May 18, 2013

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Jobs that are Much Better and Cheaper Done by Robots

Automation has become an integral part of human lives, when not so long ago, it had seemed difficult to create technology that could do the things said to be exclusively done by humans alone. Well, it had seemed difficult, but clearly not impossible, thus, modernization has paved way to the creation of things that can [...]

Fun Physics with Meissner Effect and Superconductivity

Several people hate hard sciences like Math, Chemistry and Physics — especially Physics for it needs several months just to understand a simple concept like speed and vector analysis. Well, what most people do not know, and actually shy away from when encountered with such possibility, is that Physics can be real fun — if [...]

A Look at the Inner World of Touchscreen Technologies

Not too long ago, the only it seemed that the touch screen technology could only be found in styus-driven PDAs and tablet PCs. At one point, they were too expensive still and thus too costly too actually replace the functions of the keyboard and the mouse. But the latter mass demand for touchscreen technology called [...]

Celebs Threatened By Hackers

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Celebs Threatened By Hackers: The Halo of hackers threatened to poke celebrities’ phones and e-mail accounts as promise in the video. Stated hacks of actresses are Scarlet Johannson and Mila Kunis which were posted on the web. The FBI investigates the suspected hack linking Johannson and Kunis, including the private invasion into phone and social [...]

Cool Optical Illusions Through RGB Formats

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Here is a cool optical illusion with RGB formats: It is easy to actually pull off optic illusions through the use of software like Photoshop, whereas it was difficult before through the use of ink and manual prints. One simply has to have an understanding about optic illusions and its elements. First, what is an [...]

Making Medical Decisions Through Computer Watson, What about Malpractice?

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Early in September, WellPoint, Inc. and IBM televised an agreement to use the Jeopardy! Award winning computer named Watson in helping doctors make medical decisions for their complex patients’ cases. This program, which is deemed to fully function by 2012, will begin its assistance through helping out nurses review treatment requests from medical providers. The [...]

Surgeon Wanted: To Operate on Star Wars’ R2-D2

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Star Wars Operation Board game: Hasbro, a US multinational toy and board game company, has released an Operation board game that features R2-D2 as the patient in need of medical help. Operation has originally been a battery operated game assessing the hand and eye coordination and other fine motor skills of the players. The first [...]

Top 3 Major Jobs For IT Professionals In The Future

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Major Jobs For IT Professionals In The Future: In the previous years, the IT profession is tagged to be the job of the future. Many of us have thought that as technology is being integrated into the big business industries and to almost every institution, those IT professionals are going to have the greater edge [...]

Mercedes Benz F125 Concept: The Future Of Automotive Technology

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Mercedes Benz F125 Concept: Have you ever thought that our cars in the future will have a crystal ball design? Well, if this idea is quite absurd for now, but let’s just take a look around at this F125 concept car of Mercedes Benz and see if this design may suit you. Mercedes Benz is [...]

13 Year Old Boy Comes Up With Efficient Solar Array !

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Testing Fibonacci sequence in an Oak Tree Inspired Solar Array: A thirteen year old boy of the state of New York has won the 2011 Young Naturalist Award in his Oak Tree inspired Solar Array. Adian Dwyer is a 7th grader who proposes that the Fibonacci sequence which can be found in the arrangement of [...]

Face Cloning in Realtime: New Idea In Stealing Others Identity

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Arturo Castro, a Spanish Computer Engineering graduate and a current artist in the video entitled “Faces” has pioneered the application of face cloning in real-time. Apparently, he utilizes the Kyle McDonald’s ofxFacetracker and Jason Saragih’s facetracker library in creating the real-time face substitution footage. These are C/C + + API for real-time generic non-rigid face [...]

Myxer Social Radio: Internet Radio Service App in Facebook and Twitter

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If you are happy getting along with your friends listening to a bunch of your favorite music, then I think this latest radio service integration may be a great advantage for you. The Myxer Social Radio an internet radio service app created by an online media catalog for mobile devices was unveiled. Apparently, this radio [...]