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Hevc Video Standard Finished; High-End Improvements Coming
The Moving Picture Experts Group has developed the High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC). The video-compression technology will enable higher-quality video, and also...
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Scientists Present a Software Package For All Types of Imaging
Max Planck Institute researchers recently released Numerical Information Field Theory (NIFTY), a program that can be used to map dimensions or spherical projections...
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First Look at an Atom's Shadow
Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Democritus theorized the existence of atoms by imagining what happens if you break a material into its smallest possible...
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Google Asks: How Much Is Mapping Worth?
How much has mapping software changed your life?
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Hackers in China Attacked The Times For Last 4 Months
For the last four months, Chinese hackers have persistently attacked The New York Times, infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters...
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Computer Scientists Take Road Less Traveled
Not long ago, a team of researchers from Stanford and McGill universities broke a 35-year record in computer science by an almost imperceptible margin — four hundredths...
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A Digital Paradise By the Dashboard Light
The driver of the first Corvette, in 1953, was welcomed by a lovely fan of numbers—a sweeping, eye-catching speedometer denominated in 10-mile-per-hour intervals...
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Rio De Janeiro Brings Qr Codes to Its Streets
Rio de Janeiro is adding something new into its trademark black-and-white mosaic pavements: QR codes.
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Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period.
Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world's most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server...
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The Inside Story Of Siri's Origins
The world got its first inkling of the quick wit that would make Apple's Siri an icon during a packed press conference held before an auditorium of tech elite.
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Has Chip and Pin Had Its Day?
Go to a cash machine in Japan or Poland and there's a good chance you'll find a finger-sized scanner next to the keypad.
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Lens-Less Camera Emerges from Metamaterials Work
U.S. scientists have used metamaterials to build the imaging system, which samples infra-red and microwave light.
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Mathematical Breakthrough Sets Out Rules For More Effective Teleportation
For the past 10 years, theoretical physicists have shown that the intense connections generated between particles as established in the quantum law of 'entanglement'...
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Two Science Projects to Receive Award of 1 Billion Euros
Projects to imitate the brain and to develop new materials for information technology have won awards of about 1 billion euros (U.S. $1.34 billion) each were announced...
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Senior Military Official Rejects Claims About Explosion at Fordo Enrichment Facility
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazzayeri on Monday categorically denied the recent media reports about an explosion...
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11 Body Parts Defense Researchers Will se to Track You
Cell phones that can identify you by how you walk. Fingerprint scanners that work from 25 feet away. Radars that pick up your heartbeat from behind concrete walls...
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How Google's Jeff Dean Became the Chuck Norris of the Internet
"The speed of light in a vacuum used to be about 35 mph. Then Jeff Dean spent a weekend optimizing physics."—Jeff Dean Facts
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Google Offers $3.14159 Million in Total Rewards For Chrome Os Hacking Contest
Google has never been stingy when it comes to paying for information about security vulnerabilities in products.
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How Vegas Casinos Wage War on Cheating
"I think most people feel that if you can find a way to beat the casino, more power to you," says Arnold Synder, his eyes, those telltale features, hidden behind...
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