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Images For 3-D Video Games Without High Price Tags Or Stretch Marks From UC San Diego
The images of rocks, clouds, marble and other textures that serve as background images and details for 3-D video games are often hand painted and thus costly to generate. A...
Yahoo selects Biondi, Chapple as new board members
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. said Thursday it will add the former chief executives of Viacom and Nextel Partners to its board of directors as part of the company's deal...
Virtual applications reach out to real world
(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a series of very clever tools to break through the bottlenecks stalling the widespread adoption of virtual reality. But the compelling applications designed for...
Soldiers in combat at higher risk for binge drinking: U.S. study
U.S. National Guard and Reserve combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely to develop drinking problems than active-duty soldiers, a new military study suggests. The authors speculate that...
World's oceans doomed -- report
Human activities are cumulatively driving the health of the world's oceans down a rapid spiral, and only prompt and wholesale changes will slow or perhaps ultimately reverse the catastrophic problems...
Genomics Of Plant-based Biofuels
Genomics is accelerating improvements for converting plant biomass into biofuel -- as an alternative to fossil fuel for the nation's transportation needs. Now researchers lay out a path forward for...
Samsung Introduces Software to Increase Efficiency of Embedded Memory Solutions for Smart Phones
Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today that it is introducing software designed to optimize the high performance features of its proprietary embedded flash memories: OneNAND,...
Cineplex big screens available to Xbox gamers
Cineplex Entertainment is renting out downtime at its theatres to video gamers looking to play their Xbox 360 titles.
Textbook for one of most-taught community college courses available free
Rice University's Connexions, one of the most-visited online sites for open-educational resources, today announced it is making a popular textbook available free this fall for one of the country's most-attended...
Anthrax case ignites new forensics field
Biochemical method of tracking microbes hits the limelight.
HSBC may ditch BlackBerry for iPhone: report
The world's largest bank is considering switching to the iPhone from the BlackBerry, according to an Australian report, a move that would be a huge blow to Waterloo, Ont.-based Research...
Computer-generated Images: Hollywood Hair Will Be Captured At Last
Imagine avatars of your favorite actors wandering through 3-D virtual worlds with hair that looks almost exactly like it does in real life. This level of realism for animated hairstyles...
Navy personnel accused of sabotage keep working for military
A pair of Canadian Forces employees accused of sabotaging a classified government database at Ottawa's National Defence Headquarters a year ago will continue working for the military for now.
Homeless tenants still stable
A report on public housing has found that people who are currently homeless, who are given priority for housing, are just as likely to stay for the long term.
Canada invests $35M for national transplant system
Canadians needing an organ donation will be able to quickly find donors from across the country after a long-sought integrated program is launched.
Yale Professor wins Godel Prize for showing how computer algorithms solve problems
Daniel A. Spielman, professor of applied mathematics and computer science at Yale, has been awarded the prestigious Gödel Prize for developing a technique, known as Smoothed Analysis, that helps predict...
iPhone to shake-up Japan's cellphone industry: Softbank official
The arrival of Apple's iPhone 3G will force Japanese cellphone makers to revamp their handsets to allow increasingly sophisticated software, a senior official at Softbank Mobile said Wednesday.
How a forensic specialist can retrieve data from your hard drive - even if deleted
Pete Warren explains how a forensic specialist can recover revealing personal data from your hard drive – even after you think you've deleted everything
Starz ending Vongo movie service for Starz Play
(AP) -- Liberty Media Corp.'s Starz pay TV subsidiary is pulling the plug on its Vongo movie-download service in favor of letting Verizon Communications Inc. and other affiliates market...
Scientist at Work: Diana Beresford-Kroeger: Advocating an Unusual Role for Trees
Diana Beresford-Kroeger brings together Western medicine and botany to advocate for the planting of trees with beneficial properties.
Perfumed pong - herbal remedy for smelly rubbish
Authorities in the western Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) douse garbage landfills with herbal perfume to lessen the putrid stench.
How Hackers Likely Blocked Georgian Sites
The Georgian government websites have been under attack, making it difficult or impossible for users to access several sites, including that of the country's president.
Caution is the right reaction to chemical
Maybe you've seen the ad showing an empty shopping cart in the middle of the desert. "Soon, many common, everyday products could disappear from grocery store shelves all across California,"...
P.E.I. readying for possible cellphone driving ban
Transportation Minister Ron MacKinley is preparing legislation banning the use of hand-held cell phones while driving, in anticipation of a legislative committee's recommendation.
Cut energy use by eating better, study says
(PhysOrg.com) -- How much energy we use to produce food could be cut in half if Americans ate less and ate local foods, wolfed down less meat, dairy and junk...
AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 -- World's Fastest Graphics Card
AMD today announced the world`s fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, advancing visual computing ever closer to eye-definition computing gaming and cinematic experiences and delivering a whopping...
Motorists turn to carpool sites as gas prices rise
(AP) -- Robert Gilliland didn't think much about carpooling until gas prices got out of control. Now, he's happy to trade his motoring freedom for $120 in weekly savings.
Charting Tech Consumer Confidence
The new CEA-CNET Consumer Sentiment Indexes are an economic index for researchers, academics, the media and the tech industry to use as an indicator of economic climate and outlook.