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1 Billion pixel panoramas from your own camera

“The Gigapan allows people to take pictures that are more than a gigapixel — or 1,000 megapixels — in size, effectively turning a single photograph into a panoramic experience, around which the viewer can navigate on a computer.“

2 Grid of 100,000 computers heralds new internet dawn

The Large Hadron Collider at the European centre for nuclear research (CERN) in Geneva is trying to unlock the mysteries of the universe. Naturally, it also needed an almighty leap forward in computing.

“A network of 100,000 computers providing the greatest data processing capacity yet unleashed has been created to cope with information pouring from the world’s largest machine.

The Grid is the latest evolution of the internet and the world wide web and computer scientists will announce on Friday that it is ready to be connected to the Large Hadron Collider.”

3 Indian space agency Isro to roll out a rival to Google Earth

“The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), based in Bangalore — the Silicon Valley of the sub-continent, will roll-out a rival to Google Earth, the hugely popular online satellite imagery service, by the end of the month”

The project, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), will allow users to zoom into areas as small as 10 metres wide, compared to the 200 metre-wide zoom limit on Google Earth”

4 Science close to unveiling invisible man

“Invisibility devices, long the realm of science fiction and fantasy, have moved closer after scientists engineered a material that can bend visible light around objects”

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