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Sunday, October 5, 2014

ScienceDaily: Information Technology News

ScienceDaily: Information Technology News


Engineers use 3-D gaming gear to give eye-opening look at cells in action

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:43 PM PDT

For hundreds of years biologists have studied cells through the lens of a microscope. With a little help from a team of engineers, these scientists could soon be donning 3-D glasses in a home-theater-like lab to take their own fantastic voyage into the petri dish.

Untangling how cables coil

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT

Engineers together with computer scientists have developed a method that predicts the pattern of coils and tangles that a cable may form when deployed onto a rigid surface. The research combined laboratory experiments with custom-designed cables, computer-graphics technology used to animate hair in movies, and theoretical analyses.

Healthy knowledge management and social networking

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:57 AM PDT

Social network analysis could improve knowledge sharing in the health-care sector, according to new research.

Social networks can strengthen knowledge-sharing

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 10:51 AM PDT

Contrary to the notion that social networks are time-wasters, they could improve project management and the spread of specialized knowledge in the healthcare sector and possibly other large organizations, according to new research.

Global database: Cattle genome cracked in detail

Posted: 03 Oct 2014 06:22 AM PDT

An international consortium of scientists has increased the detailed knowledge of the variation in the cattle genome by several orders of magnitude by creating a global database. The first generation of the new data resource, which will be open access, forms an essential tool for scientists working with cattle genetics and livestock history.

Software for Google glass that provides captions for hard-of-hearing users

Posted: 02 Oct 2014 01:26 PM PDT

Speech-to-text software for Google Glass has been created that helps hard-of-hearing users with everyday conversations. A hard-of-hearing person wears Glass while a second person speaks directly into a smartphone. The speech is converted to text, sent to Glass and displayed on its heads-up display.

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