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Video Conferencing Could Help Resolve Conflicts At Work And At Home (October 11, 2007) -- The latest video technology could help to resolve conflicts between employees at work, neighbors or even family members, according to researchers. At present, conciliators and mediators are called in ... > full story

Cell Phone Memory Doubled Through Software Alone (October 1, 2007) -- Computer engineers have developed technology that doubles the usable memory on cell phones and other embedded systems without any changes to hardware or applications. The improvement was made in the ... > full story

Any Digital Camera Can Take Multibillion-pixel Shots With New Device (September 29, 2007) -- Researchers have built a low-cost robotic device that enables any digital camera to produce breathtaking gigapixel panoramas called GigaPans. The technology gives people a new way to make and share ... > full story

Monitoring Diet: Nutritionists To Evaluate Cell Phone Pictures (September 22, 2007) -- A research team plans to help health-conscious people better gauge what's on their plates by using their cell phone cameras. The project would expand on a technique already in use by adding a strong ... > full story

Computer Memory Designed In Nanoscale Can Retrieve Data 1,000 Times Faster (September 18, 2007) -- Scientists have developed nanowires capable of storing computer data for 100,000 years and retrieving that data a thousand times faster than existing portable memory devices such as Flash memory and ... > full story

Computer Poetry Pushes The Genre Envelope (September 17, 2007) -- What happens to poetry in the Digital Age? In one of the first academic works in the field, a Swedish researcher has studied how the ability of the computer to combine words, images, movement and ... > full story

Cell Phone Users Experience Phantom Ringing; Suffer From Ringxiety (September 17, 2007) -- A new study suggests individuals rely on mobile phones for mood regulation and maintaining relationships. The majority experience phantom ringing. A full two thirds of the people surveyed reported ... > full story

A Rose Is A Rózsa Is A ...: Image-search Tool Speaks Hundreds Of Languages (September 14, 2007) -- Although pictures can be appreciated in any language, digital image searches are often lost in translation. A new multilingual search tool, PanImages, makes the universal appeal of pictures available ... > full story

Software Coordinates 19 Mirrors, Focuses James Webb Space Telescope (August 29, 2007) -- Scientists and engineers have created and successfully tested a set of algorithms and software programs which are designed to enable the 19 individual mirrors comprising NASA's powerful James Webb ... > full story

Render Smoke And Fog Without Being A Computation Hog (August 14, 2007) -- Computer scientists have developed a way to generate images like smoke-filled bars, foggy alleys and smog-choked cityscapes without the computational drag and slow speed of previous computer graphics ... > full story

Scuppering Pirates Improves Internet Audio (August 11, 2007) -- A new digital watermarking system not only protects music and media files from online pirates, but also ensures that the quality for legitimate users is as good as it ... > full story

Computer Graphics Spills From Milk To Medicine (August 10, 2007) -- A new computer graphics model capable of generating realistic milk images based on the fat and protein content will likely push the field of computer graphics into the realms of diagnostic medicine, ... > full story

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