Friday, March 16th, 2012
Deep in the African rainforest and three days from home, a tribal hunter, punting down a backwater, puts aside his spear and takes out a GPS handset. He doesn’t need the Global Positioning System to know where he is. He is intimate with every inch of his tribe’s forests. But he taps an icon on
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Open-source robot project Qbo has gained a new set of sensors, in the shape of a custom ASUS Xtion tiara that allows the ‘bot to 3D map his environment, autonomously navigate and – most importantly – avoid obstacles. While Qbo already has twin HD webcam eyes and four ultrasonic sensors (two up front and two
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Yesterday Industry Minister Christian Paradis emerged from the secret invisible fortress he’s been hiding in since his appointment to announce the new rules that will govern the upcoming auctions of wireless spectrum. He revealed a number of conditions designed to foster competition and extend services to rural areas, chief among them being the welcoming of
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Plant hardiness zones in the United States have been revised this year by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the first update to the map in 12 years. The map divides regions of the country into various growing zones that are based on each area’s average lowest temperature, helping farmers and gardeners anticipate how well a plant
Friday, March 16th, 2012
My mother-in-law likes to use public transport. Why wouldn’t she, as a trip from her home in Espoo to the centre of Helsinki is easy. Numerous bus lines are running just a couple of hundred metres away from her home, two of which will whisk her to Helsinki’s Kamppi in 20 minutes. In a few years’ time,
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen says Germany can become world champions in resource efficiency. A recent cabinet paper outlines 20 ways the country can achieve that goal and critics are reacting positively. Late last month, Germany’s environment ministry published a report outlining how the country would slash the amount of resources it uses in its economy. Known
Friday, March 16th, 2012
The Cities Alliance Secretariat has issued a second Call for Proposals to the Catalytic Fund (CATF) focused on the theme, “Youth and the City”. This is in recognition of the urgent need to address what is increasingly one of the most critical development challenges of our times, the ‘youth bulge’ in cities. The thematic focus on
Friday, March 16th, 2012
“We need smarter tools to manage, search, and manipulate information – tools that can comprehend language as humans speak it.” Fulbright scholarships are awarded for a combination of academic merit and leadership potential. The Fulbright Program is part of one of the largest and most prestigious educational exchange programs in the world. Read More
Friday, March 16th, 2012
Bristol City Council have now gone ‘live’ and published an online map highlighting potential untapped revenue across the region. The map, freely available on the council’s website, shows the expected solar power generation if PV panels were fitted to building rooftops throughout Bristol. Produced in part by leading aerial survey specialist Blom, a map on this scale is
Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Eternix Ltd. today announced that its newly released version of Blaze Terra, the company’s flagship product, supports visualization and processing of multi-band imagery. This new capability allows real-time presentation and manipulation of up to thousands of color bands, in high dynamic range (both 8 and 16 bit of colors per channel). Color bands can further be blended and tuned by
