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News.blog: ESA confirms plans to scale back E3

News The Entertainment Software Association confirmed on Monday that it plans to scale back the size and scope of E3, the videogame industry's largest trade show. The event, which has been held each year at the Los Angeles Convention Center, attracts...

1 August 2006, 10:58

News.blog: Flickr outage highlights scale of site

News Undoubtedly, many Flickr customers were not happy with the site's problems on Monday, in which the Yahoo-owned site displayed the wrong images. Perhaps more interesting than the explanation of what went wrong, however, was the revelation of the...

21 February 2007, 9:29

NASA laser device catches criminals

News Warning: Objects in this photo may appear exactly to scale. The software sets the scale of objects based on distance, giving a viewer better perspective of an object's size whether it's close-up or faraway in the photo.

2 March 2006, 9:41

Clock's ticking on phone virus outbreak, experts say

News A large-scale virus outbreak targeting smart phones is unlikely to break out for another 18 months, security experts have predicted. By the end of 2007, large-scale user-to-user sending of more-complex executables will be commonplace.

22 June 2005, 11:00

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, 9:22

Vista creates a puzzling buzz

News This was the beginning of Vanishing Point, the newest large-scale project from 42 Entertainment, the firm behind popular alternate-reality games such as I Love Bees, The Beast and Last Call Poker. Lee said the game's creators decided to pursue a...

15 January 2007, 10:13

Iris recognition needs work, says UKPS

News The UKPS carried out the first large-scale UK trial of the three main biometric techniques between April and December last year. To accurately simulate a large-scale deployment, researchers preloaded the databases with 118,000 irises and one...

21 October 2005, 10:42

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, 9:41

Will your PC keep up with Vista?

News Not to scale? The main rating is on a scale of 1 to 5, but individual components are also given a 'sub-rating' on some other, unspecified range. How does Windows Vista love thy computer? Let it count the ways.

16 March 2006, 11:14

Queuers give their iPhone to charity

News Clayman has been involved in large-scale charity initiatives for some time, having once organised a charity stair climb at Chicago's Sears Tower -- 105 stories from the sub-basement to the summit -- that raised $22,000 in donations for victims of...

Tags: scale, child, advertising, profit

30 June 2007, 10:28

Will computing flow like electricity?

News As the technology matures and central distribution becomes possible, large-scale utility suppliers arise to displace the private providers. However, few executives envision a whole-scale transition to utility computing, even in the far-off future.

20 June 2005, 11:49

$100 laptop gets working model

News The Linux-based computers will not be for individual sale, but rather will be made available through large-scale government initiatives. The first 15 A-Test boards have been successfully assembled and tested, according to the OLPC site, and wide...

25 May 2006, 10:29

Where genius, art and gadgets mix

News Wurman, a 70-year-old architect, author and conference organiser is an impresario who creates events like the salons of a Gertrude Stein on a larger - -and at $4,000 (£2,300) a head, far more expensive -- scale.

6 February 2006, 9:42

Windows Live Mail goes Dutch

News It includes a completely new set of code we've done to re-architect the front end, and involves migration to a whole new back end, and storage that allows us to scale, index and search in ways that weren't possible before.

13 November 2006, 9:20

For fuel cell innovation, the tank is half full

News The most promising company among the large-scale stationary and baseload power players may be FuelCell Energy of Danbury, Connecticut. They have clearly distanced themselves from the pack as the world leader in large-scale stationary fuel cells.

19 May 2005, 11:23