News tagged with digital preservation
'Digital genome' time capsule stored under the Swiss Alps
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Europe have created a time capsule they call a 'digital genome,' and deposited it in a bunker known as the Swiss Fort Knox, which lies deep beneath the ski slopes of the Swiss ...
Probing Question: Can we save today's documents for tomorrow?
Even though your grandparents’ old photo albums are yellowed and grainy, they’re still there for you and your family to enjoy. But will your grandchildren be able to say the same of the digital photo albums ...
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Feb 12, 2009 |
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Kodak patent deemed invalid in fight with Apple-RIM
A US judge on Monday said a Kodak patent allegedly infringed upon by Apple and Blackberry-maker Research In Motion (RIM) was not valid, dealing another blow to the struggling photography pioneer.
May 22, 2012 |
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Google wants authors group out of NY library case
(AP) -- Google Inc. urged a judge Thursday to toss The Authors Guild and an organization representing photographers out of 6-year-old litigation over the future of the world's largest digital library, a move that would force ...
May 03, 2012 |
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Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift
The Tibetan Plateau is the youngest and highest plateau on Earth, and its elevation reaches one-third of the height of the troposphere, with profound dynamic and thermal effects on atmospheric circulation ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 24, 2012 |
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Oracle skewers Google as Android trial opens
Oracle began Monday trying to convince a jury that Google's top executives have long known that they stole a key piece of technology to build the Android software that now powers more than more than 300 million smartphones ...
Apr 17, 2012 |
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Eggs of enigmatic dinosaur discovered
(Phys.org) -- An Argentine-Swedish research team has reported a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur in Patagonia.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Apr 10, 2012 |
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When dark energy turned on (Update)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some six billion light years distant, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction ...
Mar 30, 2012 |
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Wikipedia founder: Public needs online references
(AP) -- The man who helped create the online reference Wikipedia said Tuesday that the end of Encyclopaedia Britannica's print run shows the world's growing reliance on the Internet as a base for knowledge.
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Google opens Amazon wilds to armchair explorers
Google's free online map service on Wednesday began letting people explore portions of the Amazon Basin from the comfort of their homes.
Mar 21, 2012 |
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The rise and fall of Kodak's moment
On a shelf in his office in Cambridge Judge Business School, Dr Kamal Munir keeps a Kodak Brownie 127. Manufactured in the 1950s, the small Bakelite camera is a powerful reminder of the rise and fall of a ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2012 |
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Guiding robot planes with hand gestures
Aircraft-carrier crew use a set of standard hand gestures to guide planes on the carrier deck. But as robot planes are increasingly used for routine air missions, researchers at MIT are working on a system that would enable ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Mar 15, 2012 |
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