NASA have now made their amazing montage of city lights across the Earth at night available as a layer on Google Earth.
To switch it on, go to Layers > Featured Content > NASA > Earth City Lights, but before you do that, for maximum impact, navigate to an area you know well, like Scotland, and [...]
Posted on Sunday 22nd July 2007 in Blog, Science tagged Computers, energy, environmental, landscapes, mapping, Photos, Science, space, technology, with no comments.
Some amazing videos created by artist Aaron Koblin which show flight traffic over the USA. What may at fist appear a dull subject is transformed by these magical videos, with streaks of colour dancing across the screen. Patterns emerge, including the shape of the continent, and the onset of daybreak across the country. Definitely [...]
Posted on Monday 1st January 2007 in Computers, Engineering tagged art, Computers, Engineering, mapping, mathematics, transport, USofA, with no comments.
Google have posted an interesting video of a talk by Sebastian Thrun (who was part of the winning team from Stanford) about their entry into the DARPA grand challenge 2005. See Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge – Google Video – which is almost an hour long.
The DARPA grand challenge was a competition to drive [...]
Posted on Sunday 19th November 2006 in Computers, Engineering tagged Computers, Engineering, future, mathematics, technology, transport, with no comments.
Microsoft has finally released the next version of their web browser, Internet Explorer, version 7 (IE 7). The CNet review sums it up nicely…
IE 7 was Microsoft’s one chance to leapfrog ahead of the competition, but the company has only barely caught sight of the current front-runners. For more features and greater security, switch [...]
Posted on Thursday 19th October 2006 in Computers tagged Computers, internet, microsoft, Windows, with no comments.
According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Microsoft’s so called “iPod Killer” is turning out to be rather suicidal:
Microsoft’s Zune will not play protected Windows Media Audio and Video purchased or “rented” from Napster 2.0, Rhapsody, Yahoo! Unlimited, Movielink, Cinemanow, or any other online media service. That’s right—the media that Microsoft promised would Play For Sure™ [...]
Posted on Monday 18th September 2006 in Blog, Computers, Music tagged Computers, EFF, ipod, Links, microsoft, Music, technology, WMA, with no comments.
