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"Smart" Surveillance System May Tag Suspicious or Lost People

Intelligent video cameras, large video screens, and geo-referencing software are among the technologies that will soon be available to law enforcement and…

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Poor-man’s supercomputing goes commercial

The SIMDAT project has created a portfolio of tools and services that can finally bring the power of grid computing to industrial applications. Grids capture…

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Why don't we read so well on a screen?

Clicking and scrolling interrupt our attentional focus. Turning and touching the pages instead of clicking on the screen influence our ability for experience…

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Grid Applications Streamline Partnerships for Fast Business Growth

GlaxoSmithKline can now link up with product partners in days or weeks rather than months. Meteorologists will soon access libraries of weather data from…

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‘SMART’ quality control system cuts risk of human error on assembly lines

The four teams who worked on Project E!3450-QSPAI have achieved a non-contact activation program that commands and monitors laser-scanning for precise panel…

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LMU Scientists Advance Galileo for Indoor Navigation Tech

With its Galileo navigation system, the European Union intends to become independent of America’s GPS (Global Positioning System). Now the Mobile and…

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Study Reveals Computer System Fails At-Risk Children

Research, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), involved a two year study of front line children’s services in five local authorities in…

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Data Preservation Tips from San Diego Supercomputer Director

The world has gone digital in just about everything we do. Almost every iota of information we access these days is stored in some kind of digital form and…

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W3C Unveils New Web Standard for Enhanced Accessibility

Today W3C announces a new standard that will help Web designers and developers create sites that better meet the needs of users with disabilities and older…

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Virtual Organizations: Insights from the SIMDAT Project

Virtual organisations are entering the real world thanks to the work of the SIMDAT project, which leveraged the power of grids to seamlessly and securely…

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Empowering Users: Easing Digital Rights Management Constraints

Allowing end users to access and play copyright-protected multimedia files downloaded onto their devices, and transfer the files between devices – PCs,…

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DFG Expands Access to 20 New Digital Research Databases

This free access to 20 additional major databases and journal archives will be possible due to new national licenses funded by the Deutsche…

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Sevenfold Accuracy Improvement for 3-D ‘Virtual Reality’ Labs

The software can be used by scientists in other immersive environments with slight modifications for their individual laboratories. This advance is a step…

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Measuring Brain-Signals with neither goo nor shampoo – Fraunhofer scientists present first dry EEG on NIPS

It is based on six distributed contact electrodes that measure brain signals on the scalp. The voltage produced is strong enough to reliably extract EEG…

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CEDEC USM Develops First Local Standard Cell Chip

Two years of hard work has culminated in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) successfully developing the first microelectronic chip for academic and research…

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W3C Empowers Authors to Enhance Mobile Content Creation

Today, W3C has made it easier to create content designed to improve people's mobile experience using a broad range of devices. W3C invites the community to try…

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