News tagged with photographers

Webcasts push solar eclipse to the masses

(AP) -- It was one of the best places in the western United States to watch the annular solar eclipse, and people drove for days just to get to this dusty stretch west of Albuquerque.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

You shoot and Croppola composes

We envy photographers who are experts at composing beautiful pictures and would like to achieve the same result. Croppola is a user-friendly online tool that helps photo-lovers to make the most of their pictures.

Technology / Software

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than thought

A team of researchers led by a NASA Lunar Science Institute (NLSI) member based at Southwest Research Institute has discovered evidence that the giant impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta was created ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 10, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Kyoto prof rolls out omnidirectional wheelchair

(PhysOrg.com) -- A mechanical engineering professor has taken the wraps off his vehicle that is designed to become a next-generation wheelchair. As its formal name suggests, this is the Personal Mobile Vehicle, ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

A georeferenced digital 'comic' to improve emergency management

Spanish researchers at the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid have developed a computer application that allows georeferenced images that have been uploaded to social networks on the Internet to be recovered, ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space Image: Gumdrop meets Spider

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image, taken on March 6, 1969, shows the Apollo 9 Command and Service Modules docked with the Lunar Module.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Peeing Frenchman sues Google for making him 'laughing stock'

A Frenchman is suing Google for making him the laughing stock of his village after the firm's Street View service put on the Internet a picture of him urinating in his garden, his lawyer said Thursday.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (6) | comments 29

Space Image: Eastern seaboard at night

(PhysOrg.com) -- An Expedition 30 crew member aboard the International Space Station took this nighttime photograph of much of the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Motorola: Some refurbished tablets weren't wiped

Motorola Mobility says about 100 Xoom tablet computers that it refurbished for sale on Woot.com may not have been properly wiped of the previous owners' data.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Japan's Fujifilm seeks tie-up with Olympus

Japanese film and camera maker Fujifilm has offered scandal-hit Olympus a capital and business tie-up, it said Monday as it announced a slump in third-quarter profits.

Technology / Business

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

iPhone attachment captures panoramic video

Most iPhone developers are focused on creating software applications for the hip smartphones from Apple.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

First images of newly discovered primate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers working in Northern Myanmar have captured the first photographs of the recently discovered Myanmar snub-nosed monkey.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Huge wildfire shutters Chile national park

Chilean firefighters on Saturday tried to contain a massive wildfire that has ravaged tens of thousands of acres of pristine Patagonia and forced authorities to close a popular national park.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 31, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11

UIUC team will show can't-tell photo inserts at Siggraph (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Visitors to this month's Siggraph Asia conference on computer graphics from December 12 to 15 will witness a presentation from a team at the University of Illinois in Urbana Champaign on how ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 10 | with audio podcast report