 Searching for the soul in the machine May 18, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 78 vote(s)
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If computers could create a society, what kind of world would they make? Thanks to the work of an ambitious project that adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, ‘computer society’, in which millions of software ... | |
 Cracking the secret codes of Europe's Galileo satellite July 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Members of Cornell's Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory have cracked the so-called pseudo random number (PRN) codes of Europe's first global navigation satellite, despite efforts to keep the codes secret. ... | |
 Making Hair Realistic in Computer Animation July 19, 2006 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 28 vote(s)
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Poets and novelists often describe hair as "shining" or "shimmering." Dark hair has a "sheen"; blond hair "glows." All this comes about because of the complex scattering of incident light off of individual ... | |
 Microsoft's Office 2007 vision June 26, 2006 | User rating: 2.4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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Microsoft Office applications are getting a multimedia tech facelift, which will incorporate voice, instant messaging and multi-faceted conferencing in its new 2007 Office system products. | |
The Web: Mobsters extinguish firewalls May 03, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 34 vote(s)
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Firewall? Forgetaboutit. Cyber-criminals, including the mafia, are now so savvy they can penetrate past these supposedly sturdy security measures and hack your computer network, whether you work at a university, Fortune 500 ... | |
 Researchers teach computers to perceive three dimensions in 2-D images June 13, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 24 vote(s)
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We live in a three-dimensional world but, for the most part, we see it in two dimensions. Discerning how objects and surfaces are juxtaposed in an image is second nature for people, but it's something that ... | |
Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles June 01, 2007 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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A team of biomedical engineers has developed a computer model that makes use of more or less predictable “guesstimates” of human muscle movements to explain how the brain draws on both what it recently learned and what ... | |
Microsoft: Silverlight More than a Flash April 16, 2007 | User rating: 2.5 / 5 after 81 vote(s)
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Microsoft gives a name to its Flash-killer technology. The technology formerly known as WPF/E is now known as Silverlight. | |
 Software tackles production line machine 'cyclic jitters' April 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Electronic commands passed from machine to machine over data networks increasingly drive today’s precisely timed and sequenced manufacturing production lines. However timing irregularities in the signals from ... | |
 Nomadic devices, the freedom to compute February 22, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Today's mobile phones and other nomadic devices have the computing power to offer users many more applications than currently available. However, security concerns and costs are holding back developments in ... | |
Microsoft Releases First Public Beta for 'Longhorn' April 26, 2007 | User rating: 3.2 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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This feature-complete, third beta brings with it the ability to simplify administration tasks via improved event logging, task scheduling, enhanced remote management and the scripting capabilities of Windows PowerShell. | |
 Red Hat Plans Linux Desktop Offering 'for the Masses' March 19, 2007 | User rating: 3.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Red Hat is designing a new, packaged Linux desktop solution to push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution. | |
 What's The Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 All About December 14, 2007 | User rating: 3.9 / 5 after 44 vote(s)
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Microsoft has announced an upcoming Windows XP Service Pack 3. There is a test version available. The Windows XP SP3 is primarily a package of previously released updates, security updates and hotfixes. However, ... | |
 Put trust in your pocket: CSIRO's trust extension device February 19, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
CSIRO has developed a prototype portable device that will allow people to do business across the internet on any computer in a trusted manner. | |
Microsoft: Why Not Use Your Phone as a Cheap PC? May 16, 2007 | User rating: 2.9 / 5 after 38 vote(s)
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While the PDA has existed as a sort of mini-PC for years, Microsoft said it would encourage phone manufacturers to formalize the transition of the phone to a mobile PC through a research initiative called "Fone+". | |
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