http://www.physorg.com/technology-news/ en-us PhysOrg Team PhysOrg.com provides the latest news on technology, software, computer science, internet, semiconductor, telecom and science technology. (PhysOrg.com) -- Constructing virtual 3D models usually requires heavy and expensive equipment, or takes lengthy amounts of time. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge, Qi Pan, Dr Gerhard Reitmayr and Dr Tom Drummond have created a program able to build 3D models of textured objects in real-time, using only a standard computer and webcam. This allows 3D modeling to become accessible to everybody. http://www.physorg.com/news177180374.html Technology 2009-11-11T16:47:17-07:00 James Oliver picked up an Xbox game controller, looked up to a video screen and used the device's buttons and joystick to fly through a patient's chest cavity for an up-close look at the bottom of the heart. http://www.physorg.com/news177177522.html Technology 2009-11-11T16:10:01-07:00 Google Latitude to find your nearby friends, you're in luck: Google updated Latitude with location history and alerts for when your friends are nearby. If you don't love your every step tracked -- well, it's kind of creepy. http://www.physorg.com/news177174927.html Technology 2009-11-11T15:50:04-07:00 This holiday season, many travelers will be able to keep a close eye on home. Thanks to new security system technology, including live video feed, you can monitor everything from the front door to the sump pump from hundreds of miles away. http://www.physorg.com/news177172067.html Technology 2009-11-11T14:40:01-07:00 (AP) -- E-mail has taken a full circle. Over the years, Web-based e-mail services have gotten much better, sporting many features once available only with the e-mail programs that reside on the computer desktop. http://www.physorg.com/news177165447.html Technology 2009-11-11T13:00:02-07:00 Before buying one of the new Google-powered "Droid" phones from Verizon Wireless, you may want to read the manual. Not the setup directions in the box. http://www.physorg.com/news177157967.html Technology 2009-11-11T12:10:01-07:00 Lost in the recent deluge of smart-phone news -- Apple's iPhone store hitting 100,000 applications, and the launches of the new Droid phone and the BlackBerry Storm, among other things -- have been the efforts of longtime handheld gadget maker Palm. http://www.physorg.com/news177157441.html Technology 2009-11-11T11:30:01-07:00 Q. The other day, my Internet service went down as it does from time to time. But this particular time, I needed to check my e-mail for an important reply I was expecting. After some frustrating time passed, I happened to notice that there was a Wi-Fi signal available. I have no idea to whom the service belonged but I suspected it belonged to one of my neighbors. It had a generic name of "NETGEAR" and it was unlocked. I decided to see if it was accessible and it was. I was able to check my e-mail and download the important document that was attached to it. Now my question to you is if I did anything wrong by using my neighbor's unlocked Wi-Fi signal to get my email and do a little web surfing afterward. http://www.physorg.com/news177157733.html Technology 2009-11-11T11:10:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- New software is under development that doctors hope will help them identify brain tumours in children that will grow aggressively. http://www.physorg.com/news177151253.html Technology 2009-11-11T09:10:07-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Google has introduced its new experimental programming language Go, which aims to combine speedy application development through simplified coding with high-speed program execution. http://www.physorg.com/news177146819.html Technology 2009-11-11T07:28:09-07:00 Google on Tuesday launched an online tool for tracking down where to get vaccinations against H1N1 and seasonal influenza in the United States. http://www.physorg.com/news177145524.html Technology 2009-11-11T07:08:00-07:00 The science section of The New York Times contained an unusual article on Tuesday. The story about a huge floating garbage patch in the Pacific Ocean was not written by a Times reporter but by a freelance journalist whose expenses were paid by hundreds of donors in an experiment in "crowd-funded" journalism. http://www.physorg.com/news177140096.html Technology 2009-11-11T05:35:24-07:00 Adobe Systems, known for its Photoshop editing program and Acrobat document software, announced on Tuesday it was cutting some 680 jobs worldwide, about nine percent of its workforce. http://www.physorg.com/news177102314.html Technology 2009-11-10T19:40:02-07:00 Amazon.com on Tuesday released free software that lets people read the online retail titan's electronic Kindle books on personal computers. http://www.physorg.com/news177102297.html Technology 2009-11-10T19:30:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Last Thursday, the day after the New York Yankees won their first World Series of the 21st century, MIT Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, the 2008 recipient of the Turing Award - frequently called the Nobel Prize for computer science - delivered the first lecture of the 2009 Dertouzos Lecture Series. http://www.physorg.com/news177097345.html Technology 2009-11-10T19:20:04-07:00 Twitter on Tuesday linked to LinkedIn, letting people share updates and tweets between the hot microblogging service and the career-oriented online social networking website. http://www.physorg.com/news177101856.html Technology 2009-11-10T19:10:03-07:00 (AP) -- Microsoft's newest computer operating system has survived its first few weeks on the market without needing any security fixes. http://www.physorg.com/news177100043.html Technology 2009-11-10T18:40:06-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Big things often come in small packages. That's certainly the case with the potential created by recent successes in hydrogen research at Idaho National Laboratory. http://www.physorg.com/news177096285.html Technology 2009-11-10T17:25:39-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a powerful new approach to a fundamental problem in computer vision: how to program a computer to recognize or categorize what it "sees" in an image or video. Their software could change the way people search the Web for photos and videos, and it may have applications in many other areas as well, such as video surveillance and security systems. http://www.physorg.com/news177095786.html Technology 2009-11-10T17:17:31-07:00 Smart phones -- like BlackBerrys and iPhones -- have become indispensable to today's highly mobile workforce and tech-savvy youngsters. While these devices keep friends and colleagues just a few thumb-taps away, they also pose new security and privacy risks. http://www.physorg.com/news177089641.html Technology 2009-11-10T16:20:01-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are making progress in developing a new type of transistor that uses a finlike structure instead of the conventional flat design, possibly enabling engineers to create faster and more compact circuits and computer chips. http://www.physorg.com/news177088957.html Technology 2009-11-10T15:24:39-07:00 British broadcaster Sky launched an iPhone application Tuesday which allows viewers to watch live TV on the move and is thought to be the first commercial TV service backed by the broadcaster itself. http://www.physorg.com/news177084355.html Technology 2009-11-10T15:10:01-07:00 (AP) -- Google, Yahoo, eBay and Microsoft, competitors on the Web, all have the same idea for marketing themselves this holiday season: temporarily providing free Wi-Fi access in airports, airplanes and public places. http://www.physorg.com/news177084145.html Technology 2009-11-10T14:40:02-07:00 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC) said Tuesday China's top chip maker will pay it 200 million US dollars cash after they settled a long-running dispute over alleged theft of trade secrets. http://www.physorg.com/news177083799.html Technology 2009-11-10T14:30:01-07:00 Google said on Tuesday, in response to threats by Rupert Murdoch to ban the search engine from listing content from his news empire, that any company could ask to have stories taken off. http://www.physorg.com/news177083680.html Technology 2009-11-10T14:10:02-07:00 (AP) -- Ryan Norwalk has cleared his schedule. The 26-year-old California State University student plans to spend Tuesday gunning down foes in "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2," the highly anticipated first-person shooter video game developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision Blizzard Inc. http://www.physorg.com/news177079559.html Technology 2009-11-10T12:46:32-07:00 A number of U.S. states now use facial recognition technology when issuing drivers licenses. Similar methods are also used to grant access to buildings and to verify the identities of international travelers. Historically, obtaining accurate results with this type of technology has been a time intensive activity. Now, a researcher from the University of Miami College of Engineering and his collaborators have developed ways to make the technology more efficient while improving accuracy. http://www.physorg.com/news177075934.html Technology 2009-11-10T12:30:01-07:00 (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance. http://www.physorg.com/news177078242.html Technology 2009-11-10T12:24:44-07:00 Carbon is usually typecast as a villain in terms of the environment but researchers at the University of Warwick have devised a novel way to miniaturise a technology that will make carbon a key material in some extremely green heating products for our homes and in air conditioning equipment for our cars. http://www.physorg.com/news177076423.html Technology 2009-11-10T12:10:02-07:00 (PhysOrg.com) -- Seiko Epson Corporation has announced the world's first 4K panel for 3LCD (liquid crystal display) projectors. The panel will enable the projectors to produce a bright image of 4096 x 2160 pixels resolution (2160p), which is four times the resolution of a top range high definition television or Blu-Ray Disc. http://www.physorg.com/news177063891.html Technology 2009-11-10T10:30:02-07:00