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But will Google Buzz, the "Twitter-Killer", broadcast death?

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Naked Body Scanner Image of Film Star Printed, Circulated by Airport Staff

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Dubai: World's tallest tower closed to public a month after opening

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Panasonic announces new 3D Blu-ray recorders, players

Looks like Panasonic's push to lead the 3D pack continues unabated. It's been just over a week since the company... more

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Forget the Botox! New iPhone app 'zaps acne and wrinkles' with red and blue lights

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Hands-On With Nvidia Optimus: Switchable Graphics Done Right

Let’s be frank: the idea of switchable graphics has always been appealing, but the implementation thus far has been a huge... more

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Google introduces Google Buzz

Google has rolled out Google Buzz, a social networking tool integrated right into Gmail.

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Displax 'skin' turns virtually any surface into multi-touch display

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Hasselblad H4D-40 available now.

Following last September's announcement of new 50 megapixel and 60 megapixel H4D medium format cameras, Hasselblad has now announced the immediate availability of the H4D-40 DSLR camera system. The 40 of course signifies the number of megapixels, but the camera also benefits from up to four minute exposure times, faster capture rates and higher ISO ratings as well as an improved auto focus mechanism.

The 35mm equivalent, 40MP (7304×5478) professional digital SLR system has a huge 33 x 44mm CCD sensor which gives it "almost twice the capture area of the largest 35mm DSLR sensors", comes complete with 80mm lens and viewfinder and records images in a proprietary 3FR lossless compressed RAW as well as 8 bit TIFF format. Modular in design, there's a choice of three interchangeable viewfinders, a host of lenses and a range of accessories available.

Auto Focus Improvements

The H4D system includes a technology called True Focus which, Hasselblad claims, has solved problems often associated with accurate focus across the whole image when working with shallow depth-of-field at close range by using "modern yaw rate sensor technology to measure angular velocity in an innovative way. The result is the new Absolute Position Lock (APL) processor, which forms the foundation of Hasselblad’s True Focus feature."

Said to have been many years in development, the APL system uses advanced positional algorithms to accurately log any camera movement during recomposition of shots and then issues commands to the lens motor to ensure precise focus. Hasselblad claims that further interrogation of data supplied by the HC/HCD lenses by the camera's firmware offers additional focus perfection and that the system does all this without causing any shutter lag.

Digital lens correction complements the system by removing any trace of distortion, vignetting, or chromatic aberrations from an image and the Hasselblad Natural Color Solution (HNCS) is claimed to "produce outstanding and reliable out-of-the-box colors, with skin tones, specific product colors and other difficult tones reproduced easily and effectively."

Exposure times range from 1/800 second right up to four minutes and ISO from 100 to 1600. Shots are stored on a CF card type U-DMA such the SanDisk's Extreme IV, a 4Gb card holding about 75 images. Images can be transferred to a computer's hard drive via the FireWire 800 port. Previewing and in-camera image manipulation is taken care of on the generous 3-inch, 230,400 pixel color display to the rear and off-camera tweaking via the supplied Phocus 2.0 software, which is compatible with both Mac and Windows. And power is provided by a rechargeable Li-ion battery.

Pricing and availability

Hasselblad is busy arranging a series of dealer demonstrations throughout the US, Europe and Asia but the H4D-40 camera system is available now, prices starting at US$19,995/GBP 12,995/Euro 13,995. The product page is not live at the time of writing, those interested in further details should therefore keep an eye on Hasselblad.com for updates.Following last September's announcement of new 50 megapixel and 60 megapixel H4D medium format cameras, Hasselblad has now... more

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MIT's Digital Food Printer Creates Nutritious Meals

Here’s an interesting thought: What if eating greener and more sustainably meant printing your meals? Marcelo Coelho and... more

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GMail Gets Buzzed with Google Buzz Release (VIDEO)

Google, Inc. announced the launch of a brand new social networking/micro-blogging inspired feature in Gmail called Google Buzz.... more

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Google Launches Buzz: New Social Media Sharing Platform

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Google Buzz

Go beyond status messages Share updates, photos, videos, and more. Start conversations about the things you find interesting.

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Family learns of teenage son's car crash death through Facebook

Facebook has delivered a family the worst possible news after police fail to report a teen's death. When Angela and... more

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FEROCIOUS FIREFIGHT: U.S. Army platoon from the 1st Inf. Div. in violent battle with Taliban

This video shows members of the U.S. Army's 1st Inf. Div. engaged in a ferocious firefight with the Taliban in Kunar... more

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Google Buzz makes big splash on phones

By now you have probably heard about Google Buzz and while a lot of you might not be too excited, take a look at how it functions... more

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Google Docs now allows sharing of documents with edit controls

This is not an ad - I am posting because IT IS SOOOO COOL! Google has added lots of great new features to their Google Docs... more

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Japanese scientists create elastic water

Elastic Water could eventually replace plastic, or be used in an environmentally-safe plastic. Bernama, a part of the Malaysian... more

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Google Buzz goes after Facebook, Twitter

(CNN) -- Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tueday, taking pieces of both the Facebook and Twitter blueprints with Google Buzz.
Buzz, which will work through the popular Gmail service, will allow users to post status updates, photos and links to members of their network -- as well as pull in their activity on other sites like Twitter, Flickr and Picasa.

Google spokesman Bradley Horowitz said the service, which was rolling out to some Gmail users Tuesday afternoon and should be available to all in the next couple of days, aims to weed out what he called the clutter of other networking sites.
With networking sites, "there's obviously value there," he said. "It's a phenomenon that's real, but it's increasingly becoming harder and harder to make sense and find the signal in the noise."

He said Google Buzz will automatically make "friends" out of the people a user e-mails or chats with the most on Gmail. Different settings will allow the user to make their posts public, like on Twitter, or private, as is usually the case on Facebook.
Comments on posts will appear in real time. And comments by other users will be weighted, similar to how Google's search engine weighs results, to "collapse bad buzz and recommend the good buzz," said Gmail product manager Todd Jackson.

The hands-down leader in the search engine world, Google has been branching out on projects that include its Nexus One smartphone -- the company's first foray into hardware marketing.

Late last month,Google announced that people could tweak their accounts to make results related to friends, co-workers and other members of their social networks appear above all other results.

The Social Search feature was introduced to a limited number of Google users last year and was made available to everyone in beta status on January 28.
The change came with a hint of more things to come.

"This is just a first step in our ongoing effort to ensure that Google Web search is always as social as the Web itself," the company said in an instructional video posted to its official blog.(CNN) -- Google plunged into the world of social networking on Tueday, taking pieces of both the Facebook and Twitter blueprints... more

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Have people already lost interest in the iPad?

The dust after Apple’s widely watched debut of the iPad has settled and it appears, frankly, lots of people don’t want... more

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