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Multimedia stories show how engineers shape the future

The National Science Foundation (NSF) today released a special report featuring the work of a creative group of researchers--engineers who are investigating new phenomena, devising new capabilities, and designing ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Seeing is understanding -- using artificial intelligence to analyse multimedia content

(PhysOrg.com) -- The media produce a glut of material daily. Refining that ore into the gold of useful information requires new approaches. European researchers have now made automated multimedia analysis ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Augmented reality brings movie magic to city visits

(PhysOrg.com) -- From the Italy of Visconti to the Spain of Almodovar, many people's first encounter with a foreign country is in the cinema. Imagine if images from the silver screen could be conjured up anew ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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LG Display will release HD panel for smartphones

(Phys.org) -- LG Display is getting ready to showcase a five-inch smartphone display that turns out to be a full HD LCD panel supporting up to 1080p video, something like having a high-quality TV in your hand. ...

Electronics / Hardware

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report

'Game-powered machine learning' opens door to Google for music

Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the answer is ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created May 03, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

AOL says to sell 800 patents to Microsoft for $1.0 bn

AOL announced plans to sell more than 800 patents to Microsoft in a $1.056 billion deal giving the struggling Internet pioneer a needed cash injection as it seeks to fend off pressure from shareholders.

Technology / Business

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4

Review: Nokia Lumia 900 hindered by software

Once the dominant maker of smartphones, Nokia Corp. is hoping to reassert itself by challenging the new top players, Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything

Imagine a timeline of the universe, complete with high-resolution videos and images, in which you could zoom from a chronology of Egypt’s dynasties and pyramids to the tale of a Japanese-American couple ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 15, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Software automatically transforms movie clips into comic strips

(PhysOrg.com) -- While some comics today are still drawn by hand, many modern cartoonists use a variety of digital tools to create comics. But even with the help of these tools, creating comics is a time-consuming ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 14, 2012 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (12) | comments 7 | with audio podcast feature

Lenovo 3Q profit up by half, warns of disk supply

(AP) -- Lenovo Group Ltd., the world's second biggest personal computer maker, said Thursday that quarterly profit grew by more than half but warned hard drive costs would remain high amid a global shortage.

Technology / Business

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New Vizio HD-TV breaks wide-screen barrier for movies, apps

The shape of TVs to come might be even wider than wide-screen. Today's high-definition sets evolved to a rectangular 16-by-9 shape from the more square analog TVs. But a wider 21-by-9 display standard is in ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Some file-sharing sites drop the sharing

Caution is spreading among popular file-sharing services known for letting users circulate pirated Hollywood content.

Technology / Internet

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 21

Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption

Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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