News tagged with real
Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Computer graphics have come a long way since the birth of Atari Games over 30 years ago. Today, computer graphics seem very real and some day researchers will pull graphics out of your television ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Wake cloaking simulated in lab - objects move through water without leaving a trace
(PhysOrg.com) -- Metamaterials researchers Yaroslav Urzhumov and David Smith, working at Duke University have built a simulation of an object that can move through water without leaving a trace and claim it's ...
Jul 25, 2011 |
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Declining energy quality could be root cause of current recession
An overlooked cause of the economic recession in the U.S. is a decade long decline in the quality of the nation's energy supply, often measured as the amount of energy we get out for a given energy input, ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 30, 2010 |
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Observing the Quantum Hall Effect in 'Real' Space
(PhysOrg.com) -- When water transforms into steam, or magnetized iron changes to demagnetized iron, Katsushi Hashimoto explains to PhysOrg.com, a phase transition is taking place: “Classical phase transitions…often share ...
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Google turns Android smartphones into interpreters
Google on Wednesday began turning Android-powered smartphones into interpreters with experimental software that lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.
Jan 12, 2011 |
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Nvidia shows off Kal-El -- new quad-core processing chip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Nvidia, well known for its graphics chips, has made a pretty big statement by releasing a video on Youtube showing the capabilities of its new quad-core processing chip for smartphones and ...
May 31, 2011 |
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In nanorod crystal growth, nanoparticles seen as artificial atoms
In the growth of crystals, do nanoparticles act as "artificial atoms" forming molecular-type building blocks that can assemble into complex structures? This is the contention of a major but controversial theory ...
May 24, 2012 |
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Study shows how an often illegal sales tactic contributed to housing crash
A study of home purchases during the real estate boom years in Chicago shows how one ethically murky – and sometimes illegal - tactic used to sell homes may have contributed to the housing crash.
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jul 12, 2011 |
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Google unveils faster Internet search (Update 2)
Internet powerhouse Google is giving Web searchers the thrill of speed with a turbo-charged engine that displays suggested Web links as fast as a person can type.
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Computing the best high-resolution 3-D tissue images
Real-time, 3-D microscopic tissue imaging could be a revolution for medical fields such as cancer diagnosis, minimally invasive surgery and ophthalmology. University of Illinois researchers have developed ...
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Blizzard drops plan to require real names on forums
Amid a barrage of criticism, Activision Blizzard, maker of World of Warcraft and other popular videogames, dropped a plan Friday to require users of its forums to start posting their real names.
Jul 09, 2010 |
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LendingTree: Google to compete on loan referrals
(AP) -- LendingTree, which allows prospective borrowers to get quick offers from multiple lenders, claims Google is about to get into the same business.
Aug 27, 2009 |
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Online game theft earns real-world conviction
(AP) -- The amulet and mask were a 13-year-old boy's virtual possessions in an online fantasy game. In the real world, he was beaten and threaten with a knife to give them up.
Jan 31, 2012 |
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Study: Ads with plus-size models unlikely to work
(PhysOrg.com) -- Advertisements and catalogs featuring plus-size models are unlikely to work on their intended customers, according to a new study by an ASU researcher and her colleagues.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Mar 16, 2010 |
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Teens migrating to Twitter -- sometimes for privacy
(AP) -- Teens don't tweet, will never tweet - too public, too many older users. Not cool. That's been the prediction for a while now, born of numbers showing that fewer than one in 10 teens were using Twitter early on.
Jan 29, 2012 |
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