The explosion of wireless data demand continues, with analysts predicting between 20 and 50-billion devices by the year 2020, ranging from M2M devices that transmit a few bytes per day to applications that stream multiple high definition video channels. Studies into future user demands give...
Blender (blender.org) is a free and open-source 3D modelling and animation application. Blender boasts the distinction of being one of the earliest crowdfunded software applications, if not the first. When the controlling company went bankrupt in 2002, the community raised €100,000 to purchase the copyrights...
Although the term “computer graphics” itself was coined in 1960 by William Fetter, a designer at Boeing, to describe his own job, the field can be said to have first arrived with the publication in 1963 of Ivan Sutherland’s Sketchpad program, as part of his...
Computer graphics, or CG as it is often simply called, is the use of computers to generate images. This is as opposed to the capture of images of real-world or imagined objects which would be, for example, photography or the work of an artist with...
Gasoline Direct Injection, or GDI, is steadily making its way into racing from the top level down with added emphasis on fuel effciency. GDI technology can reduce the fuel consumption of race cars significantly and is therefore high on the hit list of engine developers...
The first generation of the Q-POC will be built to detect malaria in blood, but the team is also working on other versions that could diagnose tuberculosis from spit. They are even considering a device that would be able to detect cancer in biopsies. Sample...
In physics, cryogenics is the study of the production and behaviour of materials at very low temperatures (below −150 °C, −238 °F or 123 K). Cryogenics is the science of extreme cold. Research in this field aims to understand how to produce and maintain temperatures below...
After a new portable workstation to edit your images? We round up a selection of six laptops 1. MACBOOK PRO (15in) £1599 The champion laptop for just about all creative types is the MacBook Pro. These models offer perfect portability, decent power and, since the introduction...
There are many other open-source CMSes around such as WordPress, Drupal, and etc. They’re all great tools, each with its own typical uses and benefits. Why would you want to choose Joomla!? People tend to choose Joomla! because they find it easy to use....
Created from huge earthen mounds and stretching across the landscape in geometric patterns, geoglyphs are among the largest works of art ever made by human hands. Now a network of previously unknown geoglyphs has been found in the central Asian Republic of Kazakhstan using satellite...
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