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The developers at Naughty Dog have shown off a new trailer for the multiplayer maps that will be launched for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, highlighting how the content will use the capabilities of the new graphics engine to give players both beauty and new gaming challenges.
The Flashback Map pack #1 will i... |
7 February 2012
02:21 GMT |
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One of the aspects that Microsoft seems set to enhance in Windows Phone is the navigation experience that users receive from their handsets. The company has just hired a new software engineer that would work on this, but the job post listing that WMPoweruser stumbled upon unveiled its intentions:We are looking for a ... |
1 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency released a new topographic map of the planet yesterday, October 17. NASA representatives say that this is the most complete digital topographic representation of our planet ever created. The data in the map came from the Terra satellite.The images themselves were collected using... |
18 October 2011
03:23 GMT |
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DICE, the studio behind the upcoming Battlefield 3 first person shooter, has just presented a full list of details about the nine multiplayer maps that are included in the regular edition of the game, highlighting some of the design decisions taken by the development team during the creation process of the new title.... |
17 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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The leaderboards for the new shooter Gears of War 3 from Epic Games have shown the existence of three new game maps that players cannot yet access, called Azura, Rustlung and Blood Drive.The three new maps might be some of the new content that Epic plans to launch in the coming months.There's also the possibilit... |
27 September 2011
03:56 GMT |
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Halo Anniversary, the upcoming HD remake of the original Halo: Combat Evolved, has received a brand new piece of information, in the form a new map added to its multiplayer roster, the classic Halo 2 level Headlong, now improved and renamed as Breakneck.Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary HD is definitely one of the big... |
15 September 2011
15:41 GMT |
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Much to its users delight, Google Earth is constantly being improved, revised or enhanced, and the 3D trees introduced in November 2010 can now be noticed in three cities from the West coast of the US.They were initially viewable only in large cities around the world, mainly capitals, and in June the maps of several... |
31 August 2011
16:15 GMT |
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Gears of War 3 is nearing its release date next month so Epic Games decided to unleash the full details on the 10 multiplayer maps that will ship with the game for the Xbox 360 console.
The Gears of War franchise made a name for itself thanks to its great multiplayer experience, at least with the first game, and i... |
30 August 2011
09:21 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency say that the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has already helped scientists change their view of the Earth's Moon. Thus far, the spacecraft has sent back the equivalent of 41,000 data DVDs, and the work is still being carried on.The information glimpsed by the LRO suit... |
22 June 2011
02:59 GMT |
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After more than a decade of surveys, experts finally managed to wrap up work on the most complete, detailed, 3D map of the local Universe ever developed. The map covers an area extending more than 380 million light-years into space. One of the most impressive achievements of the 2MASS Redshift Survey (2MRS) is that i... |
25 May 2011
11:38 GMT |
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For about 4 years, a team of scientists from the United States has been conducting a mapping campaign in Antarctica. The effort is aimed at shedding more light on one of the last few areas in the world that are not entirely familiar to humans. The group is now setting its eye on the Arctic as well. Expanding the inve... |
10 May 2011
06:02 GMT |
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Just two short years following its launch, the GOCE satellite has completed a full-globe gravity map of our planet. This finally reveals the world's 'geoid' reference shape, and it was all possible thanks to the spacecraft that has been dubbed the most beautiful satellite in the world. The Gravity fiel... |
5 March 2011
06:34 GMT |
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An University of California in Irvine (UCI) engineering professor and his team are at the forefront of precipitation analysis, with a series of new maps they are producing for the United States and countries around the world.Increasingly often, authorities from a variety of nations turn to UCI professor Soroosh Soroo... |
11 January 2011
03:48 GMT |
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Back in 2004, when the massive Indian Ocean earthquakes and subsequent tsunami hit Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand, many people were saved when they clung on to mangrove trees in shoreline forests. Now, experts look at other benefits these forests bring.The natural disaster that struck these nations killed a... |
3 November 2010
04:32 GMT |
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Call of Duty: Black Ops, the newest installment in the highly successful first person shooter franchise, has allegedly seen its full list of multiplayer maps leaked onto the web before its official launch this November.Call of Duty: Black Ops will be the next chapter in the successful series, and follow the popular M... |
21 October 2010
18:01 GMT |
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Bing has been working with the United States Department of Education and along with the launch of the new US teacher resource – teach.gov, Bing is presenting its new Teach Here map application.There are many teaching jobs vacant in the United States, so Bing wanted to do something to help and support teacher re... |
28 September 2010
04:19 GMT |
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Here are some news for all you iPhone owners and Bing searchers out there: Bing has launched a new update for the Bing for Mobile iPhone and iPod Touch App.After releasing the Bing Travel Planner beta for Outlook and the Blackberry app update, the search engine thought it would be nice to have the Travel and the Maps... |
27 September 2010
10:07 GMT |
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Last week, the team from Windows Live were busy getting out updates to Hotmail and integrating LinkedIn, and this week, Bing is launching several updates, to your Outlook, to your cell phone and to the search itself.First news this week – Bing released a new tool that will make all trip planners very happy, as ... |
27 September 2010
03:15 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of Houston are currently working on developing a new technology, that will allow for the creation of flood mapping systems that function in real time. The system is designed to address flash floods, which are produced after intense thunderstorms and heavy rains, and which are nothing... |
24 September 2010
09:55 GMT |
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All major circuits and neural pathways in the human brain will be included in a highly-detailed map of the human brain, to be created over the next 5 years with a $30 million grant.The effort is the first of its kind, and is bound to push the boundaries of science if it succeeds. The sheer complexity of the task at h... |
21 September 2010
06:00 GMT |
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Scientists at the Arizona State University have just brought online the most detailed map of the Martian surface ever produced. Created by combining about 21,000 images obtained by the NASA Mars Odyssey orbiter, the map reveals our neighboring planet in infrared wavelengths, providing an excellent learning tool for t... |
24 July 2010
04:05 GMT |
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Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is only several months away, and the hype around it keeps on growing. Starting with this week, Windows Phone 7 devices started to arrive in developers' hands around the world, and the first video reviews of the operating system emerged around the Internet. The platform reported... |
23 July 2010
03:10 GMT |
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A Google-translated report by the French version of The Sun reveals that Apple continues to gather talented minds for yet unconfirmed developments. The company’s latest acquisition is that of Quebec-based high-tech company Poly9, a mapping firm. Under the terms of the acquisition, the majority of Poly9’s ... |
14 July 2010
10:05 GMT |
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The surprising conclusions of a new investigation reveal that people unconsciously tend to favor going south rather than north. When asked to plan a course that involved them getting from one location to the other, they mostly drew south-bound routes, and avoided heading north. This also held true when the distances ... |
15 June 2010
09:18 GMT |
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Researchers at IBM announce the creation of one of the world's smallest 3D depictions of the Earth. The team managed to use a new technique for handling atoms to construct them into the intricate landscape that is our planet. The substrate from which the three-dimensional representation was derived was “pa... |
30 April 2010
04:09 GMT |
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Two researchers from the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, have each designed a computer-based approach to facilitate the modeling of cities in three-dimensions. Generally, this is done by in a very complex manner, and requires a lot of time and effort. But the investigators, scientists Shi Pu and Sander Oude... |
30 March 2010
06:50 GMT |
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When a stroke happens, the person suffering from it experiences a momentary starvation of blood in a region of the brain. The affected area, regardless of location, experiences the full force of the blow, but new studies have revealed that other portions of the cortex are also severely affected. Now, scientists plan ... |
29 March 2010
15:01 GMT |
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A Canadian researcher has recently discovered the tracks left behind by a famous Russian lunar rover. The investigator used only maps from one of his own atlases on the Moon, and recent images from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft, to make the finding. The inspiration for the work came from the ... |
17 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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A team of British researchers at Cardiff University, sponsored by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), announces the development on a new type of computer software capable of producing audibility maps. The program basically simulates the proposed design of a room, and shows through playback... |
6 March 2010
05:59 GMT |
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The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite on November 2. The primary goal of this mission was to assess global soil moisture and ocean salinity variations, so as to provide experts with a clearer, more in-depth understanding of our planet's water cycles. Now, ... |
24 February 2010
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Scientists interested in analyzing the evolution of coral reefs in the Red Sea announce the development of a new map showing the formations. The dataset, which includes satellite, aerial and ship-based measurements, was compiled by a team of researchers from the United States. The main focus of the investigation was ... |
23 February 2010
09:47 GMT |
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Most superior life forms on the planet, such as birds and mammals, are able to figure out their location automatically, based on landmarks that are used as reference points for mental maps. But this ability, as common as it is, has remained mysterious until now, and investigators have had no idea that genes are invol... |
2 February 2010
09:32 GMT |
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British scientists at the University College London (UCL) announce that they were recently able to identify some of the most elusive structures in the human brain, namely the “grid cells.” These special formations are the ones in charge of creating the internal maps of our surroundings that we unconscious... |
21 January 2010
16:01 GMT |
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One of the most widespread heart conditions in the world today is atrial fibrillation (AF). It affects about 4.5 million people in the European Union alone, and is therefore one of the main areas of medical research today. A collaboration of British researchers is currently working on developing a “color map&rd... |
20 January 2010
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With the USGS confirming that the earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday was 7.0 in magnitude, the scale of the devastation in the Caribbean nation begins to make sense. While details were scarce on Wednesday, in the last 48 hours, numerous reports and images have begun to emerge from the region. In addition to on-s... |
15 January 2010
04:07 GMT |
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The US Library of Congress, in Washington DC, currently displays a very old map, created by an Italian more than 400 years ago, and depicting China as the middle of the world. The artifact is incredibly valuable for our understanding of the geopolitics of the time. It also yields a clearer insight into the way the As... |
14 January 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Astronomers can now boast the creation of the first complete map of Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun inside our solar system. A large collection of images, gathered by space probes, telescopes and other observatories, went into the creation of the new map, which is the first one to contain all notable features ... |
16 December 2009
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The worldwide popular provider of community-based live maps and real-time road information waze announced today the launch of a new partnership program around the world, aimed at local map providers. According to the company, the launch of the new program is based on the successful international launch of its servic... |
1 December 2009
10:27 GMT |
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People who have had at least marginal contact with Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps, among other similar applications, will have an easy time getting accustomed to seeing their cities from above, but this time in 3D. The technology is not new, but plans are to transform it considerably, in the sense that users will soon be... |
1 December 2009
05:01 GMT |
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As noted a bit earlier today, Apple is looking to hire a “proactive” and “hardworking” software engineer to join its iPhone and iPod touch Maps team. The opening is for a full-time iPhone Software Engineer in Santa Clara Valley, Cupertino, California. The Job description has been published in ... |
30 November 2009
08:31 GMT |
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Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is of the massive spiral variety, which means that it features two arms (four by some accounts) filled with stars. Measuring the distance to these stars is something that may seem simple at first, but which is actually very complicated, mostly because of the inherent uncertainties that exis... |
25 November 2009
09:59 GMT |
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Scientists at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) have recently announced that they managed to develop a new computer-generated map of the Red Planet, which adds more proof to the theory that claims a liquid ocean of water once existed on Mars. The team collaborated with colleagues from the Lunar and Planetary Ins... |
23 November 2009
11:11 GMT |
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A robotics convention saw last week the introduction of a new vehicle able to perform on-the-go 3D measurements and maps of a certain area. The new machine, called ROAMS, was built from commercially available, off-the-shelf parts, with funds provided by the US Army. The Remotely Operated and Autonomous Mapping System... |
18 November 2009
04:51 GMT |
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Millions of people use the perks of the Global Positioning System (GPS) every day, but few of us take a moment to consider how this exceptional invention works. Most people know that it establishes the position of a GPS receiver, which may be installed in a car, for example, based on the time it takes for beams o... |
30 October 2009
07:07 GMT |
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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 |
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TomTom, a provider of navigation solutions and digital maps, has announced that the TomTom app for iPhone navigation is available for immediate download via Apple’s iTunes App Store. A total of 18 apps are available for regions including Brazil, Mexico, Hong Kong, Australia, Eastern Europe (and lots more), with... |
26 October 2009
06:14 GMT |
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is already a hit with us here at Softpedia (and you can find out exactly why by taking a peek at the review we have up), but it also has the potential to be one of those games that we come back to again and again. One of the reasons is the multiplayer component, which is especially engaging... |
26 October 2009
05:42 GMT |
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Google Maps is closing in on five years now and the mapping service was in need of a little touching up, as it was looking a little dated, but, more importantly, because it was getting very crowded with more and more information added over time. So, Google decided it was finally time to make some changes and, by Goog... |
24 October 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have recently managed a breakthrough in understanding how the human brain makes sense of the physical world around it. They compare the process to navigating the planet using Google Maps. For a general overview, a default map works. But, when you... |
7 October 2009
09:05 GMT |
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Experts at the Durham University, in the United Kingdom, have recently devised a new map of the country's coastal lands, which highlights the areas most threatened by sea-level rises. The map charts the post Ice-Age tilt of the UK and Ireland, as well as current, relative sea-level changes in the region. Details... |
6 October 2009
20:11 GMT |
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