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Dawn Team Releases 3D Video of Vesta

Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just released a new video showing the largest asteroid in our solar system, Vesta, in 3D. The short clip was put together from data collected by the NASA Dawn mission, which is currently orbiting the space rock. The spacecraft entere...

2 December 2011
03:23 GMT

Opportunity Releases Video of Martian Drives

Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just released a new video produced using data from the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity. The dataset includes photos collected over the past three years of driving on the Red Planet. A total of 319 images gathered over the pa...

11 October 2011
03:41 GMT

Updated Google Books and Videos Available in the Android Market

Owners of handsets running under Google's Android operating system have now at their disposal newly updated Google Books and Videos applications. Both apps are available for download via the Android Market, and both of them have been upgraded only a few days ago to be aligned with the newly announced enhanc...

23 September 2011
07:16 GMT

Your Memories Might End Up on YouTube

In a study that is bound to entice numerous moral and ethical controversies, scientists at the University of California in Berkeley (UCB) announce the development of a new technique that allows them to tap into the human brain's video feed, hijacking the signal for display on computer monitors. According to t...

23 September 2011
03:45 GMT

Deus Ex: Human Revolution Racism Complaints Addressed by Square Enix

Square Enix, the publisher of the recent Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game has published an official statement concerning the racist portrayal of an African-American woman in the video game developed by Eidos Montreal. Deus Ex: Human Revolution gained almost universal acclaim for living up to the high standards...

5 September 2011
04:35 GMT

Tool Can Provide Near Real-Time View of Earthquakes

A team of investigators in the United States, led by scientists at the Princeton University, have just launched a new online tool, that can produce realistic movies of earthquakes based on complex computer simulations.Though technically demanding to produce, due to the large amount of calculations required to make th...

24 September 2010
04:47 GMT

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit Gets Three New Gameplay Videos

Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, easily one of the most anticipated racing games of the year, besides PlayStation 3 exclusive Gran Turismo, has just received three new gameplay videos, which showcase the Autolog Recommends feature. Need For Speed Hot Pursuit is EA's big bet on fully reinvigorating the racing video g...

24 September 2010
03:52 GMT

Video Quality Inconsequential if Content Is Good

It would appear that people tend not to notice poor video quality in their video feeds (on the Internet or on TV) if they are really enjoying what they are watching.According to investigators at the Rice University Department of Psychology, TV shows, Internet videos, and clips shot with the mobile phone were watched ...

13 August 2010
04:47 GMT

Twitter to Display Photos and Videos in Tweets Inside the Stream

Twitter is continuing to build its service and move into the territory of its third-party partners. After releasing its own mobile apps and its own URL shortener, Twitter is now exploring the option of adding inline media, photos and videos, as well. Of course, this may not mean that it's launching its own photo...

27 July 2010
04:22 GMT

Octopuses Are Fans of HDTV

A series of recent scientific experiments has demonstrated that octopuses are not big fans of standard television. The research group behind the investigation, which was trying to determine how the sophisticated animals react to moving images, determined that the cephalopods were, however, likely to respond to high-d...

18 March 2010
10:49 GMT

How Raptors Evolved Their Killing Talons

Birds of prey are some of the most well-adapted animals in the world today. Over millions of years of evolution, they have had the chance to perfect their amazingly skillful talons, and diversify their use to a wide array of applications. Possible kill methods range from squeezing the prey until it gives its final br...

2 December 2009
19:01 GMT

Witnesses Convinced by Fake Videos

In some of the most controversial cases in courtrooms today, eyewitness accounts can mean the difference between a conviction or an exoneration. A jury can be persuaded to give a certain verdict based on facts presented by witnesses, but psychologists have always known that memories can be manipulated without the tar...

15 September 2009
03:24 GMT

Video Sees How Rain Drops Explode

Everyone who has been outside while it was raining knows that the droplets falling to the ground are not of the same size. In fact, the differences between them are quite remarkable. And, while this is pleasing to experience first-hand, it has left physicists completely in the dark. Some theories trying to explain th...

21 July 2009
02:42 GMT

Israeli Experts Create Deep Zoom Tool for Videos

Scientists at the Tel Aviv University have recently announced the development of a new “perfection” tool for analyzing video footage, which would allow investigators watching them to zoom in and correct the image to the point where the person in it becomes recognizable. Needless to say, the application co...

1 July 2009
06:40 GMT

Man Delivers Baby After Watching YouTube

The wonders of social media never seize to amaze even the most skeptical of us. In a recent example, a man was helped in delivering a baby into this world by an instructional video posted online, on famous video-sharing site YouTube. A UK engineer, from Redruth, Cornwall, brought his infant son into the world on his ...

4 May 2009
09:04 GMT

YouTube Considers Letting People Download Videos

For individuals with a poor connection to the Internet, this may come as good news. The most popular video-sharing website, YouTube, is currently considering to let people download its favorite videos directly from the site. Te new measure, if adopted, is meant to act as an alternative to streaming video online, whic...

13 February 2009
06:52 GMT

Web2 Delight 1.5 Adds User-Requested Features

Web2 Delight allows you to locate, view and transfer your favorite videos from YouTube, Dailymotion, Veoh, blip.tv, and photos from Flickr, Picasa, Webshots and Photobucket. Global Delight has updated its utility for transferring and managing content from the web to include user-requested features, user interface twe...

3 September 2008
16:11 GMT

Download Terrorist Videos to Your Phone

"The elite jihadi media group presents the first batch of al-Sahab videos to be downloaded to cell phones", said the announcement posted late Friday by al-Qaeda's media wing, al-Sahab, on the websites commonly used by Islamic militants. On Saturday, eight previously recorded clips were made available, including ...

7 January 2008
08:28 GMT

Creative Zen Available in 4GB!

Creative doesn't give up that easily, even after losing a couple of battles against other big fish in the industry, makers of both PMPs and MP3 players.Therefore, they sent the latest Zen into the wild, packed with 4GB of pure flash memory. As you probably imagined, it targets the iPod nano as the main competito...

2 November 2007
07:52 GMT

Muppets Party Cruise Unlockables and Glitches (PS2)

No one parties harder than the Muppets and in Muppet Party Cruise players set sail with the Muppet crew for tons of hilarious, family-friendly fun. One to four players can play as one of six Muppet characters, including Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Animal, Fozzie Bear, Pepe the King Prawn and The Great Gonzo in 30 a...

17 October 2007
08:21 GMT

Nokia Partners with CNN, IBN, SonyPictures for Great Video Content

CNN, IBN, Jamba, Sony Pictures, RooftopComedy, ROK and Versaly Entertainment have all joined an agreement made with Nokia. The handset producer has just chosen these strong partners for bringing high-quality mobile videos on all Nseries handsets out there. The partnership also includes YouTube and Reuters, which will...

2 October 2007
09:17 GMT

Simplest Video Sharing Solution for Mobile Phones

Zannel, Inc., one of the first large-scale viral mobile entertainment network that provides an easy way to create, experience and share content on any mobile device, recently announced the official debut of the company and availability of its mobile video sharing network. What sets Zannel apart from competitors is th...

8 March 2007
10:06 GMT


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