 To prevent accidents, car must know its driver May 30, 2007 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 43 vote(s)
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Over the past several years, scientists working in the area of intelligent vehicles have developed predictive braking systems to help prevent rear-end collisions. When your car gets dangerously close to the ... | |
 Eyes turn to dawn of 'visual computing' August 28, 2008 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 17 vote(s)
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Lifelike graphics are breaking free of elite computer games and spreading throughout society in what industry insiders proclaim is the dawning of a "visual computing era." | |
 'Digital piracy' may benefit companies March 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 42 vote(s)
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Unauthorised copying of software, music or films, so-called digital piracy, may have benefits for the affected companies, an Oxford researcher has claimed. | |
 'Mind Gaming' Could Enter Market This Year March 14, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 82 vote(s)
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In an adapted version of the Harry Potter video game, players lift boulders and throw lightning bolts using only their minds. Just as physical movement changed the interface of gaming with Nintendo's Wii, ... | |
 Focus images instantly with Adobe’s computational photography October 09, 2007 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 72 vote(s)
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Adobe has recently unveiled some novel photo editing abilities with a new technology known as computational photography. With a combination of a special lens and computer software, the technique can divide ... | |
 i.play Offers Video Game-like Playground Equipment September 20, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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For children of today’s generation, swings and slides don’t seem to cut it anymore—not when you have an Xbox and Playstation in your living room. In an attempt to curb the rising childhood obesity rates partially ... | |
Insects inspire robotics research August 21, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Insects are proving invaluable for one researcher at the University of Alberta, who hopes robots can perform the same types of tasks that ants or bees do. | |
 JitterBugs could turn your keyboard against you August 07, 2006 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 50 vote(s)
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Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science warn against an entirely new threat to computer security: peripheral devices – such as keyboards, mice or microphones ... | |
Researchers 'text mine' The New York Times, demonstrating ease of new technology July 26, 2006 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Performing what a team of dedicated and bleary-eyed newspaper librarians would need months to do, scientists at UC Irvine have used an up-and-coming technology to complete in hours a complex topic analysis of 330,000 stories ... | |
Putting a face on android science by exploring an uncanny valley July 20, 2006 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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We might be more responsive to robots designed to look human rather than mechanical, but other factors may determine what causes us to accept or shun these virtual humans. | |
 Brain on chip: Nerve tissue interfaced with a computer chip June 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 70 vote(s)
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Before informational input perceived by the mammalian brain is stored in the long-term memory, it is temporarily memorised in the hippocampus. Understanding the function of the hippocampus as an important player ... | |
Copyright board leaves royalty rate unchanged October 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- The federal Copyright Royalty Board left the rate for royalties paid to songwriters for CDs and digital downloads unchanged. | |
Switching e-mail addresses doesn't have to hurt October 02, 2008 | User rating: 3.7 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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In many ways, changing your e-mail address is harder than changing your mailing address. There's no post office to make sure that your mail gets forwarded and senders are notified of the switch. Plus, you have to deal with ... | |
Outsourcing aids many data thefts, Verizon says October 02, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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(AP) -- The reliance of restaurant chains and retail stores on outside companies to handle credit-card processing and other information-technology functions is partly to blame for a rash of consumer data breaches over the ... | |
Allstate testing whether games can improve driving October 01, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Could playing computer games enhance mental agility enough to turn people over 50 into better drivers? Allstate Corp. wants to find out, and if the answer is yes, it might offer insurance discounts to people who ... | |
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