|
Images
| |
First Antarctic Educational Center to be Opened Soon |
 ...systems: wind and sun. On the roof of the base a camera will be set. Thus the teachers will be able to use in class the educational material provided by the website. The online broadcast will include images and surroundings of the ice.
The adventurer hopes that a special interest to children will be the mix of actual images of the area covered in snow and additional information regarding the effects of climate change. ... |
| |
read more » |
| |
Google's List of Class-Action Lawsuits |
 ...stings by virtue of a provision in the Communications Decency Act."
Perfect 10 v. Google. Filed on November 19, 2004.
Claims: Perfect 10 claimed Google to have allowed people to view copyrighted images through Google's image search.
Outcome: (Feb. 17, 2006: ... |
| |
read more » |
| |
Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images |
 ...Secret information on US combat system was accidentally exposed by Japanese officer after he exchanged porn files with another officer at work.
The naval officer intended to copy adult images that came along with the data on Aegis military system taken by accident from another officer's computer. Thus when he swapped the files with the petty officer of the lower rank, the latter was carelessly given the access to t... |
| |
read more » |
| |
Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
 ...the UK for his/her study. The main goal of the player is to reduce the character's 'culture shock' from the default 100 points to zero. To do this a series of tasks is necessary, such as dealing with images and small scenes of students' life, which could arouse a culture shock by international students.
The opening episode of the game is the student's first day in the UK. The character receives a map and some tasks to... |
| |
read more » |
| |
School Cleaner Took Pics of Kids in the Toilet |
| ...ictures 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 superimposed on the photos depicting sexual activity to make adult pictures.
He was also known to browse internet for children porn pictures.
Justice Peter Evans of the Supreme Court of Tasmania plea... |
| |
read more » |
| |
World's First 4D CAVEman to Help Treat Various Diseases |
| ...of a human body was developed by scientists at the University of Calgary. Scientists that created the 4D human atlas named it CAVEman. With the help of translation of medical and genomic data into 4D images the computer model of human body allows scientists to make their experiments more accurately having a clearer inside view.
The 4D human atlas is located in the CAVE, which represents a virtual reality room. The cub... |
| |
read more » |
| |
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - Gran Paradiso Alpha 5: out in June |
 ... the information about visited pages. The developers of the browser have paid much attention to off-line works. The users will be able to freely browse cached pages, to use special apps for searching images, texts and files.
The final release of Gran Paradiso - Mozilla Firefox 3.0 - is planned to happen at the end of 2007.
Powered by www.infoniac.com.
... |
| |
read more » |
| |
More Google Earth Users than People in Brazil |
 ...gitude and latitude of her children's birthplaces, three of whom she adopted. A German magazine featured a photo of the actress' tattoo, mapped the kid's birthplaces on Google Earth and published the images.
Michael Jones mentioned that people got interested not only in Google Earth but specifically in digital earth. People enjoyed viewing their surroundings in a new way. An Iranian sent him mail, saying Google has sal... |
| |
read more » |
| |
Blind People Help Sighted to Discover the Unseen |
 ...s the roles reverse: sighted people say goodbye to their familiar environments while blind people offer them security, as well as a sense of orientation helping sight people to feel the world without images.
"Dialog in the Dark" showed a remarkable effect, being already presented in 17 countries throughout Europe, Asia and America.
Powered by www.infoniac.com
... |
| |
read more » |
| |
77 Percent of Girls Consider Themselves Ugly |
 ...en 10 and 14 and found out that as much as 77 percent of them described themselves in negative terms. Many said they consider themselves ugly, fat and upset when comparing themselves with attractive images shown in advertisements.
The study found the link between the prevalence of beautiful images in media and increasing number of teenagers having low self-esteem. One 14-year-old girl wrote that images in magazines m... |
| |
read more » |
| |
4D Ultrasounds Challenge Abortion Laws |
 ...The latest 4D ultrasounds that can give video-like images of the foetus will change the views on the time when the foetus can be considered a person.
Dr Kristin Savell, of the University of Sydney, Australia, says that people would be more willing to change current regulations on late-term abortions.
The 4D scan gives a strong visual imagery giving a video-quality view of the foetus in real time. With this scient... |
| |
read more » |
| |
Quarter of Men Deeply Dissatisfied with Their Bodies |
 ...A quarter of men are deeply dissatisfied with their less-than-perfect physical appearance, according to a recent survey.
Following the steps of women suffering from inferiority complex because of images of physical perfection constantly demonstrated in adverts and fashion magazines, more and more men are ashamed to strip off in front of their partners.
Half of the 3,000 British men who participated in the survey b... |
| |
read more » |
|
|
TOP 10 NEWS
TOP USERS
Blogs
ARCHIVES
|
|
