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Facebook founder leads Agenda Setters

News Mark Zuckerberg, the 23-year-old founder and CEO of social networking site, Facebook, has been named the most influential person in tech for 2007. The only person to have appeared in every Agenda Setters poll since its inception in 2000 is Jeff...

Tags: places, director, industry, tech

18 October 2007, 9:32

Photoshop could bust image cheats

News In the near future, it could be a lot easier to see if those pictures of the person you've been talking to on Match.com have been retouched. The average person, however, will likely not be able to circumvent all of our techniques.

9 March 2007, 10:03

News.blog: MIT's brain-to-machine aid

News Scientists are making progress on neural devices that can translate the thoughts of a paralysed person into driving action for a prosthetic device. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said on Wednesday that they've developed an...

Tags: activity, problem, algorithm, translate

4 October 2007, 9:55

PayPal gets a run for its money?

News Even as PayPal has become almost ubiquitous for eBay and person-to-person transactions, it is tied to users' computers. At the Demo '06 conference in Phoenix on Wednesday, two companies presented services that they positioned as ways to handle...

9 February 2006, 8:51

Service lets you rip videos from YouTube

News A pair of services run by one person in Australia are giving people new ways to access and use video content from sites like YouTube and Google Video, and copyright holders may well find themselves up in arms about it.

15 June 2006, 10:25

Intel experiments with Wi-Fi as GPS substitute

News The satellites that comprise the global positioning system can pinpoint a person's location to within a few metres. By timing how long it takes signals to go from the satellites to a person, a handheld containing a GPS chip can determine that...

13 July 2005, 10:08

Videogame violence stimulates aggression in brain

News In the study, 13 males played the first-person-shooter Tactical Ops: Assault on Terror while in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) system, which measures brain activity. There is a causal link between playing the first-person shooting...

13 October 2005, 11:33

A virtual world with peer-to-peer style

News But that confused-looking cat is an avatar -- a digital representation of a real person (in this case a reporter) -- and the empty blue space is an early 'node' in Solipsis, an experiment in building a peer-to-peer virtual world, released late...

10 May 2005, 9:35

Monitor turns satellite images into 3D models

News A person wearing special glasses gets an accurate, three-dimensional representation of digital photographs without the jagged edges, blurriness or other visual artefacts that can occur with competing technologies, according to the company.

14 September 2005, 10:26

Mozilla to add social-networking to Firefox

News The person will know that something has been sent when a friend's avatar or picture glows. Or a person can click on a friend's avatar to get his latest bookmarked Web pages, photos, blogs or movies. The Mozilla Foundation's Labs has started a...

5 April 2007, 10:19

Cyber buddies are just as valuable

News An average Internet user has 4.65 friends online whom they have never met in person and 1.6 friends they've met in person after originally encountering them online. Virtual buddies are becoming as important as 'real life' chums to many an Internet...

4 December 2006, 9:47

Apple patents touch-screen keyboard

News Certain keys are given more weight than others, depending on the likelihood of the person pressing one key over another. That likelihood is determined by the person's distance of touch from the closest key, as well as frequency of use.

2 May 2006, 10:30

UK nuts about social networking

News As a result, companies spent more on Web advertising per person in the UK than anywhere else, shelling out an average of £33 per person -- twice as much as France, Germany and Italy combined. UK Web users are the keenest advocates of social...

Tags: cent, europe, person, networking

13 December 2007, 8:08

Former fraudster knocks ID cards

News You can develop all of the best security systems in the world, the most sophisticated software in the world [yet] all it takes is one weak link that is one person in the system to screw the entire system up.

Tags: person, identity, scheme, buildings

26 October 2007, 9:39

News.blog: Improve your looks with a digital camera

News That way, it can alter the person's appearance only subtly in a matter of minutes. According to the report, Leyvand showed before-and-after pictures to 40 people, and the majority of them said the software improved the person's looks.

11 August 2006, 11:18