Entries from January 2008
Computer is taught to detect average faces
Scientists from university of Glasgow have developed technology which has raised probability of correct recognition of human faces in one and a half time, writes The Science.
The program was shown 20 photos of 25 well-known people. Photos have been made in different conditions within several decades. The program has correctly detected the person in 54% […]
Categories: General · Inventions
Research: Three years of life is spent on the Internet
Active Internet users spend on the average three years of their life for aimless web browsing.
Such are the data of the survey carried out by British organization AOL. Daily the user spends in a network for about four hours.
55 % of the respondents have admitted that they spend a quarter of this time in vain. […]
Categories: Internet
Spaceship for space tourists
Company Virgin Galactic has submitted in New-York the vessel for suborbital flights. SpaceShipTwo will be able to take aboard about 8 person, two pilots and 6 passengers, informs BBC News.
According to representatives of Virgin Galactic, construction of SpaceShipTwo is partially completed and will be ended by 2010. Thus edition This Is London asserts, that […]
Categories: Inventions · Space
In 2055-2060 the planet will face ice age
In 2008 the temperature on the Earth will not rise, but, probably, will insignificantly decrease because of record-breaking low level of Sun’s brightness for all 30-years period. It will last till 2055-2060 when the planet will face the deep cold snap.
That is the opinion of deputy head of the Space researches laboratory at the Main […]
The British certification organization has banned nanoparticles
The British nongovernmental organization Soil Association engaged in certification of organic products has refused to certificate the products, which contain artificially created nanoparticles.
Soil Association sets standards for organic products in agriculture, food, cosmetic and partly pharmaceutical industries. It is considered, that SA’s standards are more strict, than official standards of the United Kingdom and the […]
British authorities have allowed to interbreed people with animals
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, HFEA on Thursday, January, 17, has allowed two scientific organizations of the country creation of embryos-hybrids of a person and an animal.
Two leading research centers of the country - university of Newcastle and the London King’s-college have applied for the permission.
License committee of HFEA has decided that two […]
Categories: General
Wiki’s founder has presented the search system
One of the founders of Internet - encyclopedia Wikipedia – Jimmy Wales - has presented open search Internet - system Wikia Search based on wiki-technologies.
The developer of a new search system informed, Wikia Search enables users to write independently small articles on interesting for them topics.
Wikia Search, in opinion of its founders, will be […]
Categories: Internet
In 2008 Japan introduces the new generation of broadband Internet - communication
Since March, 2008 Japan introduces the new generation of broadband Internet - communication through fiber-optic lines (NGN) which will allow to transfer greater volumes of video and audio data will be commissioned, to talk over a videotelephone and to watch films online.
On January, 15 the Ministry of Internal Affairs and communications of Japan published the […]
Categories: Internet
Meat of clones is eatable
Meat and milk of cloned animals is eatable. To such conclusion came experts of the EFSA.
The carried out special research has shown, that there are no contra-indications for the person to eat meat and milk of cloned animals.
EFSA experts claim, “it is highly unlikely, that there is any difference in the view of food […]
Categories: General
US Internet users will be connected to the super-high-speed line
Corporation Comcast during the exhibition CES in Las Vegas has declared development of DOCSIS 3.0 technology, which will give access to the Internet at speeds up to 160 megabit a second, informs Associated Press.
Expansion of DOCSIS 3.0 will begin already this year. It will allow Internet users to download HD feature film for a few […]
Categories: Internet