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Artificial eyeball does away with distorted images
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne researchers have built a hemispherical digital-image sensor that can take wide-angle pictures without distortion by mimicking the curves of a human retina.
(University of Illinois)
They attached an array of silicon photodiodes on a curved "retina."
The technology may make it possible to give the curved surface of a human retina a coat of digital sensors, helping blind people see again.
(Source: http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14477-artificial-eyeball-does-away-with-distortion.html?feedId=online-news_rss20)
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First 'virophage' could take the fight to viruses
Researchers at the University of the Mediterranean, France have discovered a new type of virus that spreads at the expense of other viruses and could be used to combat viral infections.
The team says "Sputnik" is the first member of a new class they call "virophages" because of similarities with bacteriophages or phages (viruses that infect bacteria) and is the first time a virus has been seen to propagate at the expense of a viral host. (Source: http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/dn14480-first-virophage-could-take-the-fight-to-viruses.html?feedId=online-news_rss20)
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New Google tool aims to provide more insight into online searches
Google has launched Google Insights for Search, an extension of Google Trends, designed to be used by advertisers, small business owners, academics and others.
Like Google Trends, the Insights software lets users type in search terms and then see search volume patterns over time and the top related and rising searches. But users can also now compare volume trends across multiple search terms, vertical industry categories, geographic regions and time ranges. (Source: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9111841)
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Researchers mash Google Earth with electrical data to predict national grid problems
Oak Ridge National Labs researchers have developed The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, which overlays real-time status data from the national electric grid and weather on Google Earth.
Federal, state, and local agencies can use VERDE for wide-area
situational understanding to coordinate and respond to major problems such as wide-area power outages, natural disasters, and other catastrophic events. It also enables grid-behavior modeling and simulation. (Source: http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/30792)
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Intel reveals design for fast, efficient future chips
Intel plans to release in 2009 or 2010 a first wave of Larrabee chips with 16 to 48 cores, tailored for handling computer game graphics.
Multi-core chips cut energy use and heat while speeding performance by dividing tasks between cores.
Intel Research director Andrew Chien predicts that multi-core chips will let computers "bridge the physical world with the virtual."
Other predicted research breakthroughs include software enabling people's mobile telephone to recognize faces of approaching acquaintances and whisper their names to users, and voice recognition software so accurate it could be used to record witness testimony in courtroom proceedings.
(Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080804/tc_afp/usitinternetchipsoftwarecompanyintel_080804204836)
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