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Recognise this image?

Recognise this image?

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Image recognition is a long-standing challenge in science. But European researchers have achieved a breakthrough by developing a powerful image-recognition application with mass-market appeal. ...





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An elected California official wants the state to blur images of schools, hospitals and government buildings

California politician wants to censor online maps

Technology / Internet

created Mar 28, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (5) | comments 8

An elected California official wants the state known for Internet technology to blur images of schools, hospitals, government buildings and houses of worship in online maps.


Germany to Google: Erase raw street-level images (AP)

Germany to Google: Erase raw street-level images

Technology / Internet

created May 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A data protection official for Germany said Wednesday that Google had yet to meet a key request that photos gathered for its panoramic mapping service be erased after they are sent to the United States ...


A Google Street View camera on top of a car at the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Google pledges more blurring in Switzerland

Technology / Internet

created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Google Inc. said Wednesday its Street View service will blur some pictures from Switzerland even more after a Swiss official said the images were violating the country's strict privacy laws.


Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon (AP)

Google offers 'guided tour' of the moon

Technology / Internet

created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Google Inc. is offering a more wide-ranging view of the Moon, 40 years after humans first landed there.


Researchers bring new brain mapping capabilities to desktops of scientists worldwide

Biology / Other

created Mar 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Mapping the billions of connections in the brain is a grand challenge in neuroscience. The current method for mapping interconnected brain cells involves the use of room-size microscopes known as transmission electron microscopes ...


Nanocrack Evolution

Tension in the nanoworld

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Computer Science Fog Machine Improves Computer Graphics

Computer Science Fog Machine Improves Computer Graphics

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (18) | comments 0

UC San Diego computer scientists have created a fog and smoke machine for computer graphics that cuts the computational cost of making realistic smoky and foggy 3-D images, such as beams of light from a lighthouse ...


Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Tension in the nanoworld: Infrared light visualizes nanoscale strain fields

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A joint team of researchers at CIC nanoGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) and the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Plasma Physics (Munich, Germany) report the non-invasive and nanoscale ...


Snowmelt monitored in the Baltic Sea watershed region in near real time

Snowmelt monitored in the Baltic Sea watershed region in near real time

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 05, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

As spring melt of winter snow is underway in the Baltic Sea watershed region, satellites are monitoring and mapping the snow melting process to help local authorities manage water supplies and predict and prepare ...


Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Cassini Sends Back Images of Enceladus as Winter Nears

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sailed seamlessly through the Nov. 21 flyby of Saturn's moon Enceladus and started transmitting uncalibrated temperature data and images of the rippling terrain. ...



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