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Photos: The enchanting Google Earth
Photo On Thursday last week, Disney and Google announced an initiative that brings Walt Disney World into Google Earth. That means most of the group of theme parks is now available to view in 3D in the latest version of Google Earth. [09 Jun 2008]
Photos: Welcome to Satyam's R&D labs
Photo Passing through the soothing blue glow of a giant neon tube sets the tone perfectly for outsourcer Satyam's R&D facility in Chennai, south-east India. This sci-fi-style entrance ushers visitors into a world of holographic projectors and robotic... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious programmes. This creation pictured is from a phishing program. See our photo story for more weird and wonderful creations. [27 Mar 2008]
Photos: US military puts 'bat' spies in the sky…
Photo The US Army wants a six-inch spy plane to gather data on sights, sounds and smells in urban combat areas. It has given the University of Michigan's College of Engineering $10m and five years to help make "the bat" plane happen. [17 Mar 2008]
Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy
Photo A millennium after his death this boy from Peru, pictured here, is revealing secrets to Swiss scientists thanks to pioneering new scanning technology. The magnetic resonance tomography (MRT) scanner and new analysis technique developed by Siemens... [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: The high-tech future of retail
Photo The latest innovations in tech for retailers were showcased at the Retail Business Show held at the Olympia in West London earlier this month. The Musion Eyeliner 3D display could be the next thing in window dressing. [15 Feb 2008]
Photos: Google Android comes out to play
Photo Texas Instruments drew the crowds to their booth at Mobile World Congress by demonstrating a prototype phone running Google's Android software platform. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas The prototype was iPod white and had a full Qwerty keyboard. [15 Feb 2008]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo Microsoft hosted its fourth Innovation Day in Brussels this week with partner organisations showing off the tech wares they predict could take off in the near future. This photo shows a system developed by the Microsoft Research team in Cambridge... [06 Dec 2007]
Photos: The super 3D body scanner
Photo Philips Medical Systems has unveiled a CT (Computer Tomography) scanner which can produce detailed 3D images. The Brilliance iCT scanner reduces the amount of radiation a patient is exposed to by as much as 80 per cent and generates images in a... [04 Dec 2007]
Photos of the month - October 2007
Photo silicon.com's Tim Ferguson went along to a demo of Microsoft's Surface technology in London this month. The software behemoth was showing off a table-like device that uses a 30-inch screen, several cameras, a Vista PC and a projector to create an... [31 Oct 2007]
Photos: Google Earth in the virtual world
Photo Virtual-world developers using Multiverse Networks' platform are able to import 3D models from Google's 3D Warehouse into their projects. Now, those developers will also be able to select and import terrain from Google Earth. [15 Oct 2007]
Photos: Inside the malware hunters' den
Photo Antivirus company F-Secure's labs in Finland (pictured) are the heart of its operations monitoring and detecting malware activity around the globe. The company has a response team which uses a variety of monitoring and detection tools to look out... [28 Sep 2007]
Photos: BT talks big on virtual worlds
Photo BT is developing services that could allow users of virtual worlds to call or text out to their colleagues and friends in the real world. To test the technology it has built a private island (above) in Second Life which it has dubbed Area 21 - a... [13 Sep 2007]
Photos of the month - August 2007
Photo This image shows a web mash-up called 'Find Me Some Wifi', which takes worldwide wi-fi hotspot data and plots area where you can get online on Google Maps. Follow the link to find all five business traveller-friendly mash-ups, as chosen by silicon... [31 Aug 2007]
Photos: Google Earth helping build a better future?
Photo Taylor Woodrow Construction is using Google Earth to demonstrate what its future buildings will look like in the real world. The construction company builds up the 3D computer aided design (CAD) models in Autodesk ADT2007 and then publishes them... [28 Aug 2007]
