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- 2008 Acura MDX
- Photo gallery:2008 Acura MDXThe 2008 Acura MDX remains largely unchanged from the 2007 model, when we reviewed the then-new redesign and found it chock full of tech options inherited from Acura's sedans, and with improved handling courtesy of similarly upgraded four-wheel-drive management. Back in 2006, the first-generation MDX had some...
- Product reviews 2008-09-02
- 2008 BMW 135i Coupe
- Photo gallery:2008 BMW 135i CoupeBMW's announcement of the 135i hit us like Pavlov's bell, the one he used to make his dog salivate. Once we got into the 2008 BMW 135i Coupe, all of our expectations were met, and more. BMW threw its best engine into its smallest car, leading...
- Product reviews 2008-05-05
- Healthcare Provider Increases Preventive Care, Boosts Efficiency With Speech Solution
- Based in Monterey Park, California, Care1st Health Plan is a growing healthcare network of physicians and hospitals. The organization provides medical benefits to more than 200,000 low-income and disabled members. Care1st has had to meet state regulations that require new network members to schedule health evaluations with their primary care...
- Case studies 2008-05-01
- How to detect network vulnerabilities?
- Computer scientists at George Mason University GMU have developed a new software to identify complex cyber network attacks. This software is named CAULDRON (short for 'Combinatorial Analysis Utilizing Logical Dependencies Residing on Networks'). The developers claim that CAULDRON 'can reduce the impact of cyber attacks by identifying the possible vulnerability...
- Blog posts 2008-03-18
- New LED information resource
- New LED information resourceLED's are the path of future lightingthat and bio-luminescence. Currently the LED technology is exploding, the little power miser lights are getting brighter and a broader color range. There are currently bulbs for indoor use, while very expensive AND limited currently in application, they are moving forward....
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Change and expand a photo's depth of field
- At the 6sight conference in Monterey, Calif., Kevin Connor, Adobe Systems' senior director of digital imaging product management, shows computational photography techniques that lets a photo's depth of field be expanded or changed, or the photographer's vantage point be shifted.
- Videos 2007-12-03
- Adobe creates 3D view of subjects
- At the 6sight conference in Monterey, Calif., John Loiacono, senior vice president for Adobe Creative Solutions, demonstrates developing technology that constructs a 3D view of a subject from images collected on the Internet.
- Videos 2007-12-03
- Refocusing photos after they're shot
- At the 6sight conference in Monterey Calif., Ren Ng, founder of Stanford University spinoff Refocus Imaging, shows how his company's lens and software technology can change the focus settings of a picture after the camera has taken the photograph.
- Videos 2007-12-03
- Spotlight on 'seam carving'
- At the 6sight conference in Monterey Calif., Ariel Shamir, a visiting scientist with Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, discusses "seam carving" technology, which lets an image be expanded or shrunk without distorting the important parts.
- Videos 2007-11-15
- A fish story
- Nothing is more mainstream media than "Time Magazine." When they do big piece on the dangers of fish farming you can expect that concern to seep into the shopping mainstream of America. Fish consumption has been growing rapidly across the globe. That's encouraged a global increase in...
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- The most exciting thing in IT
- The most exciting thing in ITAh yes, the best of the past . . .I was a great fan of the QMS printers - they were tough and the support was excellent - on par with Sun service!The HP workstations (HP735 et al) were workhorses that were tough and worked...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- Global warming: is it over so soon?
- Global warming: is it over so soon?We still need tocurb our CO2 output, we still need to advance alternative renewable energy sources. To not pursue then and say "Oh well!" in an invitation to suicide of the human race. Personally seeing the damage done so far by the recent...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- 2007 Mazda Mazda3 s Touring
- Photo gallery:2007 Mazda Mazda3 s TouringWith the stripped-down 2007 Mazda3 s Touring sedan, we found ourselves enjoying the stiff chassis and rev-happy engine on twisty roads but bemoaning a relative paucity of the gadgets that can be the icing on the cake. Some of these options, like navigation and a...
- Product reviews 2007-09-10
- Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price list
- Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price listwhat about 2XXX BarcelonaWhy dont you show the entire list ?,WOW AMD by all estimates will dominate, I cant believe you said that! Make sure the PPW is with power saving ONAMD silences quad-core criticshttp://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195086/amd-silences-barcelona-criticsAMD's "Estimated Benchmark Scorestm" are [i]EVIL![/i] X-(.AMD's clearly labeled "Estimated...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Photos: Scanning brain waves
- Upstart EmSense reads people's brain waves to gauge their emotional response to advertisements and video games.Hans Lee, chief technology officer of EmSense, wearing the company''s wireless headband, which includes a dry EEG electroencephalogram sensor to measure the electrical activity of the brain without the use of gels; an accelerometer, which...
- Image galleries 2007-08-21
- Spyware isn't the answer to creating better games
- Spyware isn't the answer to creating better gamescompete with FREEI will not pay for a game full of ads, but i whould play a ads supported game, if its free. This whould be the best way to curb piracy! because ads supported games can easlu compete with FREE (P2P)Great....So...who is...
- Discussion threads 2007-05-16
- Murdoch coveting Dow Jones...and Facebook?
- The New York Times Richard Siklos wrote a profile of Rupert Murdoch that including some interesting details from a News Corp. executive offsite. He reported that the 76-year-old media mogul spent some quality time with 23-year-old Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Monterey, CA offsite, which was set up for...
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- A deep-sea observatory in California
- The National Science Foundation NSF is funding the installation of a deep-sea observatory installed on the Monterey Bay sea floor in California. The first step of this project was completed last week when a 32-mile (52 kilometers) cable was installed 900 meters (3,000 feet) below the ocean surface. This cable...
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- SaaS Summit reactions to Cisco buying WebEx
- Attendees at todays SaaS Summit in Monterey — where I arrived last night after a mammoth 19-hour journey via London underground, Virgin Atlantic and Hertz rental car — were feeling bullish but bemused at the news that Cisco has bought WebEx for $3.2 billion. Knowing that WebEx sold for close...
- Blog posts 2007-03-15
- The lazy person's guide to adjusting your PC for daylight saving
- Who cares if your PC is an hour out of sync with the rest of the world for a few weeks starting this Sunday? It only matters if it has to synchronize with other PCs. Unfortunately, of course, most peoples PCs do, even if only to set up appointments or...
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
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