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Assassin’s Creed III Gets First In-Game Screenshots

After quite a few images with the upcoming Assassin’s Creed III title appeared on the web, either officially from Ubisoft or leaked through unofficial channels, the first actual in-game screenshots have now surfaced.Assassin’s Creed III is set to introduce a variety of changes to the series, from the new ...

9 April 2012
12:41 GMT

Guild Wars 2 Gets Fresh Screenshots

ArenaNet has just unveiled a brand new batch of Guild Wars 2 screenshots, depicting the game’s world, as well as its various creatures and heroes. Guild Wars 2 is one of the most awaited online games in the last few years, as ArenaNet wants to deliver a thoroughly engrossing experience without charging a month...

27 March 2012
03:42 GMT

New Assassin’s Creed III Screenshots Leaked Once More

It seems that Ubisoft can barely keep details about Assassin’s Creed III a secret, as a new leak has happened, bringing with it a new batch of very impressive screenshots from the new title. Assassin’s Creed III was finally revealed to the world earlier this month, with Ubisoft confirming that the game w...

23 March 2012
16:31 GMT

Dishonored Gets Fresh Screenshots

Bethesda and developer Arkane Studios have revealed a fresh batch of screenshots from their upcoming Dishonored title, showing off both its peculiar world and its eclectic cast of characters. Dishonored promises to be a very impressive game, as it’s coming from designers who previously worked on games like Deu...

23 March 2012
13:21 GMT

New Ninja Gaiden 3 Screenshots Are Quite Violent and Bloody

Team Ninja has deployed a brand new batch of screenshots of the upcoming Ninja Gaiden 3 hack and slash title that, just like previous images, show off the protagonist Ryu Hayabusa using his ninja skills and sword to eviscerate his unlucky opponents resulting in showers of blood. Ninja Gaiden 3 will go beyond the bar...

18 November 2011
02:38 GMT

People Hold the Great Interest in a Photo

Researchers at the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) have determined that people capture the attention of individuals viewing an image above all else. Even the most breathtaking landscape takes second place if someone is also present in the image. This investigation was led by Penn State professor of communi...

22 October 2011
07:48 GMT

WISE Team Releases First Processed Images

The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope launched less than two months ago, but it's already sending back viable scientific data. Having already discovered its first asteroid, as well as the first comet, the instrument has also provided mission controllers with sufficient dataset to create the fi...

18 February 2010
03:37 GMT

Prominent Moon Crater Gets Beautiful Image

One thing that can be said for certain about the Moon is that it has had a rough life. Since it first formed, it has been constantly battered by asteroids, meteorites and comets, as evidenced by the massive amounts of impact craters that adorn its surface. Some of these landscape features are very important because t...

20 January 2010
04:21 GMT

Largest Image of the Milky Way Made Public

Just yesterday, December 2, the Adler Planetarium in Chicago saw a ceremony during which the world's largest image of the Milky Way was revealed to the public. The photo was made by combining an impressive number of individual images collected by NASA telescopes and stitched together to form the amazing panorama...

3 December 2009
02:27 GMT

Crime Scenes Reconstructed from Single Photos

Spanish researchers from the University of Salamanca have recently developed a new method of extracting metric data from single photographs of crime scenes. The group explains that its technique relies on making out the most important structural components of the picture, and then relating them to each other to recon...

2 December 2009
06:35 GMT

New Panorama of the Milky Way Created

Central Michigan University professor Axel Mellinger has recently compiled a new groundbreaking image of the night sky, with the Milky Way at its center, by stitching up more than 3,000 individual photographs. The high-resolution panoramic view, presented in an interactive manner here, can be used by professional and...

28 October 2009
12:22 GMT

Determining Which Colonies Produce 'Real' Stem Cells

When bioengineers work in the lab to revert developed cells into their induced pluripotent (iPS) state, they often get a number of new cell colonies, of which only a small portion fits the exact type they are looking for. Just recently, Harvard Stem Cell Institute experts have managed to develop a new method of asses...

12 October 2009
03:44 GMT

Perfect Resolution Can Be Attained Without Negative Refraction

Metamaterials have been studied extensively over the past few years, because they show great promise in devising ways of handling light in patterns never before thought possible. John Pendry's work is the base of this new field of research, since the expert proposed back in 2000 that perfect images with perfect ...

29 September 2009
16:31 GMT

Your Brain Reveals What You See

The age of science-fiction may not remain the product of overactive imagination for long. Scientists are already working on a method of extracting images people have seen, by tapping directly into their brain. After completing a modeling program that shows precisely how images are represented in the human brain, the ...

25 September 2009
20:51 GMT

Photo Reveals ISS and Endeavor Crossing the Sun

A picture of the International Space Station (ISS) and the docked space shuttle Endeavor passing in front of the Sun was recently made available by photographer Thierry Legault, Wired reports. Known for his amazing skills at surprising moments such as this one, the artist uses special solar filters that allow him to ...

28 July 2009
03:39 GMT

Two MRO Instruments Are Acting Up

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is, at this point, the NASA spacecraft that has returned the highest amount of scientific data of all missions to the Red Planet. The volume of information engineers back on Earth received since November 2006 can now fill about 1,000 CDs, and is on par with the amount of data bea...

23 July 2009
02:31 GMT

LG env3 and enV Touch in New Pictures

LG env3 has been recently spotted in a Verizon Rebate Form that seemed to point towards a possible launch of the device sometime between May 11th and June 4th, though it is not certain that the phone will actually come to the market in that timeframe. Now some pictures with the handset have emerged into the wild, alo...

15 May 2009
06:10 GMT

Fastest Camera Takes 6.1 Million Shots per Second

Talking about the ultimate gadget! Experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced the development of the world's fastest camera, able to pick up 6.1 million frames per second. While this may seem like a thing belonging to science-fiction, the device is real and has already produced ...

30 April 2009
02:31 GMT

Hubble Images Colliding Galaxies

Back by popular demand, the Arp 274 (NGC 5679) galactic merger was again photographed by Hubble's long-distance camera. Located over 400 million light-years away, the area contains three galaxies that are currently colliding with each other, drawing inevitably to their doom by a common center of gravity. When th...

4 April 2009
04:53 GMT

Thorough Brain Mapping Moves One Step Closer

One of the grandest challenges in neuroscience is the development of a scientific technique that is able to basically create a map of the entire brain, of neurons and their interactions, as well as of the areas of the cortex, each with its specific function. The technique known as transmission electron microscope (TE...

31 March 2009
04:41 GMT

Scientists Boost Hubble's Sensitivity

Experts handling the operation of the Hubble Space Telescope have managed to calibrate the observatory in such a manner that its sensitivity has been artificially boosted from the Earth. In other words, the scientists have succeeded in making something more out of the existing systems, rather than installing new ones...

26 March 2009
06:09 GMT

Hubble Snapshot Reveals Saturn and Four Moons

The Hubble Space Telescope proves, indeed, to be invaluable for both NASA and ESA, as evidenced by one of its recent snapshots of Saturn, which has been photographed in a rare alignment with four of its moons. The configuration only occurs once in 14 to 15 years, and the last time astronomers and other observers were...

18 March 2009
02:48 GMT

Tripod Can Take Gigapixel, High-Res Images

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have managed to create one of the most useful and powerful photographing devices in the world, which they have named Gigapan. The system is basically a robotic tripod, which is able to make perfect use of retail digital cameras, so as to create images of unbelievable high resolu...

27 February 2009
04:55 GMT

First Call of Duty 5 Leaked Screens

Call of Duty 4 is on of the greatest hits of recent times when it comes to multiplayer playtime, fighting head to head against Halo 3 and often winning. It is, of course, expected that the next iteration in the popular franchise will have the same success, even though most of the fans were left wishing for much more ...

18 June 2008
12:06 GMT

Grab Professional Graphics for Free

Professional graphics elements and tools like brushes, images, buttons, colors, icons and others are very hard to find to download and use for free. Image processing applications usually include by default various templates and tools, but they could not provide enough resources and inspiration for all web designers....

24 May 2008
07:52 GMT

Leaked Dragonball Movie Pics are Lovely

I don't even want to try estimating the number of fans who can hardly wait for a real Dragonball movie (real as in "with real, human actors") to be released. As you probably already know if you are a fan, such a movie is in the works and it will hit theaters on the 10th of April 2009. However, information regard...

23 May 2008
04:20 GMT

HTC Touch Funky Special Edition

Three new colorful versions of HTC Touch will be available to add even more personality to the PocketPC for those who feel that plain black just fails to represent them. These design solutions will surely manage to stand out as they look more childish than any other mobile phone capable of such evolved performances.S...

9 November 2007
08:28 GMT

First Leaked Images of Nokia N82

The first leaked images of Nokia N82 have just surfaced over the web, hinting towards a close release. It was just about time for this to happen, especially since a huge amount of time has passed since the first information concerning this handset has surfaced.After such a long period since we first heard of Nokia N8...

29 October 2007
04:03 GMT

Why Loving Sexy Blondes Is Bad…

I knew I was on to something last Friday when I wrote this article. I don't like saying I told you so… but I did! It's official - spammers are exploiting sex appeal, just like I was telling you last week! As for the title, well, it's generally not a bad thing to like sexy blondes, but if you do and can...

5 October 2007
10:14 GMT

Say "Goodbye" to Passwords!

Have you ever been annoyed by having a lot of accounts on the web and never remembering the password right? I know I sure have a lot of trouble keeping up with all my passwords and I sometimes mistake one account for another. However, having complicated passwords equals secure accounts, but the problem is that they&#...

1 October 2007
10:36 GMT

Scientists Created The First 4D Virtual Human

In computer imaging, 4D consists of time-lapsed 3D series of solid models generated from measured data, to represent the state of the subject body at two or more different times. This method is often used in medical imaging to observe the changes that have taken place over time.A team of scientists at the Sun Center...

29 May 2007
16:51 GMT

New Infrared Images of Venus Show Night and Daytime Simultaneously

The European Space Agency (ESA) has just received infrared pictures of Venus from its nearest probe, Venus Express. The novelty is that the images have been recorded with the infrared camera that recently went online and started taking beautiful thermal pictures of Earth's sister. The camera is part of a large...

8 May 2007
15:26 GMT

New Ultrasound Internal Fingerprinting Foolproof Scanners

Fingerprinting is probably the most widely used method of identifying individuals. The police uses this method to identify suspects by matching the fingerprints taken from a crime scene with those found in their databases, or with those of unrecorded suspects they encounter.Reliability comes from the fact that two ...

7 May 2007
08:00 GMT

Digital Cameras Could Soon Take 3-D Pictures

In the near future, digital cameras and camera-phones could capture and store 3-D information using an incorporated flash and a new intelligent software. The prototype has undergone several tests and the results are encouraging, with high hopes that future advances will enhance the precision and fidelity of the cap...

4 May 2007
16:31 GMT

More Super High-Resolution Imagery for Google Maps

Once in a while, Google updates Maps with detailed imagery recently captured from the satellites to provide more information about a certain location. It seems like a new update was designed by Google because new high-resolution photos were discovered on the map service. Googlified reported that new images are now av...

8 March 2007
05:07 GMT


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