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Photos: Vivid photos via HDR technique

News This technique can help make up for a digital sensor's lack of sensitivity to scenes with a wide range of brightness values. The darkroom may be a fading element of the rapidly vanishing world of film photography, but digital photographers do have...

7 August 2006, 10:01

NASA laser device catches criminals

News That tool, which has helped NASA scientists find and analyse damage to spacecraft, may soon be widely useful to police investigating crime scenes. Warning: Objects in this photo may appear exactly to scale.

2 March 2006, 9:41

Sony PSP ads escape UK ban

News The posters in question used four lines: 'Strong language and scenes of a sexual nature here', 'Your girlfriend's white bits here', 'Take a running jump here', and 'Saucy emails won't get you fired here'.

22 June 2006, 9:44

Blair 'Bullied' in House of Commons

News This game contains scenes of violence, including players terrorising teachers and students, teachers being headbutted, and the aggressive use of baseball bats. Keith Vaz, Member of Parliament for Leicester East, called for a discussion of Rockstar...

19 October 2006, 10:15

YouTube gets tough on copyright violators

News Robert Tur, a journalist who recorded scenes of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, filed a suit against YouTube in July after seeing numerous clips of his video on the site. People posting copyright material on YouTube shouldn't be surprised if the...

23 October 2006, 10:06

Obama in sex video shocker? Oh wait, it's just spam

News Meanwhile, behind the scenes a Trojan horse known as Mal/Hupig-D is installed. Don't believe everything you read on the Internet: US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama isn't a terrorist.or a porn star.

Tags: sex, sophos, obama, barack obama

11 September 2008, 8:43

Video sites in ongoing battle against smut

News A weeklong review of some of the top user-generated video sites by CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com, unearthed scenes of beheadings, masturbation, bloody car accidents, bondage and sadomasochism. The text accompanying the video says a man has...

20 June 2006, 10:23

Videogame ratings targeted for revision

News That system permits children to act out each of the many graphic torture scenes and murders in Manhunt 2 rather than simply manipulating a game pad," the senators wrote. The violent-game debate is back on the stage once more.

Tags: board, entertainment, letter, act

21 November 2007, 9:32

Special-effects masters put magic in ILM

News At ILM on Wednesday, Knoll, Hickel and others gave CNET.co.uk's sister site News.com an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at its motion-capture facilities, its data centre and interviews in which they discussed the process of making Pirates of the...

26 January 2007, 10:07

How the XP-on-Mac contest was won

News A lot of the work goes on behind the scenes, but there's a lot of prep work involved. When Apple introduced the first Intel-based Macs, Colin Nederkoorn saw it as a chance to finally use a Macintosh for work.

17 March 2006, 11:52

Piczo jumps on board with Comic Relief

News The winner will work with Comic Relief and get experience behind the scenes of the national fundraising campaign. Comic Relief has teamed up with social-networking site Piczo to get users more involved in Red Nose Day.

8 March 2007, 9:42

City of LA sues 'GTA' makers over 'Hot Coffee'

News The sex scenes in the game, which the company initially blamed on hackers, have caused a public uproar in the US. The maker of the controversial videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is under fire once more for allegedly hiding sexually explicit...

30 January 2006, 9:56

UK government details game rating options

News We have also seen a big growth in games aimed at a grown-up market," she continued, "which invariably include scenes unsuitable for young people. When it came out in March, the Byron Review, a report commissioned by the government into the effects...

Tags: children, role, industry, weight

1 August 2008, 9:39

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News The upshot, as promised by Kodak: better picture quality, or the same picture quality when shooting in dim light conditions such as those that prevail in most indoor scenes. Kodak hopes turning one aspect of chip design on its head will help...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

US broadcaster aims at game market with new service

News Upon launch, the service will have 300 games available to subscribers, along with other features, such as coming attractions and behind-the-scenes peeks. Turner Broadcasting System is entering the games business with its own broadband service...

3 May 2005, 8:42