App removes wandering people from photos
Posted by admin in Computers on 15. Feb, 2012 | 0 Comments
It’s kind of a funny thing, when you think about it … even though it’s normal to see other people milling about in public places, when we take photos of those places, we often don’t want any of those people in our pictures. Ordinarily, this means standing around and waiting, then blasting off a shot [...]
Concept Fujitsu Lifebook comes with removable smartphone, tablet, and digital camera
Posted by admin in Computers, Concept on 24. Jan, 2012 | 0 Comments
These days, your average tech enthusiast typically has at their disposal a smartphone, a laptop, a tablet, and a digital camera; and that’s listing the bare minimum. That’s quite a bit of processing power and storage space spread out among different gadgets. What if it were possible to link all those devices together into one [...]
PlateMate crowd-sources nutritional analysis of users’ meals
Posted by admin in Computers, Medicine on 03. Nov, 2011 | 0 Comments
While there are a great many people who want to lose weight by dieting, there aren’t too many who can afford to have a nutritionist assess the caloric value of all their food choices. Using the PlateMate system, however, members can get an online community of laypeople to do exactly that – and for considerably [...]
"Gloria" will allow internet astronomers to access worldwide robotic telescope network
Posted by admin in Computers, Space on 19. Oct, 2011 | 0 Comments
Amateur astronomers wanting to observe celestial bodies soon won’t be limited to just their own personal telescopes, or visits to the local public observatory. Starting next year, the first in a worldwide network of robotic telescopes will be going online, which users from any location on the planet will be able to operate for free [...]
Supercomputer reads the news to successfully forecast world events
Posted by admin in Computers on 14. Sep, 2011 | 0 Comments
Graph of media sentiment towards Egypt january 1979 – March 2011 Nipping at the heels of yesterday’s story about the software that automatically writes news articles comes another technological innovation changing the shape of journalism: software that reads news articles. Kalev Leetaru of the University of Illinois determined that using the Nautilus SGI supercomputer to [...]
