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Swiss and Google reach privacy accord pending verdict

Technology / Internet

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Google has agreed not to put pictures of Switzerland on its "Street View" picture map under a provisional accord to end a privacy battle with Swiss authorities, the government said Friday.


Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

Crime scene measurements can be taken from a single image

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Two researchers from the University of Salamanca have developed a procedure to enable forensic police to extract metric data from crime scenes using just a single photograph. Their proposal, published this ...


Dartmouth professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked

Professor finds that iconic Oswald photo was not faked (w/ Video)

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (10) | comments 72

(PhysOrg.com) -- Dartmouth Computer Scientist Hany Farid has new evidence regarding a photograph of accused John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. Farid, a pioneer in the field of digital forensics, digitally ...


Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way

Physicist makes new high-res panorama of Milky Way

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 3

Cobbling together 3000 individual photographs, a physicist has made a new high-resolution panoramic image of the full night sky, with the Milky Way galaxy as its centerpiece. Axel Mellinger, a professor at ...


Forgotten treasures shed new light on Little Grey Rabbit author

Forgotten treasures shed new light on Little Grey Rabbit author

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A suffragette poem, penned by a world-famous children’s author and kept privately at a University of Manchester Hall of Residence for over a century, has been made available online.


MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 02, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 0 weblog

(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, ...


It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

It's semantic -- easier solution to annotate and search images

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Innovative software developed in Europe that makes it easier to organise, search and navigate collections of digital images will soon be available to media agencies, photographers and, potentially, ...


Researchers were still able to find the deleted photos 30 days later

Social networking sites 'keep deleted photos' - research

Technology / Internet

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

User photographs can still be found on many social networking sites including Facebook after people have deleted them, British researchers said Thursday.