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Researchers revolutionize closed captioning

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ever since closed video captioning was developed in the 1970s, it hasn't changed much. The words spoken by the characters or narrators scroll along at the bottom of the screen, enabling hearing ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

YouTube extends automatic video captioning

YouTube, in a significant development for millions of deaf Internet users, extended automatic caption capability Thursday to all English-language videos on the video-sharing website.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Google adds automatic captions to YouTube

Google, in a significant development for the deaf, announced on Thursday it was adding automatic caption capability to videos on YouTube.

Technology / Internet

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Review: Warming up to photo-sharing app Instagram

(AP) -- I was skeptical, even horrified, when I first heard about the photo-sharing craze Instagram more than a year ago. As a journalist trained to reject alterations in words and pictures, I didn't get ...

Technology / Software

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Review: Oscars iPad app wonderful, but distracting

(AP) -- Interactivity during the Academy Awards telecast once meant booing at the television every time there was a winner I hadn't picked for my Oscars pool. This year, I had my head glued to an iPad instead.

Technology / Software

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

SOHO mission 'pick of the week' hits impressive milestone

(PhysOrg.com) -- In late November, the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory's (SOHO) online "Pick of the Week" reached an impressive milestone: its 500th edition. This is an incredibly popular feature, which ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

More 'hollowed ground' on Mercury

The latest featured image from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft, soon to complete its first year in orbit around Mercury, shows the central peak of the 78-mile (138-km) – wide crater Eminescu surrounded ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Twitter revamps to connect the world

Twitter on Thursday began rolling out overhauled pages crafted to boost the appeal of the message-sharing service to worldwide users.

Technology / Internet

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New exhibition, website guide visitors through the evolving universe

The cosmos constantly changes. Stars are born, live out their lives, and die - sometimes calmly, sometimes explosively. Galaxies form, grow, and collide dramatically. A new exhibition and website, developed ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Smart listeners and smooth talkers

Human-like performance in speech technology could be just around the corner, thanks to a new research project that links three UK universities.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Computer scientist seeks the real meaning of language

Better be careful about telling a lie to Julia Hirschberg. The computer science professor, an expert in spoken language, examines what people unconsciously communicate through such things as intonation, accent ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 14

UNH researcher discovers research manipulated to support pro-eugenic beliefs

A University of New Hampshire researcher has discovered that a former Yale professor who espoused pro-eugenic beliefs manipulated his research findings so he could conclude that his Wisconsin home town was ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 10, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Photos from stolen laptop lead to man's arrest

(AP) -- When he couldn't get help from police, Joshua Kaufman went online and used Twitter and a blog to help track down his stolen laptop.

Technology / Other

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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