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Digital Photos Testify Against Domestic Abusers |
...issed by Polaroids, and the human eye. Digital photos depict for example cuts on an outstretched hand or bruises that are difficult to notice on the dark complexion skin. When specialists magnify the pictures, there appear other wounds, like tiny cuts and broken capillaries.
By computer, police officers are able to transmit the pictures immediately to a database used by prosecutors of the city. When they used to take P... |
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Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
...ty of Portsmouth, Nipan Minar is leading the development of a new interactive mobile phone game for students in the UK to help them overcome the culture shock. This is expected to be achieved through pictures of students drinking alcohol or a couple kissing in public, integrated into the game - things not allowed in certain cultures.
The game is called C-Shock and it is being developed by Nipan Minar, who himself arriv... |
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School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet |
... were photographed through the holes of the toilet by a school cleaner.
Adrian Alan Mayne, 31, worked as a school cleaner but seemed to take advantage of his duties after it was found that he took pictures of schoolgirls and female teachers in the toilet. He made a large hole on the floor of the toilet and hid the camera in it to make photos of the intimate parts of the children . More than 90 images were later superi... |
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Microsoft Reached 40 Million Licenses of Vista |
...forward to manufacture products for Windows Home Server. The new software has the goal of helping families with multiple PCs to centralize easier and share with and protect digital content, including pictures, documents, audio and video files.
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Xbox 360 Elite - Accessories and Components |
... output along with a DVD playback.
Detachable 120GB hard drive for Xbox 360 with the help of which gamers are able to save their games as well as a wide range of television shows, movies, music, pictures, trailers, levels, demos that can be found on Xbox LIVE Marketplace.
The Wireless Controller of Xbox 360 includes an Xbox Guide Button, so users could use the in-game access to their friends quicker. The control... |
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Bad Memories Can Be Suppressed If Only You Really Want It |
...search, said that study showed that people can deal with bad memories on their own practicing mental control over and over again.
All the participants were asked to remember 40 different pairs of pictures with faces expressing variety of emotions from neutral ones to highly emotional, like showing crime scenes or car incident. While the pictures were shown, the participants were given a task either to keep in mind the... |
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The Less Online Content - The Better, Study Says |
...wed that people are more likely to focus on the online content with fewer options.
The participants took part in the experiment where their responses were studied while they were watching online pictures. Kevin Wise and Kimberlee Pepple, conducted the study where volunteers were given a task to choose three pictures from six and 24 selection of thumbnails. Researchers then studied participants' heart rates to define ... |
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Virtual Policemen to Purify the Chinese Internet |
...onal ideas or the ones that might seem suspicious to the two police officers. On-line gambling is also regarded as an illegal activity.
Every 30 minutes users will see a picture on their displays. Pictures will depict a man or a woman on a motorcycle, in a car or on foot. A click on those pictures will redirect users on the web-site of Beijing City Administration, department for public security, where users can report ... |
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Blondes Make Men Act More Silly, Study Says |
...hat men's mental performance became worse after they looked at blonde women.
Researchers at the University of Paris X-Nanterre discovered that men's scores on general knowledge tests after viewing pictures of blonde women dropped. As it was later found, this effect can be explained by the fact that men were unconsciously thinking they were dealing with someone who was less smart.
Thierry Meyer, joint author of the ... |
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Apple Introduces the Multi-Touch Touchpad with the New MacBook Air |
... unseen functionality of trackpad. Various videos on already demonstrate the possibilities of such an amazing technology on the MacBook Air. Various combinations can be used for scrolling, zooming pictures in and out, rotating objects and so on. Applications, such as Finder, iPhoto and Safari have their own sets of combinations for vast functionality. The multi-touch trackpad in the new MacBook Air is based on the gest... |
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The Amount of Digital Information Reached 281 Exabytes (281 Billion Gigabytes) |
...e IT sector will be highly responsible for keeping the information about users private.
"We discovered that only about half of your digital footprint is related to your individual actions - taking pictures, sending e-mails, or making digital voice calls," said IDC senior vice president, John Gantz.
"The other half is what we call the 'digital shadow' - information about you - names in financial records, names on ma... |
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Inventor of LSD Drug Dies |
...a sensation that he was "rooted to the spot" while in fact his assistant told that they were riding quite fast. Hofmann reported about "vision", saying that all his thoughts appeared in colors and in pictures and several hours later the vision has disappeared. That was his description of the first experience with the hallucinogen uncovered on Swiss program marking his 100th birthday.
During the second experiment with L... |
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Caves With Stone Age Paintings Have Better Acoustics |
...that people, who lived in prehistoric times, preferred to draw their famous cave sketches in locations that have a natural resonant sound.
Researchers found at least 10 places with the prehistoric pictures of horses, bison and mammoths in which the sound of human voices, as well as the sound of musical instruments could be focused, amplified and transformed.
"In the cave of Niaux in Ariege, most of the remarkable p... |
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With Google Street View There's No Privacy Even for Larry Page |
...The United States Legal and Policy Centre (NLPC) has purportedly taken the pictures of the house of Google co-founder Larry Page using the mapping service of his own company.
The exposure of images, where one can view "a top Google executive's address", is as a response to a recent court case held in Pennsylvania. The case is linked to privacy issues regarding the Google Street View.
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