New Quantum Strategy Keeps Web Searches Private June 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 23 vote(s)
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When an Internet user types a word or phrase into a search engine, the Web server has the ability to find out that inquiry. As more people and businesses are becoming concerned about privacy, researchers are developing new ... | |
 MSU researcher creates system helping police to match tattoos to suspects June 19, 2008 | User rating: 3.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A Michigan State University researcher has created an automatic image retrieval system, whereby law enforcement agencies will be able to match scars, marks and tattoos to identify suspects and victims. | |
 Jump into the screen with 360-degree immersive video February 27, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 41 vote(s)
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As you watch a video, have you ever wondered what's happening beyond the camera frame? If you could jump inside the video and look around, you would have a 360-degree view of the world in your TV screen or ... | |
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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
 Cracking the secret codes of Europe's Galileo satellite July 08, 2006 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 45 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. ... | |
 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. | |
 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 ... | |
 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 ... | |
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 ... | |
Microsoft to sell Office, OneCare for $70 a year July 03, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. will begin selling its Office programs to consumers on a subscription basis starting mid-July, in a bid to reach thrifty PC buyers who would otherwise pass on productivity software. | |
 Microsoft to stop selling Windows XP on Monday June 30, 2008 | User rating: 2.2 / 5 after 18 vote(s)
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(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. is scheduled to stop selling its Windows XP operating system to retailers and major computer makers Monday, despite protests from a slice of PC users who don't want to be forced into ... | |
 Ballmer and Gates bid farewell with tears June 28, 2008 | User rating: 3 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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(AP) -- On his final full day at Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates went on stage to reminisce with his longtime friend Steve Ballmer, and neither man could hold back tears as Ballmer handed Gates a large scrapbook ... | |
 Review: Strong, innovative Web browsers emerge June 26, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 40 vote(s)
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(AP) -- With all the recent attention on the new Firefox 3 Internet browser, it's easy to miss two strong, innovative rivals. Add it all up, and Microsoft Corp.'s market-leading Internet Explorer has some ... | |
Computer predicts who dies on death row: study June 25, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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A computer programme designed by US researchers can predict with chilling accuracy the very few men among the thousands on America's Death Row who will actually be executed, according to a new study. | |
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