June 25, 2012Good Morning,
Researchers claim their gigapixel camera will leave conventional, megapixel cameras in the dust. Check out the first article for all the details on this exciting development.
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Erin
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Forget megapixels; meet a gigapixel cameraDURHAM, N.C. - By synchronizing 98 cameras in a single device, U.S. researchers say they've developed a gigapixel camera that can create images with unprecedented detail. Electrical engineers at Duke University and the University of Arizona report the new camera has the potential to capture up to 50 gigapixels of data, or 50,000 megapixels. Most consumer digital cameras, by comparison, are capable of taking photographs with sizes ranging from 8 to 40 megapixels. The multiple cameras provide resolution five times better than 20/20 human vision over a 120-degree horizontal field, researchers said. "Each one of the micro-cameras captures information from a specific area of the field of view," Duke engineer David Brady said. "A computer processor essentially stitches all this information into a single highly detailed image. "In many instances, the camera can capture images of things that photographers cannot see themselves but can then detect when the image is viewed later." The prototype camera is 2 1/2 feet square and 20 inches deep, but the researchers said they believe that within five years, as camera components become miniaturized and more efficient, gigapixel cameras should be available to the general public.
Announcement of Higgs boson find imminent?MELBOURNE - One of the most anticipated announcements in science could be imminent, that the Higgs boson may finally, really have been discovered, physicists say. Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have been analyzing the results of particle collision experiments since tantalizing hints of the Higgs boson turned up in December. There is speculation LHC scientists will announce the discovery during the International Conference on High Energy Physics in Melbourne in July, Wired magazine reported. The Higgs boson is considered the lynchpin of the Standard Model of physics, developed in the late 20th century to describe the interactions of all known subatomic particles and forces. The Standard Model predicts many other particles, such as quarks and W bosons, each of which was found in the last four decades using enormous particle colliders, but the Higgs has eluded researchers. Physicists have been analyzing LHC data to refine the search. "The bottom line though is now clear: There's something there which looks like a Higgs is supposed to look," mathematician Peter Woit of Columbia University wrote on his blog. There are rumors of new data that would be the most compelling evidence yet for the long-sought Higgs, he wrote. The Higgs boson is critical to the Standard Model, because all the other particles are given their mass by interacting with the Higgs, physicists said.
Mission to study 'dark energy' gets OKPARIS - European space officials said Wednesday they have given the go-ahead for a mission to explore the universe for dark energy and dark matter. The European Space Agency's Euclid mission has received final approval from ESA's Science Program Committee to move into the full construction phase, leading to a launch in 2020, a release from ESA's Paris headquarters said Wednesday. "This formal adoption of the mission is a major milestone for a large scientific community, their funding agencies and also for European industry," ESA Director of Science and Robotic Exploration Alvaro Gimenez Canete said. Euclid will use a 4-foot-diameter telescope and a near-infrared camera/spectrometer to map the 3-D distribution of as many as 2 billion galaxies and dark matter associated with them, spread over more than one-third of the whole sky, ESA officials said. Scientists say they hope the mission can help answer one of the most important questions in modern cosmology -- why is the universe expanding at an accelerating rate, rather than slowing down due to the gravitational attraction of all the matter in it? Astronomers still do not know what force could cause this cosmic acceleration. The term "dark energy" is often used for this unknown force, but by using Euclid to study its effects on the galaxies and clusters of galaxies across the universe, astronomers say they hope to come much closer to understanding its true nature and influence.
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8 OSSAN FRANCISCO - U.S. tech giant Microsoft Corp. says its next Windows Phone operating system will support hardware advancements and be tightly integrated with Windows desktop. With phones powered by quad-core processors in development, the Windows Phone 8 OS will jump from the current single-core support to supporting dual-core and quad-core processors, Microsoft said in unveiling the upcoming upgrade at an event for developers in San Francisco. Windows phones running the new OS will get support for three new screen resolutions -- WVGA (800x480 pixels), WXVGA (1280x768), and "True 720p" (1280x720). To compete with the iPhone voice feature Siri, Microsoft demonstrated speech recognition software that developers can harness, to let users launch and control apps with their voice, The Wall Street Journal reported. Windows Phone 8 will share much of the same native code used in Windows desktop, to more tightly integrate the two and make it easier for Windows developers to create and port Windows Phone apps. The new operating system is expected to arrive on smartphones that go on sale this fall, although Microsoft would not discuss a more specific launch date, the Journal said Wednesday. Microsoft did confirm there would be Windows 8 phones from Nokia Corp., HTC Corp., Samsung Electronics and Huawei Technologies Co., all of which currently offer handsets running the Windows Phone 7 OS.
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