May 14, 2012


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The next step in WiFi technology only seems logical. Fujifilm looks to the technology to enable instant picture uploads, so devices like you're smart phone or tablet can be used in place of an SD card. Check out the first article for all the details.

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New camera can share pictures by WiFi

TOKYO - Japanese camera company Fujifilm says its latest digital camera will let users instantly share pictures with family and friends using built-in WiFi. With the press of a button the FinePix XP170 can wirelessly send photos to an iPhone, iPad or Android device without the need for cables, allthingsd.com reported Wednesday. Once uploaded to a phone or tablet, a Fujifilm app can send the images to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other social networking Web sites. Fujifilm says the 14-megapixel XP170, featuring a 60-degree panorama mode, face detection, 1080p HD video and a 2.7-inch LCD screen, is waterproof up to 33 feet. It can also stand the shock of being dropped from 6.5 feet and can operate in temperatures as low as 14 degrees Fahrenheit, the company said. The XP170 is expected to be available in June at a cost of $279.95.


Study: Biodiversity loss hits environment

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Biodiversity loss has as much negative impact on the environment as climate change and pollution, scientists at a California university say. An international research team working at the University of California, Santa Barbara, examined the effects of various environmental stressors on plant growth and decomposition, crucial maintenance processes in any ecosystem, and found he greater the plant species loss the higher the negative impact on plant growth. "For the past 15 years, ecologists have built a rich understanding of the consequences of humans driving species extinct," researcher Jarrett Byrnes said in a UCSB release. "What we didn't know before this paper is whether those impacts of species loss rank up there with those from the major drivers of environmental change," he said. The effects of biodiversity loss were similar to the effects from other environmental stressors including global warming and pollution, he said. Biodiversity should be considered alongside the more prominent forms of environmental impacts, he said. "One thing this study opens up is the need to better understand the interactions between environmental change and species loss. They're not independent, and may interact in some particularly unexpected ways," said Byrnes.


Moving martian sand dunes studied

PASADENA, Calif. - Sand dunes on Mars are moving at rates comparable to their counterparts on Earth, settling a long-running debate about the features, U.S. researchers say. "For many years, researchers have debated whether or not the sand dunes we see on Mars are fossil features related to past climate, since it was believed that the current atmosphere is too thin to produce winds that could move sand," study leader Jean-Philippe Avouac at the California Institute of Technology said. The researchers analyzed images -- captured last year by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter -- of sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars. "Our new data shows that wind activity is indeed a major agent of evolution of the landscape on Mars," Avouac said. "This is important because it tells us something about the current state of Mars and how the planet is working today, geologically." Researchers say a sand dune field studied on Mars appears to move similarly to dunes found on Earth at a soil climate research station in Antarctica, suggesting the rates of landscape modification due to wind are similar on the two planets. "We are going to visit other areas on Mars to get a better view of what kind of activity there is on the planet today -- geologically speaking, of course," Avouac said.


Mission probes secrets of Vesta asteroid

PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, which scientists are now calling a fossil of the early solar system. The Dawn mission has offered new insights into Vesta's creation and its relationship to terrestrial planets and Earth's moon, NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported Wednesday. Scientists have used Dawn's data and observations to confirm a variety of ways in which Vesta more closely resembles a small planet or Earth's moon than other asteroids, because it has a more varied, diverse surface than originally thought. "Dawn's visit to Vesta has confirmed our broad theories of this giant asteroid's history, while helping to fill in details it would have been impossible to know from afar," said Carol Raymond, deputy principal investigator at JPL. "Dawn's residence at Vesta of nearly a year has made the asteroid's planet-like qualities obvious and shown us our connection to that bright orb in our night sky." Scientists say Vesta is a layered, planetary building block with an iron core, the only one known to survive from the earliest days of the solar system. Launched in 2007, Dawn began exploring Vesta in mid-2011, and will depart Vesta Aug. 26 for its next study target, the dwarf planet Ceres, in 2015.

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