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exploitsResearchers from the IBM Almaden Research Lab and the University of Nevada have used the BlueGene L supercomputer to model half a virtual mickey mouse brain.8 million neurons, up to 6,300 synapses or connections with other nerve fibers: a challenge for simulation.Researchers explain that such a modeling initiative puts tremendous constraints on computation, communication and memory

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anecdoteComputer scientists from UCB (University of California, Berkeley) have developed a "respectful camera" a new type of video surveillance that covers a person's face with an oval for privacy but that can remove the oval for an investigation!Well, the technology is still in the research phase, as it's only possible to cover someone's face if that person is wearing a marker such as a green

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anecdoteIn the today's newspaper, in context of polemic related to these stupid golden parachutes for business leaders, one can read this deplorable story that happened for 61000 people working for Ericsson. A program of bonus was proposed by the management and proposes to distribute 42.3 millions of actions to the employees, in which they can invest up to 7,5% of their salary. In short, an

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exploitsResearchers at the University of Pittsburgh have developed Face Alive Icons, a software that can manipulate the picture of someone's face to show a range of emotions. Associated to an instant messenger like Skype or Windows Live Messenger, the smileys allow to change the chatter's face!Once the user has uploaded a picture of himself with a neutral expression, he can warp the facial

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exploitsIntel Research Berkeley is a research lab owned by Intel that cooperates on research projects with the University of California at Berkeley. Recently, a lab's team demonstrated a Wi-Fi system that can send a wireless signal over 60 miles !It is regular Wi-Fi hardware but with modified software. It uses standard access point, lightly modified, but the antennas use new directional

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ecology no comment...

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anecdoteAll researchers are not good people. Sometimes, they can be awful mysoginists with an obvious lack of tact.The today's proof: the Australian Hatice Gunes and Massimo Piccardi who are now looking for commercial partners to distribute a software designed to quickly analyze a photograph of a women's face and immediately produce a beauty rating between 1 and 10.According to those people,

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exploitsEmployees of Microsoft do not have only wrong ideas. Hotmail, Live Search, copy-paste of Word, the greediness of Vista, all right ... but some Microsoft researchers are working on a system that could allow simple speakers to send a sound to a particular place of the room ... but not elsewhere!An array of speakers that output the same sound whith very short delays so that the sound waves

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automotiveCebit is the world's largest computer expo, it happens now in Hanover and then, sonner or later, we're gonna talk about it.This year, German researchers have (finally!) developed a peer-to-peer network that vehicles could use to pass along information concerning road conditions.Cars would be fitted with more and more sensors: GPS, TPEG, proximity,... Starting from there, detected

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informatique3 employees of Google analyzed and summarized the behavior of more than 100,000 hard disks within their park. The study lasted nearly 5 years, from 2001 to 2006. The discs have a capacity from 80 to 400 Gb, assembled in parallel or serial, running from 5400 to 7200 RPM.We learned, among others things, that there is no correlation between failure and a frequent use or a too high

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computersComputer scientists at the University of Washington and Microsoft are developing software for organizing digital photos. OK, nothing new. But overall, it can compile images from common scenes to create 3D virtual environments.Photo Tourism could be used for creating virtual tours, recreating events or even developing a map from all the photos from the Internet."You might look at a photo

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exploitsDanish biologists genetically modified a plant so it's able to detect the explosives hidden in the ground, and particularly the anti-personnel mines. The Arabidopsis thaliana has two different properties: the first is to be sensitive to nitrogen dioxide present in the explosives, the second is to produce anthocyanins, natural pigments that make the autumn's beautiful colours.The

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ecologyA University of Eindhoven researcher has teamed up with Ford to develop software that improves the fuel efficiency of automobiles. "By adding a piece of software and a simple cable, cars can save 2,6% of fuel consumption", explains the scientist John Kessel.This software simply switchs the battery-charging dynamo off when it is inefficient for the engine to power it, and back on when it

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navigationAccording to the article 57b of the Swiss federal law last month, the PND with a speed camera warning function may not be bought, installed or put into vehicles, or even used in any manner.They may not be put on the market, i.e. fabricated, imported, sold or subjet of commercials.According to the OFROU (Federal Road Office in Switzerland), police and customs may take those devices and

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anecdotesAn american behavorial study concludes that 52.6% of men lied about their height, compared with 39% of women. But 64.1% of women did not tell the truth about their weight, compared with 60.5% of men. Also, 24.3 percent of men lied about their age, while 13.1 percent of women did.According to an assistant who worked on the subject, participants try to find the good balance between 1)

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anecdotesResearchers of the University of Maryland enjoyed observing the activities of hackers as they try to gain access to a computer and exploit it. They set up 4 Linux computers, with an Internet connection and a weak security. These computers were attacked 2,244 times each day, i.e. every 39 seconds on average!This is a very scary figure. A classic computer connected to the Internet is

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computersPaul Thurrot explains that on the website Windows IT Pro. Despite the fact that he hasn't tested yet, and then maybe all this stuff is totally wrong, he seems to be well informed.According to him and Microsoft's internal documents, it would be possible to install Windows Vista from an update DVD, and without having any other OS previously installed. That's about 3 times less

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exploitsA computer scientist from Mexico City has developed Mexica, a software that understands emotion and tension well enough to compose stories.In an Internet survey where the Mexica's stories were pitted against human and other computer-generate stories, the program of Rafael Perez y Perez was ranked highest in flow, coherence, structure, content, suspense, and overall ... quality. Rafael,

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exploitsResearchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris have developed an algorithm that allows robots to find the source of a faint scent even with air turbulence. Like a moth would do.Massimo Vergassola and his colleagues tested their algorithm in a virtual environment and they discovered that not only the robot (virtual, also!) succeeds to find the source but overall, it moves in complex back

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artThe eRiceCooker is connected to the Internet. It continuously reads the news on the Web and each time it sees a post about genetically modified rice (GMO), a quarter cup of rice is dispensed into the cooker. When it's full, water is automatically added and it starts cooking. At the end, an e-mail is sent to a mailing-list, inviting people to come and eat some rice! :)To subscribe to this list

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exploitsHow to build a complete house in 24 hours? A house with all the walls, the insulation, plumbing and electricity?Using the robot technology invented by Dr Behrokh Khoshnevis at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. It's called the Contour Crafting.Berok (his little nickname) first created a small machine, a small robot able to create 3D models layer after layer. You draw

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ecologyIf you want to minimize greenhouse gas emissions, following the shortest route from your navigation system isn't the best idea. Neither is the quickest road.Swedish researchers from the Lund Institute of Technology have created and tested a GPS navigation system programmed to work out the most "efficient" route. In the streets of Lund, the three women proved that their system can

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exploitsKoen Clays is a professor at the Chemistry department of the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. But he went to China, Beijing, to discover an organic substance which makes it possible to reach a rate of 150 Gb/sec!To remind you, a current high-rate connection goes around 0,005 Gb per second. You can't imagine that. 150 Gb/sec.150 Go/sec, this is the possibility to totally fill

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ecologyIn our mind, the mobile phone's not associated yet with the environmental, social or economic problems that it leads to. However, some figures are scary: nearly 30 kg of raw materials are necessary to manufacturate a device of about 100 grams! And in the world, one estimates that a billion devices are living!In Belgium (and that must be about the same thing in the neighbor countries), the

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anecdoteWednesday, the 13th of December 2006, Ve is watching TV. She lives in Belgium so she just watched the news on RTBF and the next TV program starts, while Ve lies on the sofa, thinking to something else. The next program is "Questions à la une". Allright. Good enough.The show is soon interrupted by a special announcement, yadi yadi yada, everybody knows the story now. Video.Ve wakes up and

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exploitsResearchers from Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France and the UK have developed a system that can turn walls, tables, and other surfaces ... into virtual touchpads or keyboards.The Tai-Chi system(Tangible Acoustic Interfaces for Computer-Human Interaction) uses acoustic sensors connected to the edge of a surface that are able to track the vibrations of another object touching it. Tiny

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exploitsImagine a video of 4096 on 3072 pixels. To make you understand, that's the same resolution than 12 screens of 17 inches: three lines of four.Imagine that to keep this high-quality, this video is not compressed and that you decided to send it on the Internet.Finally, imagine that you send it… by streaming, i.e. the receiver must read it as soon as it receives it, without

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googleResearchers of the University of Tokyo have developed a software which will be able to select results from a Google query and distinguish unique names and identities from the results.The NewScientistTech gives the example of Michael Jackson: Michael Jackson is, of course, a big expert in beers, but he's also a old american singer in eighties. Those two persons are on the first page of a

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exploitsMIT researchers have found a (theorical) way to wirelessly charge portable devices.The main technology is already known as "inductive coupling": the current is passed through wires of the "charger" part of the system, producing a magnetic field that induces a current in the wires of a nearby portable device. This device has to be at maximum 5 meters of the charger.The idea which seems to

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discoveriesDr Cohen and his friends of the Carnegie Mellon University of Pittsburgh (PA) gathered 334 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 54 years. They categorized them in 2 sets : the "positive" on one side (happy, glad, dynamic and sociables) and the "negative" on the other side (dissatisfied, stressed and especially grousers). Then, they gave them nasal drops containing a rhinovirus. During 6 days

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Peter Strickx is the CTO of Fedict, an initiative for the development of e-government in Belgium.Peter Strickx made me laugh in an interview that he gave to DataNews in November about the Lommel TV project: "It's almost like YouTube, but on your television. The PC is not a good channel for watching videos, and television is not a good channel for surfing. When looking at the success of YouTube

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gadgetsBritish researchers are developing a technology that will allow phone users (with a camera) to take a picture of any map and receive back an interactive version of the same map on their handset.It's enough to have a city-map provided by the tourism office, or displayed near the metro station, or in the Michelin, or .. ok, got it.The system Map Snapper returns a map with clickable icons

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googleHere is the Ambien Clock, a little desktop clock that will connect to your Google Calendar account. Your appointements then appear in the corresponding time area and also the background colour changes according to your planning: blue - nothing foreseen, yellow - move your a***, orange - too late.The clock connects via the Ambient Information Network, a technology developed by the company

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exploitsResearchers of the Eindhoven University of Technology are proud of their "smart table" that can be used to electronically move, resize and animate pictures. Those pictures can be imported by posing the paper on the table. For better understanding, take a look at the video, that's very impressive.Jean-Bernard Marten, a visual interaction specialist who heads the project, explains that the

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exploitsIBM has developed a translation system that allows US soldiers to speak directly to Iraqis in their mother tongue !The system has this lovely name: MASTOR. Multilingual Automatic Speech-to-Speech Translator. Returns.Concretely, it's a software running on a laptop with two microphones. The user speaks in one microphone, the voice is translated by the algorithm that takes in account the

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exploits The Danish companies RambØll and viZoo developed Cheoptics360 XL, an holographic display system visible on 360 degrees.It's thus a little bit stupid that, on this introduction video, the spectator stands up motionless whereas in theory, he could attend the spectacle from anywhere in the room.'Cause in this room, you'll find a 4-sides pyramid, 4 video projectors and a system of mirror

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anecdoteThe new book by journalist Timothy Hornyak explains the Japanese fascination with robots and their attitude toward them as personable beings or as family members.The problem facing Japan right now:One-third of the population is predicted to be over 60 years old by 2050 and the country has very little immigration.One of the solutions imagined by Japans: robots !The government is making a

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exploitsA team of scientists of the University of Copenhagen succeeded teleporting information significantly further than ever before. They were able to teleport light and matter together !Eugène Polzik, the big chief, the gourou, explains "It's one step further because it involves 2 different objects: one is the carrier of information and the other one is the storage medium."What made this

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gadgetsPioneer presented, during the Ceatec 2006, a new gizmo, a typically japanese stuff. It's a small electronic penguin that becomes your friend on the road.You put it on the dashboard of your car, just in front of you. Equipped with a small cam in the head, it recognizes you when you enter the car. Equipped with small wings, it moves them when the situation is hard on the road. Equipped with

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Here we are! The 100th post on hOwGee. After 6 months! Then we come back on the 10 most visited articles.Hey, everyone can make his own best-of :)Number 10 : a wall socket of with USB and a connector for a screen. Great for industry 'cause they do not need a desktop anymore...Number 9 : an ecologic post on economic decreasing. Infinite economic growth is simply not acceptable by the ecosystem of

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internet    Web designers will be able to convert a sketch into a functional Web page using a new software that is being developed by researchers at the University of Auckland in New-Zealand.The tool is called InkKit, it works with a tablet computer and uses some sophisticated rules that will allow it to transform code drawn by hand into a real application. InkKit is able to determine whether

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discoveriesA team of researchers from Intel and the University of California announced last week that they have developed a silicon-based chip capable of producing laser beams!Great, you say. So what, it's StarWars in my PC?Allez.By using light instead of wires to send data between chips or to the memory, we solve the principal bottleneck in computers.Even if it is announced now, there will be

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googlePeter Norvig, the director of research at Google, presented last week the company's newest innovations and the future of data analysis.He first spoke about the Statistical Machine Translation, a translation software currently under development. The goal of this program is to improve the translation's accuracy (we guessed that), and to make it more human. Indeed, the current Google

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discoveriesResearchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have discovered that addressing spam at the network level could be a more effective solution for Internet service providers than today's message content filters.They've also developed algorithms that can detect when a computer is a member of a botnet, and also a technique for enforcing the security."Content filters are fighting a

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discoveriesResearchers at the Australian research agency CSIRO decided to spend the next 4 years developing software tools that will allow animators to create more realistic movement of water for movies and video games.Something quite complicated for the moment, since you have to know exactly the movement of the liquid, the behaviour of foam, bubbles, splashes, waves, eddies, and whirlpools.Foam

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discoveriesIn a bid to end the long high-definition DVD format war, three engineers from Warner Bros. have invented a disk that can play all three : the "Multilayer Dual Optical Disk" has one layer of data in the standard CD or DVD format, a second layer able to play Blu-Ray and another one for HD-DVD.The patent was filed by Wayne Smith, Alan Bell and Lewis Ostrover. It works by storing the

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discoveriesResearchers at the University of Bournemouth in the U.K. have created a set of tools to make the skin and muscles of animated figures move more realistically.Traditionally, animators start creating characters by drawing their external appearance, adding details such as how muscles look when flexed on the basic design. Animators prefer this skin-based approach because it's the most

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anecdoteAt the recent Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, people arrived to the conclusion that the chip makers just don't care about the heat problem.During this conference, Bernie Meyerson of IBM declared that it was stupid for the industry to keep pursuing the highest performance for chips at the cost of power efficiency. He pretends that since the 80s, he has seen chip designers go

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discoveriesResearchers of the NICTA, the National ICT Australia, are developing sophisticated surveillance applications such as an algorithm that monitors inappropriate behavior in public places.The team that works on this stuff makes me scary, maybe because of the name (SAFE, Smart Applications For Emergencies) or maybe just because of the idea.The team already proposed a specification for a

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securitySeeking to stem the proliferation of phishing scams, researchers at Stanford University have developed a simple stuff to prevent a stolen password from being used to access an authentic site.Phishing is a form of criminal activity using social engineering techniques. Phishers attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as passwords and credit card details, by masquerading

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InternetResearchers involved in the project Moonv6, the world’s largest native IPv6 test, have demonstrated that the Network Time Protocol runs over IPv6, the long anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main protocol.Here is a intro sentence which leaves you dubitative.It is done purposely. Founded in 2002, Moonv6 is a joint operation of the University of New Hampshire, the U.S. Defense

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exploitsOne more application introduced at the SIGGRAPH conference in Boston !After the image deblurrer and the 3D generation, here is an algorithm which is capable to enhance the appearance of a human face in a photograph within a few minutes.Researchers of the University of Tel Aviv in Israel developed the "digital beautification" algorithm. A treatment which (caution!) does not make

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The SURA, the Southeastern Universities Research Association, recently gained more computing power for a computer grid that will be used for a number of research activities, including storm modeling.First, what is a Computer Grid ?Wikipedia says it's an emerging computing model that provides the ability to perform higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many networked computers to

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exploitsRalph Hollis is a mobile robotics researcher.Ralph Hollis is convinced that dynamically stable robots have more potential for integration into human environments than simply stables robots, also called "robots with legs".And this is cool, in addition to the fact that we wonder where he could get this idea, it allows to robotics-fans to discover a robot moving on a simple ball.Ballbot -

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computersThe Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the company Cray announced a $200 million deal in June to complete the world’s most powerful computer in 2008.This supercomputer, that Cray already nicknames Baker, is gonna use AMD Opteron dual-core to reach a peak speed of 1 peta-FLOPS.1 FLOPS is a speed measure for computers: an Floating Point Operation Per Second.1

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discoveriesWorking with several researchers from the University of Washington, Microsoft's Richard Szeliski has developed a technology that converts digital images into 3D model, allowing the user to move, walk or fly into the scene.It's called Photosynth, and it has been introduced (also) at the SIGGRAPH conference of Boston. The method consists in compiling unique features from different

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discoveriesPeripheral devices such as keyboards, mouses, microphones, etc. could pose a serious problem of vulnerability, of security.At least, that's what believe researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. Using a device known as a JitterBug, they found that a hacker could physically spy a peripheral device and steal chunks of data by creating an all-but-imperceptible process running after

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discoveriesResearchers at the University of Toronto and MIT have developed a new image-processing technique that could prevent the blurriness resulting from photographs taken with a shaky hand.Their method is based on a algorithm that computes the path taken by a shaky camera when the picture was shot, and then traces the path back to cancel the blurring... and make the picture better, as you

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automotiveSiemens VDO has developed a system that can recognize speed limiting road signs.Very well. Now, one has to find an useful application. The limit speed can be displayed on the dashboard. hum.The limit speed can be sent to the adaptive cruise control system (ACC), which automatically reduce or increase the vehicle's speed. This is better.The system works with a video camera linked to an

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anecdoteSince one year, Honda prints an instruction manual intended for the American drivers of cars Honda, Acura and some motorcycles. And during one year, Honda had time to print some: 1.2 million to be accurate.And yet, this Monday only we learn this funny story: a toll-free number is mentioned in the small book, a service for safety and prevention on the public highway. This number is 1-888

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GadgetsIn an attempt to cross the gigantic ravine still existing between the human capacities and those of the computer, researchers of the University of Buffalo developed a technology that enables computers to read the gestures of human hands. The Fingertip Digitizer, a device that you wear on the tip of your index finger. Then you can point or tap on the table, on the screen, draw large

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GadgetsA group of students of the University of California, San Diego, are developing what one of them already calls "the most over-designed soda machine in the world."For the moment, the machine includes a barcode scanner, a fingerprint reader, and a web cam for facial recognition.A coke? Place your beautiful head on the distributor so it can recognize you, check that you created an account.

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DiscoveriesResearchers of the Brigham Young University developed a software which makes it possible surgeons to create 3D computer images from medical scans. This application of virtual surgery, called Live Surface, will help to confirm preoperative exams, diagnosis and evaluation. It will also make it possible to the patient to receive his medical information in comprehensible form.

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computersChip PC presents Jack PC, a wall socket of 3.4 inches² with 4 USB and a connector for a screen (VGA or DVI-I). Great for industry, for companies: everybody does not need a desktop.Obviously, it's a terminal, not a complete workstation, and it's necessary to have a big centralized server behind this. Nevertheless, this terminal includes:processor AMD Alchemy AU1550 with a maximal

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DiscoveriesA new paint mixed with nanoparticles may offer the sweet silence that theatre owners, school officials and clergy crave. Once applied to walls, the paint blocks cell phone radio signals, locking out any call. NaturalNano, a firm in Rochester (New-York), commercializes the materials.Two-way radio-frequency transmissions from cell phones, WiFi, and other electronic devices may be

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ecologyLast week, La Première, a Belgian public radio station, has proposed a talk show about Economic Decreasing.The speakers' comments were so interesting that everybody should be challenged by the ecological cause seen under this angle.To be brief, the decreasing is a concept which affirms that infinite economic growth, i.e. the perpetual increase of an economic indicator, is simply not

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anecdoteOn the Paul Lamere's blog (see previous article), one can read an interesting note about iTunes.Reminder: iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application, launched by Apple Computer in 2001, for playing and organizing digital music and video files. The program is also an interface to manage the music on Apple's popular iPod digital audio player. Additionally, iTunes can connect

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exploitsSearch Inside The Music is a project of Sun Labs directed by Paul Lamere. The purpose is to skilfully link songs, by methods much more sophisticated than the usual tags genre or artist.I.e. in a collection of music, it's possible to cross the genres to find 2 titles which have similarities of timbre or “musical energy”. Concretely, the project explores new methods of music search thanks

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internet Regularly, we propose a comparison of the calling rates to give a call from your computer to a mobile or landline everywhere in the world.Well, this is over.Since the website VoIP products exists, that does not worth anything.Indeed, the update is weekly and is about 12 products: Skype, Gizmo, Yahoo Messenger, SIP discount, VoIP Buster, VoIP Stunt, InternetCalls.com, poivY, voipcheap,

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navigationThe navigational satellite GIOVE-A, launched recently, is the prototype of 30 satellites that will compose Galileo in 2010. Reminder: Galileo is a positioning system by satellite, the direct competitor of American GPS that everyone uses for the moment. Because GPS satellites are payed by US taxpayers, the signal is free. Consumers need only purchase a GPS receiver. On another hand,

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Last month, 01men published an great article (in French) about amazing hotels.In a totally subjective order:Costa Rica, close to the Arenal volcano. Always in activity, this volcano has undergoes a large explosion 4 years ago. The hôtel is located in the zone D, i.e. a small-risk zone: there is a ravine between the hotel and the volcano. But of course, an evacuation plan exists.Between 60 and 70

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exploitsResearchers of the UCL, the University College of London, have completed a brain-scanning experiment using a functional Magnetic Resonance Imager (fMRI). It's now fashion: remember the hand controlled by the thought.But this time, the subjects are men and women who must take a decision. The brain locked up in the MRI scan, they are presented with a series of slot machines that paid out

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exploitsScientists from Sony's computer science labs in France are participating with researchers from the European Commission's Emerging Technologies Initiative and the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy.The project's name: EC Agents.EC for Embedded and Communicating.The goal: to teach robots linguistics and cognitive skills that they ultimately will be able to develop on

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google "I refuse to speak of cheating. It's important to know that, on one hand, the webmasters are facing more and more difficult requirements to score on Google. And on the other hand, Google give them less and less liberty"claims Gérald Claessens, the director of PublicityWeb. This company is supposed to be the Belgian specialist of the "search engine marketing."Companies like BCC, Heytens

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anecdoteThe NIST, National Institut of Standards and Technology, has organized a working group about the saving of the knowledge. The goal: define which numerical data the government, the industry and the universities had to save absolutely, and how. At that time, nothing funny. Right. But we learn 2 things from the article:1) they did not find an answer. Bravo, it was worthful.2) they computed

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computersWhile researchers of the Harvard university try to demonstrate that nanowire tranistors can reach speeds 4 times higher than the traditional silicone components, the University of Bath takes part in a study which could accelerate from 200 to 500 times the speed of the computers! This study in 3 years aims at using the technique of Inverse Electron Spin Resonance to transmit electric

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computersSomething else. A good tip for an operation that we'll all do, one day or another: recovering pictures from a memory card trampled by a German shepherd of 32 kilos. For example ;)The software Smart Recovery from PC Inspector is the ideal solution. A free software, therefore without limitation, clear, simple and powerful.No, we aren't (yet) payed to say this, we just tested it with an SD

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exploitsOne of the most interesting developments of research emerging of the HITLab is VirtuSphere, a large sphere out of plastic. Inside, you're immersed in a virtual environment. The whole visual experiment is ordered by you and your helmet, moving your body... and the rest.If marketed, VirtuSphere could be employed for applications such as fight training or exercises. - here the video -Most

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The Bumptop prototype, it's a 3D desktop:Anand Agarawala, a student of the Toronto's university, introduce this 3D desktop on his blog.Presented at the CHI 2006 of Montreal and at a Demo Camp, it caused a true wave of enthusiasm. Now, Anand seeks a framing to develop this desktop on a machine running on Windows.For those who do not know:- CHI 2006 is the first international Conference on Human

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navigationAnyway, a new market appears thanks to the mp3.And VDO Dayton is a pioneer on this market. Because a CD or DVD drive is finally quite expensive, expensive for the manufacturer and thus for the final user. Then they decided to propose a new product, the MS5200 that can play music and read navigation map data from an SD card. Only.It seems not important but it's quite rare.Imagine a life

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sciencesIn most of the schools in the United States, as in most of the schools everywhere, the mobile phones are prohibited. And that's quite normal, finally. But on another hand, the students can be smart enough. And the big trick is to have a ring tone that you can hear, because you're young but your teacher can't, because he's old.The story starts with Compound, a security company, and

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anecdoteCan one speak about leading line for hOwGee? If so, it will be completely ridiculed by this small news, but who cares?Question: How the Russian model Tatyana Simanava was found on the motorway, with the broken arm, the dislocated shoulder, of scratches on her face?Answer: she was on the bus of the agency Next Models, with her colleagues of the agency Next Models.In this kind of luxury

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exploitsJapanese researchers in the laboratories of Kyoto and de Saitama used the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to control a robot-hand via the power of thought.During a demonstration, Yukiyasu Kamitani and his friends asked a guy to enter an RMI scanner, and to play Rock, Paper, Scissors. By moving the fingers, of course, mmh.Scanner IRM records the activity of the brain when the subject

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gadgetsResearchers at the MERL (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories) developed an interactive screen computer which is able to differentiate its multiple users and to keep a log of their activities. Let's do it simply:A touch screen, we see what it is: at the bank, at the station, using a navigation system... we interact with the computer by touching the screen with the finger.A

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internetMore and more websites protect themselves from spam by using captchas, these twisted words we must re-type to prove we're human, not a machine.More and more, these captchas are twisted, less and less we can read them, more and more it's irritable. And David Jeske, a technical director of Google, comments: "We know there's no perfect panacea, but we think this is a great tool to prevent

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exploitsThe VisualAudio project was proposed by Stefano Cavaglieri of the Swiss National Record library in Lugano. The idea is based on 2 observations:On a phonographic disc, the information is extracted via a needle that follows the side position of the furrow. If we observe this furrow by means of a microscope, we can see its radial curve. That means that the musical information is

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exploitsA few weeks ago, we wrote something about an invisible clothing, created in Japan. Invisible was over-exaggerated, since you had to look through a lens ... to see nothing!Anyway, the real invisible clothing is coming soon:John Pendry, David Smith et David Schurig, a beautiful group of English and American scientists, have established a theorical and mathematical model describing a device

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gadgetsTrack Stick is a small USB stick USB that holds in the pocket. Keep it with you all the time and it will record places, time, dates, speeds, directions and altitudes at regular frequency. With more than 1 Mb of memory, it can record several months of your life.Track Stick receives the signals of 24 satellites. With this information, it can precisely compute its position (and then yours)

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gadgetsWe can read on the xvista's website that this British company invented a technology of scan and recognition of the iris, able to run on embedded systems like cell phones or pocket PC, eventually equipped with a camera. Once the eye's picture is in the device, it takes less than one second for the algorithm to treat it and identify the person to whom belongs this iris. In order to give a

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computersGordon Moore is, originally, an American chemist. Now 77 years old, he's the cofounder of Intel (1968).In 1965, for the 35 years of the magazine Electronics, he was asked to write an article on the future of semiconductors for the ten next years. To answer this question, he carried out a small extrapolation: the largest circuit available at that time contained about 30 components.

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automobileThe Toyota Prius is the first hybrid car sold in mass production on the world market. Initially in Japan in 1997 then everywhere in 2001. Two years later, nearly 160.000 cars were produced for Japan, Europe and North America.Then a lifting in 2003 and here we go.Hybrid vehicles use several systems of propulsion. Most of them being hybrid electric-gasoline (or diesel). Several models,

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exploits Middle of May, we talked you about this amazing challenge: the space elevator, a cable in nanotubes between the Earth and a geostationnary satellite. A reminder here.Nicola Pugno, a polytechnician of Turin, made his calculations: that won't work. According to him, the defects existing at atomic scale would reduce the solidity of this kind of cable of (at least) 70%.For this application,

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computersUwe Aickelin is a scientist of the Nottingham University. He directs a team which develops an immune system for the computer networks. This system tries to copy the human body's reactions! Indeed, in the team, you'll also find Stave Cayzer, Steve Cayzer, a computational neuroscientist (!!) at HP Labs in Bristol and Julie McLeod,an immunologist at the University of the West of England

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sciencesDeb Roy is the chief of the MIT Media Lab' S Cognitive Machines research group (!!) and the project on which he's currently working is at the very least unusual. The project is very serious and is called “The Human Speechome Project”. Speechome is the compression of speech and home. Good. ok.The purpose is to understand how a human being acquires its language thanks to the social and

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exploitsOn one side, there are the genetic algorithms, whose spiritual father is John Holland. In 1980, he implemented its studies by applying it to the optimization of the capacities in gas pipelines: he gives to the system-computer the characteristics of the current solution and explained how to measure the performances. The system randomly modifies various parameters (pressure, flow, etc) and

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informatiqueWindows 3.1, Windows 95, 98, NT, Millenium, 2000, XP and others ...The next version will be Windows Vista and is expected since a loooong time by windows addicts. And the press.First foreseen for 2005, Microsoft now speaks about middle of next year. Betas versions were spread, this is why we can see many screenshots on the Internet.A month ago, Microsoft opened a website dedicated to

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navigationA POI, it's a Point Of Interest. In the context of navigation systems, a tourist or commercial place which is known only by its name, normally not by its address. By extension, it also includes restaurants, hotels, stations,… and radars!The website POIplace allows its users to exchange their POIs. For free, ouf. But to be honest, it only concerns users of Tomtom Navigator on Pocket

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anecdoteBBC News 24 is a live news channel belonging to the BBC group.The 8th of may, Guy Kewney, computer journalist at Newswireless.net, was comfortably installed in a living room of the BBC television, in the district of White City, waiting to be called in the studio to deliver its opinion about the lawsuit between Apple Computer and Apple Corps.He was abstractedly watching at the screen

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gadgetsIn the 'gadgets' section, but not for anyone .. for the police. This gadget, we all thought it was existing since hundred years, maybe a dream of kid. And it looks like we were wrong.The website StarChase presents GPS transmitters to be stuck on the car of the gangster.Arguing on the danger that represent the races on highways, StarChase seems to propose the all stuff: the machine to

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historyCentralia is a town of Pennsylvania. It was a particularly flourishing city, thanks to its mining activity of anthracite. In 1962 an accident occurs: waste takes fire in a gallery.Fire was quickly extinguished, at least it seems to be. More deeply, the fire continued to go forward. Again and again. During 20 years, people fought fire by sprinkling the mine, by withdrawing any fuel, by

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