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Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo The main screen of the WorldWide Telescope contains stars visible to the human eye that are mapped into constellations. Microsoft has released a free public beta of its WorldWide Telescope, which is software that lets both amateur and professional... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Babbage's Difference masterpiece in action
Photo To remove room for human error in basic mathematical computations, Babbage designed the Engine to calculate tables of polynomial functions to 31 decimal points. Charles Babbage's Difference Engine number 2 is making its US debut at the Computer... [12 May 2008]
Photos: Robots, lasers, action
Photo But rather than 50-tonne behemoths dealing death with a massive light cannon, the El-E robot is instead using lasers to think like a human. Researchers from Georgia Tech and Emory are working with an expert on human-computer interactions to ensure... [10 Apr 2008]
Photos: Tech unlocks secrets of ancient Mummy
Photo Doctors have been using MRT for 25 years to generate precisely detailed 3D images of the human body, without the need to expose patients to X-rays. A millennium after his death this boy from Peru, pictured here, is revealing secrets to Swiss... [28 Feb 2008]
Photos: Modern computing balancing on the head of a pin?
Photo Since its invention, the size of transistors has continued to shrink to the point that today more than six billion transistors - about one for every human alive today - could fit easily in an area the size of a credit card. [29 Jan 2008]
Photos: The super 3D body scanner
Photo Pictured is an image from Brilliance of the bone structure of a human head and neck. Philips Medical Systems has unveiled a CT (Computer Tomography) scanner which can produce detailed 3D images. The Brilliance iCT scanner reduces the amount of... [04 Dec 2007]
Photos: Six unusual power sources
Photo German scientists have produced thermo-generators (pictured) that use human body heat to generate power and could be used to run mobile devices in future. Currently it is "not realistic" to try to power a mobile phone using the thermo-generators... [19 Nov 2007]
Caption Competition: Mine all mine!
Photo The winning entry, from reader Roy Fagon, was "A small ball now human but one day it will be you whole planet. This competition is now closed. LOL. Photo credit: Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET Networks [02 Nov 2007]
Photos: 'Top Gun course' for submarine hunters
Photo Street added there is "no substitute for the human brain" and, on a good day, sonar operators can even name the ship they are analysing. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) has showcased how top sonar operators are trained to find... [22 Aug 2007]
Photos: The car that drives itself
Photo This may look like an everyday Volkswagen Passat but underneath the unremarkable exterior is cutting-edge technology that allows it to travel without any assistance from a human. Driverless cars may seem like science fiction but they're already a... [13 Apr 2007]
Caption competition 7: Lego of me!
Photo Valérie Ganne th: First human cloning experiment has mixed results This competition is now closed. See below who won. WINNER: Denmark's version of the Terracotta Army was, quite frankly, pathetic. Bill Taylor nd: Apple realised that in order to... [08 Dec 2006]
Photos: Microsoft goes arty with tablet caricatures
Photo So silicon.com sent down a human guinea pig, business editor Steve Ranger, to test it out. London's Leicester Square with its bars and cinemas is a popular destination for tourists, and many have their portraits and caricatures drawn by the... [20 Jul 2005]
