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CNET.co.uk has 123 stories on scale
Scientists closer to not seeing invisibility cloak
News Researchers say they can redirect light around three-dimensional objects using metamaterials -- artificially engineered structures created at a nano scale that contain optical properties not found in nature, according to an Associated Press report.
Tags: nature, science, materials, object
11 August 2008, 8:22
AMD ships new 790GX gaming chip
News The 790GX chipset integrates an ATI Radeon HD 3300 graphics processor, but can also scale up to high-end ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics cards, AMD said. AMD today announced the availability of silicon targeted at the 'performance' gaming...
Tags: processor, hd, clock, amd
6 August 2008, 8:59
Google's Street View faces privacy concerns
News As with all such systems operating at this scale our blurring technology is not perfect -- we occasionally miss a face or licence plate, for example, if they are partially covered, or at a difficult angle,"
Tags: face, privacy, international, street
9 July 2008, 9:03
Photos: Dubai's 'dynamic tower' in motion
News This cross-section image also gives a sense of the intended scale of the wind turbines between floors. It's always been one of the enduring truths of architecture: buildings stand still. Parts may move -- the arms on a windmill, the elevators and...
Tags: press, motion, conference, energy
2 July 2008, 9:18
Students try texting to combat knife crime
News The charity said the pilot is small-scale as it wants to determine whether misuse of the system is likely to be a problem -- for instance, by kids attempting to get innocent classmates into trouble -- although it stressed that to-date there have...
Tags: details, children, anti, london
4 June 2008, 9:13
News.blog: Facebook updates privacy, adds IM
News In addition, Cohler said, Facebook is hoping to strengthen its relationships with its developer community, perhaps holding another large-scale developer event like the one it held when it first launched the Facebook Platform last May.News.com's...
Tags: messaging, party, friend, profiles
19 March 2008, 9:11
Elonex to launch £99 laptop
News The One removes the cost barrier that has prevented the one-laptop-per- person, large-scale uptake of computers in the education system that has for so long been just a pipe dream," said Sam Goult, Elonex's marketing manager, in a statement last...
Tags: children, laptop, education, educational
19 February 2008, 10:15
City's Internet to speed through sewers
News H2O has been testing the water with relatively small-scale deployments to Bournemouth City Council and Hillhead student village halls of residence in Dundee. The UK could have its first city with complete fibre connectivity from cables laid through...
Tags: city, water, companies, america
24 January 2008, 8:03
Photos: LED contacts see bionic future
News Working on this tiny scale, the researchers used a microfabrication technique known as self-assembly, in which a component's shape dictates how and where it attaches on top of a flexible plastic sheet.
Tags: research, eye, lens, creating
23 January 2008, 9:36
Photos: Tech and art combine at Sundance
News Defacement (WMD) designed to enable graffiti writers, artists, activists and citizens to communicate in the urban environment on the same scale as advertisers, corporations and governments". In addition to art installations, it hosts panel...
Tags: artist, gallery, led, wall
22 January 2008, 9:16
Mobile TV strategy backed by EU states
News Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for information society and media, said in a statement: "European mobile TV is a step closer to success following [the] endorsement by the Council of the Commission's strategy for creating economies of scale in...
Tags: european, strategy, europe, standards
3 December 2007, 9:36
Photos: Amazon sparks Kindle e-reader
News It has a 600x800-pixel resolution with a four-level grey scale. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos on Monday unveiled the company's e-book reader, the Kindle -- the latest entry into the long unspectacular market for electronic handheld devices for reading...
Tags: mccarthy, kindle, hand, handheld
20 November 2007, 8:56
Photos: How to survive a Humvee rollover
News The full-scale mock-up can be stopped at a number of angles, and external door locks enable the operator to simulate obstructed doors. Iraq, some of the most pernicious are roadside bombs that target moving vehicles.
Tags: training, story, department, army
12 November 2007, 10:11
Government searches for tech talent
News Stream will be selected for their potential to become CIOs and leaders of large scale IT-enabled business change in the public sector. A fast track graduate scheme to unearth the next generation of public sector IT leaders has been launched by the...
Tags: stream, government, scheme, sector
19 October 2007, 9:00
News.blog: Physical sciences will change society
News Nanotechnology deals with very small-scale materials -- a nanometre is a billionth of a metre. Because of rising energy demand, companies with expertise in materials will increasingly make energy applications, such as large-scale storage.
Tags: engineering, technologies, scale, material
16 October 2007, 8:41
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Format wars: The tech that should have won
Did you love Laserdisc? Were you bonkers over Betamax? Travel back in time with Captain Tech and check out the format losers that should have triumphed
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