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Photos: Microsoft beams outer space to the desktop
Photo Here you can see that the edge of the Big Dipper's cup does indeed point to Polaris or the North Star, which is located at the plus sign. For example, this is how Betelgeuse - which is a red giant star located on the tip of one of Orion's arms... [19 May 2008]
Photos: Flying robots, Colossus codebreaker, virus art
Photo Former Seinfeld star and Celebrity Poker Showdown winner, Jason Alexander, checks out Microsoft's Surface technology at Harrah's casino in Las Vegas. Security software firm MessageLabs turned cyber threats into art using code from various malicious... [27 Mar 2008]
Photos of the month - January 2008
Photo And talking of CES, we brought together some of the stars from this year's consumer tech extravaganza including Microsoft's Surface technology and this projector resembling Star Wars' R2D2. A video was played showing Gates asking various... [30 Jan 2008]
Photos: When tech chiefs rock out...
Photo Not quite a pop star with a tech exec, but at the annual 3GSM mobile industry gathering in 2006 R'n'B crooner Craig David (pictured) entertained the audience in a 'fireside chat' interview after singing one of his songs. [22 Jan 2008]
Photos: The best of Google Sky
Photo The Google Sky application lets users navigate space in a similar way to Google Earth - with constellations drawn out and labelled to help cyber star gazers. The Crab nebula is six light-years wide and the expanding remnant of a supernova - the... [28 Nov 2007]
Photos: Five business traveller-friendly mash-ups
Photo It covers Western European capitals at present - and only a selection of hotels in those cities - but the vision of video content showcasing the reality of that four-star port of call sounds is worth chasing. [30 Jul 2007]
Photos: The future of videoconferencing
Photo Ease of use to me meant like Star Trek not only 'beam me up, Scotty' but I don't need Scotty to beam it up, I need to be able to do it myself. Videoconferencing has had many false dawns over the last couple of decades because of issues with video... [26 Jul 2007]
Photos: Vintage arcade games... revealed
Photo Using the PDP-1's circular screen and typewriter-like keyboard (shown above), two players would try to shoot each other's spaceship while attempting to avoid a star's gravitational field. Imagine having this in your front room. [28 Nov 2006]
Photos: What's inside France Telecom's Paris R&D Labs
Photo This isn't a photo from a Star Trek: Next Generation conference or a picture of a wannabe X-Man - it's a look inside France Telecom's R&D Labs. The telco, which owns mobile operator Orange and ISP Wanadoo, took silicon.com for a sneaky peak at the... [09 Sep 2005]
