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BirdsEye – A New iPhone App – Resolves Your Rapture for Raptors Or Finding a Finch

BirdsEye, a new application for the iPhone and the iPod touch, is now available. Using content from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the Academy of Natural…

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Researchers Demonstrate a Better Way for Computers to ‘See’

Why it matters: The neural processing involved in visually recognizing even the simplest object in a natural environment is profound—and profoundly difficult…

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iPhone Now Controls Laser Systems from Anywhere

The iPhone can be used for complete control of the laser system, independent of the location. The range of application extends from monitoring laser parameters…

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Traditional Craft Industry: A Bright Future Ahead

A South Tyrolean craftsman wearing ear protection carefully guides a tool arm over a master figure, producing forty or more mini-copies of the original at the…

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Fraunhofer FOKUS Launches Center for Internet Access Equity

One obstacle standing in their way is the lack of access to the Internet and regional communication infrastructure. In order to connect these regions to the…

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Smart Labels: Enhancing Metal Components with Intelligent Data

The appropriate scanner can read and process the data contained in the label. »Smart labels« can be affixed to goods under production conditions of up to 100…

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Unlocking Learning: Insights from Search Engine Habits

The researchers sought to discover the cognitive processes underlying searching. They examined the search habits of 72 participants while conducting a total of…

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SMOS Satellite Instrument MIRAS Powers Up Successfully

“Following the switch-on, MIRAS is working beautifully well with all key subsystems, including all of the receivers, the optical fibres and the correlator…

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‘Fingerprinting’ RFID Tags: Researchers Develop Anti-Counterfeiting Technology

The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will prevent the production of…

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Siemens Unveils Video Solution for Detecting Industrial Leaks

In industrial environments, especially in power stations and the oil and gas area, leaks in pipe systems, valves and at critical transfer points have to be…

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Detecting Outliers in Bilinear Time Series Model

He studied how to build models and detect outliers in BL (l,l,l,l) models in time-domain framework. In the model building, the Box-Jenkins approach was closely…

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Improvements for Internet Electronic Voting by UPV/EHU Research

University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU) researcher, Ms Maider Huarte Arrayago, focused her PhD on systems for electronic voting by Internet. The work, entitled…

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Rutgers Computer Scientists Enhance Online Security Solutions

If you forget your password when logging into an e-mail or online shopping Web site, the site will likely ask you a security question: What is your mother’s…

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Enhancing Security with Facial Recognition Technology

A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to…

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Green500 Expands Coverage of Energy-efficient Supercomputers

Now, the Green500 is expanding the definition of a supercomputer to include a wider spectrum of the high-end computing world with the 'Little Green500' list…

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A new computer simulator allows to design military strategies based on ants' movements

This work, developed at the department of Computer Architecture and Technology of the UGR, has designed several algorithms that permit to look for the best…

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