 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 58 vote(s)
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The next time you’re sipping a latte and surfing the Net at your favorite neighborhood wireless cafe, someone just a few seats away could be breaking into your laptop and causing irreparable damage to your ... | |
Microchip sets low-power record with extreme sleep mode June 13, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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A low-power microchip developed at the University of Michigan uses 30,000 times less power in sleep mode and 10 times less in active mode than comparable chips now on the market. | |
Scientists teach a computer to recognize attractiveness in women April 04, 2008 | User rating: 3.1 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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“Beauty,” goes the old saying, “is in the eye of the beholder.” But does the beholder have to be human? Not necessarily, say scientists at Tel Aviv University. Amit Kagian, an M.Sc. graduate from the TAU School of Computer ... | |
 Bringing Second Life To Life: Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities of a Child March 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 36 vote(s)
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Troy, N.Y. – Today’s video games and online virtual worlds give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before. But despite having your hair, your ... | |
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