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Videoconferencing Technology Possible For Cell Phones, Pdas
A new low-bandwidth, high-frame-rate videoconferencing technology that creates the appearance of three-dimensionality and a strong sense of co-presence without...
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The Rise and Rise of E-Readers
Amazon's launch of its first dedicated e-reader for newspapers, magazines, and textbooks points to a future when digital and analog publishing begins to merge....
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Asia's Fastest Supercomputer Keys 3D Animation
Eka, the fastest supercomputer in Asia today, is a firm pillar of the 3D animation scene in Pune, India. With peak powers of 172 TeraFlops, Eka was used in the...
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Students Make Atari Games Look Like Atari Again
Georgia Institute of Technology students have developed a system that recreates the original picture and experience of Atari video games. Old video game displays...
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Rfid Wristband Becomes a Theme Park Essential
In a nondescript manufacturing plant on a quiet cul-de-sac in San Fernando, Calif., a khaki-green machine the size of a buffet table sucks in bright pink ribbon...
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In Major Shift, Apple Builds Its Own Chip Design Team
In a major strategy shift, Apple reportedly has begun boosting its capability to design its own computer chips in an effort to create exclusive features for its...
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Computer Scientists Add Smell to Games
Birmingham University computer scientist Bob Stone is developing artificial smell simulators that could be used to make video games more realistic or by the military...
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Google Tries Jump-Starting 3D Web Graphics
Google has released O3D, software designed to bring accelerated three-dimensional (3D) graphics to Web browsers. The program is a browser plug-in for Internet...
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Ibm Computer Program to Take on 'jeopardy!'
IBM is developing software designed to compete against human "Jeopardy!" contestants, which, if successful, could mark a major advancement in artificial intelligence...
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Easier Access to Digital Audio Archives
Digital sound archives offer enormously rich resources but accessing them is currently difficult. Sound material is often held separately from other materials and...
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Student Innovations Honored at Chi Conference
ACM's recent Computer-Human Interaction (CHI 2009) conference gave computing students an opportunity to show off the technology they are developing and how it could...
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Technarte to Showcase Innovative Art/Tech in Bilbao
Technarte, the International Conference on Art & Technology organized by Innovalia Association, will bring to Bilbao, Spain, the merge between art, science and...
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Tools Enhance Real-World Apps: Call in the Tele-Shrink
European researchers have developed a suite of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other channels of electronic communication. Intriguing...
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Smartphone Apps Capture 40% of ser Face Time
Up to 90 percent of smartphone users say they want computer-like functions, and close to 40 percent of aggregate face time is based on mobile Internet, games, multimedia...
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The Stranger Side of Chi 2009
ACM's CHI 2009, the 27th Computer-Human Interaction Conference, spotlighted many new inventions and concepts, some of which were decidedly unusual. These included...
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Robot Suit Will Turn You Into Ironman
A cybernetic bodysuit developed by Cyberdyne Corp. and Daiwa House of Japan augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold. The HAL (Hybrid...
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Video Game Competition Announced For Siggraph 2009
ACM's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) 2009 will feature GameJam!, a new international video game competition and will give...
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Nasa and Microsoft to Make niverse of Data Available to the Public
NASA and Microsoft recently announced plans to make planetary images and data accessible over the Internet as part of the Space Act Agreement. NASA and Microsoft...
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Bangor Scientists Make Star Trek's Holodeck Virtually a Reality
Bangor University computer scientists Nigel John and Jonathan Roberts are developing a "virtual cocoon" that will enable users to experience virtual sites using...
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